[gnasher]

Jlall, on Mar 10 2008, 07:19 PM, said:

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Even if your system file says that 4♦ is natural?

Yes, it's so amazing to me that people consistently act like idiots in posts like this. If you would really pass this at the table with your favorite partner then that is very LOL to me, and very losing bridge. I'm sure you win your post mortems though.

Like many bridge decisions this is just a probability problem. You have to judge the relative likelihoods of (a) partner forgetting the system, and (b) partner knowing the system but having a sufficiently unusual hand to want to make this bid, and the imagination and willingness to make it.

In a casual partnership, such as what I think Han was describing, I'd be inclined to think that we'd had a misunderstanding. In those of my partnerships that come with a system file, a misunderstanding is most unlikely, so I'd assume that partner knows what he's doing. That might well be different for you - I expect that you play with more people that I do, and your partners probably have a greater variety of ability, motivation and background.

By the way, my postmortems don't have winners and losers - it's the taking part that counts.