A. Attitude
1. A player should maintain a
courteous attitude
at
all times.
2. A player should carefully
avoid any remark or
extraneous
action that might
cause annoyance or
embarrassment to another player
or might
interfere
with the enjoyment of the game.
3. Every player should follow
uniform and correct
procedure
in bidding and playing.
B. Etiquette
As
a matter of courtesy a player should
refrain
from:
1.
Paying
insuffcient attention
to the game.
2.
Making gratuitous comments during the bidding
or play.
3.
Detaching a card before it is his turn to play.
4.
Prolonging play unnecessarily (as in playing
on
although he knows that all the tricks are
surely
his) for the purpose of disconcerting an
opponent.
5.
Summoning and addressing the
director in
a manner discourteous to the
director or to other
contestants
C. Violations of Procedure
1. Using different
designations for the same bid.
2.
Indicating approval or disapproval of a bid
or play.
3.
Indicating the expectation or intention of winning
or losing a trick that has not been completed.
4.
Commenting
or acting during the bidding or play
so as to call attention to a significant
occurrence,
or to the number of tricks still required
for success.
5.
Looking intently at any other player during the
bidding and play, or at another player’s
hand
as for the purpose of seeing his cards or
of observing the place from which he
draws
a card (but it is appropriate to act on information
acquired by unintentionally seeing
an
opponent’s card).
6.
Showing an obvious lack of further interest in a deal
(as by folding one’s cards).
7.
Varying the normal tempo of bidding or play
for
the purpose of disconcerting an opponent.
8.
Leaving the table needlessly before the round is called.