Another bidding Doozie by GIBBO

[virgosrock]

how many flaws can you find? feel free even if mine haha

 

virgosrock

 

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[smerriman]

I can't really see much wrong, other than 7♦ which seems risky to rely on the queen. GIB has exactly what it promised.

[johnu]

I hate the 3♣ bid. Either the clubs need to be better, or the diamonds should be better. Also, spades might be the best contract if opener is weak in hearts, or NT if opener has strength in hearts. 3♣ and then supporting diamonds takes up too much space when you don't know the best strain to play.

 

Still, this doesn't register as a blip when it comes to GIB problems.

[virgosrock]

I can't really see much wrong, other than 7♦ which seems risky to rely on the queen. GIB has exactly what it promised.

1. HCP count is low-ish. 14 HCP must be rare esp missing a 5th D.

2. One could say since my D are 3+ GIB's support MUST be 5 cards. This is buggish.

3. Yes, I took a chance on DQ since I have so many HCP.

4. Yes, my fault I did not look at the blurb (which showed 4+ D)

 

vrock

[virgosrock]

I hate the 3♣ bid. Either the clubs need to be better, or the diamonds should be better. Also, spades might be the best contract if opener is weak in hearts, or NT if opener has strength in hearts. 3♣ and then supporting diamonds takes up too much space when you don't know the best strain to play.

 

Still, this doesn't register as a blip when it comes to GIB problems.

 

I think it is blipp-ish because I show 3+D thus GIBBO must have 5. Totally agree clubs should be better AND diamonds MUST be better.

 

vrock

[Stephen Tu]

I think only 1 of the minors needs to be better. Better D if treating it as the super fit hand. Better clubs if club one suiter.

 

I think GIB should stop using void showing responses to RKC altogether. It's hard to program in good judgment about whether to show the void or not. Often it's not particularly useful to partner looking at the ace of the suit you previously splintered in, and interferes with stuff like the Q ask. If the void is crucial oh well, maybe should have used voidwood before partner beat you to it or had better methods to distinguish singleton from void earlier IMO.

 

I especially think that GIB absolutely has to quit responding 5nt showing zero keycards and a void. This should show 2 keycards IMO. Been tons of reports of hopeless slams in this forum after this response.