[pilowsky]

The hand below is given to 26 humans playing against robots to bid and play.
The call comes round to you.
What do you do? Why?
What is the score that achieves closest to 50% for the group playing it?
What method do you use to evaluate your hand?
This comes from yesterdays Daylong number 1 Board 5.

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What happened:

Spoiler

The best result for -170 and 95.15%
My result for -1100 and 48.08%
Or some others for -800 and 69.23%

Here's the full Traveller:

Daylong Tournament (MP) 1 - 2021-01-10
Your ResultBoardResultFrequencyPointsScoreMovie
3CW+33-17096.15%Sample Movie
4SE+23-48084.62%Sample Movie
1NSx-31-80069.23%Sample Movie
1DSx-34-80069.23%Sample Moviepilowsky
1CSx-46-110048.08%Your Movie
1CSx-59-140019.23%Sample Movie
1CSx-61-17000.00%Sample Movie

This post has been edited by pilowsky: 2021-January-11, 13:36

[nige1]

Pilowsky '... given to 26 humans playing against robots to bid and play. The call comes round to you 1. What do you do? 2. Why? 3. What is the score that achieves closest to 50% for the group playing it? 4. What method do you use to evaluate your hand?'
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1. I'd open 1♣ as did Pilowsky.
2. Avoiding notrump openings with a singleton major, in case partner transfers to it; but I guessed that many would open 1NT.
3. Given 10 attempts, I'd still fail to guess the average score.
4. According to the winning trick count (WTC), this hand has 5.5+ winners.
(♠ singleton = 2 + ♥AK = 2.5 + ♦K = 1 + bonus singleton K = + value).
Cherdano Bridge Health Warning: Only losers count losers (or winners)

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[chasetb]

pilowsky, on 2021-January-11, 01:07, said:

The hand below is given to 26 humans playing against robots to bid and play.
The call comes round to you.
(1.)What do you do?
(2.)Why?
(3.)What is the score that achieves closest to 50% for the group playing it?
(4.)What method do you use to evaluate your hand?
This comes from yesterdays Daylong number 1 Board 5.

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#1 & 2 - I open 1♦, because I have no interest in partner leading a Club, and because I can rebid 2♣ and show my 9 cards in the minors. Mind you, I would rather have 5 diamonds and 4 clubs, but KJxx is better than xxxxx if we don't know what partner's hand is.
#3 - I guessed -150 (N-S), and then looked at the spoiler. Yikes!
#4 - A modified Work count, more in line with the Four Aces evaluation (essentially 4.5/3.0/1.75/0.75)

[LBengtsson]

Open 1♦. partner has passed so game is longshot. can always pass partner's bid. what suit do you want partner to lead ♦ or ♣? if opps do not bid and partner bid 1♠ is 1NT rebid bid with ♠K bad. no! as for garbage ♣ suit save for poker game.

[Cyberyeti]

I would expect to play in 1♦ or 1♥ (unless opps decide to play 4♠)

1♣-P-P-X-P-P-XX/1♥ and onwards

[Douglas43]

The robots don't play SOS redoubles then?

[TylerE]

Playing with and against GIB, this is an easy 1NT for me.

[pilowsky]

TylerE, on 2021-January-11, 12:21, said:

Playing with and against GIB, this is an easy 1NT for me.

I've put the full Traveller for this hand in the Spoiler now.

[spade7]

Surely North must remove to 1♥.

[spade7]

Surely North must remove to 1♥.

[spade7]

Oops repeated my comment.