[p_t_red]

http://tinyurl.com/7l9dycl

GIB always seems to play for risky overtricks when the contract is cold.
GIB can overtake the queen of hearts with the king and cash the jack for
the ninth trick. Instead makes a risky throw-in play and loses the rest of the tricks.

[cloa513]

p_t_red, on 2012-January-20, 00:22, said:

http://tinyurl.com/7l9dycl

GIB always seems to play for risky overtricks when the contract is cold.
GIB can overtake the queen of hearts with the king and cash the jack for
the ninth trick. Instead makes a risky throw-in play and loses the rest of the tricks.

Don't you have a link to the original hand where it describes the GIB as GIB?

[barmar]

Was it IMP or MP? At MP it could be right to play this way -- if you guess right, the player you throw in will be the one with the ♥ and you make an overtrick. So the a priori odds of this play are 50% overtrick, 50% going down, versus just making with the simple cash-out line.

And perhaps the ♦ guess is odds on. When West plays the third round of ♠, it suggests that he has a side entry, otherwise why bother continuing the suit? And he's more like likely to consider ♣QJx to be an entry than ♦9xxx.

[Bbradley62]

cloa513, on 2012-January-20, 03:31, said:

Don't you have a link to the original hand where it describes the GIB as GIB?

That is a link to the original hand; it's an Express Automated Fun tournament, where South was removed for unresponsiveness. Myhands will always show the names of the players who were there when the hand was dealt, not the names of the players who completed the hand.

Edit: and yes, it's MP.