bluejak Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 Someone in his ivory tower has decided that a 1♣ opening bid is to be treated as natural with ♣xx, but has also decided that a 1♠ response with ♠xx is a psycheJust seemed odd to me, that's all.No-one in their ivory tower decided any such thing. A psyche is something differs from a pair's agreements. If a pair plays a 1♠ response as showing xx [legal in the EBU] and disclose it then bidding it is not a psyche. The reason it is a psyche 99.9% of the time is that is not what the pair play. Nothing to do with double standards: it is the players that decide what their system is, not the regulators. Actually, no-one has decided an opening of 1♣ on xx is natural: it isn't, it is artificial. But it is permitted, it is legal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejak Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 A psych is a "gross distortion of the natural meaning of a bid".No, it is not. It is a gross distortion of the pair's agreements as to the meaning of the call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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