On hand 1 I bid Jacoby, not because of the Singleton honour, but because of the weak Spades. I figured the most likely time to be a slam is if partner has short Spades and the robots show shortness in response to 2 NT.
I generally will not splitter with an Ace or King, because it tends to screw up controls and Blackwood. Not terribly worried about honors from Queen down.
double dummy feature uses computer analytics of the cards to work out what would happen if everyone played perfectly from there on. an = sign means that the contract would make from there, red numbers are that many undertricks, green numbers are that many over tricks.
On board 4 an interesting point of bidding theory arose what 1D-1H-1S-1NT-2NT-3C should actually means. You took it at 18:05 as accepting your invite. But what is actually the point of bidding 3C with an acceptance. You are not likely to find a better game than 3NT and 3C is certainly going to help opponents defending 3NT. Conversely if you have not enough to accept the invite, you might want to get out of 2NT. I would not do that with the actual North hand but give North a slightly different hand say 2=4=1=6 and 3C looks more attractive North point of view than 2NT, particularly at pairs. Remember that North never had a chance to bid his club suit before with a weak hand and he could hardly pass 1S. So he could be quite weak.
1. I double finessed, but the bots helped by shifting to a spade instead of a heart (I splintered). 2. I played two low clubs from hand (not one) to keep communication and the bots continued with spades so I made an OT. 3. I opened 1NT with this good 14-count and ended up in 2NT= but this time defending clubs scored better. 4. I invited with 3D instead of 2NT which goaded a helpful spade lead. 3NT= scored 100%. 5/6 push 7. I was chicken to not double 2H and compounded the problem by failing to diagnose the singleton. 8. By not leading clubs early I was unable to give P a club ruff. So point-a-hand we were 3-3 but matchpoints I edged you by 1%.
B1-3 exactly like you. :). I agree that B3 should be upgraded. B4 I invited like Peter with 2NT, but bid 3D over 3C. The robot still bid 3NT with his bare minimum and I also got a spade lead making 3NT. B5 same, B6 I overcalled 1S and ended in 3D undoubled making. B7 I also put 2H doubled down 2 tricks. B8 I saw little point in doubling 2H with such good spades and a strong notrump behind me. So the robot led a high diamond (ducked) and the only issue was 2 or 3 down. 86% overall.
Hey dude! I hope you can explain something to me. I have been playing Bridge for a while and the other day in my local paper there was a Bridge hand to bid. East had 10 POINTS and opened at 1 NT. How the heck can that happen? I thought you had to have at least 15 points to open at 1 NT. Have I missed something all these years?
There are lots of different bridge systems out there. The one you saw is probably where people play mini NT when favourable 1st/2nd seat or something. The point range for mini is like 9-12 points. It is a hyper aggressive style of bidding trying to utilize the nice vulnerability.
@@BridgeWithPete Thanks for your reply. But this was competitive tournament bridge (contract?) and nothing was mentioned that would make me think they deviated from the regular rules. Still puzzles me!
The regular rules allow partnerships to choose their system. There is nothing to say you have to play standard just that the opponents need to know what you play.
People try and make bidding harder than it should be. You can do really well with simple bidding but just trying to answer two questions as a partnership. 1) How high should we go? 2) What should be trumps?
On board 6 I didn't read descriptions and automatically bid 3D after the mixed raise, which apparently was stronger than my hand, so ended up in 3NT going down a lots :(
Yeah I did the same thing as Peter, automatically clicked 3D and then went whoa when I saw the description! Sometimes the bots are hyper-specific in their bidding conventions and sometimes they aren't. On Sunday a bot passed my cue bid and there are plenty of places where two bids have identical meanings.
Board 2- an intra-finesse in hearts actually works, saw you use this in a previous video.
On hand 1 I bid Jacoby, not because of the Singleton honour, but because of the weak Spades. I figured the most likely time to be a slam is if partner has short Spades and the robots show shortness in response to 2 NT.
Nice reasoning.
I generally will not splitter with an Ace or King, because it tends to screw up controls and Blackwood. Not terribly worried about honors from Queen down.
always a delight hearing you figure out each person's holdings. I've never used the double dummy feature. Could you explain how it works?
double dummy feature uses computer analytics of the cards to work out what would happen if everyone played perfectly from there on. an = sign means that the contract would make from there, red numbers are that many undertricks, green numbers are that many over tricks.
On board 4 an interesting point of bidding theory arose what 1D-1H-1S-1NT-2NT-3C should actually means. You took it at 18:05 as accepting your invite. But what is actually the point of bidding 3C with an acceptance. You are not likely to find a better game than 3NT and 3C is certainly going to help opponents defending 3NT. Conversely if you have not enough to accept the invite, you might want to get out of 2NT. I would not do that with the actual North hand but give North a slightly different hand say 2=4=1=6 and 3C looks more attractive North point of view than 2NT, particularly at pairs.
Remember that North never had a chance to bid his club suit before with a weak hand and he could hardly pass 1S. So he could be quite weak.
3C should probably weak to get out. Pretty unusual spot though.
1. I double finessed, but the bots helped by shifting to a spade instead of a heart (I splintered).
2. I played two low clubs from hand (not one) to keep communication and the bots continued with spades so I made an OT.
3. I opened 1NT with this good 14-count and ended up in 2NT= but this time defending clubs scored better.
4. I invited with 3D instead of 2NT which goaded a helpful spade lead. 3NT= scored 100%.
5/6 push
7. I was chicken to not double 2H and compounded the problem by failing to diagnose the singleton.
8. By not leading clubs early I was unable to give P a club ruff.
So point-a-hand we were 3-3 but matchpoints I edged you by 1%.
B1-3 exactly like you. :). I agree that B3 should be upgraded.
B4 I invited like Peter with 2NT, but bid 3D over 3C. The robot still bid 3NT with his bare minimum and I also got a spade lead making 3NT.
B5 same, B6 I overcalled 1S and ended in 3D undoubled making.
B7 I also put 2H doubled down 2 tricks. B8 I saw little point in doubling 2H with such good spades and a strong notrump behind me. So the robot led a high diamond (ducked) and the only issue was 2 or 3 down.
86% overall.
Hey dude! I hope you can explain something to me. I have been playing Bridge for a while and the other day in my local paper there was a Bridge hand to bid. East had 10 POINTS and opened at 1 NT. How the heck can that happen? I thought you had to have at least 15 points to open at 1 NT. Have I missed something all these years?
There are lots of different bridge systems out there. The one you saw is probably where people play mini NT when favourable 1st/2nd seat or something. The point range for mini is like 9-12 points. It is a hyper aggressive style of bidding trying to utilize the nice vulnerability.
@@BridgeWithPete Thanks for your reply. But this was competitive tournament bridge (contract?) and nothing was mentioned that would make me think they deviated from the regular rules. Still puzzles me!
The regular rules allow partnerships to choose their system. There is nothing to say you have to play standard just that the opponents need to know what you play.
@@BridgeWithPete Well, you learn something new every day! Thanks again for your answers and have a great one!
Bridge is the most difficult card game to learn.It seems to me that you need to take IVY League college coarses just to learn how to bid.
People try and make bidding harder than it should be. You can do really well with simple bidding but just trying to answer two questions as a partnership. 1) How high should we go? 2) What should be trumps?
On board 6 I didn't read descriptions and automatically bid 3D after the mixed raise, which apparently was stronger than my hand, so ended up in 3NT going down a lots :(
Yeah I did the same thing as Peter, automatically clicked 3D and then went whoa when I saw the description! Sometimes the bots are hyper-specific in their bidding conventions and sometimes they aren't. On Sunday a bot passed my cue bid and there are plenty of places where two bids have identical meanings.
Same thing for me. Down 3. I had to just cash out all my winners because they have 8 takers lol.
It's annoying when the descriptions are like that. I almost did the same. I think 3D is just a normal bid.