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Everything started out fine. But then, I find it strange that east would double. For one thing, its clubs don't really count as biddable, seeing as it doesn't have any that are high enough to be useful. Not only that, all its point are in diamonds, when if north has a michaels hand, he likely barely has any diamonds so east has a really bad defensive hand that should no way double IMO. Not only that, then north decides 3♥ is a better bid. I wish it wouldn't do this when I feel I have shown that I have more clubs than hearts, so changing to hearts would most likely make things worse, given that it doesn't have any more hearts than clubs, and it has a lower quality suit, too. Then, thing number 3 happens, which is that west doesn't think this is worth doubling, which seems strange to me given that it has a much better heart suit than west had a club suit, and yet west was willing to double but not east? Furthermore, this bid was just ran to to get away from the double, meaning it's likely not all that great of a bid, and given how I bid it they should figure we possibly don't even have a fit.
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The michaels sequence
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Posted 2016-March-14, 06:18
Everything started out fine. But then, I find it strange that east would double. For one thing, its clubs don't really count as biddable, seeing as it doesn't have any that are high enough to be useful. Not only that, all its point are in diamonds, when if north has a michaels hand, he likely barely has any diamonds so east has a really bad defensive hand that should no way double IMO. Not only that, then north decides 3♥ is a better bid. I wish it wouldn't do this when I feel I have shown that I have more clubs than hearts, so changing to hearts would most likely make things worse, given that it doesn't have any more hearts than clubs, and it has a lower quality suit, too. Then, thing number 3 happens, which is that west doesn't think this is worth doubling, which seems strange to me given that it has a much better heart suit than west had a club suit, and yet west was willing to double but not east? Furthermore, this bid was just ran to to get away from the double, meaning it's likely not all that great of a bid, and given how I bid it they should figure we possibly don't even have a fit.
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Posted 2016-March-14, 06:27
Gotta love "8+ HCP; 8- total points".
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Posted 2016-March-15, 13:32
The obvious problem here is that GIB makes these decisions pretty much exclusively based on HCP. So E doubles 3C with 10, although as you say they provide little defense. And W has a minimum, so does not double 3H even though that call is clear to a human player having heard partner double 3C.
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