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rgg@deakin.edu.au (Roger Gillard) wrote:


>I have a query for you gurus on the internet relating to a bizarre 
>happening that occurred when I was playing on a beginners night at our club.
>   My partner was on lead but must have believed that I was declarer and 
>that my left-hand opponent had made an opening lead, so he placed all his 
>cards on the table as if he were dummy. It all happened too quickly we could 
>not stop him!
>    Could you pleases tell me what the correct ruling was in this case? Our 
>not so experienced director decided that my partner had 13 penalty cards on 
>the table and declarer could nominate which card was to be lead. Was this 
>the correct ruling? And what should have happened when I was on lead and 10 
>cards were exposed in my partners hand? Could declarer require or forbid 
>the lead of any particular suit and would that mean that all or some of my 
>partners holding in that suit would no longer be penalty card/s??
>                         Help,help

>                                        Roger Gillard 

Roger

My reading of the Law is that Laws 49 and 51 apply.  In law 49 "each
such (exposed card becomes a penalty card" and 51 says "if a defender
has two or more penalty cards that can legally be played, declarer may
designate which is to be played at that turn".