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#1 User is offline   wyman 

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Posted 2012-June-21, 10:02


"I think maybe so and so was caught cheating but maybe I don't have the names right". Sure, and I think maybe your mother .... Oh yeah, that was someone else maybe. -- kenberg

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Posted 2012-June-21, 10:12

But if you had the SA instead of the DA...

Also, is your hand not worth another go with only 4 losers?

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Posted 2012-June-21, 10:47

View Postahydra, on 2012-June-21, 10:12, said:

But if you had the SA instead of the DA...

Also, is your hand not worth another go with only 4 losers?

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Why bother bidding 4C if GIB won't evaluate its hand in context? If I knew GIB wouldn't move with that, I would have shown spade shortness.

edit: eh, maybe the 4th club kind of sucks since we're not getting pitches. I still don't know if I have enough to move, but I'm getting more sympathetic to GIB.
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Posted 2012-June-21, 11:51

View Postwyman, on 2012-June-21, 10:47, said:

Why bother bidding 4C if GIB won't evaluate its hand in context? If I knew GIB wouldn't move with that, I would have shown spade shortness.

edit: eh, maybe the 4th club kind of sucks since we're not getting pitches. I still don't know if I have enough to move, but I'm getting more sympathetic to GIB.

Playing with GIB, I would RKCB after GIB's 2NT call.

Delicate bidding is not GIB's forte.

The other day, playing in an ACBL Robot Tournament, I picked up:

AKJTxx --- --- AKJxxxx

My RHO opened 1♦. Now, I don't know how I would handle this hand with a live partner, let alone a robot partner. I chose double, figuring that if I survived this round I might be better placed. Well, I survived the round - GIB bid 1♥. RHO bid 2♦ and I ventured further into the abyss by bidding 3♦ which promised a heart fit. Now GIB bid 4♣ - a help-suit slam try. I figured that the degree of help that I had in clubs was pretty much maximum, so I ventured 7♣. Needless to say, this did not sit well with GIB, which bid 7♥. I was less than thrilled with the prospects of our making 7♥ so I bid 7♠. Thankfully, GIB did not bid 7NT, and, since no other bids were available, it passed.

GIB held:

Qx Kxxx xxx QTxx

7♠ was easy as a diamond was led.

My bidding may not win any International Bridge Press awards for the best bid hand, but you have to like the result.

Maybe later I will relate how I played in 1♠xx making an overtrick in another ACBL Robot tournament. :)
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Posted 2012-June-21, 12:46

As Dave Harty said to me earlier today, "stop trying to have subtle slam auctions with GIB."
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Posted 2012-June-21, 12:54

View PostBunnyGo, on 2012-June-21, 12:46, said:

As Dave Harty said to me earlier today, "stop trying to have subtle slam auctions with GIB."


Is this really that subtle?
"I think maybe so and so was caught cheating but maybe I don't have the names right". Sure, and I think maybe your mother .... Oh yeah, that was someone else maybe. -- kenberg

"...we live off being battle-scarred veterans who manage to hate our opponents slightly more than we hate each other.” -- Hamman, re: Wolff
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