[blml] De Whale

[Harald Skjæran]

On 16/04/07, Herman De Wael <hermandw at skynet.be> wrote:
> Eric Landau wrote:
> > At 05:27 PM 4/13/07, twm wrote:
> >
> >> Herman wrote:
> >>
> >>> do you really believe a player is going to put all his eggs in one
> >>> basket by bidding 4H (either on a singleton or a 7-card suit) if he
> >>> believes it's a true 50/50 toss of the coin?
> >> But it's not a 50/50 toss of the coin.  Assuming the bid is undiscussed
> >> and equally likely to be either by inference I expect partner to have a
> >> good chance of working out which by looking at his hand.  There are is
> >> also the possibility that if I splinter my LHO will double and save
> >> partner a guess.  Of course an LHO with 7+ hearts might decide not to
> >> double when informed that the bid is undiscussed.
> >>

Here I have to tell about a true incident from a long way back in time.
Hans Olof Hallén was playing a tournament with a new partner. They had
discussed quite a lot, but not everything.

On one deal Hans Olof opened 1S and his partner responded 4H - this
was unfortunately undiscussed. There's two possible meanings to the
call - either a lot of hearts or no hearts. Hans Olof didn't have a
clue, so he inspected his own hand. He held a heart void, so the odds
favoured his partner holding a long suit. Thus he passed, and his
partner had to declare the 0-0 fit. :-)

-- 
Kind regards,
Harald Skjæran

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