steve2005

If you don't agree with the adjustment you can call the director. Here are some of the reasons: The adjustment is wrong-correct play will result in a different result Declarer (or sometimes defender) will have to make a good play for optimal result Not enough tricks have been played that the result is clear. This sees to vary from only 1 trick played Avg to 1 trick played is easy hand adj stands All you have to do is call the director and they will look at it and possibly adjust. If isn't clear they may adjust to AVG or AVG+ If was bd 12 you have to know what directors were working and chat to them. When they look at the adjustment they can check the time, so mention that if you think it matters. Have been able to get adjustments and had others make adjustments against me numerous times.

According to Kit Woolsey's Matchpoints book off an Ace you consider bidding 6N as there might be 12 tricks in either contract. With all aces consider bidding 6M as the major suit could have better play for 7.

Your assumption that if you open 2♦/2♥ you will be short in ♥/ ♠ is flawed. Yes opener is unlikely to have side 4-card major but can easily have 3 cards. Also, you can not make any assumption about opener's partner they can have most any number of cards though 6 or higher less likely. Opener's side is not guaranteed to have a fit. If they were guaranteed a fit you would be protected by the law of total tricks for an action like a takeout double or an overcall. Your method is not necessarily bad.

Are you sure it doesn't say TP somewhere? Anyways Gib usually counts shortness even in NT, even when in partner's suit even when playing in partner;s suit. Also, it is not uncommon for Gib to be well outside the range of the description. Even with this pile of dreck on a non-club lead there is some chance to make 3N but your right is not a good bid.

Yes 3♣ is bidding opponents suit. So will definitely be showing much stronger hand than you have so things will go bad after that. To give you 5♠ there is some flaw, obviously you open 1♠ then but I don't see any reason to give you any amount of spades.

I really hate Gerber! I don't think it is fair showing an example where Gerber is better lol. If you had finished 3rd then Leo who finished 10th would have been pushed out. This does not bode well for mere mortals chances

interesting maybe Gib read as doubleton I hadn't considered that. I did say 7 hard to read if using udca, so maybe same problem.

Devil's advocate " According to what I have been told it is interesting that in their defense there is almost nothing that says why their client is innocent. All they have in hand and focused is that they believe the cameras which are placed without the permission of their client can not be used as a proof because they are illegal." Using a technicality does not mean your guilty. Not attempting to show evidence of innocence does not show guilt. Maybe it does in Turkey I don't know Turkish law. In North America it doesn't by law and there are innocent people in jail who's lawyer's didn't attempt to prove their innocence.

Q♦ I expect declarer has K♦ and will duck if they can afford to without 9 tricks at imps. At mp I'm not sure what I would do. Partner may have an entry and seeing dummy or signal from partner may help decide whether to switch and to what.

I don't use the advanced robots very often and I have to say it's defense is much better than the basic bots. On this hand the robot didn't make the best play at trick 2 because of Gib's methods. Click for hand Gib found a lead K♦ that can beat 3N. A small ♦ would have worked out better but because of the opening lead book Gib bases it's leads on; K from KQTxx makes sense as a safer lead than 4th best. West played the 7♦ count then east switch to Q♠ and contract makes. A small ♦ continuation beats 3N. Now count signals rarely help the defense. An exception is with a doubleton which allows a ruff. No ruffs in NT. So unless count tells the defense they have enough cards to control the suit there is no help. Much more sensible is attitude signals. Playing standard attitude 8♦ will give a clear signal to continue. Playing upside down 7♦ may not be readable. But in any case there is some chance the defense will make the right play at trick 2. With count signals there is almost no chance. Again I don't know how difficult it would be to change the signal's of Gib's programming. Gib's programming for defense I believe is more difficult to change than most programs.

Gib never uses suit preference signals. Yes there are many situations where this would be useful. Don't know how difficult programming these signals would be.

Difficult hand. Theoretically should count Kings for 2 pts. But unless partner has A or Q in that suit they are probably worthless. So playing 2/1 I would bid 1♣ and rebid ♠ as often as you can. Playing a strong club you could open a club you have the points. If your side doesn't have the balance of power you will regret it. If you don't open a strong club, your options aren't as good as in standard. You either open 2♣ which is best and spades might get lost. If you open 1♠ it will be hard to show longer clubs.

I wonder what Gib's bid is with 32 hcp? B-)

In the main room you can see table you can join and if there are any kibitzers and if kibitzers require permission to join table or if they are not allowed. If there are kibitzers you do have to join table to see who they are. If you are really concerned I suggest you set up your own table the way you want. As for cheating, you have to be patient even if evidence is damning it takes a while and other instances for bbo to be able to act. Also there is not much preventing user just using another username. Blocking the user seems the right thing to do..

Using Basic Bots is no excuse for ducking Ace, in a slam it is just ridiculous.

If you make a safe lead based on the book Gib is programmed with. Then when in with A♦have to find killing switch. Not playing signals is hard but a ♦continuation you might as well made a dangerous opening lead.

2S would not normally show 3S. Playing with Gib where 2S is a constructive raise could have 3 or 4 spades with5-6 points Playing standard it is unlikely you would have 10 points and Kx♠ as 1N is NF. Would likely have enough for a 2/1. At matchpoints especially there is no reason to expect Kx♠ with 8-9 points with less should expect Hx. There is no reason to expect something nice in clubs. You are just going to have to bid 2S on some hands and you can't wait for the perfect hand.

similar doesn't mean exact. so just cause 2D opening is usually 6 and 3D is on average 6.5 or whatever doesn't mean they are not similar.

If you had 21 points I agree with Gib 6♣ bid you might even make 7. There are a lot of competitive bids which show ridiculous points. Obviously you were just competing maybe not even planning on making. To avoid this you can hover over a bid you are considering and see what it means. But really the programmers should fix it so you can make a competitive bid especially in balance seat without showing 20 points.

I couldn't find the hand but with me opening it went 1♥-2♥-4♥ Gib for it's constructive 2♥ raise hand Qxx xxx QJxx Qxx where all the honours were Queens or Jacks and 7 HCP and no chance for a ruff. Yes. this fits the definition of Gibs constructive raise 7-10 pts 3+♥, but if I made a 2♥ bid on this pile with a human partner I would be embarrassed. There are also lots of instances of very distributional hands where Gib just counts it's points and makes a minimum bid.

is a good idea. One of the goals of best hand is for the player to be making most of the key decisions, so this would be lessoned. But would make certain free out of system bids in 1st/2nd risky.

The hand given is 6-4 in the majors. So Stayman then if 2♦ jump to 3 as Smolen then if 3N-4M shows a 6-4 slam try. Without 6-4 in another suit you can transfer and bid second suit. You could also self-splinter (not sure if Gib plays that. With 6331 unless your playing self-splinters stuck with Jacoby transfer then jumping to 4M showing a mild slam try. South African transfers allow what you want 4C=H, 4D=S then bidding the suit in between says opener likes the suit. Not many people play this.

5431 why would the second suit need to be poor to raise on 3? with 3-4-1-5 without reversing values after 1♣-1♠ whether you raise spades has very little to do with how good your hearts are

del

Would depend on the jurisdiction, but I can't imagine any prohibition against this. Where you might get stuck is when you start using your judgement to make each bid on different type of hands. Then you should be correcting your explanation to reflect this. It isn't that uncommon for two bids like this to have similar, but one might have longer clubs or side shortness.