[benellis58]

Can't complain about the score (another 100 % for NS, another complete zero for EW), but that is QUITE a 2S bid by North! Yes, I understand the concept of balancing, but:

He has THREE (!) HCP - comprised of a JACK in his five-card "side" suit and a queen - a DOUBLETON queen.

His "suit" is a mere FOUR-bagger, and the "quality" leaves a LITTLE (ha, ha!) to be desired...with 9753!

He is doing this red against white!

Luckily I had GOLD for him, as this was one of my frequent operations playing with and against these hopeless GIBBO clowns, and for STARTERS I had NINETEEN QUALITY HCP (!) for my "15-17" INT, but for all HE knew, I could have had a mere 15, and it could have been a LOUSY 15!

https://www.bridgeba...H3%7Cpc%7CSK%7C

[benellis58]

Trick four: East leads the 10 of diamonds - a colossally stupid play that gives me the whole suit. There was once a commercial for a cleaning product that claimed the product was "stronger than dirt". GIBBO robots could paraphrase this as their motto: Dumber than dirt.

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

[benellis58]

Wretched declarer play by the GIBBO simpleton in the East. That's right, declarer play: the one and ONLY facet of bridge that the GIBBO dirtbags are not completely hopeless at...but as this hand shows, they aren't particularly GOOD at it either.

And speaking of wretched, why does North play the NINE of spades at trick one rather than correctly playing the eight? This is an example of the COUNTLESS "little" things that these GIBBO bozos get wrong...and that often go unnoticed because people are focused on their more obvious BIG atrocities. GIBBO is trash.

https://www.bridgeba...DQ%7Cpc%7CH7%7C

[benellis58]

Just because you play a convention it doesn't mean you're forced to use it. Bidding two HEARTS on West's hand looks foolhardy, and the doofus got what he deserved.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cpc%7CC4%7C

[benellis58]

Another wretched "defence".

https://www.bridgeba...HK%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Typical stupidity and inconsistency from a typical GIBBO robot - in other words, a typical M.O.R.O.N., because all GIBBO robots are M.O.R.O.N.S.

West passes East's 1S when he could and almost certainly should bid 1NT. Yet when East later competes with 2S, West NOW...SUDDENLY...decides that he MUST bid TWO no trump. This is defined as "Invitational to 3NT". Oops! Oh no! I made a TERRIBLE mistake! Please FORGIVE me! I'm SO sorry, honest I am! I don't know how I could have been SO careless! You see, I foolishly left out a KEY word from that definition! It didn't JUST say "Invitational to 3NT" - it said "Invitational to 3NT GAME"! I stupidly omitted that oh-so-crucial word "game", so probably NO ONE realized that 3NT is actually "game". Silly, silly me! I guess I'll never be hired to write those wonderful GIB definitions, because GIB definitions NEVER forget to inform EVERYONE that 3NT is actually - can you believe it (?) "game".

2S would almost certainly have made, but 2NT went down. The latest in a never-ending collection of hands where a braindead GIBBO robot punished his "partner" for competing, and also the latest where a GIBBO dimwit turned a plus into a minus.

Then again, maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe it was a "rescue" attempt that failed. Maybe Superstooge in the West looked at his hand and said, "Oh no! I only have TWO spades! I MUST rescue my partner."

Throw them OUT, please! DESTROY them, please! They are unmitigated garbage. SURELY there are BETTER robots in the modern world!

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

[benellis58]

West's "defence" is a thing of "beauty". For no discernible reason, he leads the ace pf hearts. Then he shifts. To a spade? Oh no, PERISH the thought! After all, he and his partner BOTH bid spades, so of course he would NEVER want to lead a SPADE! He...of COURSE...shifts to a club, the suit DECLARER bid... twice, and his club shift is INTO declarer. Of COURSE it is.

Poor West: He is astonished when South takes TWELVE tricks and equally ASTONISHED to see that he and East get a very bad score while NS get a very good one. "I just don't get it, " he says, "Maybe I should give up bridge and start a new hobby<" to which I say, "AMEN, Brother West, AMEN!. That's the first intelligent thing any GIBBO robot has ever said!"

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9xpjm6

[benellis58]

After 1C by South, 1H by North, 1S by South, 1NT by North, South bids 2C. Quite obviously, South is "running" from NT. Quite obviously, he feels that clubs will be a better spot. Quite obviously, he has a shapely hand - almost certainly with exactly four spades and at LEAST six clubs. Quite obviously, he is not interested in game, since his 2C bid is passable. And not only is North now allowed to pass, but North is now expected to pass.

North...bids (!)...two...no trump! If North DOES choose to bid over 2C, SURELY his bid should be two DIAMONDS, not 2NT! When these dweebs fill out a census form, do they write "I.D.I.O.T." on the line where it asks for their nationality? If not, they sure as Hell should!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/47xr28yw

[benellis58]

West makes an intelligent lead for once in his miserable robotic "life". Bravo!

But when West later wins his offside spade king, he immediately fires back a...spade (!) because these intellectual wizards LOVE to return DECLARER'S suit.

West earns himself a very well-deserved ZERO to add to his massive lifetime collection.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/a4w9fzak

[benellis58]

Not exactly the best double of 5D (and a typically useless and pathetic GIB definition of the double also). Not exactly the best "defence" either. Thanks for the good score, Johnny Halfwit. Thanks to you also, Donald J. Dumbo. I won't shake your hand, though. No insult intended - it's just that I know your hand bruises very easily.

https://www.bridgeba...SK%7Cmc%7C12%7C