Re: Jeeves the Butler

If you have the tools to stop the bidding on a low level, (eg. Drury or
workable runouts) I would probably judge (depending on local
regulations) that you are using HUM, if you open such a weak hand in
third position. I would decide the same way if dealer is bidding
incredible low in a so called "natural system".

Volker

Am 28.07.2017 um 14:17 schrieb Robert Park:
> 
> But are not some psyching situations sufficiently well known to be
> considered almost part of "just bridge?" Third-seat 1M openings when
> playing Drury, for example. Or 1S replies to 1H when holding a very weak
> hand with heart support? Are there others of this ilk?
> 
> I seen to recall someone describing a psyching opportunity or 2 when
> replying to 1NT openings. These certainly exist when not vul responding
> a weak or mini-1NT...especially if you have workable run-outs when a
> double comes back to you.
> 
>   --Bob Park
> 
> 
> On 7/28/17 12:17 AM, Richard Hills wrote:
>> The shorthand word "psychic" appears in Law 40B2(a)(v). But the more
>> useful expanded description "deviate from his side's announced
>> understandings" appears in Law 40C1.
>>
>> A true psyche is when "partner has no more reason than the opponents
>> to be aware of the deviation". (Note that Law 40B2(a)(v) nevertheless
>> renders some true psyches illegal.) But a concealed partnership
>> understanding pseudo-psyche is created by repeated deviations, for
>> example the oxymoron "mandatory psyche".
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Richard Hills
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 27 Jul 2017, at 4:33 PM, Gordon Rainsford <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>> I’m struggling to see the Bridge Laws point in this thread.
>>>
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>>> *From: *Richard Hills <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> *Sent: *27 July 2017 05:13
>>> *To: *Bridge Laws Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> *Subject: *Re: [BLML] Jeeves the Butler
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Jeeves neither "obviously" psyches 1H nor "obviously" passes. Rather
>>> Jeeves has already observed the traits of the opponents (Law 16A2).
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Due to Bertie Wooster's misadventures in the earlier matches of the
>>> Swiss this round's opponents are the weakest pair in the field.
>>> Furthermore the opponents play a home-grown idiosyncratic bidding system.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Hence Jeeves chose to Pass rather than psyche. Shenanigans occurred
>>> in the opponents' uncontested auction, resulting in a hopeless 6NT,
>>> +300 to the good guys. If Jeeves had psyched 1H, then the opponents
>>> would have been forced to revert to natural bidding, resulting in a
>>> sensible 3NT, -600 to the good guys.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Richard Hills
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> > On 25 Jul 2017, at 6:46 PM, Herman De Wael <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > obviously, 1 heart!
>>>
>>> > altough I would consider passing.
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > Richard Hills wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Swiss Butler Pairs
>>>
>>> >> Dlr: West
>>>
>>> >> Vul: North-South
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> The bidding has gone: Pass - (Pass) - ?
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> You, East, hold:
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> T96
>>>
>>> >> QT6
>>>
>>> >> T973
>>>
>>> >> 876
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> What call do you make?
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> Richard Hills
>>>
>>> >>
>>>
>>> >> Sent from my iPad
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