On Apr 22, 10:02 am, "raija d" <musti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Barry Margolin" <bar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:barmar-8F4D75.11590322042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
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> > In article <SaM$ptGxhfDIF...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > David Stevenson <brid...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> Sid wrote
> >> >On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:18:51 -0700 (PDT), Dave Flower
> >> ><DavJFlo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> >: The bid was not alerted as the EBU requires no alerting above 3NT.
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> >> >Shouldn't the bid be post-alerted and explained at the end of the
> >> >auction?
>
> >> No. That's a rule which certain authorities have introduced, eg
the
> >> ACBL. It does not apply in England.
>
> > And even in the ACBL, I'm not sure this case would have required a
> > post-alert. For a while there was a rule that all ace-asking
> > conventions required a post-alert (people would just say "there's been
> > an ace-asking auction"), but now it's only required for unusual forms
> > (e.g. kickback, minorwood). Gerber is considered common enough that
it
> > doesn't require any alert.
>
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, bar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
>
> In ACBL regs, Gerber is not alertable or post-alertable if it is used in
NT
> auctions. If used when NT was not opened and not rebid [as was the OP
> case], it is post-alertable.
Except as a direct response to a suit opening bid; in that case you
alert immediately. (Or, say, an advance over a direct overcall, or,
God forbid, if the Gerber 4C bid is the opening bid or overcall
itself.) The post-alert rules apply only to calls starting with
opener's second bid.
-- Adam
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