{"id":945,"date":"2010-12-19T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-01-06T07:38:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T15:38:54","slug":"poll-16-bridge-rules-when-is-a-card-played-12202010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Poll #16, Bridge Rules &#8211; when is a card played? 12\/20\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Contract\/Duplicate Bridge Laws &#8211; Played Card<\/h2>\n<p><noscript>JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.constantcontact.com\/survey\/index.jsp?cc=ViraWidPOL'>Online Surveys<\/a> by Constant Contact.<br \/>\n<\/noscript>The idea behind Bridge laws is to ensure the game is a fair contest.\u00a0\u00a0 But sometimes a player makes a mistake or an error that is not in accordance with the the rules\u00a0of our game.\u00a0\u00a0Since the action (or\u00a0sometimes an inaction) by the offending side\u00a0might adversely affect the outcome of the game, the laws come to the rescue of the non-offending side.\u00a0 The intent of the laws is not to punish the offenders but rather to restore equity to the non-offending side.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s how the story goes yet most of will recall an incident where our well intentioned action was challenged as an infractions.\u00a0 Thus, it&#8217;s good to ensure we have a solid understand of common Bridge laws.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s polling question, we explore our understanding of a basic law &#8211; when is a card considered to be played?\u00a0 Hmm, you&#8217;d think we all\u00a0would know this rule since everyone except for the dummy plays 13 cards on every hand.\u00a0 Yet often when we are taught the basics of Bridge, our mentors don&#8217;t always get around to\u00a0teaching us the finer points of the game.\u00a0 Or perhaps someone has given us correct information that applies in one situation but not another.\u00a0 Or worse yet, perhaps our well intended playmates haven&#8217;t quite given us the correct information about the laws\u00a0at all.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with the poll\u00a0and better luck playing your cards!<\/p>\n<p><strong>*** To view our secure BridgeHands members bonus content below, please login***<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<strong>Please login or register to view this content.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Bridge trails,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>BridgeHands &#8211;<\/strong><\/em><strong> Covered by Creative Commons License:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contract\/Duplicate Bridge Laws &#8211; Played Card JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. Online Surveys by Constant Contact. The idea behind Bridge laws is to ensure the game is a fair contest.\u00a0\u00a0 But sometimes a player makes a mistake or an error that is not in accordance with the the rules\u00a0of our game.\u00a0\u00a0Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}