[blml] Dealer or no dealer

[Eric Landau]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:38 PM, David Grabiner wrote:

> 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?

You bet I do!  "The absense of a sticker indicates that the player is  
not the dealer."  There was no sticker, and he chose to call first.   
He gets a firm lecture about calling the director the next time.

> 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.

L9C helps.  It is an infraction to attempt to correct an irregularity  
on one's own without calling the director.


Eric Landau
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