[benellis58]

I've mentioned before that when I play in a game with three robots, I often operate and/or "experiment" and do bizarre things that I would never dream of doing in a "real" bridge game with humans. There are several reasons for this:

1. If my operation ends in a disaster, I hurt only myself, and not a (human) partner or (human) teammates,

2. It's fun...and nothing of importance is at stake. It's not as if a failed operation in a robot game is going to cost ne the Spingold.

3. Since I have three GIBBO robots at the table, I know right from the star that my "partner" is an ignorant, clueless C.R.E.T.I.N. who is absolutely and irredeemably hopeless at bridge, and that my opponents are equally woeful.

4. The operations turn out well more often than not. Why is that? Re-read point three above, and it will tell you exactly why.

THIS hand is a good example:

First, I bizarrely opened 1NT rather than a normal 1H. Then, opposite a silent partner and against two opponents who had bid up to 3D, I merrily trotted in with a 3H call. West passed, and my formerly silent partner "corrected" to 3S. East doubled and everyone passed.

It looked like this was going to be a FAILED operation, and against any DECENT pair it would have been. But our opponents were obviously not a "decent" pair, they were two typically clueless, imbecilic GIBBO robots, so 3S doubled actually made. Why? Because the simpleminded fool in the East made the remarkably stupid lead of a HEART (MY suit!) rather than EITHER minor (the two suits that the dweeb's "PARTNER" had shown),. Thus, I lost only three spades and the ace of clubs, as I was able to pitch BOTH of my two TOP diamond losers.

Consequently, I will continue to operate against these braindead, nauseatingly stupid GIBBO pieces of trash.

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