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Using stayman to get to the worst fit

#1 User is offline   manudude03 

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Posted 2011-June-12, 11:26

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Why is West bidding 3NT with 4 hearts and 1 spade?

It happened at every table that Gib was West.

edit: just noticed diamonds would be worse :)
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Posted 2011-June-12, 16:47

Very strange. My first though was that the E GIB thought that 3NT is a descriptive bid (showing four spades) while the W GIB thinks that 3NT just means that the simulations favor 3NT. But it seems unlikely that the simulations would favor 3NT at every table. There must be some ill-conceived rule that forbids W to bid 4♥ with this hand. Maybe the hand is too strong or something.
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Posted 2011-June-12, 17:12

This is the same problem that s1y4 reported a few days ago:
http://www.bridgebas...ter-2c-stayman/
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Posted 2011-June-13, 13:49

Same symptom, different cause, oddly.

We fixed both and they'll be part of the next release, in about a week
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Posted 2011-June-13, 15:22

View Postuday, on 2011-June-13, 13:49, said:

Same symptom, different cause, oddly.

We fixed both and they'll be part of the next release, in about a week

I had a hand a few days ago where the bot bid Stayman with 4-4 in the majors. I responded 2♥, it jumped to 3NT. Luckily, I was also 4-4 in the majors, so I corrected to 4♠.

Did you fix this case as well?
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