[blml] An EBU L&E decision.

[Ed Reppert]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Gampas at aol.com wrote:

> Indee it it was intended as satire, but that  always confuses the  
> serious.
> And I certainly won't be inviting Ed Reppert to our  Christmas  
> Social if he is
> going to kick up a fuss about playing anticlockwise or  having aces  
> as low and
> deuces as high.

Long as I know going in what the rules are, I don't care. Might be  
fun. :-)

When I was in college, I played a lot of "cutthroat" bridge (that's  
what we called it). Four handed game, but... If you had 13 HCP you  
were *required* (in theory) to open. Once an opening bid had been  
made, every subsequent bid had to be (a) sufficient according to the  
laws and (b) at least game. Once there were three passes, putative  
declarer (pd) (last person, rather than first, to bid the  
denomination) got to choose his dummy, who would move to sit across  
from pd if he wasn't already there, exchanging seats with the person  
who *was* there. Then there was "accept" or "reject" - putative dummy  
gets to say whether he really wants to be dummy, and if not he shares  
in the score the *defense* obtains, rather than the declarer. Lots of  
psyching going on, and some pretty strange bidding sequences. But it  
was fun. :-)