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#1 User is offline   Bbradley62 

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Posted 2010-July-18, 10:33

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A forum poll with 27 responses indicates that no one passes the North hand in first seat. (20 opened 1♠, 6 said 3♠ and 1 said 4♠.) Can GIB's criteria be adjusted so that he doesn't pass?
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Posted 2010-July-18, 11:23

Sure, I can add a special rule for GIB to open the bidding with any 11-HCP hand with a 7-card major. Does
look like an opening bid to everyone? It looks close enough to me.
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Posted 2010-July-18, 14:32

Maybe just make sure it opens like rule of 20 or 21 in all seats holding a 6+ major?
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Posted 2010-July-18, 15:22

We talked about it a long time ago so I kind of forget, but I think I mentioned to you at some point that gib seems to count nothing for singleton honors a lot? Not that this wouldn't be a 3♠ opening even then.
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2010-July-19, 02:58

GIB doesn't count "nothing" for singleton honors. GIB counts their HCP value, but does not add any total points for the shortness.
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Posted 2010-July-19, 03:49

arigreen, on Jul 18 2010, 05:23 PM, said:

Does
look like an opening bid to everyone? It looks close enough to me.

So the worst possible hand with 7 spades is close to you; sounds like a reason to implement that rule! I would strongly prefer GIB to open xxxxxxx of spades and some points 1S to him passing this great hand.
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