[blml] Who's afraid of the ... [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[John Probst]

>>
>> True, I was being facetious, but only because the
>> Maastricht precedent is laughable, a classic case
>> of the law being an ass.
>>
>
> No, not the Law.
>
>> For most people it is normal, not irrational, to
>> mistime a double squeeze.  To determine whether
>> the Maastricht declarer was part of the "most
>> people" majority, I would argue that the mistimed
>> play which occurred after the claim provided
>> exquisitely sufficient evidence of declarer's
>> "most people" status.
>>
>
> YOU consider it normal to mistime a double squeeze.
> The Maastricht AC considered it irrational for the player involved to
> mistime a double squeeze.
>
> That makes either YOU, or the MAC, asses. Not the Law.

Doh!  I know Gunnar well! It's routine for him to claim on a double squeeze 
as it is for most of the London hi-stake players. It wouldn't cross our 
minds to do more than check the hand and concede. He had not mistimed it and 
the claim was sound when he made it  His comment to me was "I play about 100 
hands a day. Once I've claimed, the hand's over, and I have no further 
recollection of it."  I believe him. Rubber players don't dwell on the last 
hand, there's money to win on the next, and we're playing about 15 hands an 
hour. Against wabbits he'd have played it out correctly, but he made the 
mistake of thinking his international opponents weren't bunnies.   john

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