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How many points needed for 5C?

#1 User is offline   Bbradley62 

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Posted 2012-May-09, 22:36

After my partner shows 10-12 total points, why should my 5 bid show 19?
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Posted 2012-May-10, 09:03

Maybe it should show around 18. 25 pts total for 4 level game. So 28 pts total for 5 level game. When I first learned bridge the books always said 26/29, I guess we are more aggressive these days.
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Posted 2015-August-15, 09:44

View PostBbradley62, on 2012-May-09, 22:36, said:

After my partner shows 10-12 total points, why should my 5 bid show 19?

It is right counting MW+Goren(=shortness)+longness. Fourthemore we have four honors in club between the two hands that get up value (you add +2), bye.
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Posted 2015-August-15, 19:18

It often appears that the original programmer(s) thought that the worst thing that could possibly happen in bridge is to go down in a contract. So many times we would like to take an aggressive shot at game with a fit and good shape, but the descriptions demand massive values. It didn't seem to occur to them that missing games was anything to be concerned about.

It's close but probably 4C is enough on the actual hand.
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Posted 2015-August-16, 07:08

Since the actual hand took place more than 3 years ago gib may behave differently today
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Posted 2015-August-16, 13:10

Lovera has this strange habit of re-activating 3-year old threads.

Yes, it's entirely possible that GIB would behave differently today, but it would have taken almost no time or effort for a programmer who read the original thread to reply with a comment indicating that it had been read and would be considered for modification.

Note that I was only questioning the description provided by GIB for a bid that I actually made. It appears that GIB thinks 5 requires 29 total partnership points, and that 6 requires 32 total partnership points. Therefore, after partner shows 10-12, I must have exactly 19 to know that we do have at least 29 and we do not have at least 32.
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