[nikos59]

Hi all

I played this hand today. I was East (would you pass?
bid 1S? 2C? or perhaps 1H?) and I didn't bid the
"obvious" 1H, rather 1S to take up some space.

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 -     -     -     Pass
 1♣    Dbl   1♠    Dbl
 3NT   4♥    Pass  Pass
 4NT   Dbl   Pass  5♥
 Dbl   Pass  Pass  Pass
 



My partner made the (excellent, imho) 3nt bid then he
pushed them higher. I guess that he would run to
5C if given the chance.
5H goes down one
always and we achieved a trump promotion in spades
so i made my jack and it went down 2, but when we
took the second undertrick the table host *removed*
pard from the table.

The incident has already been reported to abuse@,
but it is interesting that when I asked the host the
reason why, host claimed that "this is poker, not
bridge", presumably speaking about pard's bidding.

So the question arises: is this poker or just good bridge?

nikos

[the hog]

Well if it is "poker' part of the poker game is the idiotic x rather than a 1H bid on the Nth hand, so maybe Nth should have removed himself.

[hrothgar]

I may be engaged in stereotyping here, however, I've always associated "This is Bridge and not Poker" with a very specific type of player. Specifically:

Middle flight B players who have laboriously accumulated masterpoints over a very long period of time. These players operate by blindly applying a set of rules that they don't really understand. More importantly, these players have enormous resentment towards anything that threatens their ability to apply "the rules".

The "Bridge not Poker" comment is usually trotted out in response to a terrible result that they "blame" on the opponents.

I'd expect this complaint to be politely ignored. Hopefully Abuse would go so far as to educate the individuals lodging the complaint that their compaint is completely ungrounding. If anything warrantly disciplinary actions its this type of mealy mouth bitching that suggests that the opponent's did something wrong anytime we get a bad score.

[Fluffy]

Yeah obciously remove yourself better when you know nothing, sadly main bridge club has this things, put him into the black list (if you still hav empty spaces) and say goodbye, he is the kind of player who will put loads of '?????' to his partner after his own mistakes.