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Pausing before passing when on lead ( 12:30:12 MonNov 11 2002 ) Select Action Reply Quote post Report post Last posts Whisper Suppose you are about to make the final pass in an auction after which you will be on lead. It has been a competitive auction and it is possible you may have a bidding decision to take before passing. In fact you have no difficulty in passing but need to spend some time thinking before leading. If you pause before passing in order to do some thinking about the lead this is presumably in danger of misleading declarer as to what your problem was. If you pass in tempo then pause before leading you convey potentially helpful (authorised) info to declarer and possible unauthorised info to partner. Is it acceptable to pause and then lead without putting a final pass card on the table so that no-one knows whether your problem was in the bidding or in the lead, or is declarer definitely entitled to this information?

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Re: Pausing before passing when on lead ( 15:07:06 MonNov 11 2002 ) Select Action Reply Quote post Report post Last posts Ignore user Global ignore Whisper You are not permitted to mislead declarer through an action. So, this is not permitted. It is just tough luck that declarer will know you have a problem with your lead. --- David Stevenson <laws2@blakjak.com> Liverpool, England, UK http://blakjak.com/lws_menu.htm

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Re: Pausing before passing when on lead ( 07:34:15 TueNov 12 2002 ) Select Action Reply Quote post Report post Last posts Ignore user Global ignore Whisper Quote: bluejak at 15:07:06 Mon Nov 11 2002 You are not permitted to mislead declarer through an action. So, this is not permitted. It is just tough luck that declarer will know you have a problem with your lead. Just a second David. You are not misleading declarer; you are thinking about the lead. Is this not an equivalent situation to taking your time playing to trick 1 when declarer hurriedly calls for a card from dummy? Ron Lel

bluejak 428 posts Forum Host Reply

Re: Pausing before passing when on lead ( 14:27:02 TueNov 12 2002 ) Select Action Reply Quote post Report post Last posts Ignore user Global ignore Whisper Quote: Ron Lel You are not misleading declarer; you are thinking about the lead. You make it sound as those these are exclusive, but they are not. You are thinking about your lead and misleading declarer. However, misleading declarer is not permissible. It is accepted that players have a right to think at trick one. Thus a declarer who deduces that RHO has a problem because he paused gets no redress: a pause at such time does not show a problem on that trick. --- David Stevenson <laws2@blakjak.com> Liverpool, England, UK http://blakjak.com/lws_menu.htm

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