"Dave Flower" <DavJFlower@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1d615039-448c-4891-89c9-4d8d36e9bb06@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Last night my partyner and I were totally fixed on a board, and it is
> not clear what redress, if any, we had.
>
> Essentially, a four club bid by the opponents sounded natural (it was
> not a jump, no suit had been agreed and no trump had never been bid.
> Neither of us realised that it was Gerber, and we consequently
> misdefended.
>
> In fact, the opponents did not produce a convention card (although
> they apparently had one squirreled away), but even if one had been
> produced,l doubt if it would have made any difference.
>
> The bid was not alerted as the EBU requires no alerting above 3NT.
>
> Any comments out there ?
>
> Dave Flower
No idea what the relevant rules are in EBUland, but in Australia, while
all
bids over 3NT (as well as doubles, redoubles, and bids of a suit bid or
shown by an opponent) are deemed to be self-alerting, there is an
obligation
after the auction (as the declaring side) to draw attention to whatever
wasn't alerted on that account.
Tiggrr
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