Alerted Skip Bid

[skjaeran]

Can we go back to the original post? My understanding is that the stop card is used to require an opponent to bid "in tempo" after a jump bid. This is not a finite number of seconds. This is to mostly prevent quick passes.

 

I believe this is confirmed in a NABC appeals case I read in a Bulletin (I don't remember which one) where the 10 seconds was considered a hesitation that carried UI, and that 5 seconds would have been considered "in tempo".

 

Does anyone else recall this?

Well, this depends upon where you play. In Norway the required pause IS 10 seconds. The stop bidder determines this and removes his stop card to let LHO make his call.

[blackshoe]

Can we go back to the original post? My understanding is that the stop card is used to require an opponent to bid "in tempo" after a jump bid. This is not a finite number of seconds. This is to mostly prevent quick passes.

 

I believe this is confirmed in a NABC appeals case I read in a Bulletin (I don't remember which one) where the 10 seconds was considered a hesitation that carried UI, and that 5 seconds would have been considered "in tempo".

 

Does anyone else recall this?

I don't recall it, and I don't know the exact skip bid regulation which was in force at the time, but as near as I can tell, the current regulation says

When RHO has announced a skip bid, the player following the skip bidder must wait for a suitable interval (about 10 seconds).

 

Given that, I don't see how a committee (or TD could rule that anything over 5 seconds is a BIT. If the regulators wanted the regulation to read "ten seconds in some situations, five in others", they should have written it that way - and specified the circumstances under which ten seconds would be too much.