[awm]

Recently I’ve been bidding a lot of hands on Cuebids against “basic robots.” One property of these robots is that they bid 1m-p-2m quite a lot, and I’ve noticed that this sequence creates a lot of problems for me!

Like many partnerships, Elianna and I play inverted minors, so we can’t make a single raise. Now I’m wondering if the is a good strategy; we could easily handle the minor suit invites some other way.

Has anyone else reconsidered inverted minors for this (or another) reason?

[DavidKok]

No. The reason the basic bots do so well on this sequence is that Cuebids biases the hands - partner and you are handed the majority of the strength almost always. Consequently the bots have no need for a constructive system. The opening is 11+ and the simple raise is 0-29 (but really 0-8 with a strong trend towards the lower values, given the above), NF.
This is what makes it difficult, given that we have the stronger hands. We should almost always be in the auction, but sorting out whether we have game or partscore is tremendously difficult. However, the constructive losses of such a method are considerable, and the real life frequency is very low.

The more advanced bots actually don't have this sequence, and now the problem disappears.

In general I'd be careful extrapolating Cuebids to bridge. It's a wonderful app but the hand biasing in particular teaches all sorts of unwelcome habits. Knowing that partner must have the missing strength shifts the percentage action on many auctions.
One area where this is particularly blatant is preempts. On Cuebids preempts will usually lose - partner almost always has a misfitting 13-14 count.