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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).
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.
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 ...
Laws of duplicate contract bridge are fairly easily to find online. You aren't even close to correct. There are basically two cases: 1. Revoke caught before *established*. A revoke is established when either partner of the offending side plays to the next trick. Before this, you can speak up and say "I failed to follow suit".
Once you have played bridge for a while, you realize that the value of your hand can change during the bidding. Most of us recognize the following principles: Flat hands (those with even distribution) don’t change in value too much. Distributional hands can change in value by a considerable amount.
remains a penalty card. The defender may not lead until declarer h. s indicated his choice.Law 51 – Two or More Penalty Cards When a defender has two or more penalty cards in one suit, and declarer requires or prohibits the lead of that suit, the defender may pick up every penalty card in that suit and may make any.
The contract is 3NT by North, and a heart is led. North plans to take the four aces, and lead the 3 of diamonds to the king. If the queen falls then she takes 10 tricks for +630. If the queen does not fall (West has 3 or 4 diamonds with the queen) the North wins only 5 tricks for -400. East is holding the Q 2 doubleton.
