el mister

Basic question here - when you have a 2/1 auction that establishes a 5-3 fit at the two level, something like this: 1♠ 2♣ 2♥ 2♠, or similar, what then should be bid at the 3 level? Can controls be shown? I've read some posts that say 'the 3-level is for patterning out', but what does that mean when you've already shown 9+ cards?

Why do you reckon non-best to be the true test, out of interest? Wouldn't this mean defending a lot more hands, which the robots don't do very well, so there'd be a lot of random scores? Just from playing that last event, I reckon the vast majority of my bad results were on me, and I only rarely felt frustrated with a GIB horror bid. Add in a load of GIB defensive nonsense and it might start to detract from things. Perhaps a skilled player can operate GIB better in defense and it's not that bad.

PhilG talking sense here - proof that the sun does indeed shine on a dog's arse every once in a while. 2S for me as well.

Those are some ropey spades I'm looking at. Don't mind either of 4S or 5D but I think I'd double tbh, which doesn't seem a popular choice. Must imply spades as Nige1 indicates. Would 4N have play here if pard bids it in response to the X, showing a flat-ish hand and a couple of H stops?

Thks gwnn - Sounds rel straightforward when you put it like that, guess you just have to get going with it.

How easy is it to fit transfer Walsh into an existing 2/1 system? I'd like to play it, but I've seen some notes that point to it being quite a comprehensive, systemic overhaul - if that's the case then it's not going to be feasible in my main two partnerships. If it's simpler than that, as your 1NT transfer analogy suggests, then I should get on with learning it.

Do you look for a 5 card minor to open a 14 count against gib, or is any 4342, 4333 etc ripe for an upgrade? I tend to like a 5 card suit as the basis for upgrading 14s in real life [there are of course other considerations], but bashing the bots around is a different game. See plenty of off-shape / off range 1NT openers getting thrown around.

el mister 9 : 7 gwnn http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:d6674bcf.fbd2.11e7.9789.0cc47a39aeb4-1516226861&u=el%20mister el mister by 34:30 overall - Thks gwnn for a v enjoyable match.

el mister 9.5 : 6.5 gwnn http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:011ff5fc.f648.11e7.9789.0cc47a39aeb4-1515617477&u=el%20mister

el mister v shail100 9.5 - 6.5 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:283ed351.efac.11e7.9789.0cc47a39aeb4-1514890834&u=el%20mister 9 - 7 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:d667c0ca.f01d.11e7.9789.0cc47a39aeb4-1514939659&u=el%20mister 10.5 - 5.5 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:256c6e68.f17d.11e7.9789.0cc47a39aeb4-1515090545&u=el%20mister 8.5 - 7.5 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:011af53a.f227.11e7.9789.0cc47a39aeb4-1515163499&u=el%20mister

el mister 53.13 : 46.87 olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:e7015fc0.e7ce.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1514026148&u=el%20mister el mister 40.63 : 59.37 cherdano http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ed5fa7e0.e7f9.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1514044627&u=el%20mister

El Mister 68.75 : 31.25 Gordontd http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:1ccad726.e6f8.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1513933896&u=el%20mister El Mister 43.75 : 56.25 Nige1 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:6a6a4067.e6ed.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1513929302&u=el%20mister

Likewise following gp3 - prefer to get them played this weekend before the Christmas booze train leaves the station, but whatever suits folk.

el mister 35:65 olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:90a7262b.e26f.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1513435445&u=el%20mister I have 1 remaining game against leonyu92 - challenged (and messaged) him twice now without reply so if he wants to play it's up to him.

Just waiting on leonyu92 and olegru to accept challenges. I see Oleg has let stuff expire this week so is maybe away?

El Mister 55: 45 Nekthen http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:298f2d80.e0a4.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1513238133&u=el%20mister

el mister 5 - 5 mofumofu http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:5914e633.dde9.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1512937994&u=el%20mister

el mister 60 zzmiy 40 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:60fc6282.dccf.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1512816890&u=el%20mister I also challenged leonyu92 and it expired without acceptance. Will issue another one tomorrow.

el mister 35 vilgan 65 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:8e93bbef.db80.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1512673085&u=el%20mister

El Mister 65% Barmar 35% http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ae5f2795.dade.11e7.a200.0cc47a39aeb4-1512603560&u=el%20mister

Is it playable to have all doubles as penalty after we have opened 2♣ strong in a natural system? Had a few opps chancing their arm recently with some light lead-directors that it would have been nice to penalise. One particular auction went 2♣ 3♣ pass 3♥ back to me, holding 21+ with six good hearts [possibly opps had a mixup over what their 3♣ showed]. We've not discussed X here but I thought 'I am smashing this to bits rar now' was a reasonable interpretation, but pard took it as show me what you've got and we bid a normal game. Maybe it's best for strong hand to just pass for the re-opening X and go from there as a more flexible approach?

Yes please. Ty frank0 for continuing to organise.

Thks - I did actually bid 2N at the table as I figured pard could use NMF if he had some stuff. It didn't feel like a sound bid, though, to go 2N with an established 8 card+ fit in a major?

Had this hand in a teams game last night that had me a little stumped on how best to handle it [spots are approximate] [hv=pc=n&s=saqjhqj76daj6ckj6&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=p1cp1hp]133|200[/hv] With pard being unlimited I didn't want to plough a 4♥ or 3N bid straight off, but 3♥ or 2N don't seem ideal, either. What is best?

To those skilled in the art of interpreting Gib's cue bids - does this sequence have a definite meaning, cue-bidding a void twice? Passed it out like a spanner, the 6♣ bid confused me. http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?bbo=y&lin=st||md|1SK982HAQ3D3CAJT92,S73H652DKQJ982CK4,SAQJT64HKT9DAT76C,S5HJ874D54CQ87653|sv|B|ah|Board%207|mb|1C|an|Minor%20suit%20opening%20--%203+%20!C;%2011-21%20HCP;%2012-22%20total%20points|mb|2D|an|Aggressive%20weak%20jump%20overcall%20--%206+%20!D;%2010-%20HCP;%203+%20total%20points|mb|2S|an|Free%20bid%20--%205+%20!S;%2011+%20total%20points;%20forcing|mb|P|mb|4S|an|3+%20!C;%203+%20!S;%2021-%20HCP;%2016-22%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|5C|an|Cue%20bid%20--%205+%20!S;%20!CA;%2015+%20total%20points;%20forcing|mb|P|mb|5H|an|Cue%20bid%20--%203+%20!C;%201+%20!D;%203+%20!S;%2021-%20HCP;%20no%20!DA;%20!HA;%2016-22%20total%20points;%20forcing|mb|P|mb|6C|an|Cue%20bid%20--%205+%20!S;%20!CAK;%2019+%20total%20points;%20forcing|mb|P|mb|P|mb|P|pc|DK|pc|DA|pc|D5|pc|D3|pc|D6|pc|D4|pc|C2|pc|D2|pc|HA|pc|H2|pc|H9|pc|H8|pc|HQ|pc|H6|pc|HT|pc|H4|pc|H3|pc|H5|pc|HK|pc|HJ|pc|S4|pc|S5|pc|SK|pc|S3|pc|S2|pc|S7|pc|SA|pc|C3|pc|H7|pc|C9|pc|CK|pc|D7|pc|C4|pc|DT|pc|C7|pc|CT|pc|CA|pc|DQ|pc|S6|pc|C8|pc|S9|pc|DJ|pc|ST|pc|C6|pc|CQ|pc|CJ|pc|D9|pc|SJ|pc|C5|pc|S8|pc|D8|pc|SQ| ETA - sorry, that's come out really small. Is there a way of enlarging it in the code?