[benellis58]

North bid this hand the same way many (in fact, probably most) modern human players would, so I'm probably in the minority with my opinion, but I firmly believe that he should have used Stayman here and on MANY other hands where it is rejected due to it promising a certain minimum set of values. I firmly believe that Stayman should NOT promise high cards and should just be a way of far more often finding the correct strain. BTW, this post, as ALWAYS, is not about crying over a result. In fact, we scored a very decent 72.73 % on the board for going down "only" two in 2S...and even if we had scored ZERO, the post would STILL not have been about "crying", but about offering what I believe is a superior way of utilizing Stayman.

https://www.bridgeba...CD9%7Cmc%7C6%7C

[benellis58]

We (NS) got a shared top on this board for beating 3NT two tricks. Thank you, Mr. West, for making that SILLY 3NT bid opposite a partner (East) who had PASSED as dealer.

Note, however, that despite our SHARED top, it could, should, and WOULD have been a CLEAR, ABSOLUTE, TOTAL, UNshared top if North had been a decent HUMAN player instead of a HOPELESS GIBBO robot. Why? Because at trick four, I returned my LOWEST remaining heart - the 4 from 764, OBVIOUSLY signaling for a CLUB return from partner. Because he's an oblivious, imbecilic GIBBO robot (as they ALL are), however, he stupidly and disobediently returned a spade, allowing declarer to win and cash all his diamond tricks to go down "only" two. If the M.O.R.O.N.I.C. dweeb in the North had simply returned the club that I had ASKED FOR, WE would have taken the AK of clubs and my two long hearts, to add to the THREE tricks we had already pocketed, and we would have beaten it three.

Moral: Even when their partnership gets a GOOD score, the horrendous dumbbells known as GIBBO robots are often STILL committing egregious errors. They truly stink as "bridge players".

https://www.bridgeba...CA%7Cpc%7CCQ%7C

[benellis58]

Yes, leads are often guesses, yes, their success or failure is often dependent on luck and/or on the random layout of the particular random hand being played, yada, yada, yada...

BUT: Of the three side suits, West leads the one that is MOST dangerous for his OWN side and MOST likely to cost EW a trick. He was lucky that it didn't on this random layout.

https://www.bridgeba...SA%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

Why did North bother bidding 4th suit forcing before subsequently bidding 2NT? There was absolutely NO need for it, as he had NO interest in playing in EITHER major. He definitely wanted to play in NT and his ONLY interest was in inviting the game. He should simply have jumped to 2NT directly over South's 1S.

There's an acronym called "KISS" that stands for "Keep it simple, Stupid". That is often good advice for anyone, and since the GIBBO robots are TREMENDOUSLY stupid, it it is especially good advice for them.

https://www.bridgeba...HT%7Cpc%7CSJ%7C

[benellis58]

Yes, NS took 10 tricks in 3H and scored a slightly above average 58.33 % on the board, but that doesn't explain North's HIGHLY questionable decision to raise to 3H on his 6-count and doubleton 76 of trump (hearts). West's lead of his stiff spade queen (despite holding what STRONGLY rated to be - and in fact was - a natural heart trick with his queen-third) did NOT harm declarer's cause! The OBVIOUS club lead would have INDEED harmed declarer's cause...but GIBBO robots, despite being LOUSY "defenders" are always very GENEROUS "defenders" who seemingly LOVE to help their OPPONENTS.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cpc%7CCK%7C

[benellis58]

East made two overtricks in his 1H contract. NS scored 88.46 % on the board for "only" being minus 140...but just LOOK at North's MIND-BLOWINGLY STUPID spade plays at the start of the hand:

South leads the spade ace. Dummy tables the Q985. North has 643. The GIBBO robots supposedly play STANDARD signals (if, that is, these supreme I.D.I.O.T.S. play signals at ALL!). So, what should North play to trick one? What is his easy, simple, OBVIOUS, straightforward play at trick one?

Congratulations! You got it right! His ELEMENTARY and one hundred percent easy, OBVIOUS play is the spade three. A rank BEGINNER would know that.

So what did the experienced (!) GIBBO robot play? What did this creature who has been playing bridge for DECADES play? HE, the GIBBO robot, the clown identified as "Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer" (sic!), played the...SIX (!)...which is obviously incorrect (playing standard signals) whether interpreted as attitude OR as count.

Further proof (not that FURTHER proof of their total incompetence has been required for a long, long, LONG time!) that the GIBBO robots absolutely ROT...AND that they stupidly treat all spot cards interchangeably (which in itself is one of the countless reasons that they DO rot SO badly).

https://www.bridgeba...CCJ%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

I understand that East wants to balance in the passout seat over South's 1H. I also understand that it is often GOOD to balance AND that balancing actions are often shaded. But is it really wise to balance with one SPADE...VULNERABLE...on a spade "suit" of 10964, particularly when your own GIB definition claims that it shows "5+ spades"?

Then West bids 3H. Admittedly, that is an apt description of his hand in the GIBBO system...BUT: Is it wise to VOLUNTARILY force the partnership to the THREE level...opposite a partner who passed in THIRD seat (!) and who is now merely balancing?

Not surprisingly, these TWO not-so-wise actions resulted in EW getting a shared bottom on the board - something they are VERY used to "achieving". It was a true partnership effort by them to obtain their miserable score.

GIBBO robots rot.

https://www.bridgeba...C4%7Cpc%7CD8%7C

[benellis58]

West wins his diamond king at trick two. At trick three, he returns a...DIAMOND...because these simplistic bozos LOVE to play DECLARER'S suits, despite countless hands where they've done this and received miserable results. Moral: You cannot educate the uneducable.

Later, West wins his CLUB king and - of COURSE - returns a...CLUB. Moral: You cannot educate the uneducable.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5ebh35ez

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robots sitting EW actually got a good result on this board - a rarity for these bottom of the barrel players. That rare good result, however, does not excuse West's REMARKABLY (but typically) stupid 3S bid. Even when they get one of their very rare good results, it's likely that, as here, they have done something imbecilic along the way and have merely lucked out. That makes sense, because it is wildly unlikely that these buffoons would EVER get a good result based on their - if you'll pardon the expression - "skill".

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[benellis58]

Back to what you would expect for GIBBO robots: a bad result, a bad score. The bidding by all three robots is laughable and the stiff trump (club) lead is as braindead as one would expect from these twits.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/bdhcm2z4

[benellis58]

The GIBBO dimwits manage to ENSURE that I score two spade tricks and therefore make my contract. GIBBO robots stink when it comes to bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mrxeczax

[benellis58]

Surprisingly, we scored 100 % for bidding and making 6S. I would have expected a fair amount of company. But let's do some GIB/GIBBO robot bashing, which is, after all, the stated purpose of this thread, as Diana's well-chosen title indicates.

First, their GIBBO system and GIB definitions are incredibly bad! Here's a laughable example of the pure garbage that their system is: The definition of South's 3H bid is "Splinter - 3+ diamonds; 1- heart; 4+ spades; 21- HCP; 19-22 total points".

You might be thinking, "What the Hell is benellis58 talking about? That is a FINE definition of the 3H bid and an EXCELLENT description of South's hand." Well, if that IS what you're thinking, you are exactly right on both counts: It IS a good definition and it IS a good description. So why did I (accurately!) describe their system as "pure garbage"? HERE'S why: Because had South bid FOUR hearts rather than THREE hearts, the definition would have been EXACTLY the same! Yes, the absolutely PATHETIC GIBBO system has TWO calls that mean EXACTLY the same thing...meaning that one of those calls is being wasted when it could be used for something useful. I have seen other examples of this same lazy, wasteful lunacy in other parts of the GIBBO system also. It's no wonder that the robots are such useless bridge players when they're saddled with a system that is garbage and a set of definitions that are trash.

And on another issue: Why the HELL did North bid 3NT (!!!) over the 3H splinter? Among OTHER things, notice that his hearts - opposite South's ANNOUNCED stiff or void in the suit - are...J85 tripleton (!) yet this absolute WITLING is suggesting 3NT (!!!) as a contract! In doing so, he proves that he is indeed a GIBBO robot: the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst. Even after witnessing thousands of robot atrocities, I see new variations (as well as repeated ones) every day. The GIBBO robots have a unique GENIUS for the art of being STUPID. They are beneath contempt.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4m28zy4r

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robots overbid and go for 500. Is anyone surprised? No, I didn't think so.

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[benellis58]

We beat 2D one trick for a slightly above average 57.1 % on the board. The story is one that we have heard thousands of times : a stupid lead by a GIBBO robot. Do they ever make a lead that is NOT stupid?

There are two unbid suits - hearts (where North has QJ92) and clubs (where he has Q953). Does he lead EITHER of those?

Of COURSE he doesn't, because HE is a contemptible GIBBO robot, so he much prefers to characteristically lead the spade 10 from 104 doubleton, probably because his LHO (dummy East) bid spades and these super-stupid GIBBO robots perversely LOVE leading ENEMY suits.

The lead does not exactly discomfort declarer, but even if it turned out to be a MAGNIFICENT lead on this random hand, I would STILL describe it as an illogical and perverse choice that very LUCKILY happened to work out, against all expectations. Who knows - maybe the clown's "logic" was that he was hoping for spade ruffs...with his two NATURAL trump tricks! How could anyone or anything anywhere be as consistently boneheaded as these GIBBO numbskulls?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/226c6njt

[benellis58]

Another well-deserved ZERO for the GIBBO fatheads sitting East-West. What's West's RUSH to pop his ace of diamonds? And then right after STUPIDLY popping it, what does the M.O.R.O.N. do? Of COURSE he immediately plays a second round of diamonds, consistent with their lifelong imbecilic philosophy of LOVING to play the suits that DECLARER plays.

Broken record time: The GIBBO robots belong in a garbage heap or a landfill. They need to be replaced by DECENT robots that have a CLUE about how to play bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p92u2pd

[benellis58]

Playing with and against GIBBO robots, I always expect all robots in the game to play extremely poorly. They rarely fail to match my expectations.

Jerry Reed had a song called "When You're Hot, You're Hot". That song could be updated and directed towards GIBBO robots with a very minor change in the lyrics. The new song (dedicated to the truly execrable GIBBO robots) could be called "When You Rot, You Rot".

[benellis58]

In fairness, it must be pointed out that the robots DO have a big advantage over humans in one particular area:

Their bids and plays are so amazingly, hopelessly, and ridiculously bizarre that it is often hard to figure out what the HELL they have, so it is harder to "read" them than it would be to "read" any normal, decent player.

[benellis58]

All well and good that we got to 6H and made 7...but WHY did North bid 5NT (asking about kings) rather than simply BIDDING the small slam over my 5C response to Blackwood? Answer: Because he's a clueless GIBBO robot, as all GIBBO robots are. It was pointless for the simpleton to bid 5NT because he would never be bidding a grand anyway, since he knew we were missing a key card!

These hopeless jerks make enquiries when they shouldn't (as the rube did here),yet they often FAIL to make enquiries when they should. They absolutely stink as "bridge players".

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/33c94h5b

[benellis58]

Trick two: East pops and wins his club queen. Trick three: The feeble-minded fool plays...another CLUB. These pathetic losers STILL think it's a good idea to play DECLARER's suit. Figuratively speaking, these total dimwits have burned their fingers thousands of times by touching a hot stove, but it's almost guaranteed that the next time they're in the kitchen, they'll touch the stove again. How is it even possible for anyone or anything to be THIS stupid?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/y6hn7njv

[benellis58]

Trick four: The ignorant (and cowardly) dolt in the East thinks he MUST "split" by playing his TEN of diamonds (trump) from K1097. His combination of ignorance and cowardice makes it easy for me to hold my diamond losers to only one, thereby going down "only" one in 5D. We score 92.9 % on the board, while the GIBBO robot wearing a dunce cap and sporting a yellow streak down the middle of his back scores a miserable 7.1 %.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/49e79wb5