[blml] Réf. : Slightly offtopic: Reading the pause

[Alain Gottcheiner]

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Teams, neither vul, Partner deals and opens 1NT (11-14, any 5card-suit
acceptable, no 5422 except with both minors). With opps being silent the
bidding goes:
 
        1NT
2C      2H  (4 or 5 H)
2S      3C  (4H, 4D)
3D      3H  (3442)  after about 90 seconds, the only systemic answers
being 3H and 3S, no zoom or something. Essentially a yes/no question.
 
Your own bids were relays, 2S being GF.
What do you make of the situation? If you were willing to use UI, what
information can you extract from this? 
 
# AG : Facing the standard partner : he doesn't recall whether you bid 
natural tripletons") as here, or "natural shortnesses"). Information :
perhaps he has the other doubleton, or perhaps 2452 (an awkward pattern in
many systems) ; if that's the case, I'd suggest using step 3 for 5422's next
time.
 
# Facing YT : I just saw I missorted my hand, and want to make the less
dommageable description (trying to figure what your purposes mght be).
Little UI, because you don't know whether my pattern is "better" or "worse"
for your purposes.  
[Yes, that's the most probable explanation. Last tuesday, I led my fifth
best club, which happened to be the spade three, and the right lead, and
then some, as it induced declarer to misread my pattern. Call me rabbit. We
lost heavily anyway, as rabbits often do.]
 
And what do you tell opps if they
ask about the pause? (This is a club game, so you try to be helpful....
 
# The pause not being a systemic message (I hope so !), I don't know how to
explain it to them. Partner, however, might accept to do so before the lead.
Now, if you want me to be helpful, I'd stand up and answer "please ask him
while I'm away from the table".
 
Best regards
 
    Alain
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