[blml] Four in One [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Imps
Dlr: East
Vul: Nil

You, South, hold:

A62
T4
T98
AKJ83

The bidding has gone:

WEST      NORTH     EAST      SOUTH
---       ---       3D        Pass
Pass      3H        Pass      4C
Pass      4D        Pass      ?

What call do you make?

Richard Hills asks:

Is it a logical alternative for South to
make the above-4H slam try of 4S and
then, when North shows club support with
5C, bid slam in clubs?

Alain Gottcheiner answers no:

>4H is pretty obvious, isn't it ? As I
>said before, 4D in such a sequence is
>only a choice-of-games bid.

David Barton answers yes:

>4S [then] 6C
>I guess this is likely to be on a
>finesse into the pre-emptor. Say:
>
>Kx AQJxxx x Qxxx

Richard Hills:

What happened at the table was that
North incorrectly alerted South's
natural 4C bid.  South then chose to
sign off in 4H, for -50.  The Appeals
Committee ruled that 4H was demonstrably
suggested by the alert, and that 4S then
6C was the only logical alternative not
suggested by the alert.  Furthermore,
the Appeals Committee ruled that East,
with a heart void, would Lightner Double
6C, so adjusted the score to 6Cx -300.

The controversial issue is that the TD
performed a double-blind (no alerts) poll
of a number of players, all of whom chose
to sign off in 4H.

Did the TD fail to poll enough players,
given that at least one blmler would bid
4S then 6C?

Is it permitted for the three members of
the AC to add their own bidding choices
to the poll, given that they have some
extraneous information, so that their
bidding choices were not double-blind?


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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