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Revoke (Renege) - A failure to follow to the suit lead when able to do so constitutes a revoke. The declarer may ask a defender who has failed to follow suit whether he has a card of the suit led (but a claim of revoke does not automatically warrant inspection of quitted tricks - see Law 66C).
Now the rules have been changed to allow defenders to ask the same question, so we should be able to reach a game of revoke-less bridge! I advise all players to get into the habit of asking the above question: 'Having none, partner?' every time partner fails to follow suit (for the first time in a suit). The penalty for a revoke can be quite ...
European Bridge League 9th Main Tournament Directors Course Bad Honnef 2013 L61B Inquiring about a revoke: Declarer may ask the opponents but should he ever do so? Let us start to say that there is no need at all to draw attention to a revoke. Even if a player is absolutely sure that an opponent
Opener rebids 2NT with no four-card or longer minor suit, rebids 3 or 3 with one four-card minor suit, and rebids the longer major — 3 or 3 — with four cards in both minor suits. The 2 response can also be used when responder holds a five-card or longer minor suit and is interested in slam.
Duplicate Bridge were published in 1928 and there have been successive revisions in 1933, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1997, and 2007. Through the 1930’s the Laws were promulgated by the Portland Club of London and the Whist Club of New York. From the 1940’s onwards, the American Contract Bridge League Laws Commission replaced the
Failing to follow suit is called a "revoke" or "renege" when that person subsequently plays a card from that suit (assuming that the mistake was not discovered and corrected in time). The governing law is the 2017 amendment (to the earlier 2007 version) of Law 64 of the ACBL. The penalty is normally one trick.
FVBC Talk – Bridge Procedures, Rules & Etiquette 3b. The Revoke: Penalties When a player suspects that the opponents revoked on an earlier trick, the Director should be called. If the revoke is confirmed then penalties are as follows: If the revoker won the trick on which the revoke occurred, then that trick is transferred to the non-
