[blml] Disclosure (was Psyches & deviations) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

John (MadDog) Probst:

>... and very significantly, it's a call that I could
>make much more often, but frequently don't bother, as I
>like to keep the frequency low.

[snip]

>I find it very frustrating that my propensities are not
>disclosable on an EBU CC. John

Richard Hills:

In my opinion, the demilitarised zone marking the border
between a true psyche and a partnership understanding has
its landmines labelled "frequency" and its barbed wire
fences labelled "variability".

When I psyche, I try to keep the frequency very very low,
and the nature of the psyche very very variable (each
psyche I make in the same partnership is different from
the previous psyches I have made in that partnership).

For example, a few days ago I psyched for the first time
in a partnership where my partner and I had an explicit
agreement that I would never psyche.  I opened a Multi 2D
with a "weak" two in spades which contained a very nice
12 hcp (shades of Al Roth, except that he may well have
used his "style" and "judgement" to revalue the 12 hcp to
14 hcp, and then he might have decided to reluctantly
open at the one-level anyway).

I had picked my victim well.  Since my 2D opening was
perpetrated after two passes, LHO (who held a grotty hand
with merely 9 hcp) suspected that my Multi was based on
its strong option, 21-22 hcp balanced.  So, as a lead-
directing manoeuvre he overcalled 3D on ace-king to five.
But, after another pass by my pard, RHO with maximum
passed-hand values tried a forward-going 3S, angling for
3NT.  I passed content, and LHO passed before any
doubling started.  So I picked up +400 defending 3S by
RHO, who found the 6-2 bad break distressing.  Meanwhile,
the rest of the field played a spade partscore the other
way, but some of them failed due to a mere 4-1 bad break.

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, mentor
Divisional Executive Officer unit
People Services, Values & Training Division
(02) 6225 6285

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