mrdct, on 2011-October-07, 15:00, said:
blackshoe, on 2011-October-07, 03:40, said:
Thus, I have no idea what "well beyond fielding" means.
Cheating.
That is a gross overstatement.
Last week, I played Cross IMPs at the club with a regular partner. We were not vulnerable and I had a full, but minimum opening bid: 12 HCP and 5=3=3=2 distribution. I was South and the auction started by partner opening:
I decided to allow for partner to have opened aggressively and to threat my hand as invitational only opposite a balanced hand and we stopped in a part score.
Not completely unexpected, saying that this was a minority view is an understatement. The rest of the field was in game, i.e. 0% was agreeing with me.
The fact that there was a rest of the field in a similar position already tells you that my partner hadn't psyched his 1
♥ opening. But suppose he actually
had psyched would you call me a cheat for: staying out of game with an opening
and avoiding the heart suit where everybody would have bid game (most were in hearts, some in spades)? Or would I be allowed to use my own (perhaps misguided) judgement on a particular hand?
Entirely irrelevant for the discussion, but for those who are interested: Partner had a decent 12 count and the field was right and I was wrong.
Rik
I want my opponents to leave my table with a smile on their face and without matchpoints on their score card - in that order.
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