[blml] Multiple infractions (was ...St. Louis) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[David Grabiner]

Richard Hills writes:

> North is dealer.
>
> South opens 1H out of turn.
>
> East, mistakenly believing that the
> dealer has opened 1H, overcalls 1S.
>
> How do you rule?

L21A: A player has no recourse if he has made a call based on his own 
misunderstanding.  Thus East's 1S overcall must stand as being made, and E-W 
must pay any penalty.  (This law more frequently applies when a player makes an 
insufficient bid because he misheard the auction; he still pays the penalty.)

However, it does not condone or negate the out-of-turn 1H call; L28B says that 
only the player whose turn it was to call may negate an opponent's out-of-turn 
call by calling in turn, and L29A allows only offender's LHO, not offender's 
RHO, to accept the call with a subsequent call.  E-W did not gain anything from 
action taken in ignorance of the penalty, so L11A does not apply.

Thus South has bid out of turn.  I will not allow West to accept the 1H call 
once East has taken an action, so South's out-of-turn 1H is withdrawn, and North 
is barred from the rest of the auction.    Now, East bid 1S at North's turn to 
call when North was required by law to pass, and this is no longer an infraction 
under L28A but the bid stands.

I would still rule that West has UI that East's 1S was intended as an overcall 
rather than as an opening bid, since East was responsible for that piece of 
information.