TylerE

When your argument is "I would have bid if they were playing SAYC", when you had no way from the auction to know that they weren't playing SAYC, and then calling after dummy hits, is the definition of a double shot. Sorry if you don't like it.

When your're making the argument that the alert, or lack thereof, affected your bidding, you greatly damage your case by not asking before passing. Make your bid as if there were no alerts. If it turns out there was a missed alert, and you suffered damage, this is much easier to argue when you *actually make the bid*, instead of going for what reeks, frankly, of a double shot (not to mention the UI to partner) by declaring what you would have bid....after seeing dummy.

That's not how GIB works. It doesn't understand ranges. It just thinks 4NT shows 19 pts or whatever, and simulates from there.

That's not how GIB works. It doesn't understand ranges. It just thinks 4NT shows 19 pts or whatever, and simulates from there.

How do you get more heart oriented than AKQ-7th and a stiff, with no side 4 card suit or source of tricks? This is the definition of a picture bid hand. That bid is 3H.

What bid are you proposing as a psych?

When you agree to play WJS by an UPH you give up on being able to show this hand.

In my regular partnership this would be DSIP. Yes, this occasionally leads to silly numbers when they have a 12 or 13 card fit and don't really bid like it, but the good outnumber the bad at least 3:1. That said, we play Precision and would never dream of not opening something on the N hand, so we don't need to strain to make 4th seat takeouts on crappy balanced 10s, because there's nothing to protect.

Repeat after me. GIB does not make penalty doubles. GIB does not understand penalty doubles. GIB doubles are takeout through (and including) 7NT. You violate this maxim at your peril.

WASM, I would assume. Same tech lichess uses to run Stockfish in the browser - which is surprisingly performant by the way... runs at about 80% of native speed.

If only there was a systemic bid to show a balanced 20 count.

Yeah, just start passing forcing bids willy-nilly, that's the way to success.

There is a huge gulf between "MAY respond on a zero count" and "MUST respond on a zero count". Describing the former as "forcing" is most misleading. Would you describe a natural 1NT as forcing for a pair playing a scrambling-style garbage stayman? After all, 2c could be zero count.

Perfectly routine 3D. It's a perfect hand for it. 2N is gross.

You'll win a lot more matchpoints (and events) by not missing obvious 3NT contracts than by finding some ultra thin minor suit slam that may or may not make once a month. Soliciting a weak 2 bid for cues is not that useful, and your structure over 2M should have some low level way to start an inquiry (like some sort of 2N ask).