pilowsky Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y3lknlycThis hand came up in an ACBL tournament. Full disclosure: I'm a bit of a newbie and tried cue bidding spades! Ending up in 7NTx. Fortunately, the robots must have been fearful of the spade bidding and made an orthodox 4th down diamond lead. Amazingly, the contract makes! Enjoy.Interestingly, after the crazy spade bid the robots seemed to believe that I had two, different, club holdings simultaneously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pescetom Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 They also don't seem to have any useful agreement about what a double of artificial spades by east would mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y3lknlycThis hand came up in an ACBL tournament. Full disclosure: I'm a bit of a newbie and tried cue bidding spades! Ending up in 7NTx. Fortunately, the robots must have been fearful of the space bidding and made an orthodox 4th down diamond lead. Enjoy.Interestingly, after the crazy spade bid the robots seemed to believe that I had two different club holdings simultaneously.I always cautions anybody who had a GIB disaster to always check the meaning of any bid you aren't 100% sure about. In this case, 3♠ is not a cue bid but shows strong rebiddable spades (i.e. 5+ spades) and 6+ clubs. Once you have misbid your hand, you won't be able to convince GIB that you don't have what you promised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 They also don't seem to have any useful agreement about what a double of artificial spades by east would mean.That could be true in other auctions, but GIB doesn't "know" about any artificial spade bids since all the spade bids are defined as natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted October 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 The punchline of course was that the contract was makeable because of the bidding error! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted October 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Well, today playing solitaire, the same robot got its revenge by cue bidding hearts at me by calling 3♠! robots revengeApparently, now calling 3♠ means 'I have 2♥!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerriman Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Well, today playing solitaire, the same robot got its revenge by cue bidding hearts at me by calling 3♠! robots revengeApparently, now calling 3♠ means 'I have 2♥!'3♠ is a cuebid of the opponents' suit; it can't be natural (and can't be 3 card support given the lack of a 2♠ cue or 3♥ raise the first time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted October 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 3♠ is a cuebid of the opponents' suit; it can't be natural (and can't be 3 card support given the lack of a 2♠ cue or 3♥ raise the first time). Sure, but why not just bid ♥? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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