[benellis58]

East's first double is fine. His second is needless, foolish, and does not respect his own GIB definition.

West's 3S bid is PROOF that he is a certifiable M.O.R.O.N.

These two GIBBO jackasses get the score they deserve (a cold ZERO), which, BTW, is the score they would get on EVERY hand, if every hand was scored according to merit.

https://www.bridgeba...CD2%7Cmc%7C6%7C

[benellis58]

A competent bridge PLAYER would bid 4S over South's 3S, but North is NOT competent, and he is NOT a bridge PLAYER - he is a repulsive GIBBO "bridge (???) player". so HE bids 3NT. Fortunately, EW are also GIBBO "bridge players", so the "defence" ROTS and all is well as we get a shared top.

https://www.bridgeba...H8%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

Ridiculous 3S bid by East. If he wants to bid TWO spades (having ALREADY doubled 1NT) that's fine, but to bid THREE is PROOF that he's a GIBBO robot (in other words, a hopeless LOSER!).

West's raise (!) to FOUR (!) spades is even more ridiculous.

Why is this GIBBO garbage still polluting BBO? Why hasn't it been obliterated and replaced by COMPETENT robots?

https://www.bridgeba...DJ%7Cpc%7CD8%7C

[benellis58]

Trick three: Why does the GIBBO piece of trash in the North pop his spade jack from J72? Has he been STUDYING hands played by his immediate predecessors, the disgustingly inept GIB robots? Has he decided to REVIVE their imbecilic practice of second hand HIGH? Is he trying to "defend" even MORE hopelessly than he already does? I think it's time to buy him and ALL his GIBBO brothers and sisters a one-way ticket to the bottom of the sea. They'd be far more valuable as fish food than as the absolutely worthless "bridge players" they are.

https://www.bridgeba...CQ%7Cpc%7CS8%7C

[benellis58]

North wins his heart queen at trick four. At trick five, he...of COURSE...plays another HEART, because he's a GIBBO robot, and these braindead pieces of garbage ALWAYS think that it's a BRILLIANT idea to immediately return the suit DECLARER was playing.

This time it's even more comical than usual, because North's remaining three hearts are the A86... and he returns the 6.

Is there EVER...ANY logic to ANY play made by these GIBBO halfwits?

https://www.bridgeba...CD2%7Cmc%7C8%7C

[benellis58]

Exactly the type of "defence" that you would expect from a pair of GIBBO losers: a pathetic one that EARNS them another complete zero to store in one of their countless warehouses of failure.

https://www.bridgeba...DK%7Cpc%7CS7%7C

[benellis58]

Frequent contributor OMARHEUM has sent another hand. He writes "I scored 77 % on this hand. 52 North-South pairs played 4H down two or three, but hearts were never bid at our table. My partner showed SIX spades with his 2S bid but appears to only possess 5. And look at my partner's opening lead!"

My comments: North is an I.D.I.O.T., but then again, we ALREADY knew that going in, because he's one of those thoroughly disgusting GIBBO robots, and they are all I.D.I.O.T.S. His 2S bid is absolutely ridiculous, and not only because of the LIE he is telling about having at LEAST a sixth spade. In addition to THAT piece of stupidity, he has ALREADY overcalled 1S...and he has NOTHING extra...PLUS he knows that his partner South has at MOST two spades and COULD have none!

Meanwhile, WEST opened 1D on a TEN-count, even though the typically incorrect AND DISHONEST GIB definition FALSELY claimed that his (foolish) bid showed "11-21 HCP". But hey, the pathetic GIB definition might be lousy, and it might be (and actually IS dishonest), but at least it informs us that 1D is a "Minor-suit opening" (ha, ha). Then again, maybe those needless, useless, obvious, self-evident, annoying, insulting three words are actually NOT a good thing either! Is there anyone in the UNIVERSE who thinks that GIB definitions are even CLOSE to being good?

As for North's lead of the club king: Regardless of whether it works out well or poorly on this or any other random layout on a random hand, where the Hell is the LOGIC for it? Answer: As the GIBBO Robots might say: "Logic? Like, uh, golly gee, like, what's 'logic'? Like, I, uh, like, never even HEARD that word before. Like, I, uh, like, was like, busy, like attending my, like, you know, bridge classes, like, at, uh, GIBBO Bridge School, like, you know, so that I could become like, uh, a gooder bridge player, like, uh, you know what I mean, like?""

https://www.bridgeba...CT%7Cpc%7CST%7C

[benellis58]

OMARHEUM has sent another hand. This one is a classic of "brilliant" GIBBO bidding. OMAR writes "50.57 % for playing in a slam off three aces".

My comments:

The first and most important thing to note is that this is a MANDATED AUCTION, so GIBBO obviously recommends every single bid and equally obviously believes that the auction is PERFECT.

Spoiler alert (ha, ha): It is NOT perfect. It is perfectly AWFUL (like SO many GIBBO auctions!).

In addition to bidding the slam despite missing three CASHABLE aces, note this bit of humour: North's bids of 2NT, 4S, 5C, and 6S...ALL (!) "promise" a "partial stop in hearts". GIBBO North is putting a LOT of faith in his...STIFF TEN!

North's voluntary 2NT call is, of course, utterly ridiculous, but hey, let's give credit where it's due: At least the GIB definition informs us that this JOKE of a bid is "Invitational to 3NT game", because I guess if GIB did not inform us that 3NT is "game", none of us would EVER realize it. What DISGUSTING absurdity!

That SAME asinine GIB definition of 2NT, BTW, states that North has "11 HCP". meaning EXACTLY 11. First, he actually has only 10. Second, South later incorrectly assumes from North's 5C response to Blackwood that North has all three missing aces. Obviously, GIBBO is not very good with elementary arithmetic, because if North did have three aces, those aces alone would add up to TWELVE HCP, and even if he had NO other points in his hand (which would be HIGHLY unlikely), those 12 points all by themselves would push North BEYOND the EXACTLY ELEVEN that his 2NT call had "promised"

The GIBBO North-South auction is obviously pure, unadulterated garbage, but the GIBBO East-West auction is no thing of beauty either. West, with THREE...CASHABLE...ACES (which, on this BLACKWOOD auction, are KNOWN to be cashable!) PASSES (!) 6S! Has he never heard the word "double"? Or maybe he fears that if he doubles, MS will run to 6NT and he'll be unable to take ANY of his THREE ACES? What a JOKE these C.R.E.T.I.N.O.U.S. GIBBO baboons are! And what a SHAME that they continue to pollute BBO.

https://www.bridgeba...ST%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

My personal opinion: GIBBO is some of the worst garbage that the world of bridge has ever been cursed with.

[benellis58]

Another interesting thread:

https://www.bridgeba...bid-annoyed-me/

[benellis58]

Stupid lead. A spade would be normal, but these GIBBO pieces of trash are too ignorant to even know what normal is.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ycxt9s3y

[benellis58]

Why is the GIBBO imbecile in the West doubling with that hand? The GIB definition of the double is the usual vague garbage that we have come to expect from GIB definitions, but even IT says that the call shows "9 total points"...which the jerk in the West is not close to having.

There is also humour in the statement "9 total points". First, GIB has repeatedly shown that it knows NOTHING about "total" points, but beyond that, WHY would a double show EXACTLY "9 total points"?

Is there anyone on the planet who thinks GIB definitions are good? Is there anyone on the planet who thinks GIBBO robots are good bridge players? If so, those poor, poor souls have my deepest sympathy...but I will know who to contact if I ever decide to sell the Brooklyn Bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mt84yjm4

[benellis58]

Typically ludicrous, inconsistent, braindead GIB definition of South's double of 3D: It says "2-5 diamonds", which is crazy to begin with, since - ya know - I kinda don't think he'd be doubling with TWO. But then it gets even more comical and pathetic, as it later says "rebiddable diamonds" AND "KQ of diamonds". Okay, BOTH those statements actually make sense (a RARITY for a GIB definition), but then why did it earlier say that he could have as few as TWO diamonds? Garbage as always. And someone obviously thought this was a GOOD definition to include in the GIB/GIBBO canon. Pathetic.

And speaking of "pathetic", look at the bidding by Frick and Frack to get to a ridiculous 4H.

Hand after hand, day after day, all we see is incompetence and garbage from GIB/GIBBO. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if BBO got rid of this trash and replaced it with DECENT robots, DECENT definitions, and a DECENT system?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2frhba4e

[benellis58]

Watch how Johnny Halfwit and Donald J. Dumbo butcher the club suit and allow me to make an "impossible" game.

I win Halfwit's spade lead and pull all enemy trumps (hearts) in two rounds. At trick four I lead my 7 of clubs (from J7 dub) towards dummy's Q95. Halfwit, who had earlier pitched the 2 of clubs (the ONLY club played by ANYONE in the first three tricks) now has the K864 left.

The C.R.E.T.I.N.O.U.S. piece of GIBBO trash POPS his club king, which is not only HUGELY stupid (what else is new?) but also pathetically cowardly. Like many GIBBO robots, Halfwit has a bright yellow streak running down his back.

And WHY was he in such a RUSH to POP his club king? Simple: So that he could IMMEDIATELY return a...CLUB (because, as you know, these totally incompetent losers LOVE to return the suit DECLARER plays).

So, at trick five, the clueless jackass plays his club 8. I, South, call for dummy North's 9, and D. J. Dumbo in the East, with A10 dub remaining at this point, plays the...TEN (!)...allowing me to win my now-stiff jack.

Is it even the LEAST bit surprising that these GIBBO bozos KEEP adding to their IMMENSE collection of zeroes?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3s5py8sh

[benellis58]

West has J86 of one black suit and J963 in the other. Typically, he leads the shorter AND weaker one against 3NT.Tke longer and stronger one would have been more successful. Who would EVER have guessed?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ay8k33wc

[benellis58]

In the passout seat, North balances over East's 2H by bidding 2S. This is a textbook GIBBO move, and I've often seen them do it with weaker hands and weaker suits.

I know that North has only four spades, even though the miserable GIB definition of his bid FALSELY claims that he has "4+". I know this because with five or more, he would have earlier transferred to spades in response to my 1NT overcall.

Since I only have a doubleton spade, I'm not passing 2S, and it now doesn't seem wise to bid 2NT either, so I bid 3C, hoping to catch a fit with my imbecile of a "partner".

The GOOD news: I do catch a fit, as he has K985 of clubs. Yay.

The BAD news: The feebleminded twerp BIDS. Of COURSE he bids, because he is an I.D.I.O.T., and not just a generic garden-variety I.D.I.O.T., but a GIBBO I.D.I.O.T. - the absolutely worst, stupidest, and most repulsive kind.

And what does he bid? He of COURSE he bids 3H, because these nauseating monstrosities LOVE to cuebid...for NO reason...at high levels. His insane 3H call is defined as showing:

"4+ spades", thereby repeating the LIE we were told with his earlier 2S call;

"6+ HCP", a typically LAZY GIB definition, since it literally means 6-37, AND a very, VERY stupid definition, considering that he earlier PASSED over my 1NT overcall, which he obviously would not have done if he had any interest in game;

"7-8 total points", not even worth mentioning, since GIB has NO knowledge or understanding of total points, so they are always just random stabs with zero value and zero significance;

"Forcing to 3NT", FORCING TO 3NT???!!!Why the HELL would he NOW be "forcing to 3NT" when he originally PASSED my 1NT overcall? Never mind "forcing" - he didn't even INVITE at that time! And at his NEXT opportunity to bid, he merely BALANCED with a NON-invitational, PASSABLE call of 2S! But now...now...NOW, all of a sudden, he's "forcing to 3NT"???Give me a BREAK!

And it gets EVEN stupider, because in addition to everything else, why would he be "forcing to 3NT" with his ACTUAL HAND...OR with a hand that, as per the SAME GIB definition, says that he could have as few as 6 HCP?

GIB/GIBBO is useless, hopeless, and absolutely disgusting. It is a hideous pimple on the face of bridge and a huge stain on BBO.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ycyucend

[benellis58]

The imbecile in the North PASSES 1NT but then later DOUBLES 2S. If he's strong enough to double 2S now, then he was strong enough to double 1NT earlier! GIBBO is worthless.


https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8d59f9

[benellis58]

While West admittedly has a hand that is not pleasant to lead from (especially on the given auction) and while any lead might work out well or poorly on this or many other random hands depending on layout, I am still singularly unimpressed by his lead of the stiff spade queen. Looking ONLY at West's hand, a normal diamond seems to be a better choice.

I win trick one in dummy North and lead a club to my king. West, a typically braindead GIBBO robot, has the AJ9 of clubs and makes the amazingly STUPID play of the 9. I am now GUARANTEED four club tricks because I cannot guess wrong. If the ignorant GIBBO chowderhead had made the obviously correct play of winning his ace at trick two, he would have given me a guess the second time I played clubs. These pathetic GIBBO robots have no CLUE how to play bridge.

Speaking of "pathetic", look at the TYPICALLY pathetic GIB definition of 2NT, which begins "Invitational to 3NT game...". Including the word "game" is as USUAL (groan!) annoying, insulting, unnecessary, useless, and proof positive that the creator of the definition should have enlisted someone ELSE to do the job! But more importantly, it is TOTALLY ridiculous to STUPIDLY claim that 2NT is invitational to 3NT! NORTH has already described HIS hand, presumably accurately, with an INVITATIONAL sequence of his own, so South (if he is interested in playing in NO TRUMP) can either leap to 3NT or sign off in 2NT. It is ESSENTIAL that South CAN have this way to sign off in 2NT!

Signing off in 2NT resulted in a shared top for NS, as the contract made with an overtrick, thanks in no small part to the typically inept GIBBO "defence".

https://www.bridgeba...HT%7Cpc%7CH7%7C

[benellis58]

Typically boneheaded move by the always ignorant GIBBO piece of trash in the North: He expresses his full values with his first call, 2H. His partner South never expresses any interest in game, but when South later (merely) balances/competes in the passout seat by bidding 3H over West's 3D, SUPERSTOOGE in the North feels that he must raise to four.

Time and time again, these astoundingly hopeless GIBBO bozos commit this same type of sin, turning a plus into a minus (as North did here) or a minus into a bigger minus. It seems that one of the main lessons the GIBBO slimeballs learn in GIBBO bridge school is "how to HANG your partner".

https://www.bridgeba...CSJ%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

Yes, I plead guilty to canapé-ing the South hand by first overcalling in my FOUR-card major (spades) and then NEXT bidding my FIVE-card one (hearts). WHY did I do this? Several reasons: I wanted to retain the possibility of showing both majors without reversing, as I lacked sufficient strength for that. I always AVOID off-shape doubles. Also, if my "partner" North happened to end up on lead, I wanted a SPADE to be led, NOT a heart. Finally, in games where the other three "players" are GIBBO robots, I frequently operate and/or "experiment", so I figured I'd give it a try.

But the purpose of this thread is to work on the sacred mission of bashing GIB/GIBBO with the noble intention of exposing how atrocious it is, in the hope that the powers that be will GREATLY improve BBO by discarding the wretched GIBBO robots forever and replacing them with decent, competent ones. So, the point of this particular post is not to offer a mea culpa, but to show how mind-blowingly, hopelessly STUPID the disgusting GIBBO robots are, because whatever you think of MY sequence, the action taken by the GIBBO piece of trash in the North was insane.

North originally passed. East opened 1C. I overcalled my "experimental" 1S and West competed with 2C.

North and East both passed, and I, in passout seat, competed with 2H. Note that my "prepared" auction had actually succeeded in one of my objectives, as I had successfully managed to show both my majors while remaining at the TWO level (albeit, having created the false impression that my spades might have been longer than my hearts). Note that ANY decent player in the North would have passed 2H, and my "experiment" would have turned out very well!

West passed and North - with J4, Q932, 97632, 42 - "rescued" (!!!!) me by "taking a preference" to two...SPADES! This incredibly braindead I.D.I.O.T. "ran" from a suit where he had FOUR-card support to one where he had TWO(!)-card "support". I wrote a while back that if we TRIED to create a robot more incompetent than GIBBO we would have a very difficult task. I now believe that I might well have understated my point, because trying to create a robot worse than GIBBO might well be an IMPOSSIBLE task. GIB/GIBBO is, in my opinion, nothing but the WORST sort of GARBAGE and a stain on the game of bridge.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cpc%7CD9%7C