If 3♣ promised 17- HCP why am I suddenly promising 20 points with 3♠? And much more importantly why does he ask for aces with 0 keycards and then just assume I have them all? Everyone knows that first you need to bid 5♠ to give partner a chance to pass and to show his brilliant deductive abilities and bid on with all five.
7NT off two aces and a king.....
#1
Posted 2015-April-11, 14:51
If 3♣ promised 17- HCP why am I suddenly promising 20 points with 3♠? And much more importantly why does he ask for aces with 0 keycards and then just assume I have them all? Everyone knows that first you need to bid 5♠ to give partner a chance to pass and to show his brilliant deductive abilities and bid on with all five.
George Carlin
#2
Posted 2015-April-11, 14:53
George Carlin
#4
Posted 2015-April-11, 21:22
#5
Posted 2015-April-12, 00:23
Just as an aside, I also don't think 3♥ should show 4 hearts per se nor even 5 spades. Partner might have something like
Kxxx
AQx
xxx
xxx
in which case you want to show a heart stop asking partner what he thinks about diamonds. Most know that 3♣ denies 4 hearts (as a minimum reverse to 2♥ is not stronger than a minimum jump rebid so you might as well show your hearts if you have them) so we can afford 3♥ to be semi-artificial.
George Carlin
#6
Posted 2015-April-13, 19:47
4N in my opinion is the real problem! First off all trump has been agreed as ♠ so it should be Keycard not straight Blackwood. Secondly why is Gib going for a slam? It's a minimum, sure it has an extra ♠ but the quality is nothing to get excited about. Thirdly, even if it did have a passed hand interested in slam it should cuebid and let the strong hand take control (captaincy).
#7
Posted 2015-April-13, 21:25
steve2005, on 2015-April-13, 19:47, said:
It is keycard for ♠, the description always says blackwood though. The (S) signifies that it is agreeing spades.
#9
Posted 2015-April-14, 00:28
cloa513, on 2015-April-13, 22:31, said:
he promised the ♠Q also. I know it's an impossible hand. I knew it the moment I bid 7NT. GIB would have taken me to grand slam anyways. but yes let's talk about my bidding. it's the perfect place to do it.
George Carlin
#10
Posted 2015-April-14, 11:40
manudude03, on 2015-April-13, 21:25, said:
Ok, I didn't know that. Then it took opener for 5 KC.
A while back there was a fix where if bidder showed 1/4 or 0/3 and Gib not sure was suppose to sign-off in 5 then partner bids slam with 3/4. I guess this wasn't implemented for 2/5 responses.
But I stand by my previous post that Gib had no business bidding 4N, especially with 0 KC.
#11
Posted 2015-April-14, 14:16
gwnn, on 2015-April-14, 00:28, said:
There is nothing wrong with your bidding. 1C, 3C, and 3C are all straight-forward, obvious choices. You are completely correct that showing the 3 card S fit should not require a maximum for your previous bids. 4NT by the bot is simply an insanely aggressive action
#12
Posted 2015-April-20, 15:07
We found a bug in this loser(s) computing function, so next version will carry fix for this ( v34 ).