Is bad bridge acceptable for tournament winners?

[anssibragge]

Well, the eternal crybaby, the forever #2 etc is here again.

 

Even at the stake of being banned from BBO, I pose the question.

 

Would it be acceptable?

 

The last round of a tournament. You are playing at table #1. Partner opens a 2-suiter 2 hearts. Meaning hearts and another, under opening. I make a 2NT, forcing asking for the second suit, hearing diamonds I decide to stop and pass 3 diamonds.

 

Now, the opponent decides to underlead the A9xx of hearts to find the partner with Kx and scoring a 3 diamonds -1 where noone else would ever underlead the ace against a strong heart with the declarer.

 

What's wrong here? Well, the story goes on with opponents scoring a minimal victory in the tournament you being left the #2. Bad bridge could be understood. The person leading had 3 aces and had to choose a lead. Underleading the suit which opener started with - and the opener's partner refused - just does not compute.

 

Especially if this partnership trophies the tournament - how could they play bad bridge?

 

Well, the directors decided after some thought, that life happens.

 

Life happens to me too, I only wanted to bring this up for some thought. Even at the risk of being expelled. Thanks for your time.

 

abe

[the hog]

The underlead is not necessarily such a bad lead. The fact that you did not correct to H means that you do not have much of a holding in that suit and may well misguess. I would think nothing of this; after all the guy had to lead something. I once underlead an A through dummy's KJxx to my partner's Qx. This slam went 2 off and made at the other table. Was my lead also suspicious?

 

Ron

[Cascade]

Ron I think you have this wrong.

 

The weak hearts are in the dummy - possibly a singleton. Declarer may have no guessing to do when this lead comes around to the King.

 

This is suspicious but only that. Unless there is some other evidence the defenders can do what they want. There is plenty of bad bridge played and sometimes that bad bridge is successful - that is the nature of the game we play.

[the hog]

Maybe, what I was suggesting was not that the underlead is a good lead, but rather that you can find a rationale for doing it: thus I would not necessarily have suspicions about it unless the pair had a history of other "good stuff".

[Trpltrbl]

Sometimes opps just make a good lead, happens against me all the time. :D

Sometimes opps know more then other players do.

I ain't worried about it, I am not playing for money or glory here, I do that in real life. Well as soon as I win the lottery and can quit my job and go chase fulltime bridge again.

If people need to seek other means to win something like this, I just feel very very sorry for them. Hope they sleep good at night, but that I doubt :blink:

 

Mike :D

[xx1943]

I ain't worried about it, I am not playing for money or glory here, I do that in real life.

If people need to seek other means to win something like this, I just feel very very sorry for them. Hope they sleep good at night, but that I doubt  :blink:

 

Mike  :D

Mike you made exactly the point. I'm playing in BBO only for fun or practizing my partnership for real life.

 

:D I don't understand all these complaints about cheating, bad alerting etc. :D

 

I try to play good bridge and enjoy our well bid und played slams, games and partscores. I complaint about my mistakes; nothing else.

 

So what.

 

Al