[FrancesHinden]

rbforster, on 2012-May-19, 10:18, said:

How do people decide when to make a 3 card very weak raise via 1M-1NT...2M vs just passing? I think just saying what the two hand types are is sufficient and leaving how often you decide to bid one vs the other to "bridge judgment". That's what all the standard players do when faced with a choice.

gnasher, on 2012-May-20, 02:22, said:

If you use bridge judgement to make the decision, it's fine to say or imply that this is what you do. If you're actually making a random decision, it would be misleading, and therefore against the rules, to imply that you use your judgement.

Also if you are an experienced partnership you learn how partner makes that decision and what sort of hands he passes on. Your opponents are entitled to any information you have about partner's bidding tendencies.

[barmar]

FrancesHinden, on 2012-May-20, 04:06, said:

Also if you are an experienced partnership you learn how partner makes that decision and what sort of hands he passes on. Your opponents are entitled to any information you have about partner's bidding tendencies.

While this is strictly true, it may be quite difficult to put into practice. Given a particular hand you might be able to judge what he would do with it, but that doesn't mean you can describe all the hands that would go one way or the other.

[Vampyr]

barmar, on 2012-May-20, 14:05, said:

While this is strictly true, it may be quite difficult to put into practice. Given a particular hand you might be able to judge what he would do with it, but that doesn't mean you can describe all the hands that would go one way or the other.

There is an easy solution to this. If you can't disclose it, you can't play it.

[barmar]

Vampyr, on 2012-May-20, 14:59, said:

There is an easy solution to this. If you can't disclose it, you can't play it.

So you can't play "use your judgement"?

[blackshoe]

Vampyr, on 2012-May-20, 14:59, said:

There is an easy solution to this. If you can't disclose it, you can't play it.

The laws don't say that. AFAIK, neither do the regulations of any RA.

[akwoo]

If it's on the order of 10-20% that you deviate from your original agreements, then I think you should disclose it as 'we have an agreement that psyching this bid in this way is common'.