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Opening Lead Out Of Turn Excepted
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This might have been a routine OLOOT when East tabled first of all cards
the 
A.
However, East asked of the table, and perhaps of North in direction of sounding,
such as "My lead?" to which North first responded with "Yes",
perhaps meaning such as "Yes, who is on lead here is the prime consideration".
Just after that "Yes", it was a race between East's tabling the
A and North finishing with a clarifying "South
is on lead."
It seemed to North that East might reasonably have been at least "aided
and abetted" in the 'transgression' and exposure to penalty for Opening
Lead Out Of Turn Excepted.
The director was summoned and impelled that the A
be led and South be declarer, perhaps expecting North's hand to be tabled.
South wondered if proper treatment might instead have been East picks up the
A, no penalty, West on lead, South declarer, and the
A unauthorized information to South, while not to
West.
As it was East won AK and exited a heart.
Declarer won the 
A and cashed 
KQ,
East discarding a club.
The 9 was covered by West's J
and won with dummy's A.
The K was cashed and a spade ruffed in dummy.
East won a dummy heart continuation with the 8, West
discarding a club.
East continued the 6, South and West discarding a
club.
East cashed the 
A and West followed with Q.
West on defence had an en passant 6 trump to win.
South ended with 1 spade ruff, 4 diamonds and 2 hearts: down 1 (-100) or about
63%.
In matchpoints on this night for North South the relevant comparison scoring
was:
18> 8- 10- 5- 2 2 2 2 5- 10- 2 8- 7
50 100 -110 -140 -140 -140 -140 -110 100 ---- -140 50 -100
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9732
A732
KJ2