Re: ***SPAM*** Re: An incredible hand

Sven Pran wrote:
> I don't understand how any jurisdiction may forbid for instance opening bids
> at the one level with less than 8 HVP.
>
> What they can do (and what I assume most have done) is to have restrictions
> on agreements which implies opening such weak hands at the one level.
>
> There is a difference.
>

There is, a theoretical one.

But in practice, when a player opens a particular hand with a paticular 
bid (or more general, makes any bid with that hand), then the Director 
will ofte have to assume that the particular bid is systemic.
So in many cases the difference is only theoretical.

In the current case, the opening bid of 1Sp certainly has the meaning "I 
think I can make a majority of tricks in this strain, partner, if you 
have three more tricks, you can bid 4Sp.
Certainly a systemic meaning.
So under the old "rule of 18", this opening must be prohibited.
Which only shows that the rule of 18 is not optimum.

Herman.

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> On 2017-12-06 6:32 AM, Peter Smulders wrote:
>> Bidding 1S is not a gross distortion of what you expect from this hand
>> [with 3 HCP]. If that'is illegal in Belgium the local rules are in
>> conflict with the Laws.
>
> The ACBL forbids agreeing to open at the one level with less than 8 HCP, and
> I believe many other jurisdictions have similar regulations.  Why aren't
> those regulations legal under L40B?
>
> Psyching a 1S bid is legal, of course, as long as it genuinely is a psych.
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