[manudude03]

I just finished playing a Best Hand tourney. At some point during the tourney this hand came up. Definately the best hand I've ever had. I've had more HCP before, but pretty sure I haven't had effectively 12 top tricks before. Any other stories of people picking up monsters?

[xcurt]

Best I ever had was 8solid, x, Ax, AK. Partner opened 1D playing K-S, which creates a little trap in the auction....

[Furlan]

Typical freak from a Best Hand, about half an hour ago...
http://tinyurl.com/774wbk7

[rogerclee]

I once saw AQ AKQxxxxxx A A on BBO, think it was a team game where han and jjbrr both held it.

[rduran1216]

Best hand I ever held was in a club game, similar to roger's

A A AKQJxxxx AKx

I opened 7NT in 4th chair haha

[billw55]

I'm not sure about my best hand ever, but I do remember holding 65 high card points in a 3-board round at the club.

[Phil]

I've had 29 and I've seen 30 or 31 (famous hand from Las Vegas in 2001).

About 5-6 years ago I held a zero loser hand. I can't remember the details except I was playing against Carlos P.

[ArtK78]

I have related this story before when the topic of best hands came up.

When I first started to play (at about age 16), a group of friends of mine, all with little bridge experience, were playing cut around at my home. The deck was shuffled and I was offered a cut, which I turned down. The hand was dealt and the guy on my right yelled out "Oh my God! 7NT!" He held:

AKQ AKQx AKQ AKQ

This was not a fixed deal.

His partner tabled a total Yarborough - xxx xxx xxx xxxx.

The hearts were 3-3 and the contract claimed.

[mikeh]

Semi-Finals of the Canadian National Team Championship in 1997: AKQJx AKJ9x A AK, partner opened a weak 2♦.

[whereagles]

My best was like a 26 hcp balanced hand. Pard across opened 2H on a 54 with 2 jacks and assorted junk. Result: 6NT -3.

[PeterAlan]

Shortly after I started playing duplicate, I picked up the only 0-loser hand I've had so far: ♠- ♥A K Q 10 8 4 ♦A K Q 10 9 ♣A K.

My partner and I were playing Benjaminised Acol, where the opening GF is 2♦ with a 2♥ negative / relay. We discovered that partner had a ♦ fit, but not a ♥ one, and reached 7♦. LHO then doubled; inexperienced, and worried that she had ♦J x x x, I ran to 7♥ which she also doubled. However, because of the auction, partner was now playing the hand, and got the lead of a low trump.

Her hand was ♠K 8 7 6 4 ♥3 ♦J 8 6 4 2 ♣Q 3, and she had a first trick choice of finessing or playing for ♥J to drop. As it happens, N had ♥J and they were 3-3 so it didn't matter what she did, but I was not popular for leaving her with the problem!

[Cyberyeti]

whereagles, on 2012-January-03, 10:58, said:

My best was like a 26 hcp balanced hand. Pard across opened 2H on a 54 with 2 jacks and assorted junk. Result: 6NT -3.

My partner had an unusual problem looking at his 26 count with ♦AKQJxx when he heard me in first seat open 2♦(weak).

I've preempted in front of LHO's 29 count.

Also has anybody heard partner open a "big" 2♣ and held better than x, A, AKxxx, Axxxxx, partner had AKQxxxxx, KQ10x, x, void and we bid 2♣-3♣-4♠-7N. They didn't find the spade lead to make me discard the A♥ to make it.

[flametree]

I don't like picking up monster hands.

My two most memorable were :

♠ AKQxxx
♥
♦
♣ AKJxxxx

Down one in 7C when partner didn't have the queen and they split 3-0 offside... Even worse, 6S was cold on a 6-1 split when the opposition's spades were 3-3.

The other was a 26HCP balanced hand, the most I've ever picked up. Something like AKQ - KJ97 - KJ2 - AKQ. Down 2 in 3NT when partner couldn't even find a 10 to help me out.

[jjbrr]

rogerclee, on 2012-January-03, 01:50, said:

I once saw AQ AKQxxxxxx A A on BBO, think it was a team game where han and jjbrr both held it.

I only vaguely remember this. The auction started out really bad for us I think (or maybe I opened 2C and the auction never got any better).

I've also experienced a 32 HCP hand at a regional. My partner held it and opened 6NT. I held nothing with 6 diamonds, so we were making a diamond slam, but the suit was blocked in NT. Seemed reasonable, I guess.

[dicklont]

Not so long ago in a club game I picked up a hand dealt monster:

AKQJ10xxx
-
J
AKQJ

12 tricks from top and guess which red ace partner held?
We bid and made 7♠.

[straube]

My best...

AKQxx void void AKQJT9xx

In a contested auction I guessed to bid 7 spades. Doubled. I should have redoubled. Partner had Txxx and the Jack came down stiff.

[daveharty]

A few months ago in a local game I picked up a hand so big I took a picture of it. Not the best hand I ever had, but probably the most HCP.
http://flic.kr/p/b6WUXX

[billw55]

daveharty, on 2012-January-03, 21:07, said:

A few months ago in a local game I picked up a hand so big I took a picture of it. Not the best hand I ever had, but probably the most HCP.
http://flic.kr/p/b6WUXX

So did you downgrade for bad spots?

[daveharty]

billw55, on 2012-January-04, 07:39, said:

So did you downgrade for bad spots?

Not enough. I should have opened 1NT, that would have kept us out of trouble.

[manudude03]

I decided to google the thread I made when I had a 30 count on BBO. Link is http://www.bridgebas...other-30-count/.