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tearing my hair out playing Bingo! I love Bingo and do quite well but it's so hard to stop in partscores.
Usually end up needing say 3H so start preempting with 4 card suit and 17 points, but GIB always wants to raise to game with about 8 points!
Surely you would never raise with 2 soft tricks, so I think it's a real problem with the program.
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Posted 2011-April-08, 03:15
that's part of the challenge - to trick the GIB to stay in the contract you need 
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Posted 2011-April-08, 08:06
You'd have to show us the hand for us to determine whether GIB did anything wrong.
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Posted 2011-April-08, 12:46
I think GIB thinks LOTT,and wants to preempt too. It's playing duplicate, not total points!
I try to avoid the 3S or 3H lines whenever I see them. If you insist on going for those lines, try to appear weaker and steer creatively.
Edit : Just learnt bidding, GIB does keep scoring methods in mind when bidding.
I try to avoid the 3S or 3H lines whenever I see them. If you insist on going for those lines, try to appear weaker and steer creatively.
Edit : Just learnt bidding, GIB does keep scoring methods in mind when bidding.
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Posted 2011-April-10, 18:28
Yes it's best to avoid lines with 3H or 3S but there are never those perfect lines with all games and one 1 level contract. always a partscore somewhere and that's the trick.
BUT if you make a limit raise needing that elusive 3H/S partner always goes 4 with a 12 count!
BTW I love Bingo. I hope GIB is thick-skinned because I call it some pretty nasty names.
BUT if you make a limit raise needing that elusive 3H/S partner always goes 4 with a 12 count!
BTW I love Bingo. I hope GIB is thick-skinned because I call it some pretty nasty names.
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Posted 2011-April-17, 19:40
I have been taking note of GIB behaviour since my last post and it's true. If GIB opens 1 major and you make a limit raise, it always goes to game, even with a 12 count.
I think this spoils the fun because it becomes a matter of luck, hoping GIB will open 2S and you can raise to 3 or hoping it will preempt.
Someone said you can avoid the lines with 3major. that's pretty rare.
I think robot reward is a bit of a lottery with this flaw. I have made a limit raise with 18 points and still seen the robot go to game!
I think this spoils the fun because it becomes a matter of luck, hoping GIB will open 2S and you can raise to 3 or hoping it will preempt.
Someone said you can avoid the lines with 3major. that's pretty rare.
I think robot reward is a bit of a lottery with this flaw. I have made a limit raise with 18 points and still seen the robot go to game!
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Posted 2011-April-17, 19:55
GIB is certainly very aggressive about bidding games. I think it goes to game on about 90% of my game tries. Any time it has 4-card support, it accepts. If you make a short-suit game try, it hardly ever asks where the shortness is, it just bids game.
But in the case of limit raises, does it do that if you make a 3-card limit raise by going through forcing NT?
But in the case of limit raises, does it do that if you make a 3-card limit raise by going through forcing NT?
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