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#1 User is offline   1eyedjack 

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Posted 2013-November-24, 02:29


5♦ is not a great spot but it makes on 2-2 trumps.
I think that GIB recommends 4♦ where I bid 5♦. Over that, North bids 4♥ and then respects South's 5♦.

Perhaps my 5♦ was a bit uppish, but should not North pass it anyway?

Personally I would pass 4♦ with the North hand (and count myself unlucky that trumps broke 2-2), but I know that North does not pass because that was the auction at some other tables.
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Posted 2013-November-24, 11:30

While I agree that North should pass 5♦, it might be nice to know what GIB thinks 5♦ shows.
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Posted 2013-November-24, 11:54

Yes, particularly when I use a tablet, it seems to be random whether the system displays some explanations. Often, but certainly not always, it will display the explanation to the screen on mouse-over, but not alert the bid and record the explanation in the history. It definitely happens more with android than flash. can’t speak for apple.
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Posted 2013-November-24, 13:13

View Post1eyedjack, on 2013-November-24, 02:29, said:

I think that GIB recommends 4♦ where I bid 5♦. Over that, North bids 4♥ and then respects South's 5♦.

Perhaps my 5♦ was a bit uppish, but should not North pass it anyway?


GIB has no sense of humor and no memory, so if you make a joke of a bid, GIB will nail you. And the next time you make the same bid, GIB will nail you again. I'm guessing that 5♦ shows something like 25-28 points in GIB standard, so 5 HCP and a couple of points for distribution makes GIB evaluate this as a slam hand. You have to be extremely careful when essentially bidding game on your own because GIB frequently misinterprets the bid as showing 25+ HCP and keeps on bidding.
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