[Mirjam_3]

in a tournament my opp opened with an alert and wrote in it:
6 meaning 11-40.

I had to bid after this bid and i had an opening hand so i asked privately to this opp:
'Does 6 mean a 6 card -suit?'
Long silence and than came the answer:
'No, it can be anything.'

I am very blond so i thought about that one and than i concluded the 6 must mean SOMETHING. So i tried again and i asked:
'What does the 6 mean?'

The answer was: 'It can mean 6 different things.'

Hehe, that was a new point of view, so i went on:
'Which 6 things?'

In the meantime the other opp asked me why i didnt bid.

I said to the table: 'I cannot bid.'

The other opp:'Plse, leave and reenter, it might help.'

The alerting opp: 'Well 6 meanings is too much to write here.'
Me: 'Try it.'

Me to table: I can bid but i cannot....' (pfew, now i wish i speak better english)

The alerting opp: 'Well, too much to write...'
The alerting opp to table: 'Mirjam_3 asks too much.'

I decided to call the director and the respond came quick by tournament chat:
'Plse, table x, explain yr bid.'

At the end i bid but i really think it was funny... well, now we wonder why tournaments take soo much time..

[Free]

lol, it's really awful that some players just don't want to type their explanations. It's hiding info from opps and is not allowed. If they want to play a complicated system, they have to accept the consequences of having to type a lot more than most people.

[Gerben47]

I'm sure he means 11 - 36 not 11 - 40.
38 - 40 hands don't exist and with 37 you don't need a special opening bid.

I think opps should have a link to their convention card (not BBO CC) and post that so you can read that.

Besides, what system has 6 meanings?
1C (Polish) has only 3 or 4 depending how you count. Unless you count every distribution as a meaning: then even SAYC has 6+ meanings for 1C!

[mishovnbg]

Hi Mirjam!
Of course you have rights to know all that your opps agree about their bids. The bid with lot of meanings is usually kind of "waiting" bid like nebulous 1♦ in Precision. Instead of explain what such bid include is more effective to explain what it doesn't include. For example about nebulous 1♦: "11-15hcp, deny 5+major". Beause your opps may don't have such knoledge about short effective explantions, try to ask them next time: "ok, can you explain then which hands your bid doesn't include?". It can help in case opps are really willing to help you, otherwise you can call director...
Misho

[whereagles]

There are macros with prepared descriptions, no?

[Trpltrbl]

If they don't wanna explain, I will just give them a adjusted zero each hand they refuse and eventually barring them from playing in my tourneys.
If they can't play by the rules, they won't play

Mike

[luis]

If they don't know that they can't have more than 37 they probably don't know what they are doing so I wouldn't care.

[ritong]

i loved this story (mainly its style) please ingrid , tell us more often your adventures