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Playing in a team game last night. 2 Gentlemen come to our table. As we shuffle the boards I say, would you mind if I looked at your card?, reach over and take my LHO's card.
It's incompletely filled out , a couple of ineligible convention names scribbled over where defense to NT and TO doubles should be. None of the carding section is completed at all. So I ask about their carding and get the reply “oh we just play standard and standard carding” The CC heading is empty, no description of general approach at all, I assume they are playing “standard”. I ask about discards, “Roman” , what's that? “Odd/Even”, please explain? LHO rolls his eyes and tells me odd is encouraging and even asks for the higher suit.” Ah, good
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Before we start I take another quick look at his CC and off we go. Several boards into the game I take another look at his card to check their minor opening responses, nothing is entered here but as the auction continues I don't need the information. In the second set his partner opens 1M, he responds 1nt which is announced as forcing. Oh! I grab his card again and take another look and say oh, that surprised me, you don't have 2/1 marked at all. LHO obviously pissed off with me now, glares and says his (partners) card has 2/1 on it, but he doesn't play it with this guy, gesturing towards his CC. I ask, this isn't the card you are playing with your partner here? “No, I just brought it along to put my score sheets in”.
A few more words were exchanged before I (regretfully) said well if you are going to be an ass $$$$...Director please.
Do I really have to go through all this to find out what methods my opponent’s are playing.