[blml] Amnesia

[Tim West-Meads]

> *From:* Alain Gottcheiner <agot at ulb.ac.be>
> *To:* "Tim West-Meads" <twm at cix.co.uk>, blml at rtflb.org
> *Date:* Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:38:45 +0200
> 
> At 18:43 12/06/2006 +0100, Tim West-Meads wrote:
> 
> >The "Opening Lead" is the first card deliberately led after the 
> auction
> >is over.  One person can lead in turn, 3 people can OLOOT.
> >If declarer OLOOTs his opps are entitled to any advantage they may
> >receive from acceptance.  If they decline any inferences to declarer
> >available from them so doing are UI to him.
> 
> I fail to see how the opps are going to accept the OLOOT in this case.

Suppose you are declarer's RHO and he leads a suit in which you hold the 
AQ and place him with the king.  You simply say "I accept the lead".
Dummy goes down and the players follow in sequence.  I'm not saying this 
will happen very often - just that the right of RHO to accept the lead 
cannot be denied.

Tim