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Hello I have developed a kind of addiction to this game. Also when I do a mistake by not focusing etc. then I get very frustrated. I can not play at this site, or any site for that matter any more!!!! Is there a way for BBO to block me from playing? I need a way for some "outer part" to block me. If I block myself, then I can also unblock myself, so it is not making it good again. Thank you very much for your concern. AndersWen

For the most part, you should not rebid a 5 card suit with minimum hands unless partner forces you to bid and all your other bids are worse / mis-describe your hand by agreement. Common situations where you are forced to rebid a 5 cd suit: - you respond 1 of a major, partner reverses (e.g. 1c-1h-2d, 1c-1s-2h) showing a strong hand and promising a 3rd bid. It's common to rebid a 5 cd suit here as it's economical and doesn't take room, partner has promised to bid again, so you don't take a risk of ending in a 5-1/5-0 fit by rebidding. - you open 1 of a major, partner bids a 2/1 bid (e.g. 1s-2h-2s, 1h-2d-2h, 1s-2d-2s). It's again common to rebid 5 cd suit (even of terrible quality), because again partner is bidding again (with many playing it as GF these days), it's economical, and again you should be able to avoid 5-2/1/0 fits in the subsequent auction. This is done so higher bids can be better defined. If you require 6 cd suit to rebid your suit on this auction, one has to do arguably inferior things like make high reverses (1s-2h-3d) on totally min hands, or rebid 2nt on off-shape hands with unstopped shortages, which can wrong-side eventual 3nt contracts. - you open 1c, partner responds in your stiff, and you have an agreement that rebidding 1nt promises at least a doubleton in partner's suit, and your hand isn't strong enough to reverse. In practically all other situations with minimums, there are better alternatives, usually involving either bidding NT, a second suit, raising partner on 3 cds (even though they might only have 4), or taking a preference to partner's first suit. If you are strong enough, GF values, or invational values over a 1nt rebid, you can force partner to show 3 cd support by employing gadgets like 4th suit forcing, new minor forcing, xyz, xynt, checkback stayman, etc. depending on the auction. But still you aren't rebidding the suit directly in these situations. The only real exception to this rule is when the auction has gone 1m-1M-1nt, and partner promises a doubleton (some people agree 1nt is allowable on singleton, which has pros and cons). In this situation, with shapely hands and min (not strong enough to employ xynt/nmf/whatever gadget you have agreed with inv+), it's often advantageous to rebid 2M on 5 cds. Because partner will have 3 cd support quite often, and these play better in the major, and even on the 5-2 fits the major sometimes does better. So 1nt on first. The second hand I'd pass since 5332, but I would rebid spades with more shape. In other situations, where partner doesn't have to have any cards in your suit, you shouldn't rebid 5 cd suits because partner should be often passing with singletons/voids, because you are doing the same thing with good 6/7 cd suits and bidding more is just making things worse. Playing 5-1 fits on a regular basis doesn't tend to work out well.

Back in the days when I could still play reasonably well, Judy and I would have bid this way: 1N-2S* 3C-3D** 3H-4H 4S-4N*** 5D****-5N***** 7C *MSS (game force) **key bid to show quality trick-source suit and slam interest *** general slam try - do you have more to say? **** I have a filler card for your diamond suit ***** Hot damn! GSF

There exists the tool you are looking for : the BBOalert browser extension already used by hundreds worldwide. One of the features is the UI customization. All you have to do is to install BBOalert, copy the code below into the clipboard, start BBO and press "Import" button the BBOalert panel. //BBOalert //Script,onAnyMutation SWAP_BIDDING_BUTTONS(); //Script,onDataLoad SWAP_BIDDING_BUTTONS = function () { if (biddingBoxDisplayed) { var elBiddingBox = document.querySelector(".biddingBoxClass"); var elBiddingButtons = elBiddingBox.querySelectorAll(".biddingBoxButtonClass"); for (var i = 12; i < 15; i++) { elBiddingButtons.style.left = ""; elBiddingButtons.style.right = '4px'; } elBiddingButtons[16].style.left = '4px'; if (getExplainInput().getAttribute('maxlength') != '254') getExplainInput().setAttribute('maxlength', '254'); } }; Script BBOalert is a sophisticated toolkit which aims to automate alerting. The basic feature of recording and replaying alerts is a great help. All you need to begin is to install the BBOalert extension and start playing normally. Every alerted bid is recorded and then when the identical auction occurs the recorded bid explanation is retrieved and sent to the opponents. But this feature is only the top of the iceberg. BBOalert installation : Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bboalert/bjgihidachainhhhilkeemegdhehnlcf For the complete description of BBOalert features see the project page : https://github.com/stanmaz/BBOalert The tutorial can be also useful https://github.com/stanmaz/BBOalert/blob/master/GettingStarted.pdf You are invited to join the BBOalert users on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/706384146770707/ There are other interesting scripts published. Feel free to contact me by mail if you need help while setting up BBOalert. stanmaz.git@gmail.com

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