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Why is North bidding 3NT on THIS auction? Note that once AGAIN he ignores his own GIB definition, which "promises"..."10+ HCP", while he has only SEVEN, which is not even close to the MINIMUM "promised".
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Posted Yesterday, 11:32
One of those finesses that only wins once...or so the robot "declarer" seems to think!
At trick 6, he slides the diamond queen...which WINS.
At trick 7, he plays his remaining diamond, the three, and...rises with dummy's ace.
Did he REALLY think that the GIBBO robot (!) in the North would be CAPABLE of playing low on the first diamond if he had the king? It was a GIBBO robot, the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst. It wasn't Zia or some other superstar!
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At trick 6, he slides the diamond queen...which WINS.
At trick 7, he plays his remaining diamond, the three, and...rises with dummy's ace.
Did he REALLY think that the GIBBO robot (!) in the North would be CAPABLE of playing low on the first diamond if he had the king? It was a GIBBO robot, the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst. It wasn't Zia or some other superstar!
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Posted Yesterday, 11:44
Trick Two: Johnny Halfwit is now in the East seat and stupidly plays his jack of clubs from KJ2. If he had CORRECTLY played low and I inserted the 10, so be it, but with his imbecilic and COWARDLY play of the jack, I COULDN'T go wrong. GIBBO robots are the pits!
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Posted Yesterday, 12:06
On the friendly layout, North can always take 12 tricks in spades (although only 7 humans did and 8 didn't), so East's imbecilic lead of the heart queen didn't cost him...but that doesn't change the fact that his lead WAS (as it SO often is for these GIBBO dipsticks) imbecilic.
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Posted Yesterday, 12:18
Instead of bidding the COLD 3NT after South and West both pass East's 2H, the ultra-M.O.R.O.N.I.C. GIBBO robot does what these lowlife losers so often and so ridiculously LOVE to do. The piece of garbage bids 3H and later pushes on to 5D. Haven't these nitwits learned that when you have KX in the ENEMY suit, it's better to have your hand led INTO than THROUGH? We score 70 % on the board for going down "only" two in the absurd 5D, but as always the score is not the issue. Whether we scored 100 or zero on the board, it would not change the fact that North's bid was foolish.
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Posted Yesterday, 14:07
Another hand from fellow BBO player OMARHEUM. He wrote "New hand from Just Declare yesterday: North did not have his 2H bid per definition. The best anyone did declaring was down 2."
He is indeed correct. North's 2H was described, in a typically pathetic GIB definition, as "New suit - 3+ diamonds; 4+ hearts; 21- HCP; 16-22 total points".
"New suit": Yes, Mr. GIB, I think THE WORLD realizes that 2H is a "new suit" in this auction. I think THE WORLD knew that even before reading your very annoying, very unnecessary, very useless, very insulting first three words. Why must you persist in beginning so many of your miserable definitions with such pointless claptrap?
"21- HCP": This literally means zero to 21, Mr. GIB. It is so broad and vague that it is completely useless. Here's a suggestion: Instead of such sloppy, lazy, open-ended, meaningless bilge, how about defining a point range within a limited enough context at both the lower and upper ends that it will actually be useful to players?
"16-22 total points". Pulled MAGICALLY out of thin air, as usual, with absolutely NO scientific basis - not surprisingly, since GIB has shown time and again that it lacks even a minimal, basic understanding of what "total" points are. Furthermore, look at the mismatch between the impossibly vague "21- HCP" and the more narrowly defined, but totally random, "16-22 total points". I think any reasonable person would assume, as OMAR did, that North has a GOOD hand. Even GIBBO itself presumably assumed this, since in this MANDATED auction, it now leapt to 3NT with the South cards.
North's ACTUAL hand was this lackluster, uncompelling, piece of dogmeat: K104, Q752, A852, QJ...a hand that looks like it should have just passed South's passed hand, nonforcing 2C. And if North foolishly decided that he MUST bid with his rag, 2NT would be a better description than his LUDICROUS 2H, which any COMPETENT player would take as a reverse.
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He is indeed correct. North's 2H was described, in a typically pathetic GIB definition, as "New suit - 3+ diamonds; 4+ hearts; 21- HCP; 16-22 total points".
"New suit": Yes, Mr. GIB, I think THE WORLD realizes that 2H is a "new suit" in this auction. I think THE WORLD knew that even before reading your very annoying, very unnecessary, very useless, very insulting first three words. Why must you persist in beginning so many of your miserable definitions with such pointless claptrap?
"21- HCP": This literally means zero to 21, Mr. GIB. It is so broad and vague that it is completely useless. Here's a suggestion: Instead of such sloppy, lazy, open-ended, meaningless bilge, how about defining a point range within a limited enough context at both the lower and upper ends that it will actually be useful to players?
"16-22 total points". Pulled MAGICALLY out of thin air, as usual, with absolutely NO scientific basis - not surprisingly, since GIB has shown time and again that it lacks even a minimal, basic understanding of what "total" points are. Furthermore, look at the mismatch between the impossibly vague "21- HCP" and the more narrowly defined, but totally random, "16-22 total points". I think any reasonable person would assume, as OMAR did, that North has a GOOD hand. Even GIBBO itself presumably assumed this, since in this MANDATED auction, it now leapt to 3NT with the South cards.
North's ACTUAL hand was this lackluster, uncompelling, piece of dogmeat: K104, Q752, A852, QJ...a hand that looks like it should have just passed South's passed hand, nonforcing 2C. And if North foolishly decided that he MUST bid with his rag, 2NT would be a better description than his LUDICROUS 2H, which any COMPETENT player would take as a reverse.
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Posted Yesterday, 14:42
And another hand from OMAR, who is well aware as am I and many, many other BBO players, of how awesomely hopeless the GIBBO robots are. I can only assume that there is a huge amount of discontent about this sad situation and that many BBO players, including paying customers, would be happy, as would I, if BBO got rid of these GIBBO abominations and replaced them with DECENT robots that had at least some SKILL at bridge. That would benefit not only all the disgruntled players, but also - and perhaps most of all - BBO itself.
In reference to this hand, OMAR wrote "Hand from the day before-not Just Declare. Most common result, occurred at 30 tables. Unhappy to see my partner North preempt and then bid again. Typical 5-0 offside trump break too."
Yes, 4S is a ridiculous, UNDISCIPLINED act - the act of a solipsistic narcissist who thinks that rules do not pertain to HIM, and the act of a "bridge player" so fantastically ignorant of the game that he never learned the elementary precept that a pre-empter is not supposed to voluntarily speak again. NO ONE invited North to join the party.
BTW, look at the piece of garbage that masquerades as the GIB definition of East's double of 4S: "7-18 total points". Typically vague and ridiculously broad statement about "total" points (a concept that GIB doesn't even understand), and NOTHING else. Is partner expected to pass, to bid, or to do Lord knows what? Is the double for penalty, takeout, card-showing, DSI, what? Does it show 9 solid diamonds, the four lowest clubs, the Curse of Scotland, the beer card, two voids,...what the Hell DOES it show? We're left to guess, because the pitiful, useless GIB definition says NOTHING except "7-18 total points" - TOTAL points yet - points that GIB has repeatedly demonstrated it can't understand. And yet, while this definition FAILS miserably in even a BASIC explanation of what the double shows (which is crucial information), GIB goes out of its way...in this same auction...to USELESSLY inform us that West's 3H is an "Overcall". And South's 3S? THAT is defined as "2+ spades". That's IT, that's ALL. According to GIB's typically useless and sloppy definition, South COULD have TWO spades or he COULD have 13, since (here we go AGAIN) "2+", with no upper limit, literally means 2 to 13...and the definition says NOTHING else about South's hand. TOTALLY useless "information", yet it was enough (enough of NOTHING!) to persuade North to abandon all discipline and repeat his spades - UNASKED - at the FOUR level. GIBBO is an embarrassment!
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In reference to this hand, OMAR wrote "Hand from the day before-not Just Declare. Most common result, occurred at 30 tables. Unhappy to see my partner North preempt and then bid again. Typical 5-0 offside trump break too."
Yes, 4S is a ridiculous, UNDISCIPLINED act - the act of a solipsistic narcissist who thinks that rules do not pertain to HIM, and the act of a "bridge player" so fantastically ignorant of the game that he never learned the elementary precept that a pre-empter is not supposed to voluntarily speak again. NO ONE invited North to join the party.
BTW, look at the piece of garbage that masquerades as the GIB definition of East's double of 4S: "7-18 total points". Typically vague and ridiculously broad statement about "total" points (a concept that GIB doesn't even understand), and NOTHING else. Is partner expected to pass, to bid, or to do Lord knows what? Is the double for penalty, takeout, card-showing, DSI, what? Does it show 9 solid diamonds, the four lowest clubs, the Curse of Scotland, the beer card, two voids,...what the Hell DOES it show? We're left to guess, because the pitiful, useless GIB definition says NOTHING except "7-18 total points" - TOTAL points yet - points that GIB has repeatedly demonstrated it can't understand. And yet, while this definition FAILS miserably in even a BASIC explanation of what the double shows (which is crucial information), GIB goes out of its way...in this same auction...to USELESSLY inform us that West's 3H is an "Overcall". And South's 3S? THAT is defined as "2+ spades". That's IT, that's ALL. According to GIB's typically useless and sloppy definition, South COULD have TWO spades or he COULD have 13, since (here we go AGAIN) "2+", with no upper limit, literally means 2 to 13...and the definition says NOTHING else about South's hand. TOTALLY useless "information", yet it was enough (enough of NOTHING!) to persuade North to abandon all discipline and repeat his spades - UNASKED - at the FOUR level. GIBBO is an embarrassment!
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Posted Today, 13:10
The board that I will examine here is a terrific example of SO much absolutely SICK nonsense by the always disgusting GIBBO robots that I will require THREE (!!!) posts to discuss it. This post, #1508, will be about my table, and the two following posts, #1509 and #1510, will be about two other tables, same board but different imbecilic actions by the useless, reprehensible GIBBO robots.
The board was played 48 times. 42 of those times, including at my table, the contract was a NORMAL 3NT. All 42 declarers made (an "impossible") 11 tricks, thanks to the ALWAYS expected hopeless "defending" by the truly execrable GIBBO robots. We all received a complete average on the board: 50 %.
At two tables, NS...AMAZINGLY...stopped in ONE (!) NT, where the two human Souths, obviously operating, opened the TWENTY-point hand with ONE (!) NT. At those tables, the declarers ALSO made 11 tricks, but they each scored only 3.19 % on the board, as they obviously did not receive the game bonus.
At one table, on another bizarre auction with the human South operating, NS reached SIX (!) NT. He took "only" 10 tricks, thereby going two down, and obviously scoring zero %. I will discuss THIS result in post #1510.
At the final table, NS scored a clear top pf 100 % for making 3H...doubled...with an overtrick. I will discuss THIS result in post #1509.
At MY table and presumably 41 others, "defender" West characteristically and of COURSE stupidly, slapped his partner East in the face by foolishly and unilaterally IGNORING East's double of 3C, choosing, GIBBO imbecile that he is, to instead lead a low heart (the 5) from AK75. Dummy North tabled the 10984 of hearts and declarer South called for the 4. East, West's obviously ANNOYED "partner", played the 6 (from 632 tripleton - Lord knows why!), and declarer South won the jack from his QJ doubleton.
At trick two, South continued with his queen of hearts. You know, this MIGHT have presented a TINY (ha, ha!) clue to anyone with an IQ over ZERO that maybe, just maybe, continuing HEARTS would NOT be a good idea for the "defenders". But of COURSE the GIBBO robot in the West did not have such an ELEVATED level of IQ...so the TERMINALLY ignorant GIBBO M.O.R.O.N. ...continued (!) HEARTS! He won his king at trick two. Fair enough. THAT makes sense. And then he BELATEDLY shifted to a club, right? No! Wrong! Pay attention! I said he was a...GIBBO robot (the LOWEST of the low, the WORST of the worst), so the malignant DRUDGE...next...CASHED HIS HEART ACE (!) before FINALLY switching to clubs. Too late, IMBECILE (West), because you (West) have just set up declarer's ELEVENTH trick by PERSONALLY establishing dummy North's last heart.
How is it even POSSIBLE for ANY "bridge player" to be this PHENOMENALLY inept hand...after hand...after revolting, disgusting hand? The GIBBO robots rot.
Okay, here's the link to my table. Read the next two posts to see the I.D.I.O.C.I.E.S. that occurred at two other tables.
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The board was played 48 times. 42 of those times, including at my table, the contract was a NORMAL 3NT. All 42 declarers made (an "impossible") 11 tricks, thanks to the ALWAYS expected hopeless "defending" by the truly execrable GIBBO robots. We all received a complete average on the board: 50 %.
At two tables, NS...AMAZINGLY...stopped in ONE (!) NT, where the two human Souths, obviously operating, opened the TWENTY-point hand with ONE (!) NT. At those tables, the declarers ALSO made 11 tricks, but they each scored only 3.19 % on the board, as they obviously did not receive the game bonus.
At one table, on another bizarre auction with the human South operating, NS reached SIX (!) NT. He took "only" 10 tricks, thereby going two down, and obviously scoring zero %. I will discuss THIS result in post #1510.
At the final table, NS scored a clear top pf 100 % for making 3H...doubled...with an overtrick. I will discuss THIS result in post #1509.
At MY table and presumably 41 others, "defender" West characteristically and of COURSE stupidly, slapped his partner East in the face by foolishly and unilaterally IGNORING East's double of 3C, choosing, GIBBO imbecile that he is, to instead lead a low heart (the 5) from AK75. Dummy North tabled the 10984 of hearts and declarer South called for the 4. East, West's obviously ANNOYED "partner", played the 6 (from 632 tripleton - Lord knows why!), and declarer South won the jack from his QJ doubleton.
At trick two, South continued with his queen of hearts. You know, this MIGHT have presented a TINY (ha, ha!) clue to anyone with an IQ over ZERO that maybe, just maybe, continuing HEARTS would NOT be a good idea for the "defenders". But of COURSE the GIBBO robot in the West did not have such an ELEVATED level of IQ...so the TERMINALLY ignorant GIBBO M.O.R.O.N. ...continued (!) HEARTS! He won his king at trick two. Fair enough. THAT makes sense. And then he BELATEDLY shifted to a club, right? No! Wrong! Pay attention! I said he was a...GIBBO robot (the LOWEST of the low, the WORST of the worst), so the malignant DRUDGE...next...CASHED HIS HEART ACE (!) before FINALLY switching to clubs. Too late, IMBECILE (West), because you (West) have just set up declarer's ELEVENTH trick by PERSONALLY establishing dummy North's last heart.
How is it even POSSIBLE for ANY "bridge player" to be this PHENOMENALLY inept hand...after hand...after revolting, disgusting hand? The GIBBO robots rot.
Okay, here's the link to my table. Read the next two posts to see the I.D.I.O.C.I.E.S. that occurred at two other tables.
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Posted Today, 13:41
Same hand discussed in post #1508 immediately above, but different table. The post immediately below this will also discuss this same hand, but at a third table.
Okay, at this table NS made 3h doubled plus an overtrick to score 100 % on the board, while the GIBBO robots (aka: total imbeciles) added another complete zero to their award-winning lifetime collection of total failures.
WHY were NS in 3H doubled instead of the normal 3NT? Well...East passed, South opened 2NT, West passed, North bid 3C Stayman, and East doubled to show good clubs. All normal so far.
But then, rather than bidding what seems to be a "normal" 3D, as almost ALL human Souths did, South passed. West passed, and North bid 3H. Okay, even those actions are not unreasonable. But the next one sure as HELL is, because the SUPERTWIT in the East (yes, he IS a GIBBO robot - how did you guess?) now...DOUBLED (!!!!!) 3H.
"Well," you might be thinking, "GIB definitions are KNOWN for being pathetic, hopeless, monumentally stupid, and often just plain WRONG, so maybe the poor simpleton was just doing what he was SUPPOSED to do according to a lamebrained GIB definition."
Nope.
The GIB definition was "Takeout double - 3+ diamonds; 2- hearts; 3+ spades; rebiddable clubs; 12 total points", so IT was not to blame.
East's HAND for his insane, non-systemic double was...974, 632, 54, KQ1085! Do YOU see "3+ diamonds"? Because I see the miserable little 54 doubleton. Do YOU see "2- hearts"? Because I see three of them: the (also) miserable little 632. Do YOU see "12 total points"? Because I see a mere FIVE (!) HCP, ALL in clubs, and I see absolutely NO reason on EARTH to add even a SINGLE point to the HCP in order to elevate the "total" points.
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Okay, at this table NS made 3h doubled plus an overtrick to score 100 % on the board, while the GIBBO robots (aka: total imbeciles) added another complete zero to their award-winning lifetime collection of total failures.
WHY were NS in 3H doubled instead of the normal 3NT? Well...East passed, South opened 2NT, West passed, North bid 3C Stayman, and East doubled to show good clubs. All normal so far.
But then, rather than bidding what seems to be a "normal" 3D, as almost ALL human Souths did, South passed. West passed, and North bid 3H. Okay, even those actions are not unreasonable. But the next one sure as HELL is, because the SUPERTWIT in the East (yes, he IS a GIBBO robot - how did you guess?) now...DOUBLED (!!!!!) 3H.
"Well," you might be thinking, "GIB definitions are KNOWN for being pathetic, hopeless, monumentally stupid, and often just plain WRONG, so maybe the poor simpleton was just doing what he was SUPPOSED to do according to a lamebrained GIB definition."
Nope.
The GIB definition was "Takeout double - 3+ diamonds; 2- hearts; 3+ spades; rebiddable clubs; 12 total points", so IT was not to blame.
East's HAND for his insane, non-systemic double was...974, 632, 54, KQ1085! Do YOU see "3+ diamonds"? Because I see the miserable little 54 doubleton. Do YOU see "2- hearts"? Because I see three of them: the (also) miserable little 632. Do YOU see "12 total points"? Because I see a mere FIVE (!) HCP, ALL in clubs, and I see absolutely NO reason on EARTH to add even a SINGLE point to the HCP in order to elevate the "total" points.
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Posted Today, 14:27
Okay, here's the third and final discussion of this board. Posts 1508 and 1509 above discuss what happened at my table and then what happened at another. This current post will discuss what happened at a third table.
Here the human South tried an operation that turned out unsuccessfully, which explains why his partnership ended up in 6NT instead of the normal 3NT. The purpose of this post is not to discuss that, as this thread is never about bashing humans. It is always about bashing GIB or GIBBO robots, as Diana so eloquently expressed in the title she gave to this essential thread that she so wisely created back in August of 2025. At that time, she had probably not guessed that the thread would have accumulated over half a million views in the eight months since its creation. I certainly would not have expected that, but I guess I underestimated the huge number of BBO members and customers who are disgusted by the inept GIBBO robots and enjoy reading about their foibles. Please though, dear readers, never forget that the bashing always has a POSITIVE goal: Namely, to alert the powers that be to the enormous number of problems with the GIB definitions, the GIBBO system, and the GIBBO robots - ALL in the hope that they will either be HUGELY improved, or - better yet - REPLACED by COMPETENT robots. Then and only then will BBO have a platform that will TOTALLY please its users and supporters. That will obviously be VERY beneficial not only to those same users and customers, but ALSO (and perhaps to an even greater degree) to BBO itself, by ensuring increased member/customer loyalty (in an era where OTHER bridge platforms are also coming into prominence) and by attracting NEW members and customers to what is currently an excellent bridge site in numerous ways but that is harmed by the horrid presence of its reprehensible GIBBO robots.
Here's what's "amusing" about THIS hand at THIS table. At the 42 tables where NS played the NORMAL contract of 3NT, East doubled 3C but West STUPIDLY ignored the double and STUPIDLY led and continued hearts, as I documented in post # 1508. Here, against 6NT, West had an EXCELLENT reason to lead HEARTS, NOT clubs. First, HERE he was on lead against...DUH...SIX no trump and he was LOOKING AT the AK of hearts in his OWN hand, so of course it was OBVIOUS to lead hearts. Second, HERE...on THIS auction, his partner East merely PASSED throughout, as he never had a chance to show good clubs with a double.
BUT...West was...ON LEAD (!) with an OBVIOUSLY CASHABLE two TOP tricks (the AK of hearts), yet he PASSED (!) 6NT! He did NOT double it! And even beyond THAT absurdity, he led the heart king (bravo - well done) and then at trick two...shifted...yes, I said SHIFTED (!!!) to a club! He did NOT cash the SETTING TRICK ...against a SLAM, he SHIFTED! Now, he lucked out and the slam failed anyway, but what IF the "operating" South had had some weird hand where he actually HAD 12 tricks as long as the SETTING trick was not cashed?
So, West's failure to double, coupled with his failure to cash the setting trick are funny examples 0f GIBBO cluelessness and ineptitude, but what's ALSO funny is that when West was URGED by his partner to lead clubs, he IGNORED the advice and led hearts, yet HERE, where his partner East never asked, told, or suggested ANYTHING,...HERE (against a SLAM!), West cashed ONLY one heart (as opposed to his playing the suit forever and ever after his partner showed CLUBS and after DECLARER played HEARTS in 3NT!), and then SHIFTED...BLINDLY in this case to clubs! Moral: If your "partner" is one of those pieces of trash known as a GIBBO robot and you WANT a specific suit led, whatever you do: DON'T bid the suit and DON'T make a lead-directing double of it, or your GIBBO "partner" will NEVER lead it! Just pass or bid ANOTHER suit and then he probably WILL (blindly!) lead the one you actually want. GIBBO robots absolutely stink at bridge.
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Here the human South tried an operation that turned out unsuccessfully, which explains why his partnership ended up in 6NT instead of the normal 3NT. The purpose of this post is not to discuss that, as this thread is never about bashing humans. It is always about bashing GIB or GIBBO robots, as Diana so eloquently expressed in the title she gave to this essential thread that she so wisely created back in August of 2025. At that time, she had probably not guessed that the thread would have accumulated over half a million views in the eight months since its creation. I certainly would not have expected that, but I guess I underestimated the huge number of BBO members and customers who are disgusted by the inept GIBBO robots and enjoy reading about their foibles. Please though, dear readers, never forget that the bashing always has a POSITIVE goal: Namely, to alert the powers that be to the enormous number of problems with the GIB definitions, the GIBBO system, and the GIBBO robots - ALL in the hope that they will either be HUGELY improved, or - better yet - REPLACED by COMPETENT robots. Then and only then will BBO have a platform that will TOTALLY please its users and supporters. That will obviously be VERY beneficial not only to those same users and customers, but ALSO (and perhaps to an even greater degree) to BBO itself, by ensuring increased member/customer loyalty (in an era where OTHER bridge platforms are also coming into prominence) and by attracting NEW members and customers to what is currently an excellent bridge site in numerous ways but that is harmed by the horrid presence of its reprehensible GIBBO robots.
Here's what's "amusing" about THIS hand at THIS table. At the 42 tables where NS played the NORMAL contract of 3NT, East doubled 3C but West STUPIDLY ignored the double and STUPIDLY led and continued hearts, as I documented in post # 1508. Here, against 6NT, West had an EXCELLENT reason to lead HEARTS, NOT clubs. First, HERE he was on lead against...DUH...SIX no trump and he was LOOKING AT the AK of hearts in his OWN hand, so of course it was OBVIOUS to lead hearts. Second, HERE...on THIS auction, his partner East merely PASSED throughout, as he never had a chance to show good clubs with a double.
BUT...West was...ON LEAD (!) with an OBVIOUSLY CASHABLE two TOP tricks (the AK of hearts), yet he PASSED (!) 6NT! He did NOT double it! And even beyond THAT absurdity, he led the heart king (bravo - well done) and then at trick two...shifted...yes, I said SHIFTED (!!!) to a club! He did NOT cash the SETTING TRICK ...against a SLAM, he SHIFTED! Now, he lucked out and the slam failed anyway, but what IF the "operating" South had had some weird hand where he actually HAD 12 tricks as long as the SETTING trick was not cashed?
So, West's failure to double, coupled with his failure to cash the setting trick are funny examples 0f GIBBO cluelessness and ineptitude, but what's ALSO funny is that when West was URGED by his partner to lead clubs, he IGNORED the advice and led hearts, yet HERE, where his partner East never asked, told, or suggested ANYTHING,...HERE (against a SLAM!), West cashed ONLY one heart (as opposed to his playing the suit forever and ever after his partner showed CLUBS and after DECLARER played HEARTS in 3NT!), and then SHIFTED...BLINDLY in this case to clubs! Moral: If your "partner" is one of those pieces of trash known as a GIBBO robot and you WANT a specific suit led, whatever you do: DON'T bid the suit and DON'T make a lead-directing double of it, or your GIBBO "partner" will NEVER lead it! Just pass or bid ANOTHER suit and then he probably WILL (blindly!) lead the one you actually want. GIBBO robots absolutely stink at bridge.
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