[blml] 25 something ?

[Eric Landau]

At 06:51 PM 11/29/06, Sven wrote:

> > On Behalf Of Herman De Wael
>...........
> > >>>Is this player now allowed to make any other call than
> > >>>PASS? I cannot imagine any possible reason for him to
> > >>>make such a different call at this time other than
> > >>>that he has "changed his mind"!
> > >>>
> > >>>So to answer my own question above: In my honest
> > >>>opinion this player shall absolutely not be allowed
> > >>>to call anything but PASS in this situation!
> > >>
> > >>I would think Law 25B would apply.
> > >
> > > Yeah, fair enough.
> >
> > But, apart from that, I would rule that this person HAD in fact passed.
> > Which is of course not the same situation as the one Ton described.
>
>Really?
>
>Could you please do me the favour and explain why this player shall be 
>ruled
>to have passed while the other player had not? They both believed they 
>were
>in the position of making the closing PASS and they both behaved in 
>exactly
>the same way by collecting their bid cards and restoring them to the bid
>box. I'm sorry but I am unable to see any legal difference here.

Only "this player" believed that he was making the closing (third 
consecutive) pass.  The "other player" (in the case Ton described) 
believed that his previous call had been followed by three passes, so 
the auction was over, and was simply putting his bid cards away, as 
opposed to making a fourth consecutive pass.  These are very different 
situations, both factually and, IMO, legally.  I would rule that the 
former had passed and the latter had not.


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