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Why is this and can I disable it? It makes finding my old threads annoyingly difficult.

Well, clearly for GIB the bid is forcing (as it should be). Description says 12+ points. Perhaps it just thinks it is too good for 4 spades.

Pass for me at any form of scoring. I don't really consider it close but IANAE.

Honestly I found it pretty funny that this happened so quickly after this announcement from Facebook.

Well I found it to be an entertaining story. I can't quite tell if you're serious - if so I don't understand the point of having a go about something that has got nothing to do with the anecdote. He didn't even suggest he took that long.

I play this structure and we just play four way transfers (3N=♣, 4!C=♦). We fit in all the hand types and can do all two-suited Majors and all two-suited Major minor slam tries. People are perfectly happy to play 1N-2N as artificial so I don't see what the big deal is with 2N-3N. PM me if you want me to send you a copy.

Not forcing - even though dbl shows nothing in the way of clubs. I think it shows 5-5.

I think this is just semantics. Let's not forget either that when the opening 18 count plays out of its hand it's less likely to score as well as (say) a 14 count playing opposite a four count. I would expect to beat 1N most of the time with a split deck and sometimes balancer will have a 10 count. Why, do you think the double means something different? Imo it has to be this (or of course a penalty pass...)

Basically pure penalties. Imo North should always leave the double in unless he doesn't really have his bid. 12-14 balanced that couldn't act over 1C seems like the typical hand.

I didn't realise so many other people had posted in the past about this playing card sound issue. It's so so annoying. This is me putting in another plea for an option to be added to remove it. It sounds absolutely nothing like playing cards. Even worse is that when you are going through Bridgemaster solutions you can't even disable it if your BBO sound is disabled!! It pains me to hark back to the good old days of full configurability on the Windows client. :angry:

Thanks very much for the super-comprehensive answer! Some great food for thought (particularly as I also play Rusinow off in p's suit *cries*)

Is this just a memory load thing? Or is it that you simply haven't had this discussion with your partners? It's not the first time I've seen a comment by a pro saying "convention x is probably best but I don't play it with anyone" and it surprises me.

I know what the convention is but not the followups. Now you have shown the spade single-suiter you don't have clubs most of the time anyway so you could argue why treat responder's minors differently. Okay opener is sometimes 6-4♠♣ - I suppose you may as well use 4C to catch this...

Yes it probably is. I'm not really familiar with this art 3c treatment

This would be definitely be quant for me since 4m then 4N must be RKCB for spades.

Better! Thought this could have been right out of Bridgemaster level 4. The only card I changed from the real deal was South's hearts to Q3 instead of Q8 to punish lazy declarers. You can figure why

You also need to be more precise. B-)

Agreements at fault. "Penalties of at least one suit" is old-fashioned and unclear. Was North going to penalise 2M as well? If not what does the first double really mean? Unless the agreement for the first double is literally "I can penalise 2M" I am not sitting with the S hand.

You need to be a bit more precise. How can you endplay when he refuses to overruff if you have already cashed three spades and ruffed a club?

All follow to three diamonds. All follow to first spade (west plays the 10)

No takers!? Wrong forum perhaps?

It is available if you go into "Hands and Results" though.

[hv=pc=n&w=&n=SA975HAT92DQT5C86&e=&s=SKQ43HQ3DJ62CAKQ4&d=n&v=o&b=8&a=PP1SD2NP4SPPP&p=DAD5D4D2DK]399|300[/hv] You play four card Majors. NS play standard signals. Lead is DA, DK and another diamond. All follow. From a recent Team match.

Does it do this completely? i.e. When I lead to AQT in dummy AFAIK GIB doesn't randomly play honours with King Jack as it would if it thought you were always going to double finesse. In any case I think it's pretty obvious what OP's point is.

5N followed by 5H 6♥ to offer partner the choice between H and S.