AyunuS

Check this out: http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/7963/quadruplefail.png 4 tables, 4 different suits bid, by 4 different directions, they bid at 4 consecutive levels, being 3, 4, 5, and 6, and each bid failed by 4. So apparently there's a huge disagreement on how people bid this thing. I don't know how nobody managed to bid something like 2H-3D-P-3S-P-4S or something more like that, but anyway, what would be correct way to bid this? I definitely like the 2H opener when vul since it's too weak for 3H IMO. For anyone interested, the other tables were bid like this: 2H-P-P-2S-P-4NT-P-5H-6S-X, 3H, and 2H-3D-4C, each ending with 3 passes (duh).

http://tinyurl.com/c28f594 I remember when the cool finishes such as 4 9s on the last trick were posted on the home page. I tried doing it for a while, but never succeeded. But then, this hand came along. At first glance not all that interesting of a hand, but I found it interesting that I managed to get 4 8s played on the last trick without even trying to. Very few hands does that ever happen. And I even got 100% matchpoints on the hand in the process.

http://tinyurl.com/calkybc I went to go see why I lost so many IMPs on one hand and noticed on some of the tables, this was the bid. How can west raise to 6 hearts?

http://tinyurl.com/cz2jkwg Yeah I know, I bid it wrong, but anyways, how in the world did 3♥ possibly show 6+♠? And it didn't have 6+♠

http://tinyurl.com/cht9f5w Apparently, 4th seat opening 2s can be made without having a weak hand, and then the responses to it aren't as though it's potentially stronger than a normal 2. And that's a pretty funny 3 of top 5 honors lol. It's only basic GIB but still, west has a very, very strong hand by weak 2 standards, and east no one else at the table had any idea. Edit: The point is, they missed a game, and it doesn't seem like they had any way to even invite to a game after the opening bid. It seems to me that if such strong hands are allowed to make such an opening, there should be at least some way one of them can invite to a game.

Here: http://tinyurl.com/cj4npr9 Look at trick 9. I thought it had one of the most obvious possible wins of the rest of the tricks if it just dropped the K of ♠ and the drew the rest of the diamonds. But it dropped a diamond. It is only basic GIB, but still, why?

For those that know stats, the variance of distributions of just the sum of each of their variances. Thus 24-board has provably higher variance than 12 board, and yet it still seems like 24-board would get closer to averaging out and I'd think for sure the better players would be more likely to win on a 24-board than on a 12-board. Also on board 19 I did nothing to stop them from bidding slam. It was just good luck. On the partscore at the end, a bunch of tables bid and made game so I got a bunch of points.

The hand Ugh, I fail to see any possible way the 4♠ could be the right bid here. Especially with 3NT being so good when it has a club stopper if they lead club and then 8 top tricks in the other suit so it could make it.

Yes, I know it's not that good of a way to measure success but it seems better than the other ones I have. Are any good playing programs free? I already looked over each hand as I played them, and figure maybe I should have had one more trick on the 3♣ bid hand, but I think I did the best I could on all the rest. And you do not pick the humans at the other tables. They are just supposedly about random. But most of them don't seem all that good as on some of the hands, like where I got all those imps from 6♦ I noticed I was the only one that showed a splinter when I thought it was an obvious bid. I figure if you play around 20+ boards or more it should approximately even out but I know it is still luck-based in some ways. But I have stayed at one table with 3 robots long enough to get my IMPs into the 300s before so I don't think it's just me being lucky.

I've been getting tired of playing with people where I'm always guessing if they're actually using systems or not and so it's been pretty tough doing nearly as well as I'd like. But with robots it's so much easier since they actually follow a system. Anyway, I'm still a junior, but I'm aiming to be one of the best players at this game someday, and right now, I feel like I'm already doing extremely well at a table of 3 robots, but I'd like to know what's the best anyone can do so I can see how close I am to it. Here's an image of my current best of a little more than 2.6 IMPs/board on average. http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6641/superimps.png

http://tinyurl.com/ce3vgz9 West easily could have competed at least up to 3♦. Their hands are so good they make 4♠ even with the worst possibly trump split, and could quite possibly make 6♦ and yet they'd just let the bidding stop on 3♣?

Not that bad of a move. It usually leads a short suit and north has 3 or fewer in both majors and south has only 1 club is all evidence that north is long in clubs. So it probably thinks that it's going to try to stop north from running all its clubs by keeping an A10x where north just has like QJxxxx so that it'll force north to lead away from its clubs more times than it has entries in north's hands, thus stopping north from running clubs.

This is pretty funny. I like how east supposedly declines having 2 of the top 3 trump honors when west had 2 of them so east couldn't possibly have 2. And all the while, they don't even have a heart fit. Isn't there any way it can determine if it has a heart fit before just locking in hearts as the trump suit? Or maybe 5NT was supposed to be quantitative invite to 7NT, but that would be foolish when west has only 18 HCP so they only have 33-35 from his point of view, meaning 6NT would be a better choice. So in any case I can think of here, it seems like 5NT is a bad bid. http://tinyurl.com/cjfzdew

It seems to me that this bid was neither the 4th suit nor forcing. Description is wrong but it seemed to do bid the right thing in this case. http://tinyurl.com/c4w5ld4

Ugh, a cue bid that somehow shows almost nothing useful, 1+ of 2 suits, and then west passes it. It doesn't seem like it has anything good to bid, but leaving it on spades just seems like asking for a disaster. http://tinyurl.com/brrzhk3

http://tinyurl.com/aos3t4b Not only did it show solid 6-card hearts and 2- diamonds when it had neither, but after it bid 3♥ it seemed I was locked into hearts being the trump suit. Even bidding diamonds at that point was a cuebid. It wouldn't let me stop the bidding before it made a 6♥ bid that was doomed to fail based on the heart distribution. Maybe there was some way I could have bid this differently, but it seemed like almost anything else I could bid would have shown something stronger and only encouraged it to go for 7♥. Best bid is 7NT. Edit: I think this is basic GIB since it's the ones you can play with for free.

http://tinyurl.com/d3rsjjw I was playing a free robot race. Why did east double? It has laughable defense, and if it's just going by what it thinks its team has in total, it's still not a good double to make since it'd still be better to let west decide.

I once was playing a hand where I had a really good hand. I don't remember exactly other than that I had 7 diamonds, 5 hearts, and a singleton A of some other suit, and I think I had 3 total A and some other good stuff, but I don't know the details. I had for so long been hoping to maybe someday get dealt something like the ultimate hand, and though I don't remember it exactly, I think this hand wasn't too far away from being one. In any case, my partner opened 1♣ and I thought it was best to show a 5-card major first if I had one, so I responded 1♥ and then he bid 1NT. I didn't think he'd use NMF so I just bid 2♦ as I figured he'd at least take it as forcing, and then he jumped to 3NT. I don't like it when players bid this kind of thing since it makes me wonder if their hand really might be stronger than the 12-14 I normally consider the 1NT response, so I didn't very well know what he had. In any case, I still knew we should have a diamond fit since he bid NT before I ever showed diamonds, and so I figured he'd have at least 2 of them, and iirc I made some ridiculous-looking diamond bid, and then he booted me from the table and wouldn't even let me play the hand. I was so disappointed since I'd been searching for so long and had so rarely ever gotten hands even this good that I really wanted to play it. I looked it up in the results afterwards and remember whoever showed up did make the contract that I had bid. In any case, does someone have some words of wisdom as to how I can not get booted from the table apparently just for an apparently bad bid?

Yes I know that but pretend east didn't have such a hand where it would have much preferred to play in a major if possible. West knows east has 4 spades but has no idea how many hearts, and yet west still makes a bid that shows rebiddable hearts, which it doesn't have, when west easily could have bid 4♠, or even leaving it on 3NT is still better than bidding a known not fit suit, which it was lucky to even have 7 total cards in.

[hv=sn=Antrax&s=SK964H2DAQT2C7542&wn=Robot&w=SAJ82HKQ85DK43CAK&nn=Robot&n=S3HAJT43DJ65CT986&en=Robot&e=SQT75H976D987CQJ3&d=w&v=b&b=84&a=2N%28Two%20NT%20opener.%20Could%20have%205M.%20--%202-5%20C%3B%202-5%20D%3B%202-5%20H%3B%202-5%20S%3B%2020-21%20HCP%29P3C%28Stayman%20--%205+%20total%20points%29P3H%282-5%20C%3B%202-5%20D%3B%204-5%20H%3B%202-5%20S%3B%2020-21%20HCP%29P3N%283-%20H%3B%204%20S%3B%205-14%20HCP%29P4H%282-5%20C%3B%202-5%20D%3B%205-%20H%3B%202-5%20S%3B%2020-21%20HCP%3B%20rebiddable%20H%3B%20two%20stops%20in%20H%29PPP&p=S3STS4S2H7H2H5HTHJH6C4HKCACTC3C2SAH4S7S6HAH9C5HQD5D9DAD4SKS8C9S5S9SJH3SQC8CQC7CKD3D6D8DTDQDKDJD7H8C6CJD2]400|300[/hv] I looked around and it bid this same thing on every table. The only way anyone got to 4♠ was the one table where a human player was west and bid it. How does west bid 4♥ over 4♠? The link is just the table where it failed the worst, which there's no way it would have done so bad on 4♠. This is basic GIB but I'd still think it should be able to do bids this basic by now.

http://tinyurl.com/7mtva5m Why lead a low spade? I know 5♥ maybe wasn't the best of all contracts here, but I still thought it should have made it if it just led a low diamond and then used a club from my hand to drop one of the spades, and then it was sure to make. And if it gives a trick away by leading a low spade, then it's already lost as many as the most it'd lose with what I suggested, so there's no way this would get it any extra overtricks, either. This might be a rare thing as it made at least 1 more trick on every single other table. This is basic GIB btw.

Oh sorry I didn't really think about that. I was just assuming north was going to take the second round of spades regardless since I don't assume perfect defense, and its often very far from it in these tourneys.

[handviewer=http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?sn=thorbjbog&s=S4HQJT95DT96CQ974&wn=Robot&w=SQJ8HAK643DA42CA6&nn=zjeffrey&n=SAK52H7DKQJ5CJT83&en=AyunuS&e=ST9763H82D873CK52&d=e&v=e&b=6&a=PP1H2DPP2NPPP&p=CJC2C4CAHAH7H8H5SQSAS3S4C8CKC7C6S7D9S8SKC3C5CQH6HQHKS2H2SJS5S9D6DAD5D3DTH3DJD7HJHTH4CTSTH9D4DQS6C9D2DKD8]400|300[/handviewer] I just finished a free automated fun tourney, where I had a robot make a play I thought was really sad. If it just didn't block itself on spades, it could have easily had 2 more tricks, and I see absolutely no advantage to it blocking itself, but there was an obvious disadvantage in that it couldn't use the last 2 spades from my hand. Is there some hidden advantage to this or did it just do something stupid?

I found one: http://tinyurl.com/ctyw6bj And it still bypassed 4 diamonds. Maybe the only way it'd bid it is if it had an unbalanced hand with a bunch of clubs and 4 diamonds? But then if it had 4-9 pts it could bid 3 clubs, and if it had 10+, it could bid 2 clubs. I think it just always bypasses the 4 diamonds then.

It probably resimulated and determined it'd have a good help suit once it determined an opponent likely had a whole bunch of hearts.