Midland Counties Bowl 3 (EBU)

[VixTD]

That seems an unwarrented assumption given that:

But if they hadn't, it wouldn't matter, the ruling would be the same. Why do you go looking for trouble unnecessarily?

 

Most players I meet at the bridge table, as player or director, flash the stop card briefly, but don't do any pausing. Those who do pause do so regardless of how long the stop card is left out (up to 10 seconds or so). You seem to be trying to cater for a non-existant category of player - those who want to pause, but feel obliged to call immediately the stop card is removed. There may be such players in the world, but I've never met any.

[lamford]

But if they hadn't, it wouldn't matter, the ruling would be the same.

What was the ruling, out of interest?

[shevek]

Result stands.

 

The big concern for South is that North has six good spades and is about remove 4♥X to 4♠.

So North's hesitation makes it less attractive for South to double.

 

That would concern me as South enough that I might have passed out 4♥. Note that double in our strong club style would be takeout, trusting their super fit. We would double as North.

[ggwhiz]

I would take issue with North only if there was no significant pause for thought.

 

The NABC casebooks have an occasional example of highly unusual auctions where the committee rule that a (slightly) longer than usual pause for thought was called for and carried no UI.

 

A passes hand bouncing to a vul game opposite less than an opening bid is a lot for North to digest.