cybourgh

Today's bidding systems depend on random deals. For example a major game should be bid if partner and you have 25+ total points. But all of us know you can still go down even with these points. This means that bidding game is correct most of the time but only if the hands are randomly dealt. If the hands are skewed like best hand does then the bidding systems have less or little meaning. This is a terrible way to play bridge. I would love to play in ACBL tournaments but if all of them are best hand then I won't play. Also playing defense is 50% of the game. Best hand reduces this aspect of the game. Anyone else feel this way?

I posted this in the general forum and then realized this was the correct forum for this subject. I am using the cheap gib so maybe the expensive one plays better. But the gib's NT defense is horrible. It almost always leads from its shortest suit even if I have never bid and even if the opponents have bid that suit. Rarely do I see the conventional 4th from longest and strongest lead even when it would have been a setting lead. It doesn't lead the top of a 3 sequence either. It hardly ever returns my lead so me leading 4th from longest and strongest won't work. This needs fixing.