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Doubling partners bid ( 23:20:14 FriOct 11 2002 )

N 1H E P S X
South explains to TD that she thought E was going to bid.
We are not using bidding boxes The bids are written on a bidding pad in the middle of the table.
How do you rule on this problem?

JimO

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Re: Doubling partners bid ( 04:53:31 SatOct 12 2002 )

South should wait until East actually bids something.

Law 36 deals with inadmissible doubles and redoubles.

South must substitue a legal call - pass or any bid of 1S or higher. North must pass for the remainder of the auction.
In addition, if NS become defenders, Law 26 applies - declarer will have the option of forbidding the lead of any one particular suit the first time North is on lead, for as long as he remains on lead. (If West ends up declarer, he will have this option on opening lead; if East ends up declarer, he will have the option the first time North gets on lead. If North never gets on lead, he never gets this option).
Furthermore, Law 23 may apply if E-W are damaged North's enforced passes.

Note that unlike an insufficient bid or bid out of rotation, an inadmissible double or redouble may never be accepted by LHO.

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Re: Doubling partners bid ( 22:49:31 SunOct 13 2002 )

While Jiim is 100% correct, I would suggest that you ignore the reference to Law 23 unless it really looks as though the non-offenders have gained from their offence. Then you might have a quick look at it, but it is a very rare occurrence. :sad:

However, the main thing I wanted to mention was that you said

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South explains to TD that she thought E was going to bid.

I trust the TD made every effort to stop South explaining. It does not affect the ruling at all, and gives unauthorised information to partner. Players do try to tell the TD why they did something wrong, and part of the skill of the TD is silencing them when they do! :biggrin:

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