Bridge Winners Profile for Chris Gibson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 18, 2010
- Last Seen
- 5 minutes 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 2017, 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, all in the past 7 years.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Chris Wiegand, 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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- Rowland Reeves's bidding problem: A93 975 KT83 AT3
- I always open hands with two aces and a king.
- Your thought process?
- I rarely keep track of the hands as I go in a complete 13 card pattern. I retain who followed to what and what honors they played, as well as the bidding and opening lead, and when I come to a decision point I then reconstruct what I know of ...
- Did S take advantage of a failed alert?
- The director should take a poll of south's peers, and give the auction as it happened to 3N, including the agreement that 3♦ is a mixed raise in hearts, and 3N is an offer to play. Using the results of that poll, the director has a basis to ...
- Wayne Perrin's bidding problem: --- Q42 T97642 J762
- Only if you agree as such beforehand. I play take-out doubles through 7H, and 4N would be two places to play.
- The ACBL: a Byword for Incompetence?
- All this post does is make me lose respect for the poster. Blaming the ACBL for you not getting a free lunch seems like you don't actually understand the ACBL's role in regional tournaments, or that sometimes things happen that are not the fault of the organizer. Also ...
- How light can your 1M responses to 1D be?
- I wouldn't respond on your hand. I would on several hands with 0 HCP. My response is predicated on how likely I am to improve my score by responding; this hand is not one where I can handle a lot of different continuations.
- You be the judge(classier than ATB I think)
- I'm South. North opened, and has shown short hearts, which means I have 18 working HCP in a 34 HCP deck. Better yet, North hasn't raised hearts, so he shouldn't have a heart honor, meaning he has around 11 working HCP at least. We're missing a ...
- Question emailed to me.
- Preempting is not a matter of points. Its a matter of weighing the potential problems you give your side vs the potential problems you give the other side. Opposite an unpassed partner when they've already opened 1M, I would have a fairly constructive/pure hand, with most of my ...
- Systemic lead from doubleton w/ two touching honors
- The only one where I might lead anything but high playing standard honor leads is AK tight. In that circumstance, if I have agreed to play ace from AK, I would lead the K to follow with the ace to show a doubleton and allow partner to give suit preference ...
- Gabriel Carrasco's bidding problem: AQJ53 K42 87 J96
- I feel like this is a matter of style. You've either discussed with your partner what an opening bid looks like or you haven't. I don't open this, because my style playing 2/1 or sayc is to force to game on hands I would open with ...
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