[pilowsky]

Apparently this forcing.




Amazingly, 2 people passed and GIB made 2♣+1. One person bid 2♦ then passed after 3♣.

fwiw, here's what happened to me.

edit: sorry guys where's Mikeh - I just made another incredibly silly slam .



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[nige1]

Pilowsky 'Apparently this forcing. Amazingly, 2 people passed and GIB made 2♣+1. One person bid 2♦ then passed after 3♣. Here's what happened to me'
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IMO, Pilowsky bid and played well.
If you pass GIB's forcing bid, you hurt his feelings, and you might get into bad habits.
Humans are less forgiving. If you pass a human's forcing bid, even if the outcome is successful, you will probably have to find a new partner.

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Pilowsky 'sorry guys where's Mikeh - I just made another incredibly silly slam. '
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The play is as bad as the bidding. Did GIB open 2♣ on the South hand? More likely, GIB was North?

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[pilowsky]

Re '2' pilowsky was just being a bit of a dill. He liked his diamonds and thought that if he bid 2♣ he could weasel out of it in 2♦. Tragically, his old friend the North robot had other ideas.

[akwoo]

Hand 1 - I believe GiB plays that, after 2♣-2♦-3♣, the bid of 3♦ is conventional and shows a very weak hand. That's what I would bid. Then I'd raise the robot's 3♠ to 4.

But I think the robot's 3♣ is the wrong bid; I would rebid 2N with that hand, and now you have no trouble getting to game with Stayman.

[pilowsky]

akwoo, on 2020-October-17, 20:10, said:

Hand 1 - I believe GiB plays that, after 2♣-2♦-3♣, the bid of 3♦ is conventional and shows a very weak hand. That's what I would bid. Then I'd raise the robot's 3♠ to 4.

But I think the robot's 3♣ is the wrong bid; I would rebid 2N with that hand, and now you have no trouble getting to game with Stayman.

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear, the alert "pass forcing" appears when I, as responder, hover my cursor over the pass button. I'm just wondering how GIB would respond to a 'forcing pass' if opps don't oblige with a bid.

[Vampyr]

pilowsky, on 2020-October-17, 21:20, said:

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear, the alert "pass forcing" appears when I, as responder, hover my cursor over the pass button. I'm just wondering how GIB would respond to a 'forcing pass' if opps don't oblige with a bid.

Probably “pass forcing” is some sort of warning that you are about to pass a forcing bid. It likely has nothing to do with a forcing pass

[pilowsky]

Vampyr, on 2020-October-18, 06:54, said:

Probably "pass forcing" is some sort of warning that you are about to pass a forcing bid. It likely has nothing to do with a forcing pass

Ah, thank you, always wondered why I had so much trouble passing at school.