AdamL3

I had the following auction with GIB opening: 1C-1S-1N-2D-2N-3S-4S-4N-5H-5S-6D!? GIBs hand was ♠K8 ♥53 ♦AQJ3 ♣QT875 GIBs explanation of my 5S bid was correct that it was a signoff. So why did it take another bid? We were indeed off two aces.

I should know better, but I perpetrated the following sequence with GIB: 1S-1N-2C-2N-3H-3S-3N. I find GIBs explanation for my 3N bid to be amusing: "4+♣; 4-5♥; 5-6♠; 14+ HCP; 18- total points; partial stop in ♦" Apparently, not only do I have at least 13 cards (maybe more!) in clubs, hearts, and spades, but also I have a little something in diamonds. Cool!

Now how about also doing away with South having the most HCP at the table? I don't like the extra information about the opponents hands that results from that, and I'd rather defend a little more often. I'll still get to declare for partner, so I'll declare twice as often as I do when playing against humans. That's plenty.

1♦-3♣ as a competitive raise is certainly GCC legal, under: 5. SINGLE OR HIGHER JUMP SHIFTS AND/OR NOTRUMP BIDS AT THE TWO LEVEL OR HIGHER to indicate a raise or to force to game. Same reason Bergen raises are legal. And this also covers the Fantunes 1M-2N as a raise.

For a while now I've been playing a version of Fantunes that's modified for ACBL GCC, as follows: - 1C must be 15+ (and 2C therefore is 11-14) - Since 1N cannot include 4441, we open 1D unless the singleton is in diamonds. With the 4=4=1=4 we have to open 1H. (After a 2-level response, we play that 2N by opener shows the minimum 4441 with singleton in partner's suit) and is NF. - 1M-2C non-GF is not permitted on less than three clubs, so we have to bid 2D on balanced or major suit raise hands with fewer than 3 clubs and at least 3 diamonds (and we use 1M-3N to cover GF raises without three in either minor). 1M-2D isn't a very comfortable auction as a result, but we manage. Also their 1D-2D on a weak reverse-flannery shape isn't allowed, but that isn't really that important to the system as a whole.

http://bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=9206985&when_played=1325521201 On this hand with clubs K965 opposite 42, late in the hand GIB plays a club to the NINE instead of putting up the king, which would have won and made the contract. True, the opponent who won the trick was endplayed, but that did not actually help produce another trick. I don't get it.

After I open 1D and jump shift to 3C, GIB takes a preference to 3D, and now the explanation on 3H says it shows 3+H? It should be a try for 3N. How am I ever supposed to figure out if GIB has heart stoppers?