ocelynx

Partner was playing 3NT and with seven tricks remaining had 10 tricks with "normal" play. Apparently his connection was lost and almost immediately a substitute was put in place. The sub had no clue as to the auction or play to that point and managed to turn 10 tricks into 8 (even discarded a winner to hold a loser). Not only that, partner retuned almost immediately but wasn't reseated until the end of the hand. Seems if a declarer has to be replaced in the middle of a hand the first option for the director should be to let dummy complete the play.