Bridge Winners Profile for Gerben Dirksen
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Feb. 1, 2011
- Last Seen
- Feb. 27
- Member Type
- Bridge Director
- about me
Originially Dutch, now living in Fürth, Germany. Silver TD. Played for Dutch U20 in Channel Trophy, German U25 in Euro championship.
- Country
- Netherlands
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Playing against the stars in the Forbo, Verona Mixed Pairs
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Former Junior National Team player
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Norbert Stübinger, Michael Thomsen
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- BC Nürnberg Museum, Kultcamp Rieneck
- Favorite Tournaments
- Pula Festival, German Bridge Team Trophy
- Favorite Conventions
- Fantunes
- BBO Username
- Gerben42
- ACBL Ranking
- None
| Gerben Dirksen - Oliver Hevemeier 2/1 GF |
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| Norbert Stübinger - Gerben Dirksen Short !C with intermediate 2-bids |
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- Bidding Improvement With Weak NT?
- With 2-way Stayman: 1N - 2♣ - 2♠ you simply bid 2NT and you will find out what partner has and therefore where your fit is. Worst case partner bids 3♦ then you bid 3♥. If he then declines your fit is in ♣. Anyway my system is ...
- 7 tables and want to play 24 boards? Try Hesitation Mitchell
- This is basically the same movement as hesitation Mitchell. Note that you have 2T-R = 6 stationary tables. The 7th table is the hesitation table.
- 7 tables and want to play 24 boards? Try Hesitation Mitchell
- With 4-board rounds sharing is not a problem. But with 6 tables wouldn't you at laast want to play 9 rounds of 3 boards to actually meet some more opponents?
- Illegal 1NT
- Well, it is the WBF who defines the Laws of Contract Bridge which are valid everywhere in the world. If the ACBL disallows psyching a natural 1NT with 6-4 distribution (no way that qualifies as semibalanced so it is a gross missstatment of shape) it is playing a different game ...
- Best use of jump shifts?
- We play a scheme as follows: 1♥ - 2♠: Mini/maxisplinter not in ♠ (so ♣ or ♦) 1♥ - 3♣: Mixed raise no shortness 1♥ - 3♦: Mini/maxisplinter in ♠ 1♠ - 3♣: Mini/maxisplinter not in ♣ (so ♦ or ♥) 1♠ ...
- Illegal 1NT
- Why don't we encourage players to shoot themself in the foot with such crazy 1NT opening bids? 1NT - 3NT, opponents collect a bunch of ♥ and play ♠ through opener to collect a few more ♠. A few -250s will make dummy cross enough for opener to think twice ...
- Scramble or Good/Bad or other?
- 2♣ is mostly harmless as both majors. Try defending it as 2♦ or even 2♥ opening bid.
- Scramble or Good/Bad or other?
- Agreed as Lebensohl, similar to 2♥ p p X p ?
- Jacoby 2 Nt Responses over interference
- Bidding 3M is minimum, Pass shows extras, Dbl shows shortness in opponent's suit. Rest is what it meant before. Another solution is that Pass = whatever 3♣ was, Dbl = whatever 3♦ was, etc.
- Help needed with a player upset with a director's ruling
- Just a crazy question: If South has a history of making weak jumps with not-so-weak hands, WHY DID NORTH PASS? xx xxxx x Kxxxxx would qualify as weak and makes 11 tricks. I agree that just stating "weak" is rather little information for North to share with E/W, maybe ...
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