Pre Alerting Opening One Bids In The ACBL
- From: "Peter Leighton" <pbleighton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Jun 2006 18:53:04 -0700
The ACBL's Alert Procedures state:
"If it is your partnership style to routinely open hands with fewer
than 11 HCP... the opponents must be pre-Alerted."
Two questions here:
What are "HCP"?
What is "routinely"?
Under a strict definition of the above, anyone who plays Rule of 20
openers, and opens some large percentage of 10 counts which are 5-5s,
6-4s, and 7 card suits need to pre alert. Obviously the ACBL doesn't
want roughly half the room to pre alert, so what is the cutoff?
One extreme could be that anything more aggressive than the Rule of 20,
plus the occasional upgrade for excellent suits (in a 5431 or 6331, for
example) must be pre alerted. The other extreme is that you can open
any 10 count which by some reasonable evaluation method is equal to a
mediocre but not terrible 11 count.
What do you think?
Is there a ruling from an NABC which clarifies this issue?
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