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bluejak, on 2014-April-23, 08:17, said:
I am happy with penalising by giving a warning first time, and a PP if there is a recurrence within six months, not just the same session.
I still think there is a difference between minor infractions that cause trouble per se and those where trouble is only caused by opponents who do something wrong themselves. Picking up the bidding cards is likely to cause difficulties when the player is not last to bid and I would penalise for it regularly. I would always penalise if partner has yet to call. It also annoys some opponents - me, for example. But calling for cards in a shortened form causes no such difficulty so long as opponents look at the card, and I have never known anyone who seems annoyed by it.
I still think there is a difference between minor infractions that cause trouble per se and those where trouble is only caused by opponents who do something wrong themselves. Picking up the bidding cards is likely to cause difficulties when the player is not last to bid and I would penalise for it regularly. I would always penalise if partner has yet to call. It also annoys some opponents - me, for example. But calling for cards in a shortened form causes no such difficulty so long as opponents look at the card, and I have never known anyone who seems annoyed by it.
I find this practice annoying, when I am dummy and my hand is on lead. I am sometimes dozing, trying to use up as little mental energy as possible, so if partner calls for "ten" when dummy is on lead I have to work out which ten he means.
Of course, when dummy is following suit, it's totally normal to call for just the rank, and I can't see why this would even merit a warning. Indeed in practice, there is sometimes an advantage in not naming every single card: with tables at some clubs and tournaments being quite close together, the less information that can be heard from neighbouring tables, the better.
