jallerton, on Oct 24 2009, 09:06 PM, said:
No, I'll say: Rik, if you want to pull off this brilliancy, I suggest that you play the queen in tempo.
Of course you have to play the queen in tempo, but that is irrelevant for my point. The point is that it has been stated repeatedly and boldly
(see quotes below) that
you don't have a decision to make when you started with QTx. The 10 is always the right card from that holding. And I have stated repeatedly that that is simply not true, proving it with an example where the Q is the correct play and the play of the 10 is wrong.
From this bold statement several posters concluded: Therefore you will need as much time to think when you started with QTx as when you started with Tx. And that they wouldn't adjust. But since this bold statement is now proven wrong, the conclusions that these posters drew from it are not holding up either.
In short, the correct reasoning is:
With QTx you may have a decision to make (and thus might hesitate) while with Tx there is no decision to make, other than to follow suit (and you won't hesitate). Hesitating with Tx misleads because it suggests that you have a decision to make which, as I pointed out, does only occur when you started with QTx. Therefore, you will have to adjust.
Rik
skaeran, on Oct 19 2009, 08:52 PM, said:
Unless he missorted his hand, he either had QT or T. With none of these holdings did he have anything at all to think about, and declarer knows that.
bluejak, on Oct 21 2009, 01:00 AM, said:
No, 73F does not say this. If you hesitate with a singleton, and declarer if he has half a brain knows you have a singleton because you hesitated - which is the case here - then there is no reason to adjust.
Hesitating with a singleton is not illegal if it cannot mislead.
jallerton, on Oct 23 2009, 05:53 PM, said:
Back to the actual case. The defender would have nothing to think about whichever holding (Q10x or 10x) he had been dealt. Declarer surely knew this, so there is no reason for him to draw a false inference from the alleged hesitation. Hence there is no damage from the infraction and no reason for the TD to adjust the score.
I want my opponents to leave my table with a smile on their face and without matchpoints on their score card - in that order.
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