lamford, on Oct 26 2009, 03:38 PM, said:
o_fata, on Oct 26 2009, 03:49 AM, said:
I've asked around some players at the same level as North what would they do and 4 out of 5 said they would pass 3♣ now but they would have opened 3♠.
Then they are not both of the same ability as this North AND of the same style, which are the prerequisites for them to be polled.
What happens when you can't find any such player?
At a local sectional this weekend we had a BIT case where the, IMO, right ruling was made provisionally at the table, but the director went to poll.
The case was (us silent) opponents bid P-1
♠(10-15 precision)-2
♠(constructive)-BIT 2nt!(kokish try)-3
♣! (forced) - BIT 3
♦! (short suit diamond try) - BIT 3
♠ (reject game try) - 4
♠ (bid game anyways, and no it wasn't a slam try type hand).
♠ makes 10 tricks routinely on this hand.
Upon not being able to poll because everyone consulted would have bid game directly over 2
♠ constructive already; the consensus after consulting with other directors, was to overturn the initial ruling and rule table results of 4
♠= stand. Only after discussing this more with the directors (it happened on the last board of the session) and psuedo-appealing did we go back to the original ruling of 3
♠+1.