Bridge Winners Profile for Gerben Dirksen
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Feb. 1, 2011
- Last Seen
- 3 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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- Apologies to partner
- On the first hand you played the odds by passing. You lost. Happens. On the second hand, you can employ control asking bids as described by "Preempts from A to Z". Surely partner will have ♠K and a bid of 5♣ asks partner about his ♣ control. Once he ...
- Defensive problem - protect your setting trick
- Thank you for your comments. At the table, I shifted to a ♥, Jack Ace ruff, and declarer figured that since I hadn't preempted and did not have ♥A, I must have ♣K. Declarer's hand was: ♠Jx ♥- ♦KQJxx ♣AQT9xx Luckily we managed to squeeze through the KO ...
- Peter Jan Plooy's bidding problem: AJ643 AQ732 --- J42
- Partner has interpreted your bidding as a slam try and is asking for KC. As I see no grand slam I just bid 6♥. Enough Aces partner.
- But is bridge Fun?
- What is fun in bridge? It's fun when a deceptive move works. It's fun when you pull off a squeeze or endplay, or when you work out the position and find it is exactly so. Even a disaster can be fun, maybe not at the moment it occurs ...
- Looking for a Recommendation for a Berlin Duplicate Bridge Club
- Hi Elianna, The website states that as a non-smoker you do not end up in the smoking room (I can understand this would be a KO criterion - it would be for me). Apparently you can register as smoker and if four of them are at the same table, their scoring ...
- What happens after a psych
- Well if the auction really went South: Pass West: Pass North: Stop! 2♠ - alerted and asked East: ... ... ... Pass I guess I would pass as South also. This is important information. If East tanked, South has not fielded the psyche. BTW if I were crazy enough to open 1♠ ...
- Looking for a Recommendation for a Berlin Duplicate Bridge Club
- The strongest bridge club in Berlin is Bridge Club Berlin 52 e.V. (http://www.bridgeclub52.de/). If you look at "Kontakt" you will find contact information of people who can help you find a partner in a strong game. Also note that the German national championship week is in ...
- Couldn't locate the 4-4 fit after a simple auction
- Up to 2♣ all is fine with me. Then I don't see however why South bids 2♦. He can just pass with a minimum and nothing to say. Then after North 3♣, 3♠ must show a 4-card suit (4351). With 3352, he would bid 3 ...
- Bots Are Coming at You
- Alan, getting into the minds of the opponents is even more essential at poker. And yet, the bot won even at no-limit holdem (limit holdem is easier for the bot). In a test match, Jack did badly against humans when they did something out of the ordinary (like opening 15-17 ...
- Go for 6!c?
- If possible I bid forcing Stayman 2♦ and after a 2M response I bid 3♣ to find out if partner's hand is somewhat suitable for 6♣. If not we play 3NT, if so we MIGHT play 6♣. But shooting 3NT seems a bit rash.
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