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richard.hills

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Face down lead ( 03:32:02 WedMay 7 2003 )
Country: Australia

A player, who was the correct person to lead, selected the jack of diamonds as their choice of lead, and placed that card face down in front of them.

Before that player faced that lead, they remembered that they were not using underleads in their current partnership. So they put the unfaced jack of diamonds back in their hand, replaced it with a face down lead of the queen of diamonds, then faced the queen of diamonds.

At this point I was summoned to the table by the leader's opponents. I ruled that the interchange of face down leads was contrary to Law 41A. Consequently, I ruled that the unfaced jack of diamonds was restored as the opening lead, and the faced queen of diamonds became a major penalty card.

Was my ruling the only correct ruling under Law? Or was there a less draconian ruling that I could have Lawfully made?

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Richard

  
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Re: Face down lead ( 10:48:22 WedMay 7 2003 )
Your ruling was absolutely correct. Some players seem to fail to realise that a lead placed face-down has been made. :sad:

If the opponents had called you before the Q was faced then you would have insisted the original card was played and warned the partner not to take advanatage of the unauthorised information that his partner had changed his mind.



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