Lucky you didnt finesse with diamond jack , then they play heart and you go down

Gavin can I ask why on board 4 u didn’t bid 4nt knowing u had a 10 card fit in spades ? If u do I think u get to 6 spades ? ( I’m from England where weak No Trumps and dinosaurs roam free so maybe your system doesn’t allow it ?)

Playing Gavin system B1 I went up with the club ace but still only managed 7 tricks B2 I didn't open and ended up in 6S - a push B3 I did the Kokish 2C>2H>3C auction and got the same 5NT pick a slam from Lia. Didn't like that at all. Thought about 6NT or 7H but settled for 6H. Really didn't like this auction B4 I wanted to super-accept the Texas Transfer by bidding 5S but thought Lia wouldn't know what to do with this so I took the plunge and rebid 6S, Lia decided she was worth a raise to 7S! Made it by finding the diamond Q - my only win B5 I only bid to 3H and only made 9 tricks, Gavin did well to bid the game.

Board 5 - my bots played the queen of clubs and didn't play on diamonds - so I thought as you did that the diamonds were 5-1

B1 Ducked the C at trick 2, -1 :( Thought about going up. B2 Draw B3 My partner keycarded in H then signed off in 5H after having shown a D control (???) I didn't know what was going on and bid 6H anyway. Wasn't expecting a 12 count (!!!) :( B4 Draw, partner should transfer 3H and then bid 4S, showing slam interest. B5 Draw, I think a game try is right with prime values

WD Nice set, and nice commentary/analyses. Keep them coming :) . #1 Simple hand, but almost everyone ran the C at trick 2 to the K and ended up -1. . #5 Hoped making 10 tricks would be good enough. Lots in 3, lots making 9 or fewer. . LDDDL

Thanks Gavin. B2 I didn't open, but partner (Gavin's Lia) opened 2C, which made it easy for me to push to slam. B5 Isn't 2S the invite, while 3C said it showed five Clubs?

So I know no one will read this since it’s like a year old but we are 70 minutes in board 3 and they are talking about garbage responses and then passing jump shifts which I agree is fine but there’s a cool convention you can use called weak transfers that help with this. So imagine your partner opens 1D and you have T987x xx x xxxx and you respond 1S pard bids 2N showing 15-17 (I play polish so change it up as needed) 6 diamonds denying 3 spades. I bid 3C stating I have a weak hand prepare to sign off. Pard is forced to bid 3D. I can pass this or correct to 3H which is pass or correct to 3S (opener choice) or bid 3S which is to play Lets say I have same hand as responder it’s 1D 1S 2H to me. 2N is asking bid 3C is cheap transfer 3D/H/S is natural GF With 1/1 say I have that same hand but swap spades for hearts 1D 1H 1S Here 2C is cheap transfer. It’s EITHER GF or cheap transfer. 2D is openers forced bid then pass is 8 points or fewer 2H/S 8 or fewer natural sign off and 2N 3C 3D is natural GF If it goes. 1D 1S 2C/D then 2H is cheap transfer or GF same principal.

Sorry. I know this is probably not going to be seen but talking (board 13) opening 15-17 1N with a 5cM. Aside from Gazzilli (which everyone playing 2/1 should use) Polish Club solves this. 1H 1S 3C/D shows 5+ hearts 3+C/D with 15-17. Since your 1H bid is limited to 10-17 you can use a jump shift for this range (you can also reverse 1H 2S showing 5H4S with 15-17). It also helps with 1M 1N with 15-17 and 5cM balanced. 2C/D shows 4+ in that suit 11-17 or 15-17 balanced with 3+ in the minor bid. I believe Kluk uses this method.

You could play Bridge fora lifetime and never need this convention.

12 points does mean you don't have game and you have a bad hand despite three aces

I don't get why anyone would deliberately miss a contract. But I see play that misses the last trick required when it can be obviously won. Any idea?

G1: Why not use r for club and heart … the little diamond on table has two win trick. Did have to assume diamond is 4-3. Other assumption not 6-1 or 7-0. Now when j heart fall … but if 6-1 heart with jack fall … k heart and a spade … … think too much. I think no need of heart r. Just get the 2 club to r on table little diamond … Bidding is hard though. Never would have done 5d. Good bidding. G2: you have to worry about diamond not getting you the extra trick. But no 3rd lead to table. Not sure what can be done if … oh. 9:03 … It is 4-1 diamond. And worst 4 on north as well. Still heart 3-3 or j 1-4

a kind of FLOWER bid.

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I think a top pair could also find the diamond shift on board 3. The club position is known for W. If partner has KQJ of hearts, declarer only has 17. So declarer probably has the AK of hearts. Partner's discouraging spade pitch tell us declarer has the AS. If declarer has the AD, then declarer has the rest (4 spades (because of partner's pitch) 2 hearts, 1 diamond, 5 clubs). So the only thing left to play for is this hand basically. It's good to see that good human defense at least should be capable of doing what Lia did (however Lia did it)

Very interesting and helpful, thank you Gavin.

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@Gavin I know you better than I know any of the other experts on here; but only through watching you and Rob on the Wednesday morning tournament. I get better results against you than against the other experts. Do you get better results when playing against the people that you know better?

Hand 4 was a nice problem. After RHO follows with the lowest spade at trick 1 and LHO plays the S4 at trick 3 the spade position is known. But even if you unblock the KQ of hearts there's still the problem of what to do when East wins the third club and returns a club.

That board 4 (the second 3NT) was a toughie: I was totally bamboozled and went down one! Great analysis on that to figure out what was going on. Board 5 was the other one I lost: Lia didn't open, once again. I guess she opens more aggressively in your system. In any case, I took a ridiculous line and got ruffed multiple times for an ugly result. Thanks for your analysis and explanations!

i mean this with TOTAL humor, but today i can tell friends that i beat gavin, lol!!!! (i thank you for all that you have done to improve my game!!!!)

One day I'm going to get you Gavin. Be afraid! 🥷🏻

I played these using the robot default system, N didn't open boards 1 and 5 which kept me out of trouble on those 2. IRL I would open both so a bit of luck for robot conservatism today

Moral of Board 1: Trust your partner even if she's a robot 😀- nice video; thanks Gavin

I think on board 4 as long as east has the ace of diamonds you are guaranteed to make by playing spades first - then you can over take the heart with the ace - if diamonds are 4-3 then you are off 🙂I missed playing the KQ hearts too to make the overtrick - tricky hand.

Always good thoughts. Thanks.

Board 4 , why cant you X 1NT with 17points ?

Amazing today, top echelon bridge player, miles ahead of every other bridge KZbinr ( with honerable mention to Pete Hollands)

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Board 5 is just annoying and these things happen all the time on Intobridge - are they learning from playing you first (not sarcasm by the way?) as it seems like everyone else only took two tricks on that board. It's annoying either way - if I win a board or lose a board due to randomness it seems. For me this is the biggest fault on Intobridge - hope they can get rid of this bug.

On board 1 - I eliminated the black suits - so i didn't need to be brave as i got a ruff and discard.

Nice set. I've never noticed you say 'shake' so much before, did that rub off from Rob B?

On Board One I pulled trump and stripped the spades when the opponents won the second round of clubs they had to lead diamonds and I didn't have to make a guess in the suit.

Nice Tc play--I didn't spot it and lost the board. Board 2 looks like a club lead gets us another trick since partner has Jx of spades and three clubs.

I got zero points today, first time that's ever happened to me on these! Thanks for the insights.

board 2, i counted 17HCP and opened 1NT - as i've seen you do with 5 card majors. we found 4H.

Board 1 - I drew trumps and exited in spades; they cooperated by letting me ruff a spade and exit in clubs without touching diamonds. East erred by exiting DJ, felling West’s 9, so it was simple and risk free to pickup diamonds