Partner's input after a LOOT
I am aware of the five options open to Declarer after an opening LOOT and also the fact that they must choose without conferring with partner.
However, somewhere or other I thought I was told that if the Declarer so wishes they can pass the decision over to their partner (the presumptive Dummy) - but partner must also make that choice alone without conferring with Declarer.
But I cannot find this written down anywhere - and now wonder if I dreamt this up?
Thanks
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You're probably thinking of the way that if declarer leads from the wrong hand (a form of leading out of turn), a defender can pass the decision about whether to accept to their partner (by pointing out the lead out of turn but not choosing whether to accept or reject). But the declaring side aren't allowed to do that.
The relevant Law is Law 53A, which restricts the ability to choose whether to accept a lead out of turn to "declarer or either defender", which would rule out dummy accepting it. (The hand next in rotation can accept it by playing, but for an opening lead out of turn, the hand next in rotation would necessarily be declarer – if dummy were next in rotation it wouldn't be out of turn.)
Thank you
I think you’ll find the explanation in Jacob Duschek’s book page 160.
Dummy accepts inadvertently:
If declarer is South, and North inadvertently puts his cards on the table after East’s opening lead out of turn, he has accepted the opening lead on South’s behalf as soon as he has shown one card, and thus has made South declarer.
Law 54C - and it doesn't require North to start spreading his hand. It is enough that South might have seen one of North's cards.
Law 54A, which does require South to have started spreading his hand.