| KINDLY TAKE NOTICE The director is called when there is an infraction to protect you as well as the person who called the director. When there is an infraction, we do not want anyone to take an unfair advantage by not calling the director. 1. The directors request that all players do not give lessons, offer opinions or discuss the hands. It is bad manners to tell your opponents what they should or should not have done with the hand unless specifically asked. 2. Be courtious to your partner and your opponents. When their is a confrontation by anyone at the table, the director should be summoned. 3. Compliment good play by the opponents. 4. Show the score to your opponents after you finish marking it. 5. Alert all conventional bids, always assuming your opponents are not familiar with them 6. Bid in tempo and play in tempo - this will eleminate quite a lot of director calls. 7. Do not argue with the director about a ruling. If it is not a question of law, any good director will review the decision if it is not clearcut. If it is a question of law a good director will look it up and show you at an appropriate time (not in the middle of a hand) 8. Do not discuss previous hands at the next table in the new round. RULES 1.If a declarer plays a card from the wrong hand either opponent may independently accept that play by stating that he accepts the play. 2. If you make a bid and immediately realize that it was inadverent (you pulled the wrong card out of the bidding box by accident) call the director before partner bids. 3. HESITATION - YOU MAY HESITATE AS LONG AS YOU MAKE A BID, BUT if you PASS, you have given your partner unauthorized information and that is why the director is called. Your partner must have a clear-cut bid in his/her hand is what the director will tell you. ALSO YOU SHOULD TRY TO BID IN TEMPO AND BE PREPARED WITH ALL YOUR BIDS. 4. INSUFFICIENT BID - CALL DIRECTOR Because if there is an insufficient bid in response to a convention, the ruling is altogether different. example - 1NT opponent 2D partner 2C That bid cannot be made sufficient because it is a conventional bid in response to 1NT. The Ruling is completly different. |