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I thought my 4♥ was preemptive but why is it a strong hand in the robot system? Then I accidentally passed a cuebid because I didn't expect I showed a strong hand!
What was the correct bid to the takeout double to preempt the opponents?
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Double jump after a takeout double Misunderstanding
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Posted 2025-April-18, 03:16
I thought my 4♥ was preemptive but why is it a strong hand in the robot system? Then I accidentally passed a cuebid because I didn't expect I showed a strong hand!
What was the correct bid to the takeout double to preempt the opponents?
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Posted 2025-April-18, 04:14
There isn't one, because the robots aren't very good.
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Posted 2025-April-18, 18:06
mikl_plkcc, on 2025-April-18, 03:16, said:
I thought my 4♥ was preemptive but why is it a strong hand in the robot system? Then I accidentally passed a cuebid because I didn't expect I showed a strong hand!
GIB wasn't programmed to bid by the best bidding standards of the day. That's just the way it is. Probably 3♥ is the closest GIB bid to the actual hand, but I'm just guessing.
Next, 5♣ is a horrendous bid, so 4♥ should have worked out OK since any human would have passed. Obviously GIB is not human. 17+ total points is definitely a GIB hand evaluation. Why are you passing 5♣? Why not take 5 seconds and check the meaning of 5♣ instead of making a very bad guess?
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Posted 2025-April-19, 01:39
In a normal set of agreements 4♥ should be fine on this hand.
But you play with robots. It has agreed with you 4♥ means 5+♥s, 14+ Total points. Counting a point for the 6th ♥ and 2 for each of the singletons you are about an ace short for your bid. Had you had either extra Ace, 6!♥ would have been a good contract. So 5♣ makes perfect sense.
One hint (not sure if this works on phones) when playing on a computer, hover over the bid your plan to make before clicking on it, is annotates what it means. If it doesn't match your hand, look for other bids that do.
But you play with robots. It has agreed with you 4♥ means 5+♥s, 14+ Total points. Counting a point for the 6th ♥ and 2 for each of the singletons you are about an ace short for your bid. Had you had either extra Ace, 6!♥ would have been a good contract. So 5♣ makes perfect sense.
One hint (not sure if this works on phones) when playing on a computer, hover over the bid your plan to make before clicking on it, is annotates what it means. If it doesn't match your hand, look for other bids that do.
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