[1eyedjack]

MP, robot tourney, best hand South

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To pre-empt all y'all piling in with how bad my 5♣ bid was, yes I know. Rightly or wrongly I had decided that I was not going to defend 4♠ (which actually goes one off on normal defence as the cards lie). Bidding 5♣ immediately I hoped not to get doubled (I was right there). And it might just push them into 5♠ which I was much more happy to defend.

But, and here's the thing: In what universe can North justify raising to 6♣? Maybe he decided that defending 5♠ would be a bad move and didn't want to get doubled in 6? Er, I think not.

North has absolute minimum for his initial double, both in values and shape. If I thought that I was making 6C opposite a balanced minimum I would be bidding it myself as South. Indeed the explanation of the 6♣ bid shows 11+ total points.

[mcphee]

You blew this one all on your own. Partner makes a neg dble, the next hand pre-empts and you basically have a nice hand with shape but not all all sure partner holds 4 clubs. With the colors the wrong way for you bidding 4C is a huge overbid at pairs. Minus 200 loses to all part scores, so bidding carries a large risk. While partner, who still gets another bid if you pass,and with the right values will double again if they want to compete, at which point you can now bid 5C expecting to have a shot.

Placing all the blame on the bot here is a cop out.

[1eyedjack]

Read the OP. I did not place all the blame on P. What part of "To pre-empt all y'all piling in with how bad my 5♣ bid was, yes I know" is hard to read?

I asked a question, which you have not answered.

The point is, that when I DO have a hand in which 5C is a reasonable call, I do NOT want GIB bidding 6C on that.

The purpose of these threads is to improve GIB, not an ATB to seek sympathy for blown results.

As it happened I came in first in that tourney, so could afford this bad board.