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Table Talk I don't think... I listen to your bids. I don't need signals pard. Why is it that nobody can see what I see? Many quotations from Gerard's published work are also available. But the mere written word does not do him justice. These are taken from his table talk. All guaranteed verbatim. Nobody argues with "the" Gerard. By experience, I can tell you that those who watch me play then play
with me trying to copy what I am doing fall short... because they do not
know why I do the things I do. Those who know can do the things I do. "You can't be a bridge player if you can't take a 2000 fall." "Four diamonds doubled is like eight diamonds." "I did not ask to be famous." "Please NEVER play trump on defense, even if it is the right play...
I can't live with it." "Four clubs is never to play." "My principle is, if open NT, try to play in a major. If not open in NT
try to play in NT." "All I do is win and win and win you still think I'm a terrible player." "It was not a play error, it was a play concept error." "Since when I do things right we get bad scores, maybe if I do things wrong
we'll get tops." "It hurts when a regular partner falls for rumors and turns me down...especially when we
have never lost a game together." "I'm the biggest masterpoint winner in California, doesn't that count for anything?" "Those who can't lose 1700 can't win 1700 either." "Jealousy is what makes aaron and his followers treat me the way they do." "I have no opinion of myself, which is making me even more mad, because it is
not my concern what I am." "Experts say I am an expert, novices say I am an expert, intermediates say I
am an expert, advanced players say I stink." "I expected all the hands to be single-suited." "If only I could make him study conventions so he knows what he is
playing, we could make a good guy out of him." "Learn to respect your opps...you will not be a champion until you
learn how to do that...gambling against great players is a losing proposition." "We don't use what is called count and attitude...we don't lead 4th best
nor 3/5th and any of these things." "I like to play short suit game tries, with k or q response positive,
even doubleton." "I regret to say I am right more often than I wish to be." "When not in good form, lead as standard as you can...then you may
not be creative, but you won't make mistakes." "Who cares if I loose 1 hand here and there by 1100 points as long
as I win more than I loose?" "The hell with the Bones Principle...that's two hands in a row I underbid
because of that stupid thing." "Your actions are similar to terrorist acts." "You want war, aaron...you got it." "You are now liable for harassment,
defamation, character assassination, and incitement to others to do what
you do." "I really would like to know what you are saying in spec that someone just
sent me more insults just now telling me I have no business playing with or against
experts, teaching.....and saying that you are all making fun of me up there!!!!!!" "They [the specs] don't care if I do something right.
They want to see the wrong things. That's why they come, to justify why I
am the laughing stock of okbridge, as one of them so gently qualified
me...why did Marilyn Monroe commit suicide? ...her and so many others?" "Some [specs] are not coming for fun, they are coming to kill me." "The top bridge players are not interested in the web site — top players
like me very much and play with me and against me without any problems." "I am playing worse and worse by the day." "I have no confidence whatsoever in what I'm doing." "Beat up a horse...he eventually stops to run." "Forget it...I ceased to be a bridge player." "It is remarkable that aaron only shows boards with a bad results and of
course pin the blame on me, regardless of the reasons that led to that bad result.
He has not shown anything positive at all I might have done during the course of
the 500 or more hands I play a week, which makes a minimum of 26,000 boards a year
(500 boards a week x 52 weeks a year), but found the 35 worst possible examples in
the same period. Does that mean that I played 25,965 boards correctly during that period?" "You [O_Bones], aaron, leah, oconnell, kaima and
harmon have decided that I would be the escape goat [sic] for whatever
your personal reasons are, and that is disgusting." "I was told by [an innocent party] that
I was the laughing stock of OKBridge just now... Aaron's website
seems to work very nicely... I give up... farewell all." "The Bones Principle is as stupid as its inventor...when my partners
overbid or don't tell me their hand properly (90% of the time) I go to
forbidden places. If Bones cannot see that, he should not pretend to be an
'expert.'" "I'm too disgusted with what's going on. I need a clear head to win the
Nationals. I don't want to finish in 20th or 30th place." With eight cards and the AKJ I always try to drop the Q. "I don't give a damn how you do it specs... but unless you clean up
specs and get those assholes.... I mean assholes to stop telling things
on me, I will not play anymore or not admit anyone to my table except
the players." I have lost all my students except one thanks to Aaron [names of several
innocent parties follow] and the gracious publicity they are giving me...I want to
thank you Aaron and your friends for a job well done! You keep going and going against my wishes...you think you're gonna get
away with it? Once in a great while I make a bidding mistake. You'd be bored if I just bid by the book. Sorry partner, I knew it was a swing board and did not use it to bid 6. I am one of the most intelligent men, my IQ is 178, don't take me
for an imbecile. It is more recently that I have had difficulties because no partner
is good enough to keep me awake. N/S never works on weekends, the field is too inconsistent. You're playing against real experts here, this is not a club game. I'll bet the specs are enjoying this. I lost 80 IMPs today without making a mistake. Now because he [Gee's partner] bids like that you [the spectators] will all say I'm a bum and I'll
get a bad reputation. —5.13.02, discussing his partner's (clearly correct) bid When I make unusual bids and it works, you don't get intimidated and
you keep playing your game... the others think: if Gerard can do it, I can
too... and take a fall... and drag me in their fall too. The Internet altogether is the way of the future..everything exists
on here...macrocosmic and microcosmic..it is not an illusion, it is the
truth of the 21st century. Partner, when you play with me, I ask you to NOT LEAD TRUMP and NOT PLAY
TRUMP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HAND...EVER. We play Bergen, so a splinter by bidding hearts would promise four,
therefore a standard splinter promises three now. I'd be safer playing bridge with Osama. 90% of bidding errors are solved for those who read my
book. I would have found the play, had I paid more attention. My affliction is partners who bid
by feel instead of logic. Every game it is the same thing. The worst
part is that some great players think it is me who is doing this crazy
stuff and refuse to play with me after that, but if these people would
read my book, they would never make this kind of bid ever again. First review was that it is revolutionary. I can't force to game, I am the dealer. I can only show you a big hand,
then you decide what to do with it...responder is the only one who can make
forcing bids. Is it me or are my partners all weird? I am the only player on OKBridge that plays regularly with
underdogs and weaker players and still my lehman improves every week. All my bids are golden. arrogant, stupid, mean, irresponsible low life evil terrorist despicable looser (sic) hypocrite disgusting plain stupid liar maniac pig bottom of the barrel imbecile phylthy (sic, I swear) bastard unable to understand English WORST OF THE HUMAN BEINGS I HAVE EVER MET and finally, my favorite: vampire |