Huub Bertens
Encyclopedia
Hubertus Bertens"Huub" ( 24 May 1960 ) is a Dutch
bridge
player from Tilburg
, Netherlands. Huub has won numerous national and some international tournaments including the Cavendish Invitational, NEC Cup, the Yeh Brothers Cup, the European Open Team Championships. In world championships for national teams, he earned a Bronze medal in 2007 and played on Netherlands teams that finished 5th to 8th in 2008 and 2009.
His regular partners include Ton Bakkeren and Barry Westra. Huub is married to Jeanne van den Acker. He has one son and one daughter and lives in Tilburg.
Runner up in the Champion MK foursome in 1987, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2009 and 2011. Huub won the Transfer Race, a yearly individual ranking of the best Dutch player, from 2006 to 2009 and in 2011.
) that implies a top-six rank in the preceding European championship.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
bridge
Contract bridge
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
player from Tilburg
Tilburg
Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant.Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout....
, Netherlands. Huub has won numerous national and some international tournaments including the Cavendish Invitational, NEC Cup, the Yeh Brothers Cup, the European Open Team Championships. In world championships for national teams, he earned a Bronze medal in 2007 and played on Netherlands teams that finished 5th to 8th in 2008 and 2009.
His regular partners include Ton Bakkeren and Barry Westra. Huub is married to Jeanne van den Acker. He has one son and one daughter and lives in Tilburg.
Dutch Championships
Bertens has won the following Dutch Championships:- 1986-1987 Champion MK foursome
- 1999-2000 Champion MK foursome
- 2001 NK Mixed foursome
- 2001-2002 Champion MK foursome
- 2003-2004 Champion MK foursome
- 2004-2005 Champion MK foursome
- 2006-2007 Champion MK foursome
- 2007-2008 MK Champion Pairs
- 2009-2010 Champion MK foursome
- 2010 NK Mixed foursome
Runner up in the Champion MK foursome in 1987, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2009 and 2011. Huub won the Transfer Race, a yearly individual ranking of the best Dutch player, from 2006 to 2009 and in 2011.
International Results
Bertens has played on Netherlands teams in world championship tournaments 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009. In odd years (Bermuda BowlBermuda Bowl
The Bermuda Bowl is a trophy awarded to the winners of the Open series in the World Team Championship in contract bridge and is named for the site of the inaugural tournament held in 1950...
) that implies a top-six rank in the preceding European championship.
- 2005: 1st place, European Open in Tenerife
- 2006: 1st place (pairs), Cavendish InvitationalCavendish InvitationalThe Cavendish Invitational is the largest money bridge tournament in the world. The , which concludes the tournament.-History and format:The Cavendish Club, whose name is associated with the event, was founded in 1925 in New York City...
in Las VegasLas Vegas metropolitan areaThe Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
with Ton Bakkeren - 2006: 1st place, Patton Pinkster Tournament at it Onstein with Ton Bakkeren, Vincent Ramondt and Berry WestraBerry WestraBerry Westra is a Dutch bridge professional. At age of 18 Westra made his debut with former bridge world champion Hans Kreijns in the meesterklasse . In 1986 Westra became European champion youth bridge. The world championship in the same category followed a year later...
- 2007: 1st place, NEC CupNEC CupThe NEC Cup is a Go competition, supported by NEC Corporation.-Biography:The NEC Cup is a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin. Unlike the big three titles in Japan, the NEC Cup is a single knockout tournament where players have less time to think. The field of challengers is 16...
in YokohamaYokohamais the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu... - 2007: 1st place, White House Tournament in AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
- 2007: Bronze medal (Netherlands), World national teams (Bermuda BowlBermuda BowlThe Bermuda Bowl is a trophy awarded to the winners of the Open series in the World Team Championship in contract bridge and is named for the site of the inaugural tournament held in 1950...
) - 2008: 5th place (Netherlands), national teams at the first World Mind Sports GamesBridge at the 1st World Mind Sports GamesThe first World Mind Sports Games convened in Beijing, China, 3–18 October 2008. They were sponsored by the International Mind Sports Association and organised by the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sport....
- 2009: 1st place, Yeh Bros Cup in AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
with Ton Bakkeren, Sjoert Brink and Bas Drijver - 2009: 5th place (Netherlands), World Teams Championships (Bermuda Bowl)
- 2011: Quarter final ('t Onstein) World Transnational Teams Championships