[blml] club director torment

[Eric Landau]

On May 9, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Robert Frick wrote:

> I understand that the laws have to be ambiguous. But there is no  
> good way
> of resolving the ambiguities. Meanwhile, new laws....if a player  
> makes an
> insufficient bid, shoots out a contract barring partner, and gets a  
> top
> because of a 5-0 spade break, then the director adjusts using 27D,  
> who on
> this list is going to support that director? My worry is that I  
> will be
> the only one.

Not to worry.  L27D only applies "following the application of [L27]  
B1".  It does not apply when a player, after an IB, "shoots out" a  
contract, barring his partner.


Eric Landau
1107 Dale Drive
Silver Spring MD 20910
ehaa at starpower.net