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Unfortunate slam

#1 User is offline   thepossum 

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Posted 2024-August-22, 10:30

Please be kind
I didn't realise my cue bid said I had 30 points lol
Explains why North bot thought I had 5 key cards
Reminder to self. Take the initiative with Blackwood


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Posted 2024-August-22, 11:00

If you're interested in slam, you probably should go for Blackwood immediately. You control each suit, so no need for cuebids - all you need to know is how many keycards partner has and whether they have the Q or not. In general I'd try to keep bidding with bots simple to reduce the risk of them misbidding. I just had another incident of a bot misbidding I shared in this subforum - also related to cuebidding, as the bot denied a control it actually had.
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Posted 2024-August-22, 14:56

As someone else said very recently, GiB does not know how to cuebid. But even if you (optimistically) want to bid Italian style mixed cuebids, spades with a singleton is the due bid, now a decent human pair will stop in 5H after discovering the keycards situation.
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Posted 2024-August-22, 17:26

View Postpescetom, on 2024-August-22, 14:56, said:

As someone else said very recently, GiB does not know how to cuebid. But even if you (optimistically) want to bid Italian style mixed cuebids, spades with a singleton is the due bid, now a decent human pair will stop in 5H after discovering the keycards situation.


I will be charitable and say cue-bidding is variable. Could be random of course but the North bot ignored that I didn't have the Ace of spades and still counted to
I'm assuming too it trusted the inaccurate description of my bid and struggles adding up to 40
There is almost also a nice grand in clubs or NT on offer
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