[jillybean]

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[lamford]

sanst, on 2025-April-25, 06:09, said:

As I wrote, I absolutely trust my partner. If (s)he puts 1NT on the table, by agreement 15...17 hcp, more or less balanced, with 16 hcp I won't pass after 4♤ from west. As said, I would suspect W of psyching, ready to run to 5♧ when doubled, but even so I wouldn't pass.
If N passes in this situation, I have no doubt that that is based on the assumption or even knowledge that S is psyching. That can only be based on past experience, therefore an implicit, undisclosed and illegal understanding. This certainly deserves a penalty.
That the result of passing is worse than doubling or 4NT, is a form of bridge devine retribution, but that's no reason to let the passing go unpunished.

There was no previous psych of a 1NT overcall by South with this partner since they met (online) in 1999 and have played together regularly. There was a psych 17 years ago of a weak 2H by South, who held a weak 2S, and that led to the club TD (whose ruling was successfully appealed) resigning, emigrating to Australia, leaving the club and deleting all the club records from the club computer. I joke not. Pyschs cause an incredible amount of ill-feeling!

The phrase in the Laws is "repeated deviations". So sanst is both wrong and illegal.

[Cyberyeti]

lamford, on 2025-April-24, 13:42, said:

40A3. A player may make any call or play without prior announcement provided that such call or play is not based on an undisclosed partnership understanding.

In addition, both the mooted bids, Double and 4NT, lead to a BETTER result for the psyching side, even if the final contract is 6Dx.

This is a red psyche isn't it in the EBU, or has this changed ? so artificial score adjustment

[blackshoe]

I don't know whether this is a red psych, a green psych, a purple psych, or something else. What I do know is that any director who rules on the basis of assumption rather than investigation and accumulation of evidence is doing it wrong.