[ArtK78]

At a recent regional, I was playing in the first round of a compact KO in a three-way match. On the first board, our opponents' auction started out 1♣ - 1♠ - 1NT. The 1NT was alerted as a strong NT type hand, as they were playing weak NT openings. My LHO then bid 2♣ checkback, and it went All Pass. LHO was pretty upset that 2♣ was passed out. But that was just the beginning. It turned out that RHO was 0-3-4-6.

By the way, the declarer did not say that he missorted his cards. This was done deliberately.

2♣ turned out to be a fairly normal contract, even though declarer misplayed it and wound up going down 1.

[blackshoe]

Let me guess: you didn't file a recorder memo.

Players are allowed to psych. I wouldn't expect a score adjustment on this hand, particularly given declarer screwed it up, but a recorder memo is the only way, afaik, to make a record of the psych so that future similar psychs, if any, can be looked at with knowledge of a pattern (if there is one).

I suppose someone will tell me that recorder memos are a waste of time. Maybe they are. But as Heinlein said "Certainly the game is rigged. So what? If you don't bet, you can't win".

[ArtK78]

No, I did not file a recorder memo. We all had a good laugh and went on to the next hand.