[bluejak]

McBruce, on Aug 17 2009, 01:30 PM, said:

bluejak, on Aug 15 2009, 03:17 AM, said:

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Is this [polling] even possible in a Swiss Pairs, where everyone plays copies of the same boards at the same time? Who will you poll?

At the end of a match you have 440 pairs who have played the board and will not play it again. Not difficult to find someone!

Isn't it better though to poll players who haven't seen the deal? Hard to get an clean answer from people who know the hand and already know what makes and what doesn't.

Perfection would be to alway have a 100 players of different standards who do nothing except wait to be polled.

Practicality suggests that nearly all polls involve players who have seen the hands.

[bluejak]

The TD did a small poll, but the first person she asked would have passed not bid 4♦, and after that she was almost immediately convinced that pass was an LA.

She felt the BIT suggesed idding 4♦ over passing, so disallowed 4♦. She adjusted to a weighted score of 3♥ making seven or eight tricks: I do not remember the weighting - maybe 50/50.