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5+Ds 4+Hs 18+HCP...and 18-TP?


hevnandhel

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http://www.bridgebas...4545-1434390058

 

6 is explained as 5+s 4+s 18+HCP 18-TP.

 

How can you have 18+HCP, 5+4+ shape, and yet no more than 18TP?

Some of your HCP may be tied up in doubletons. In that case the shortage points get discounted.

 

Presumably the 18- Total points is the upper limit of a 2D overcall, and the 18+ HCP is the requirement to punt 6H opposite the values shown by North.

 

Whether it would still do this type of explanation where there is clearly no possibility of overlap, that is an interesting one.

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I'd like to suggest that West should bid 4, not 3. I wonder what that would show in GIBberish.

After 2,if West bid

3 = Free jump raise -- 4+,8-hcp,7+total points.

4 = Preemptive raise -- 4+,9-hcp,6+total points.

How many differences are there between 3 and 4 ?

I think even advanced robots are difficult to deal with properly the selection between 3 and 4.

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