[jdgalt]

Here's one from this morning.
I'm South vs. 3 robots, no one vulnerable, I'm dealer.
I hold: ♠ 2 ♥ AKJ108 ♦ J9 ♣ K9652.

The bidding:

<pre>
    South     West      North     East
     1H        3S       pass       4S
     5C       pass       6H       all pass
</pre>

What can GIB possibly think it's doing raising my obvious "choose one of my suits at the 5 level" bid to 6???

[Stephen Tu]

It's best if you go to www.bridgebase.com/myhands, find the hand in question, click on the movie, and give us a copy of the link. Or even better use the
"[ hv=*]400|300[ /hv]" tags without the spaces between the brackets, copy/pasting the "lin=" part of the URL after the ? where the * is so we can see it inline in the forum. That way we get to see GIB's faulty bid explanations.

Most likely the 5c bid is poorly defined as having some massive # of HCP expecting to make and partner overvalues his cards; perhaps he had something nearly worth 4h the round before.

I personally wouldn't bid with your hand; with partner not having enough to neg-x over 3s, you have very little chance to make, you can easily go for more than what their game is worth, and/or you might be beating 4s. I'd want to be 6-5 and another club honor or something of that nature before bidding 5c.

But still probably the 5c bid should be defined as more distribution, less points in general, so partner doesn't hang you when you have the more reasonable variety of 5c bid. And possibly it should be bidding 4h the round before, adjusting range of 4h bid, though we'd have to see the hand.

[Bbradley62]

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[jdgalt]

I'd love to know how you posted the hand in the forum. I'd have done it that way if I knew.

[Bbradley62]

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