Bridge Winners Profile for Gerben Dirksen
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Feb. 1, 2011
- Last Seen
- 7 hours ago
- 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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- Need advice on transfer over X of 1M
- Agree mostly with Craig. You would accept the transfer with any hand that would pass a weak two bid in the transfer suit. If responder breaks out, this shows the other hand types. But of course note what Kit has written if you have ♠QJT987 you want to play in ...
- For the Anything Goes File -- Multi-1NT???
- At one time we used 1NT as either weak two in ♣ or 15-17. This worked quite well. Combining the weak NT with another option strikes me as a bad idea, though. Also playing 1NT showing no balanced hand puts too much pressure somewhere else.
- Yellow Systems - A Dire Discovery
- Perhaps those were the same people trying to ban "destructive" methods and relay "systems" in the US. Without defining what they are but they know it when they see it.
- Questions for people who play 12-14 1NT
- I have never understood this argument. Playing strong NT it is the same problem. The "standard" solution seems to be 1NT rebid is 12-14 and with 15-17 invent a 3-card suit. For me, in both cases the answer is to open 1NT with 5♥332.
- Questions for people who play 12-14 1NT
- For us 1m 1N 2N shows 17-18 and 3N shows 19-20. Note that 1N must have a lower maximum than playing strong NT. We play 1m - 2m is inverted starting with a decent 9-count which is GF opposite 15-17. Playing strong NT, 1m 1N can be any hand with no ...
- Do You Count Your Cards?
- The behavior which irks me is people picking up 5-7 cards, sort them, study them, pick up another card, sort it, study it, pick up another card, sort it, study it, etc. until 13. This takes a VERY long.
- Do You Count Your Cards?
- The interesting question is how do you count your cards. I note that many players take a lot of time because they count 1,2,3,...,13 ... Phew. This is also very error prone. What I do is I count three, three, three and should be four after that. When ...
- How would you rule?
- Would you allow Dbl if EW play weak/strong cuebids, this hand obviously being the strong variation?
- If a player is forced to pass, does that mean that they accept an insufficient bid?
- David has an excellent point. Suppose now the following auction: West North East South 1♣ 1♠ 2NT Pass Dbl TD! - according to 36B2 East must now pass for the remainder of the auction, which continues as follows West North East South ... 3♦ 2♠ ...... Pass According to ...
- Ethics applied to a playing director
- Playing directors occur basically in every club tournament here. In addition to the stress and distraction of the job, which will cost about 5% of your score, such ethical problems occur regularly. Every time you arrive at a table for a board you haven't played yet, it can become ...
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