[VegasVern]

I'm a bit rusty. Been playing with the bots a lot. Some of these contracts go so far a field I assume the problem lies with me. Does anyone care to tell me the correct way to bid this hand. This contract got slaughtered. (Again, I wanted to stop in 3N, but the bot bids on.)

I opened the bidding:

board 4 #1374

w,n,e,s

p,p,p,1♦
p,2♣,p,2♠
p,3♣,p,3nt
p,4♥,p,4♠
p,5♦,p,6♣
p,6♦,p,p

(bot)
9
q,j,x,x
k,7
a,9,8,7,x,x

(me)
a,k,x,x
9
q,j,8,x,x
k,q,2

[Benoit35]

Are you holding your mouse over the bid before clicking, to see how the bot will interpret your bid? Make sure you have your bid - once you've told the bot something wrong, there's no correcting it.

I see two things here, one may have to do with the robot but the other is just bridge:

1) Your 2♠ was a reverse bid. Not wrong I think, 15 pts is a little light but then again your distribution is good. But it may have gotten the bot a little excited. Still, no excuse for it to bid past 3NT.

2) Bidding 3NT is dangerous - you have a singleton heart and no hint of a stopper from partner (no matter what species). Try 3♦ to tell your diamond length and to ask for a heart stopper, but this might not work with a robot. Facing a computer, the thing to do may be to sign off a 5♣ after it said 3♣, to make sure it shuts the hell up.

[TylerE]

GIB tends to be fairly conservative with reverses, so I'd suggest you do the same...with the given hand I'd just rebid 2♦