[dustinst22]

One useful way I've found to improve my declaring skills is to play in the individual ACBL tourneys.

It would be nice if you could rent the advanced GIB's and set your hand strength similar to what it is in those tourneys for declaring practice. This would be a great way to get in a lot of volume of practice without having to spend much $.

[helene_t]

Rented gib's run in the client while tourney gibs run on the server. So they will not always be identical. But they should be very similar.

As for hand strength, you can use a teaching table, then you can set the minimum number of points for South (or wherever you sit). You can also enter dealer code like
hcp(south)>hcp(north) and hcp(south)>hcp(east) and hcp(south)>hcp(west) to mimic the way the cards are dealt in robot indys.

Finally, you can play the non-acbl best-hand robot indys, or robot rebate, which are cheaper than acbl indys, They do not give you acbl masterpoints, though.

[dustinst22]

good suggestions. I thought of just using a teaching tbl, the problem is of course that you can see all 4 hands so it kind of defeats the purpose.