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The Louisiana Bridge Association (LBA) is the largest bridge club in the greater New Orleans area. It is also the oldest, dating back to 1941. The LBA is part of ACBL Unit 134, District 10 which has over 1,300 members, ranging from new players with a few master points to Grand Life Masters with over 25,000.
Bridge Etiquette Workshop Review
| Bridge Etiquette Workshop | August 12,2016 | |||||
| Speaker: | Drew Casen | |||||
| PLEASE RESERVE ALL QUESTIONS UNTIL THE | ||||||
| CONCLUSION OF MY PRESENTATION | ||||||
| Topics : | Convention Card | |||||
| Each partner should have a completed convention card. | ||||||
| Your opponents are entitled to know your agreements and | ||||||
| conventions without you being aware of exactly what | ||||||
| information they are attemptiing to discover. | ||||||
| It is also important that you do not leave your convention card on | ||||||
| the table with your private scores facing up ! | ||||||
| Various conventions that appear on the convention card are in | ||||||
| different colors: Black, Red, and Blue. Those colors indicate when | ||||||
| you should alert (red), when you should just announce what the | ||||||
| agreement is without alerting (blue), and when you should neither | ||||||
| alert nor make any announcement whatsoever (black). | ||||||
| There will be more on this later in our workshop when I explain | ||||||
| the alert procedure rules and guidelines. | ||||||
| Bidding Box | ||||||
| It is improper to touch various bidding cards in the bidding | ||||||
| box while you are thinking about what to bid. It conveys | ||||||
| U.I. (Unauthorized Information) to your partner. | ||||||
| If we didn't use bidding boxes, would you be allowed to | ||||||
| say " hmmmmm, I'm not sure I should double or bid, or I'm | ||||||
| not sure if should bid 3S or 4C." by pulling cards out and | ||||||
| then 'changing your mind' you are conveying U.I." | ||||||
| Take your time, decide in your brain what call you want to | ||||||
| make without letting everyone else know what options | ||||||
| you are considering, and then pull out the card and play it. | ||||||
| Try to play in tempo both bidding and card play. | ||||||
| However, if you make a mechanical error, that is different. | ||||||
| Lets face it, some of us are not as coordinated as much | ||||||
| as we once were. | ||||||
| When alerting, say alert AND pull out the Blue alert card | ||||||
| and wave it around and place it on the table. Remember | ||||||
| that some of us don’t see or hear as well as we used to. | ||||||
| The Bridgemate | ||||||
| When the auction is over, in an attempt to save time and | ||||||
| keep the game moving, it is considerate if the opening | ||||||
| leader make their opening lead before writing their score | ||||||
| in their convention card. | ||||||
| In addition, the north player that is in charge of the bridge | ||||||
| mate, if they are the dummy, should also put down the | ||||||
| dummy before entering the information in or entering | ||||||
| the contract into their private convention card. | ||||||
| Making sure you look at what you are approving BEFORE | ||||||
| you approve it would make our directors job easier. | ||||||
| Discussion about the hands should always be done quietly, | ||||||
| and you should finish all 2 or 3 boards of the round | ||||||
| before you discuss any of the boards. | ||||||
| Courtesy at trick one | ||||||
| If your partner leads a card and you play or detach a card | ||||||
| before declarer calls for a card, you are guilty of giving | ||||||
| partner U.I. because they know that you have no problem. | ||||||
| It is improper to play when it is not your turn to do so. | ||||||
| As declarer, you should not play quickly at trick one even | ||||||
| though you have no problem on trick one to allow your | ||||||
| opponent time to think before playing. | ||||||
| Alert Procedure | ||||||
| As mentioned earlier, you should say 'alert' for items on | ||||||
| the convention card highlighted in RED and simply | ||||||
| announce the items highlighted in BLUE. | ||||||
| Only say ALERT if you have a partnerhip agreement that | ||||||
| you have discussed. Do not ALERT if you are unsure as to | ||||||
| whether or not you have such an agreement. | ||||||
| Do not volunteer what the explanation of the ALERT is | ||||||
| unless one of the opponents asks you for an explanation. | ||||||
| Do not say anything to anyone at the table during the | ||||||
| auction if your partner has given the opponents an | ||||||
| explanation that is incorrect or that you do not agree with. | ||||||
| When the auction is over and you are defending do not | ||||||
| try to correct any misinformation that you think your side | ||||||
| has given because in doing so you are helping your partner. | ||||||
| However, if you are the declarer or dummy, and either one | ||||||
| of you think that there has been mis information, then you | ||||||
| should speak up BEFORE the opening lead in an attempt | ||||||
| to help the opponents from possible damages. | ||||||
| This is because anything you say at this point cannot help | ||||||
| your side anymore, it can only help the opponents. | ||||||
| If your opponent asks you about a bid that partner made, | ||||||
| the worst thing you can do is say "Im taking it as such as | ||||||
| such". We all know what it might or might not be. | ||||||
| It is improper to enlighten you partner as to its meaning | ||||||
| unless you have a FIRM agreement. | ||||||
| Don't say TRANSFER unless the only meaning of that bid | ||||||
| is that your partner promises at least 5 cards in that suit. | ||||||
| If you are interested about the exact current ACBL rules | ||||||
| with respect to the ALERT procedure, visit the ACBL site. | ||||||
| The exact link is: | ||||||
| http://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/AlertProcedures.pdf | ||||||