"Partner's keeping clubs"

[blackshoe]

There is no law that makes any PP mandatory. Nor should there be.

[shyams]

As mrdct says, East's comments obviously constitute a claim, and law 70D2 says that his claim that West will keep clubs cannot be accepted if there are alternative normal (including careless and irrational) plays.

I thought careless or irrational was supposed to be based on the class of player. If West "regularly plays for the county first team", would he really make such a silly mistake at this stage? I am not convinced.

 

If you were placed into the West seat after trick 9 was turned over and only told:

   a. HA has been cashed (no one showed out) but HK is still in play

   b. South has two more trump winners, to be played on tricks 10 and 11

would you not find the two heart discards on the remaining two rounds of trumps? If the answer is yes, then E/W deserve a trick

[Bbradley62]

There is no law that makes any PP mandatory. Nor should there be.

I think he simply meant that it was blatantly appropriate here.

[Bbradley62]

South has, nevertheless, contributed to the problem with undue slowness and no effort to catch up when round is already called.

Has he? Frankly, I want to hear it from him, and we haven't.

His answer would probably be: We wouldn't have a problem if East hadn't taken 10 minutes to declarer the previous board.