[thepossum]

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I appreciate I could have doubled or somehow mentioned my hearts but you somehow miss spades with those options too. If you bid hearts North seems to prefer that as a contract

I appreciate that the West bot threw a spanner in with cue bids (which I dislike intensely) but still

Are West bots more competitive than North bots?

[Vampyr]

What are you suggesting? That North make an unfavourable sacrifice? Works OK here because you have ♣K. If you have neither that nor ♥A (or K with A onside) it will be too expensive. Looks a little like resulting to me.

[Stephen Tu]

Well, it does seem odd for someone to open a 1 loser 8 cd suit then decide to never bid again. Surely it's worth bidding at least 3S over 2S?

[smerriman]

GIB doesn't count losers; 3♠ is 15+ total points and its horrible evaluation method says it has 14. And that a jump to 4♠ is 22.

[thepossum]

Vampyr, on 2020-September-23, 20:08, said:

What are you suggesting? That North make an unfavourable sacrifice? Works OK here because you have ♣K. If you have neither that nor ♥A (or K with A onside) it will be too expensive. Looks a little like resulting to me.

Not so much resulting as thinking how I would have bid and every human North bid. Maybe it's a problem with the bidding system

And the thought that West bid our suit twice without any interference from North at all

[hrothgar]

I think that your bidding was fine.
North's on the other hand was questionable.

Biding hearts wouldn't have occured to me with such a weak suit.
X is vaguely tempting, however, I don't think that you are quite strong enough

[johnu]

Honestly, North just has a measly 11 HCP and a broken 8 card suit. This is barely even worth 1 bid and GIB put its life on the line by opening the bidding. I wouldn't expect GIB to do anything more. Well done by North to even get into the bidding.