[blml] Profit from irregularites

[Jean-Pierre Rocafort]

Sven Pran a écrit :
>>On Behalf Of Tim West-Meads
>>Sven wrote:
>>
>>>Can someone please stick to the facts and explain in clear,
>>>understandable language why an opening bid out of turn that has been
>>>made legal (accepted by the offender's LHO) is to be treated any
>>>different from the same opening bid in the same position except that
>>>this time the bid is made in turn?
>>
>>Because dealer has not yet called.  The dealer and (vulnerability)
>>remain as on the board even if another player makes the first "treated
>>as legal" bid.
> 
> 
> And exactly what makes an opening bid by someone who mistakenly thinks he is
> the dealer any different from the same opening bid by the same player in the
> same position when he really is the dealer?
> 
> Unless you establish a real difference between these two opening bids your
> declared agreements on your subsequent calls will necessarily apply equally
> in both situations.

following an opening bid in turn rho has a choice of n possible 
attitudes: n legal calls. following the same opening bid out of turn, he 
has n+1 possible attitudes, with the additionnal option not to accept 
the bid out of turn. the difference makes that his optimal strategy to 
assign some meaning to different calls may be different.

jpr
> 
> Sven
> 
> 

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