[blml] Dealer or no dealer

David Grabiner grabiner at alumni.princeton.edu
Mon Nov 5 03:38:50 CET 2007


Some sets of duplicate boards have stickers next to the pockets, identifying the 
dealer and vulnerability.  The absence of a sticker indicates that the player is 
not the dealer and is not vulnerable.  On one such board 4, the sticker for West 
as Dealer-VUL is missing, so there is no dealer marked.  The second time the 
board is played (so a redeal or replacement board is not possible), South opens 
out of turn.  Do you enforce a penalty for an opening bid out of turn?

L2 doesn't help here; it says that the board must be played as marked, which 
would imply that it must be played with no dealer, and with East vulnerable but 
West not vulnerable.




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