[blml] Your call

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 18:56 17/06/2006 +0200, Jean-Jacques Lafay wrote:

>I'm not sure I understood : what was the question asked in the poll ? If 
>it was the question you asked at the beginning of the thread, it might be 
>interesting, but is not related to the case at hand : partner *did* bid 
>2H, then 3H as a correction, which is AI, *not* merely 3H, this is not any 
>more a normal auction, and we cannot pretend it is. At least when it comes 
>as a question to blml, there is really no additional UI (I agree there 
>might very well be some at the table, for instance making it clear whether 
>2H was intended as an opening bid or as an overcall of a 1S opening), but 
>all AI should be available !
>
>As I said, I would bid 6NT over 3H, but probably not over 2H corrected to 
>3H. And anyway the normal proceeding is first to establish if there was 
>UI, *then* if there was LA, not to find that a decision was quite unusual, 
>and concluding that it should have been triggered by some kind of UI...

I find this extremely dangerous, as it allows (if I dare say) crooks to 
make a "light 3H bid" by bidding 2H then 3H, and have their partner 
understand it.