[blml] Law 27B1(b) - 16D exclusion.

[Stefanie Rohan]

--- Eric Landau  wrote:


> I don't think that you can on that basis alone. 
> L27D requires  
> adjusting to "the probable outcome of the board had
> the insufficient  
> bid not occurred".  Had the IB not occurred, nobody
> would have bid  
> 2H, so it shouldn't matter what it might have
> "meant" if someone  
> had.  You can only adjust if the ultimate outcome
> would have been  
> different.
>
This seems to be the case, but I am not sure that it
is the intention of the law or will turn out to be the
practice. If someone opens 1H with 16 HCP and then
makes a series of bids that amount to slam tries over
partner's raise to 2, and then subsides in the
janitor's dog's 4H... well... I am going to rule
against him somehow, but I don't yet know how!

You really get to eat your cake and have it with this
new Law. You can just bid 4H like in the old days,
barring partner, or you can try to get more
infomation. If the latter doesn't seem to be working,
you can still bid 4H, which will have a high
probability of silencing partner.

Stefanie Rohan
London, England