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My guess is that GIB would play it as just what you said. Maybe this is an impossible bid that can only come up as an artifcact of the DD simulation technique: He should have bid 2 or 3 in the last round, but then the simulation results happened to lead him to passing.

 

I can think of no sensible meaning of this bid. In fact I can't think of a hand that would like to bid anything in this situation. Guess I lack fantasy.

 

Btw, did you consider passing 1NT? Opps are vulnerable and they need either a running 6-card clubs, or a running 5-card plus an ace, to make 1NT. Maybe 2 is the percentage bid, I dono, but I would have passed.

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Hi,

 

One is sure, it does not show a weak hand

with long hearts, because with such a hand

one could have bid 2H direct over 1 NT.

The second sure thing, it cant show a strong

hand either, because you would have Xed 1 NT.

The third sure thing, the pass over 1 NT denied

primary spade support.

 

The only thing left is some kind of secondary

spade support with heart values, some kind of

game try.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

 

PS: But playing with GIB, I would pass.

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It's perplexing. All I can imagine is a hand that should have bid 2 first time around (weak hand, long ) but chose not to, then regretted that decision upon hearing partner rebid .

 

People do this sometimes, but not computer programs. THey don't have feelings of regret (I hope).

 

Marlowe's analysis is logical but I can't make that theory work out either; if responder has enough to try for game in , after hearing opener bid 2, doesn't he necessarily have the right hand to double 1NT the first go-round? Values, doubleton spade..... hmmm, sounds like a double to me.

 

So I'm perplexed, still.

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