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I want to explain to my son the rule when he gets woken up by my alert or announcement , but don't want to misguide him. To keep it simple, Let's say he has a 7-8 card heart suit and a void in spades After I open 1NT, he bids 2H upon which I say 'transfer. Opponents Pass and now it is his turn to bid again. What are his legal options or obligations if he has a bust hand ? What if he has a monster hand ?
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Posted 2025-May-11, 10:33
What would "you" have done if partner had said nothing, and when LHO looked at him funny and asked, said "it's hearts." and then bid spades anyway? Do that.
It really isn't hard to know how you are supposed to act.
It absolutely is hard to do it, but what to do is really straightforward.
It's harder yet (impossible) to get it right (all the time); so when the director gets called, then you tell her what happened and what you did, and let her play the game and accept the result graciously, perhaps asking for details later so you can understand better how to think better next time.
Or you can decide whether you will get away with it this time or whether you have to "take a 'nobody would do it' bad score". That works more often than it doesn't, and scores better, too. Until you get the reputation for walking too close to the line; for then either you get called on less obvious ones (and some of them end up being more obvious than they look), or you stop getting to play with/teamed up with players who don't want the association to bleed over to them, or you end up in front of an ethics board. Thankfully, fewer people are happy with "we don't mind being known as boors, as long as we're known as boors that win" than when I started playing (about the same time the Proprieties were given actual Law numbers and not just an Appendix).
ETA: Oh, and you didn't say "transfer", you said "spades", right? 6 years is long enough?
It really isn't hard to know how you are supposed to act.
It absolutely is hard to do it, but what to do is really straightforward.
It's harder yet (impossible) to get it right (all the time); so when the director gets called, then you tell her what happened and what you did, and let her play the game and accept the result graciously, perhaps asking for details later so you can understand better how to think better next time.
Or you can decide whether you will get away with it this time or whether you have to "take a 'nobody would do it' bad score". That works more often than it doesn't, and scores better, too. Until you get the reputation for walking too close to the line; for then either you get called on less obvious ones (and some of them end up being more obvious than they look), or you stop getting to play with/teamed up with players who don't want the association to bleed over to them, or you end up in front of an ethics board. Thankfully, fewer people are happy with "we don't mind being known as boors, as long as we're known as boors that win" than when I started playing (about the same time the Proprieties were given actual Law numbers and not just an Appendix).
ETA: Oh, and you didn't say "transfer", you said "spades", right? 6 years is long enough?
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