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What is the proper way to handle an insufficiant bid by an opponent? |
JimO  175 posts Forum Host Reply |
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The first thing you should do is call the Director. Law 9B1(a) The Director must be summoned at once when attention is drawn to an irregularity. Law 9B1(c) Summoning the Director does not cause a player to forfeit any rights to which he might otherwise have been entitled. The Director will explain all the options as spelled out in Law 27. The Director may find that the call was inadvertent, and rule that Law 25A applies. Otherwise: First, the LHO of the insufficient bidder will have the option of accepting the insufficient bid, and making any legal call. Now the auction will proceed as if there had been no irregularity. ***The insufficient bidder does not have the option of changing his call until his LHO has exercised his option to accept/refuse to accept the insufficient bid, even if the Director has been called. Then, if the bid is not accepted, the insufficient bid is cancelled. The insufficient bidder must correct his call to a sufficient bid or pass (double or redouble are not allowed). If the substituted bid is the lowest sufficient bid in the same denomination as the insufficient bid, and neither the insufficient bid nor the substitued bid are conventional, there is no further penalty. If the bid is corrected to a pass, a sufficient bid other than te lowest in the same denomination, or either bid is conventional, then the offender's partner must pass for the remainder of the auction, and there may be lead penalties. |
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Robert Johnson Reply |
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Excellent answer, but i would add that there is one additional bid offender can make should LHO not accept the INSF bid. Offender can,"make any other sufficient bid." Should he do so, partner is barred, Rule 23, damage by enforced pass is in effect, and lead penalty for illegally identified suits apply. Regards, Bob |
bluejak  427 posts Forum Host Reply |
This worries me slightly, and it seems to me from reports form Noth America that TDs in the ACBL may be going wrong in this area. For a change under Law 25A
When a player makes an insufficient bid, and makes no attempt to change it, and the TD is called, the TD has no reason to consider Law 25A, and that Law does not apply since there was no change or attempted change. When a TD is called to the table he gets the facts. if those facts do not include any attempt to change the call then there is no reason for him to discover whether the call is inadvertent: it does not matter. One other way that TDs sometimes go wrong everywhere: they must not offer the next player the chance to accept the insufficient bid before they have explained all the options.
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