[virgosrock]

maybe they make it since many crossruff tricks available. maybe GIBBO is right to pull. maybe....

vrock

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[pescetom]

It seems to contradict your theory that GIB gets over-excited with a strong holding in the opponent's suit.
Maybe GIB is guessing badly about where the ♠ are after the bizarre 1♥ response by West.

[Stephen Tu]

Well for one thing it thinks that East has 4 trumps; that unexpected Q of hearts you hold swings quite a few potential tricks. I don't know if the sampling code takes into account the 3cd raise deviations from the database, hopefully it does but maybe not?

The other thing is that if I read the blurb right (doesn't show up visually, but read it from cut/pasting your diagram code), it thinks South is limited to 9- points maybe because of the initial pass which is wrong and should be fixed.

Under those conditions it probably is correct that doubling them into game is too thin, needs better heart spot cards to take that gamble.

[virgosrock]

pescetom, on 2018-May-19, 10:26, said:

It seems to contradict your theory that GIB gets over-excited with a strong holding in the opponent's suit.
Maybe GIB is guessing badly about where the ♠ are after the bizarre 1♥ response by West.

haha pesceton. That AmGors applies when it has game in sight, not in cases like this.

LOL

vrock

[jdonn]

It's totally normal for north to pull this double with this hand. He shouldn't expect to beat them in general, given the opponents will know he has 5 trumps. Are we perhaps resulting because you had singleton heart queen??

[virgosrock]

jdonn, on 2018-May-23, 19:15, said:

It's totally normal for north to pull this double with this hand. He shouldn't expect to beat them in general, given the opponents will know he has 5 trumps. Are we perhaps resulting because you had singleton heart queen??

LOL yes jdonn. is why i had 2 or 3 "maybe"s in the original post.

i put this down to sh** happens category.

vrock