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The Hand of the Decade

#1 User is offline   Aberlour10 

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Posted 2010-February-19, 20:13

Have you ever got on BBo a hand like this? I could not belive it, I had to write at the table that its a not a joke what I will bid!D

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Posted 2010-February-19, 21:24

That is a fairly strong hand.... :)
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Posted 2010-February-19, 21:43

Aberlour10, on Feb 19 2010, 09:13 PM, said:

Have you ever got on BBo a hand like this? I could not belive it, I had to write at the table that its a not a joke what I will bid!D

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Posted 2010-February-19, 21:58

I have had 12 tricks once, but never 13. LOL that you got x'd by LHO who appearently hasn't played much bridge.

LOL also at the 7NT bidders and the one that stopped in 6♠
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Posted 2010-February-19, 22:02

Nope. Never seen a hand as nice as that one.
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Posted 2010-February-19, 22:40

ha ha ha , can you believe that somebody opened 6S? I might try opening 1S (actually I probably would on MPs)
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Posted 2010-February-20, 00:15

This beats the previous record of AQ AKJxxxxxx A A that I had personally seen.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 01:44

neilkaz, on Feb 20 2010, 04:58 AM, said:

LOL also at the 7NT bidders and the one that stopped in 6♠

What I thought rather amusing was that at the 7NT tables, one of the ones who doubled was the hand without the Ace, after his partner, on lead with the Ace, passed.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 01:45

Congrats lol
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Posted 2010-February-20, 02:27

Very nice hand and LOL @ 7NT!

A similar thing happened at our club last tuesday.
I held 17 points and partner showed 22-23 with his opening, 7 out of 8 tables were in 7NT the other bid only 6NT.
One player put his hand back in the board after the dummy tabled, without showing it.
"One of you has a jack, I take all the tricks." The opps agreed.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 02:30

Aberlour10, on Feb 20 2010, 04:13 AM, said:

[...] I had to write at the table that its a not a joke what I will bid!

Would that have triggered the double?
You must have done some serious overbidding in the previous hands to get doubled when you announce that you're not joking (this time?).
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Posted 2010-February-20, 03:03

dicklont, on Feb 20 2010, 03:30 AM, said:

You must have done some serious overbidding in the previous hands to get doubled when you announce that you're not joking (this time?).

You are wrong. I announced it because I was simply concerned about the possibility to be removed from the table for the nonserious bidding....what would you think if smbd bid 7♠ in the first seat? the possiblity its a real serious bid is 1:1000......? :)
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Posted 2010-February-20, 05:28

Wha'ts really remarkable is that you even have an entry to dummy
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Posted 2010-February-20, 07:44

How dull! You get a once-in-a-lifetime hand with 13 top tricks and you open 7 instead of something cunning to provoke a double. Of course, this being BBO, opening 7 is the bid that happened to get you doubled afterall. :)
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Posted 2010-February-20, 14:02

Since it's BBO I would have expected some in 7NT by North.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 18:34

Glad I am not one of the players, who gets his boo boo published on the forum. And I am not giving you any clues as to where to find mine ;)
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Posted 2010-February-20, 18:46

What would have been even funnier is some "operator" opening 1S and playing it there.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 21:35

The_Hog, on Feb 20 2010, 07:46 PM, said:

What would have been even funnier is some "operator" opening 1S and playing it there.

reminds me of this hand from a junior european championships:-

First in at white

xx
xx
x
QJT9xxxx

bidding at my table with opps silent:

1S from me - 2H
2S - 3D (I got a sinking feeling at this point)
3NT - 6NT
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Dummy was
Ax
AKxxx
AQxx
Ax

low diamond lead. i stuck the queen in which held. low heart off dummy, rho rose and switched to the 8 of C, Q, K, A. I led the last club off dummy before claiming to see if his switch had collected his partner's Kx of clubs, but sadly it had been stiff all along so I could have made +1. It didn't matter though, because 990 was the same lucky 2 imps in as 1020 would have been versus 940.

anyway, the funny thing was the german who held my hand in one of the other matches, kicked off with a strong NT and floated his partner's stayman bid (don't know why he chose stayman with that shape), leaving his partner to make stayman +5.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 22:14

Hi:

Several decades ago my partner held AKQ AK AKQJ10xx A

He opened a Precision Club and I replied with a positive holding a bunch of quacks.

He rebid 2C attempting to draw a double, but after a few more bids chickened out

and jumped to 7NT 'without' drawing a double.

The strongest HCP hand that I have ever held was AKJ AKx AKQ AKxx

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Posted 2010-February-21, 00:07

When I was in high school, several of us learned the rudiments of the game of bridge. We played a cut around game of rubber bridge one afternoon. One of my opponents picked up:

AKQx AKQ AKQ AKQ

This was a shuffled and dealt hand. It was not set up.

He opened 7NT. His partner held xxx xxx xxxx xxx. Every hand was 4333, so 7NT rolled.
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