[1eyedjack]

Just reeling from the shock of a couple of disasters in an IMP robot tourney, best hand South.

I feel that the result on the first disaster influenced my decision (adversely) on the second. GIB would not have made that mistake

1st hand:

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I toyed with bidding 5D - I could picture some hands opposite when it would make with the wind blowing right. Anyway, long and the short of it was I failed to cash the two clubs while I had the chance. -1400.

2nd hand:

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I certainly considered bidding 5D. But then I thought, if partner can come up with 5 more tricks than he had for bidding 3D on the previous round, perhaps we might stand a chance of making 4

No excuse really. The second hand is all down to me. But the first? Would all y'all have bid 3D on that?

[Stephen Tu]

I've long felt that GIB, over takeout dbls of 2M, or if they raise to 2M, jumps to 4m way, way too light. It should bid 3m on most of the 4m hands and pass a lot of the hands it bids 3m freely on (when it's not forced to bid to avoid playing 2M-x). A lot of these doubles are designed to push the opps up one level to get a better chance to set, not designed to reach minor suit games with only half the deck. This tactic is a lot less effective when GIB insists on jumping to 4m just because it has 9 or 10 pts instead of say 7.

The other issue is that GIB doesn't take into account honor location on book bids, doesn't devalue the spade Q here.