Phil Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Regarding signals, something I have seen even some better players do when they play a significant card is just sort of set it on the table, take their hand off it (pard, make sure you see this one!), and even look at it themselves. Contrast this with non-important cards that sometimes do not even leave their hand, and if it does the player is too absorbed in watching the other cards to look at their own card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGF_Flame Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 If I am pretty sure they cheated, i will call the director, this got nothing to do with the result of this board, its just something that experience player has to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Regarding signals, something I have seen even some better players do when they play a significant card is just sort of set it on the table, take their hand off it (pard, make sure you see this one!), and even look at it themselves. Contrast this with non-important cards that sometimes do not even leave their hand, and if it does the player is too absorbed in watching the other cards to look at their own card. This sort of thing is so easy to do without meaning to do it. Those of us who appreciate a good game need to make our best efforts at avoiding such behavior. And relevant to the OP, I think this really has nothing, or at least little, to do with the level of play. Not everyone can learn top flight play, I speak from my own experience on that, but we can all learn and follow our responsibilities to the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Speaking of quitting tricks too quickly, yesterday, on declarer's lead from dummy, playing fourth, I put my card down, left it there for a second or two, then quitted it. She asked to see it again, saying "I didn't see it". Two tricks later, she flashed a card from her hand briefly and quitted it immediately. I asked to see it. She said "you should pay attention". :blink: :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 "you're right, I should. Please let me see your card." There are a couple of players that I really wish I could set up screens for - just for their table. I bet their score would go down 5% overnight. I recognize all of these tricks - and the "stare at RHO when it's their turn to call" one too (so, with screens I'd make sure I was on the other side of the screen from that person). I've actually called the TD on that one. The weaker players will make their conventional bid, and then tap it if partner doesn't Alert. The stare is a more advanced version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMB1 Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 ..., and you're just some bloke from out of town who I'll never see again whereas the rest of them have been coming here every week for years." I was assuming I knew the TD and he knew me, e.g. a county congress; not some club where I was an unknown visitor. I would not try to get a ruling in my favour on such a hand: it is too difficult to establish the mannerisms envolved, and I find that TDs choose to believe my opponents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 This one is easy for me. In a club game, chuckle to myself and move along. In a tournament, call director and inform. Also, the director call option assumes a greater degree of certainty that an infraction has occurred, than seems to exist in the case the OP described. Once at a sectional, I was on opening lead and played low. Dummy played almost as low, and partner followed even lower. Dummy then raised the played card up about a foot off the table, facing it toward declarer, to alert her that this low card was holding the trick. This was early in my tournament experience and I was not composed enough to call the director, or do anything at all about it. Now though, I would be calling director before declarer even pulled a card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Once at a sectional, I was on opening lead and played low. Dummy played almost as low, and partner followed even lower. Dummy then raised the played card up about a foot off the table, facing it toward declarer, to alert her that this low card was holding the trick. Are you sure that was dummy's intention? It sounds as though he might have been trying to hypnotise declarer. Did he spin the card at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 Are you sure that was dummy's intention? It sounds as though he might have been trying to hypnotise declarer. Did he spin the card at all?Perhaps. Dummy also made a bug-eyed face while displaying the card, does that help enthrall the subject? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 Perhaps. Dummy also made a bug-eyed face while displaying the card, does that help enthrall the subject? Usually yes. Did you notice whether dummy played a theremin at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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