Practice Hands for bidding table

[CLAIREBRIDGE]

Hello, I recently bought GIBs on BBO et started some practice with my partner.It's great fun and quite efficient. My naive question is , is it possible to play with Hands already played in international tournamements.I tried to find a way , when I open a new table, to select .lin files of my choice instead of random deals but it did not work. Is this possible ? or do I have to create my own movies. Thanks for helping

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[JanM]

Using existing hands, so long as you have the .lin file on your computer, is very easy if a tiny bit unintuitive (I'd never have figured it out if someone hadn't told me how to do it). I'll try to describe the steps:

 

1. Open up your partnership bidding table as usual. You don't need to do any hand constraints or dealer or anything.

 

2. In the partnership bidding table screen (iow, you have the table with NSEW but no hand yet), click on the "movie" button on the right hand side of the bottom button bar.

 

3. In the little movie window (which won't show any hands at this point), click on "open."

 

4. Navigate to the lin file for the event you want to use (the "open" dialog will start you out in "hands" for your name, which is where most of the lin files are, but if they happen to be from a session when you were logged in under a different name, you'll have to navigate to that name).

 

5. Click on "open" or select or whatever is highlighted (I forget what it is).

 

6. Your "movie" window now shows the hands from the match you chose.

 

7. Go back to the partnership bidding window and click "redeal" and you'll get the first hand (note that you'll only see the NS hands, but if you want to see the EW hands you can in the movie).

 

Hope that helps :P

 

Re-reading your post, I see that you might want to play the hands as well as bid them, presumably with GIBs as opponents. I think the same steps I listed above will work in any practice table, but I'm not positive, since I've only done this for bidding practice.

[CLAIREBRIDGE]

Thanks so much for your reply.I will try it in both practice room and with Gibs.