On Apr 23, 1:54=A0am, "Tim Brown" <timothybrow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "raija d" <musti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:KRoPj.248$8w5.107@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Barry Margolin" <bar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:barmar-8F4D75.11590322042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <SaM$ptGxhfDIF...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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?
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> >> =A0 =A0No. =A0That's a rule which certain authorities have
introduced, =
eg the
> >> ACBL. =A0It does not apply in England.
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> > And even in the ACBL, I'm not sure this case would have required a
> > post-alert. =A0For 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). =A0Gerber is considered common enough that
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t
> > doesn't require any alert.
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> > --
> > 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. =A0If used when NT was not opened and not rebid [as was
the=
OP
> > case], it is post-alertable.
>
> I can't remember any of the people at my local club even doing post
auctio=
n
> alerts,
> yet alone for Gerber in a suited auction. I've never played at a
regional
> and wondered if
> this rule is only enforced at higher level ACBL tournaments?
Rules can't be enforced if no one calls the TD to enforce them - and
folks won't call the TD to enforce a rule they don't know about. The
problem is that probably 90% of club players have no clue what the
regulations under which they are supposedly playing the game actually
say.
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