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GIB gone backwards with bar bid?


smerriman

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If you search the forum for 'bar bid', you'll find several complaints from 2015 and earlier about the fact GIB would make this bid with just 5 clubs and that it needed to be changed to 6.

 

In June 2015, GIB was updated accordingly:

 

GIB still plays that an auction like 1♦ - 1♠ - 1N - 3♣ is a signoff in clubs, but now it shows 6+ instead of 5+, and the range was corrected as well.

 

The following hand just popped up in a challenge:

 

[hv=http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?sn=Robot&s=SA82HAK763DK42CT3&wn=Robot&w=SK65HT4DJT975CAK7&nn=smerriman&n=SQJ94HQD863C98642&en=Robot&e=ST73HJ9852DAQCQJ5&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=P1H(Major%20suit%20opening%20--%205+%20%21H%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%2012-22%20total%20points)P1S(One%20over%20one%20--%204+%20%21S%3B%206+%20total%20points)P1N(2-3%20%21C%3B%202-3%20%21D%3B%205%20%21H%3B%202-3%20%21S%3B%2012-14%20HCP)P3C(Bar%20bid%3B%20long%201%20--%206+%20%21C%3B%204+%20%21S%3B%206%20total%20points)PPP&p=DAD2D5D3S7SAS5S4H3HTHQH2D6DQDKD7HAH4D8H5HKC7S9HJDJC2C5D4H9H6D9C4SJS3S2SKS6SQSTS8C6CQCTCADTC8CJH7H8C3CKC9]400|300[/hv]

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