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Thank you for the response and noted. The bid explanation was still crazy.

I fully appreciate many posts have been made regarding GIB bidding, it would just take so long to go through them all. I just had a GIB tournament and a bid that was so wrong. I opened 1 spade and my GIB partner responded 1NT. At this point I would assume probably 6-10 points with a balanced hand maybe. Ops inter-bid with 2D after my partners 1NT to which my GIB partner responded with a double. I clicked on bid explanation and it read 1- spades with biddable diamonds. He actually had 3 spades to the king (the suit I opened with) and only 2 diamonds but he had 11 HCP. Sorry but that makes no sense whatsoever. I was always taught if I had 3 of my partners opening major suit I should support this straight away. Therefore even clicking on a bid explanation sometimes cannot be trusted.

As the title says, i am stuck on loading BBO. It just spins on loading for ages. Is there an issue with the site or is it my computer? Thanks

Agreed, I miss them too.

Hi Pete I have in the past experienced personal abuse yes, especially when I used to play a lot in the tournaments, and I did on a few occasions report the worst of those players. I now only play the all day long tournaments as it is with GIBS not humans. However, it is the other more common general rudeness of players that irritates me more. Not saying hello when I welcome a player to my table, never saying a word throughout the session, moaning about the pace of play, their partners bidding or playing, just general lack of any social manners at all. I have now been playing rubber only for some months and I have to say I have rarely come across a rude player. I think that is why when I attempted duplicate yesterday for just a few hands and we got a rude player almost immediately on my table it brought back those memories of previous duplicate bridge. It seems with some players than when they join someone else's table it becomes their table and they can act as they wish. I do not care how good a bridge player they are, there are general standards of human behaviour, respect for others etc that seems very lacking in some people. I will stick to Rubber for as long as I am able, it is far more relaxing which is why it still amazes me why it is not more popular, most seem to love the stress of duplicate, but why! Thank you for replying.

I started on the old BBO site years ago. I play on this newer version for tournaments now and then I play the majority on the older version as it still has rubber and for me thankfully that is still the case. I tried duplicate tonight on the old version and within 15 minutes i had to boot a player because they were so rude. I now remember the past years playing duplicate on both the old and this newer site and the days I got so fed up with rude players. Why does duplicate bridge attract so many nasty players?

Thank you for that. I should have responded well before now. I should have added at the time that these statistics were produced I had been playing in many gib tournaments where one almost always plays every hand which I believe skews those statistics rather a bit I have just played 15 boards on a gib table and only 3 hands were 12+ face card points This from memmory (rather than seen statistics) happens every session or seems to do so. This does get rather boring defending all the time, and I almost feel forced to pay for gib tournaments just to get a few attacking plays? This happens almost every session i start a gib table

Thank you both for those replies. Wow i didnt realise one can bring up hands I have played like that after they have been played and the table finished, amazing. Can I do that too? Sorry but I am not expert enough to study hands like this, I just play any hand to get as many tricks as I can in the best way I can. It just seemed daft not to make the assumption that the clubs were split 2-2, and even if 3-1 I know I can get back there to use all the remaining clubs to get the most tricks. In fact I forgot to mention that later in that contract my gib partner had to throw a card and threw one of the clubs away and in my opinion wasting a certain trick by doing so. The result where I believe we scored a minus seems to bear out my view on this particular hand.

Thank you both for those replies. Wow, I didnt know such a record of what I have played was possible to record and bring up. But now that you have, yes it does seem to bring a little perspective into things. I guess it always seems worse than it really is. I think i will try sitting north a little more often thoug

I have been using GIBS for quite some time. Whenever I start a new table I seem to get the first hand with sufficient points so I can bid, but then follows at least 9-10 hands (it might be more but i normally give up at this point and leave the table for a break) where I can neither open nor respond to my GIB partners bids. This does happen every single time. Is the system set up deliberately so that I seem to spend my entire time defending? There is nothing wrong with gaining experience in defending, but after a while it can get boring and soul destroying and to be honest any player needs to learn and experience both defending and attacking. Does anyone else experience this lack of attacking hands when playing with GIBs?

I have commented upon the issue of GIBs throwing tricks before, but it still amazes me that they still do it. We are sitting there in 3NT with 9 clubs between us with the ace in his hand and the king in mine. The other 4 clubs are fortunately (and uncharactoristickly)split 2-2. My GIB partner does not know this of course. He leads out a club from my dummy hand and then.......does not use his ace, but lays a low club so the trick is taken by ops with the queen!! Sorry, I am not an expert and might be missing something really clever here, but is that stupid or what? Even if the clubs were split say 3-1, he can always get the lead back again quickly so using both ace and king first to take out at least 2-3 clubs would in my view have been fine. We still got contract, but the entire room got 3+ 2 and we therefore got a -score, unbelievable!

Thank you all for your replies. Haha, yes agreed, if i make a mistake, my GIB partner never seems to moan at me.......teehee However, the 2 hands I referred to, the ruff would have worked. But, I accept some others might not. Oh, I honestly didnt know there were different levels of GIBS. I must have missed that, will check GIB hiring again. Ah right, I will also try duplicate, see if that is less frustrating. Thank you again, i will not give up just yet then:)

That's it I give up. Think I will take up Poker or something else or just stop using GIBS. Another hand, op gibs have contract. I have 2 diamonds (although ofc my gib partner does not know that) I lead diamonds and dummy has king with 2 others. My partner has ace and queen. He takes trick with ace over op king Does he lead back with queen? No he does not and leads another suit. Needless to say i never get the chance to use one of my pitiful low trumps to trump a diamond trick if only my partner had come back with queen of diamonds and then lead a 3rd diamond. sighs.

Sorry forgot to mention in last post. I threw a diamond on the club lead because my GIB partner had opened with 1 club (but I had nothing to respond with so I passed that)so I hoped he would be able to take the trick with ace or king.