Bridge Winners Profile for Chris Gibson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 18, 2010
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Professional anti-money laundering investigator, amateur bridge nut living in the Portland, OR metropolitan area. I don't play as much as I would like to, and that probably isn't going to change soon. I am married to a wonderfully supportive non-bridge player, and now have two little boys: Teddy, who was born April 2017, and TJ, who was born August 2019, but I hope to remain active in playing bridge while I balance my new family life.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Making the round of 16 in the 2013 Spingolds with Chris Wiegand, Sam Punch, and Stephen Peterkin - the first time I had entered the event. Now up there: Getting my top 4 matchpoint finishes with 3 different partners at nationals in 2016 at Reno, including placing in the Platinum pairs.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 6 top 10 national finishes in the past decade.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Eric Sieg and Jeff Ford
- Favorite Tournaments
- any NABC, all GNT competitions, Portland and Seaside regionals
- Favorite Conventions
- Stayman and follow-ups derived from it. I played 15 years of home bridge with my parents without knowing stayman, so I really appreciate how wonderful it is.
- BBO Username
- CSGibson
- ACBL Ranking
- Sapphire Life Master
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- What is the meaning of this sequence?
- I expect you are playing an unplayably wide range for that bid. Standard solutions include playing a Lawrence style 2/1 for invitational hands with clubs, in which this would be weak, or to use weak or invitational j/s, in which case this would be the other one.
- Chris Gibson's bidding problem: JT94 KT83 AQ4 K3
- it wasn't an upgrade so much as a 3rd seat white experiment.
- ATB
- North has a clear GT. I abstained only because I objected to the description of why.
- Pick your poison
- I can imagine some fun things with the 2nd option - creating voids, giving partner a high trump behind declarer, repositioning an ace so that you can be sure to lead your QJT honor sequence to it, etc.
- New suit forcing after overcall or not?
- I prefer forcing. standard as I was taught in my area is non-forcing.
- Bud Hinckley's bidding problem: AQ2 --- AK9742 AK95
- If I open 2♣, the auction is cramped, horrible, and invites preemption, to which I am extremely vulnerable given that I have a two-suiter. If I open 1♦ planning on jump-shifting to 3♣ if unopposed, I have saved some space (ie, i'd get both of my ...
- What's the thickest part of your system notes?
- Same here - more than double the next thickest section.
- What's the thickest part of your system notes?
- I have played a no invites nt in a serious partnership. It lengthens my system notes, because we used 2N as a way to get out in a 6 card minor after checking for a four card major, as well as other sequences which standard bidding doesn’t handle well.
- Should this bid be reported to the director ?
- If by report it to the director, you mean asking the director for a recorder form, and asking him to file it correctly, then yes. If you mean asking him to make a ruling taking away the bridge result, I'd say no.
- Is it a demand or a suggestion?
- Its a demand. I'd pass anyway, and apologize if its wrong, saying that since I misbid my hand twice, there should be no expectation that I wouldn't do it a third time.
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