Bridge Winners Profile for Chris Gibson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 18, 2010
- Last Seen
- 4 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 a little boy, Teddy, who was born April 23, 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
- 7 top 10 national finishes, all in the past 6 years.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Chris Wiegand 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
- Gold Life Master
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- Eric Sieg's bidding problem: --- J932 Q97632 J65
- The point is that 4♦ will more frequently score better than 3N in my estimation, especially if partner does not have a double spade stopper, which I do not think partner promises.
- Eric Sieg's bidding problem: --- J932 Q97632 J65
- If you start throwing 16 point hands out there, its still hard to come to 9 tricks. I know, because I've tried.
- Eric Sieg's bidding problem: KT9 AJT8763 96 K
- We have no guarantee of making game, they are vul, and my K of clubs certainly works for whatever holding partner is doubling on - it shouldn't be less than a 4 card holding since we are in a force.
- Eric Sieg's bidding problem: --- J932 Q97632 J65
- so if partner makes a bid you aren't prepared for, you just stop thinking, call him/her an idiot, and pass (or some more restrained version of the same)?
- Play Problem
- Roger, I very much like the creativity behind the idea, but I worry that if I show the K of diamonds, then they can play me for two losing clubs (to go with the ace of trump and ace of diamonds) instead of guessing the heart position.
- Eric Sieg's bidding problem: --- J932 Q97632 J65
- Partner must be prepared for any of my hand types with 3N - its a multi-meaning bid indicating an acceptance of the invite, and tolerance to compete if you have the other less frequent hand types. Since I do have diamonds, I bid them.
- Play Problem
- I'm leading trump. Edit: The reason for this is that I want to give the impression that the thing I am most afraid of is a heart ruff. Hopefully if RHO has the ace, he will cash whatever other ace he has, then upon getting a discouraging signal try ...
- John Howard's bidding problem: T KJT7 T5 KQ9874
- They have 9 spades between them, but neither was able to muster a spade overcall when given easy entrance to the auction - I'm betting on partner to have some of the missing spade honors.
- Martin Henneberger's bidding problem: JT852 AJ97 AQ94 ---
- After having experimented stylistically with overcalling on these types of hands vs doubling, I would always advocate double on hands without extra values with a poor 5 card suit and good 4 card other major because I can be done after one bid, and because if opponents buy the hand ...
- Kevin O'Dea's bidding problem: AQ3 6 AQT6 QJ876
- I like 2♣ over 1♦ whenever reasonable because those are some of the hardest auctions for the opponents to unwind - here the extra values, and positional values, make the call more reasonable even with a relatively poor 5 card suit.
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