[thepossum]

Please without critiquing my inadequate passed 2C followed by a disgusted concession of all tricks (expecting a bottom) - could have made 50% with 2C I was relieved to find myself down the bottom with a load of "experts" in spectacularly disastrous slams and similar concessions. 7NT x, xx - N etc

I couldnt actually find a good forcing bid. Seemingly those who did ended up in more trouble

Top score was actually 1S doubled minus n by West

Its the funniest MP hand and scores I have ever seen. Is there a way to post a traveller

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Try this linkfor the traveller


Its a lesson never to give up in a GiB MP tourney

[LBengtsson]

XX instead of 1♥ as south would have told partner that you have the majority of the points. partner X's west 1♠ bid. best defense keeps it to 4 tricks only imo.

[thepossum]

The redouble was what I missed. It didn't save everyone. Did you check the traveller which is the point of my post

I actually feel relieved that I didn't find a way to force to game or slam

[smerriman]

Wow. 49 different results for one board must be some kind of record..

Just for reference, if you do start with 1♥, you can follow up with 2♦ as fourth suit forcing. GIB will bid 2♥ to show its 3 card support, after which you can follow up with a forcing 3♣. Of course, GIB will now bid 3♥ to deny a diamond stopper (???), after which your 5♣ will end the auction and leave you in a contract that can only be made double dummy.

(How you can make 5♣ double dummy is actually quite interesting in itself too..)

Amusingly, if you redouble and pull GIB's double of 1♠ to 2♥, GIB will happily jump to 3NT which promises a 15 count.

[thepossum]

smerriman, on 2021-October-18, 22:56, said:

Wow. 49 different results for one board must be some kind of record..

Just for reference, if you do start with 1♥, you can follow up with 2♦ as fourth suit forcing. GIB will bid 2♥ to show its 3 card support, after which you can follow up with a forcing 3♣. Of course, GIB will now bid 3♥ to deny a diamond stopper (???), after which your 5♣ will end the auction and leave you in a contract that can only be made double dummy.

(How you can make 5♣ double dummy is actually quite interesting in itself too..)

Amusingly, if you redouble and pull GIB's double of 1♠ to 2♥, GIB will happily jump to 3NT which promises a 15 count.

Its not just the number of results. Its the nature of them

Apologies for seeing the funny side of things and trying to share it occasionally

I would likely have been one of those in grand and missing 1SWx-3