AyunuS

http://tinyurl.com/hswowb7 IMPs, the free IMP tourney of the day that just ended. As soon as I saw the hands, I thought I'd lost. I don't have the ♦A or K, and LHO has AKJ when playing after the player that has the Q, and yet it won't play any of those? I've even shown 2+ diamonds and denied having a good diamond control. I don't get it.

Defense against 2♣ is tricky. I find that it's best to NOT just bid every good suit. Consider this, if you have ♥KQJxx, and you bid them, with no other points, you probably just blew it. Why? Well, they'll probably both bid and realize they have a ton of points, and as soon as one of them notices they have an Axxx in the suit you bid, they'll know it's facing shortness and all of their partner's points are in the other suits, and then they can bid higher than if you hadn't interfered. But if you have the same and 2 aces of other suits, you have to bid something, even with only a 5-card suit. They can't slam, and your partner leading your suit to help you establish it is huge. Other than that, I'd mostly just bid naturally against 2♣. Although I'd recommend using a couple gadgets, such as double to mean both majors and 2NT to mean both minors, if you want ways to show a few more different hands. I find these the most important since if you have a major and a minor, it's better to bid the major anyways as it'll give them less bidding room at the same level, and is the more important suit for your partner to know in 3NT defense. Honestly this is enough to cover everything I feel all that important and it seems good to use the other bids for just as safe as you can possibly get away with type of bids. Honestly you probably can't find much because there isn't much else you can do that would help any more than this.

Honestly I don't see this as all that bad. If you have a 2-card suit and a 3-card suit, then the capp player usually has one of those 2 suits. It's a very rare case for for the capp player to have spades. A bid that loses 6 IMPs 15% of the time and wins 2 IMPs the other 85% of the time is still worth doing (definitely not exact values).

It sees this as 100% win for you. You bid 24+ points, so west has at most 2 points. Therefore, you have every A, K, and Q, except the Q of spades, but it led spades so it doesn't have that, either. 4 AKQs is already 12 tricks. Then it also knows you have at least 2 of each suit, so with the 2+ hearts and at best for it a 3/3 heart split, it figures you also have 5 winners in hearts, so you just simply win for having more than 13 top tricks. It doesn't care what to play on defense when it sees it as 0 chance of winning any tricks regardless.

http://tinyurl.com/gv3y7gd Advanced robots at IMPs. This bidding is very strange to me. It goes through this sequence to eventually show this long "minor" of 6♥, and yet it never even shows the spade support in doing so. This is not a good bid, and spades are much better. It was down 3, and would have been down 4 if I could have ruffed a spade, but my partner didn't lead one when it had the chance.

http://tinyurl.com/ho6qx4a Advanced robots at IMPs. I thought 3♠ was a strange bid. I thought I showed preference (or at least indifference) to hearts, and then it goes for its obviously worse major anyways, saying it has 6. Then, since I'm pretty much indifferent between the two, having two of each, I go with its supposed 6-card suit. It didn't go well.

I'd definitely go for Stayman. Only time I wouldn't is if I'm 3334 or maybe if I just don't like my high cards for 4M. Like when you have no honors in what would be the trump suit, and otherwise high cards that are better in NT.

But I played with advanced GIB, and it thought its hand opposite 18 points was good enough for slam.

http://tinyurl.com/hlklsc4 It seems like there's no reason for doubling 4♠ here to be a takeout double. We already know clubs is our suit and it seems like a penalty double would be a more useful thing to be able to bid here. And then after that, the bidding just went crazy lol.

So just because I bid it incorrectly then it has to play it incorrectly? I feel like it should be able to play regardless.

http://tinyurl.com/jfqjwft Express Free TCR 80 Automated Fun. Yes this is advanced GIB. Look at trick 8. There is a clear path to winning the rest if it just plays the hearts and then the diamonds. But it dropped a diamond. The one club trick at the end is a loser, why keep a club instead?

http://tinyurl.com/jgbrql5 Advanced GIB, IMPs. West has too good of a hand to pass and just sell out at 2♣. Also it contradicts that the opponents can't play anything undoubled below 2N. Is there any reason not to bid hearts?

http://tinyurl.com/hcke45l Advanced robots, IMPs. I'm not sure if the bid is wrong or the description is wrong, but it doesn't seem to me like it's good to show 14-16 HCP when you only have 10. Then I have 23 so I think we have 37-39 which I figure is good enough for 7NT but we only had 33 since the description was off by that much.

http://i.imgur.com/YW6dPJ5.png Advanced robots at IMPs. GIB went on another of its little adventures of trying to find a fit. It somewhat overbid but it all seemed understandable enough to me. Well, except for one flaw. Why didn't west correct back to 4♠ after I doubled? Also interesting that on the one table with the 4♠E+1 it did correct back after south doubled. I feel that it shouldn't get tricked by south doubling into not correcting back. If anything, south doubling should mean definitely bid spades because south has a lot of clubs and it's going to be really hard to make 4♣. Anyone wanting a description of the bids can find them here: http://tinyurl.com/h3ztr9m

http://i.imgur.com/hEPP64A.png Ignore the current hand, look over at the my results. It didn't happen on my table but I noticed tons of them just went straight to 7♣ without even checking if it had all the keycards. It could have used blackwood or something, but it just jumped to 7.

[hv=sn=AyunuS&s=SQT86HQJ852D9C865&wn=Robot&w=SJ95432HAK7DJ64C7&nn=Robot&n=SAKH43DKT832CAQT4&en=Robot&e=S7HT96DAQ75CKJ932&d=w&v=o&b=8&a=P1N%28notrump%20opener.%20Could%20have%205M.%20--%202-5%20!C%3B%202-5%20!D%3B%202-5%20!H%3B%202-5%20!S%3B%2015-17%20HCP%3B%2018-%20total%20points%29P2D!%28Jacoby%20transfer%20--%205+%20!H%29P2H%28Transfer%20completed%20to%20H%20--%202-5%20!C%3B%202-5%20!D%3B%202-5%20!H%3B%202-5%20!S%3B%2015-17%20HCP%3B%2018-%20total%20points%29PP2S%284+%20!S%3B%2011-%20HCP%3B%2010-12%20total%20points%29P3D%284+%20!D%3B%203-%20!S%3B%2015-20%20total%20points%29P3N%284-%20!H%3B%204-5%20!S%3B%2011%20HCP%3B%2012%20total%20points%3B%20stop%20in%20!H%29PPD%285+%20!H%3B%208-%20total%20points%29PP4C%284+%20!C%3B%204+%20!D%3B%203-%20!S%3B%2015-20%20total%20points%29D%285+%20!H%3B%208+%20HCP%3B%208-%20total%20points%29PPP&p=D9D4D8DQS7S6S2SKSAC3S8S3H6H2HAH3HKH4H9H5S9D2C2STDAC5D6D3HQH7C4HTDKD7H8DJDTD5C8SJSQS4CQCKCJC6C7CACTC9HJS5]400|300[/hv] Advanced robots, IMPs. A misfit of 19 combined HCP bids all the way to level 4. The 3♦ is where it got weird. Idk why you would bid diamonds when you have longer clubs, and seeing that the other team opened 1NT, you wouldn't find it likely you'd be able to show the clubs after that. Not only that, it only has 4 diamonds and not that great of a hand and it's massively risky to go up to 3♦ in this situation and it also well overbid its hand. All of that when it could have just passed the 2♠ bid. But seeing that it left its partner in a bad spot since the distribution of the diamonds was relatively unknown, it caused its partner to go to a 3NT which its team did not have good enough of hands to safely bid. And after I doubled, it mysterious ran to 4♣ which I saw as even more dangerous as it's up to level 4 and the distribution of clubs was also relatively unknown, so I knew its odds weren't good and doubled that, too. Also strange that west did not bother to correct back to 4♦ even when it has more diamonds than clubs. When all was said and done, it ended up losing 13.9 IMPs because of this bidding.

I didn't mean it does this far too often on this hand specifically. What I mean is like if you take a bunch of random hands, and the other team bids and then you double, it doesn't bid something in enough of them.

[hv=sn=AyunuS&s=S93HQ93DA642C9876&wn=Robot&w=SA87542HADQT5CAKT&nn=Robot&n=SQJTHKJ87542DKJC5&en=Robot&e=SK6HT6D9873CQJ432&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=PP1S%28Major%20suit%20opening%20--%205+%20!S%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%2012-22%20total%20points%292H%28Two-level%20overcall%20--%205+%20!H%3B%2010+%20HCP%3B%2011-18%20total%20points%29PP2S%286+%20!S%3B%2014-21%20HCP%3B%2015-22%20total%20points%29PP3H%283+%20!H%3B%203-8%20total%20points%29D%28Takeout%20double%20--%203+%20!C%3B%203+%20!D%3B%202-%20!H%3B%206+%20!S%3B%2021-%20HCP%3B%2019-22%20total%20points%29PPP&p=SKS3S5STC2C9CKC5HAH2H6H3CAHJC4C6H7HTHQD5D2DQDKD9DJD3D6DTH8C3H9S8DAS7SJD7D4S4HKD8H4S6C7S2H5CJC8CTSQCQS9SA]400|300[/hv] Advanced GIB at IMPs. On hands like this, I feel GIB passes too easily. It's a disaster to let my team make 3♥x when vul in IMPs as it's worth 730. I got 13.6 IMPs just for this. And it has things it can bid, such as clubs or spades, and 3♠ in particular seems pretty safe to me. And of course, its defense in hearts is bad. It should have more defense than that for passing to be a good idea. And it does this kind of often, too. When you double at level 3, or especially at level 4, even though it says it's a takeout double, it far too often just passes even though its defense isn't very good.

[hv=sn=AyunuS&s=S2H6DQJT63CKJT952&wn=Robot&w=SQT73HA9754D95CA3&nn=Robot&n=SAK54HJT8D74CQ876&en=Robot&e=SJ986HKQ32DAK82C4&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=1D%28Minor%20suit%20opening%20--%203+%20!D%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%2012-22%20total%20points%29P1H%28One%20over%20one%20--%204+%20!H%3B%206+%20total%20points%29P2H%28Simple%20raise%20--%203+%20!D%3B%204%20!H%3B%2011+%20HCP%3B%2012-15%20total%20points%29P2S%28Game%20try%20suit%20--%204+%20!H%3B%203+%20!S%3B%2010+%20HCP%3B%2011+%20total%20points%3B%20forcing%20to%203H%29P3H%283+%20!D%3B%204%20!H%3B%2011-14%20HCP%3B%2012-15%20total%20points%29P4H%284+%20!H%3B%203+%20!S%3B%2012+%20HCP%3B%2013-17%20total%20points%29P4N%28Blackwood%20[H]%20--%203+%20!D%3B%204%20!H%3B%2014%20HCP%3B%2015%20total%20points%29P5H%28Two%20or%20five%20key%20cards%3B%20no%20queen%20--%204+%20!H%3B%203+%20!S%3B%2012+%20HCP%3B%2013-17%20total%20points%29P6H%283+%20!D%3B%204%20!H%3B%2014%20HCP%3B%2015%20total%20points%29PPP&p=SKS6S2S3SAS8C2STS4SJH6S7DQD5D7DAH3C5HAH8SQS5S9D3H9HTHKC9HQCTH7HJC4CJCACQD9D4DKD6D8DTH4C6C3C7H2CKD2DJH5C8]400|300[/hv] Ugh that doesn't seem to include the whole thing so go here for more information: http://tinyurl.com/johehpp Advanced GIB, IMPs. Somehow it came up with that its hands were good enough to bid a slam here. And then they didn't even win any of the first 3 tricks.

I'd definitely say you should keep bidding over 4♠ as the overwhelmingly best and most realistic way you could get to a slam with these hands, not anything your partner bid. In fact, your partner has shown their full strength of 10+ points and 3+ spades. Once one person has shown all of their points like this, I find it's usually best to just let the other decide what to bid. Not only that, but your hand is really good considering that your partner does have 10+ and 3+ spades, but also that an opponent has points in diamonds which means that your team's points are more useful. Also it doesn't really have much else to show. Given that 4!♥ is the only intervening cuebid, it doesn't want to bid that, since it doesn't really have a good heart control. It has winners in hearts but it doesn't win the first round and could get ruffed in the second, so it's not a good cuebid. Also it can't go straight to blackwood since you've only shown 18+ points, so it having 10 opposite that it correctly doesn't see as enough total points to go there.

It was advanced GIB, but idk if it matters. In either case, it has too many points to not raise given I showed 29+.

http://tinyurl.com/z93sv9b I was just trying to compete, or maybe overshow my hand somewhat in that maybe it could raise to 6, but I think going for 7 here is kinda ridiculous. I should be able to compete more than that without getting put in a grand.

In the other tables the robots bid it correctly. Maybe basic GIB can do it correctly but not advanced GIB or something like that, idk. But it looked like most of the other tables were played by GIB.

[hv=sn=AyunuS&s=SQT53H863D98CQT76&wn=Robot&w=SAKJ764HKJT52DQ2C&nn=Robot&n=S9HAQ7DKJT74CK854&en=Robot&e=S82H94DA653CAJ932&d=s&v=e&b=3&a=P1S%28Major%20suit%20opening%20--%205+%20!S%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%2012-22%20total%20points%29D%28Takeout%20double%20--%203-5%20!C%3B%203-5%20!D%3B%203-4%20!H%3B%202-%20!S%3B%2012+%20total%20points%292C%28Free%20bid%3B%20new%20suit%20--%202-%20!S%3B%20rebiddable%20!C%3B%209-11%20total%20points%29P2H%283-%20!C%3B%205+%20!S%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%20biddable%20!H%3B%2012-22%20total%20points%29PPP&p=C4CAC6D2S8S3S7S9DKDAD8DQS2S5SAH7DJD3D9H2S6C5H4STD6SQH5D4SKC8H9C7D5CTHTDTSJD7CJH3CQS4CKC9HQC2H6HKHJHAC3H8]400|300[/hv] IMPs, advanced GIB. This seems simple enough. If you have 2 hearts and 2 spades, why would you pass 2 hearts when you could have changed it to 2 spades? And not only that, it caused them to miss 4 spades so I got like 8.4 IMPs just for this.

On its 3rd round, I don't think it can go to 5♣. It's probably like a cuebid for hearts showing 29+ total points or something like that. If 4♣ on its previous bid shows to weak of a hand, it could still consider just going to 5♣ then and that'd still have been better than what it did.