gartinmale Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Here's the link to the hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 I haven't learned how to analyze bot play yet. Was this a regular or advanced/tourney bot? It certainly seems like strange play, since once the trump finesse works it looks like you're cold for at 5♠ unless there's a really bad ♥ break, and I'm not sure how ducking the ♠ protects against that. My only guess is that it's trying to maintain communication with the dummy so it can take ♥ finesses. -- trumps are the only entries, since the ♦A is opposite a void. But a successful ♥ finesse just gets it back to the same 5♠ that is already assured by taking the ♠K with the A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_w Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 It was guarding against K9xx in the South hand. To win the ♠A and cash ♦A, would be giving up control of the diamond suit, leading to GIB being tapped out. Still seeing as it went down with trumps 3-1 it should probably win! After that it got a fairly simple suit combination wrong - 9x opposite KJTxx it should play the 9 first (honours from the short hand) rather than wasting high cards from both hands on the scond round. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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