[Simplicity]

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At one of the first events i ever played there was a deal much like the one above. I was partnering Mickyb in a speedball and this was the final deal. Mike opened 6♥ in a shameful attempt to win a prize for a making slam reached in the least number of bids.

The ♦A was cashed at T1 and spade continued. There was then a a frenzied cashing of winners from hand to reach:

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The final heart was played and RHO, perhaps in a rush for dinner, played the ♠K before there was chance to call a card from dummy. Turns out she thought she was hopelessly squeezed anyway. One of them psuedo anti-positional squeezes we think. priceless.

[Free]

gwnn, on Aug 21 2010, 09:58 PM, said:

Free, on Aug 21 2010, 08:42 PM, said:

My most memorable psych was against a strong 1♣ opening.  I bid 3♦ on a singleton, partner bid 3♠ FNJ w00t!

Perhaps I didn't explain this well enough. I had a 3-4-1-5 distribution, and partner had 6♠-4♦, so we found our 9 card fit. Obviously I passed.

[pirate22]

They say "Lightning never strikes in the same place twice"

twice-on seperate years- having opened a suit,and opps have doubled and the subsequent bidding by them, arrive in 3n/t undoubled.partner leads my suit,and the furious declarer,shifts in his seat {UI} and with a switch by me eventually ,we have collected all 13 tricks.

Another situ at my first congress playing against 2 Internationals {now Deceased)
and we were alerted by the opps at the previous table prior to moving,that they were internationals (my knees were shaking}..im dealer and pick up a flat 21 points.hand was sorted.i counted from left to right,and double checked from Right to left.yes 21 ---Pass.it then went pass--pass 1n/t.
pass passed out.
Those days opps playing 12-14 n/t Acol. well i led from my longest dummy went down with flat hand 3/4 points-we bounced back and forth,but at trick 9,the declarer was getting huffy-with her 12 and dummys crap,she could not wait to get the Traveller out........Very nice for us as E/W 1n/t by north -50.
all the otherscores were 3n/t by E/W - 50.
punch line is later when session over having a beer I asked my partner what should i open with 21 points ?????????? why "well we play 2n/t 20-22"dont we, with 21 what should i open.

Rubber bridge for money--This is two words with similar meanings.
GREED---------AVARICE. having arrived in a n/t slam-missing 2 ace's {as we all do} and x by the person holding them,they underled one of them,allowing me to wrap it up...... The word is Avarice. Bridge is a wondefull GAME

[1eyedjack]

pirate22, on Aug 23 2010, 08:20 PM, said:

the Traveller out........Very nice for us as E/W 1n/t by north -50.
all the otherscores were 3n/t by E/W - 50.

This reminds me a bit of a colleague who left our area, and visited us after a period away, at which he regaled us with some stories of bridge in his new locality. The first week he was there, he bid and made a ridiculous (and ridiculously defended) 3NT. Scored up, and moved on.

A week later, he looked up the result and noticed that the scorer had, without referring to any of the players at the table, changed the scored result to 3NT making the other way (for a flat board, consistent with 3NT making the other way at all other tables).

Livid with this, he sought out the opponents from that previous week, to get their agreement to have the score reinstated, and they denied all knowledge of it.

[bd71]

2nd to last board of GNT match. We know we desperately need swings.

1♣ 1♥
3♣ 3N
5♣ 6♣

Making when LHO leads K♠, ♠ ruff, LHO goes up with A♥ on lead towards dummy, clubs split 2-2, and J♥ drops tripleton giving me sufficient diamond discards.

Making the unlikely Vul small slam gave us an adrenaline rush going into the last hand...which was flat. And we lost by 50 IMP.

But a fun hand...

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[manudude03]

Funniest hand I can remember on BBO is when partner and I had a misunderstanding about G/B 2NT, which led to me playing 2N with:

Scoring: IMP

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Trying to get as many tricks as I could salvage, I got a spade lead, which the Q won, played a club towards the J, which loses to the Q. Now it looks like I'm a long way off, then suddenly West cashes the ♣A and plays a third club! I cashed my clubs and played a diamond to the J which held, cashed the ♠A and exited a spade. Turned out that West had brought himself down to KT A AQ, meaning he was forced to win the ♠K and had to give me the last trick in diamonds allowing me to make. Meanwhile the field were making 3N (usually +1) the other way!


My most amusing offline hand was with another misunderstanding, this time with multi. I'm sitting with xxx x AKTxx Axxx, partner opens 2D (multi), doubled by RHO. I pass, 2H by LHO, partner passes. 3C by RHO. I then decide partner must have spades, so bid 3S. This was passed out and when partner put down Axxxxx of hearts, I start to fear what kind of fit we were in, then partner put down AJxx in spades.

Scoring: IMP

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I received a club lead, won with the ace, cashed ♦AK, ruffed a club, ♥A, ruffed a heart, ruffed a club, heart ruffed by RHO and overruffed, club ruffed high by LHO, overruffed with A. ruffed another heart and now defence can't stop me from taking another trump (LHO has the T, if RHO ruffs low, I score my 9, if ruffs high, it promotes my ♠J).


Another multi hand that I laugh at, I open a slightly conservative 2D multi with T9xxxxxx K x AQx, passed by LHO, partner bids 2S p/c, doubled by RHO. They were playing 2-way doubles, I pass and LHO decides its a penalty double with her stiff. Partner's hand was KQJ xxxx Axx xxx and we were playing 2S with 7 sure trump tricks and 2 aces. Just for kicks, the club finesse worked too. It's the only time I can recall being in a doubled partscore with an 11 card fit.

[alansc]

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Against Meckwell, got to 7S where the defense knew I had nothing.
Rodwell led a spade, I won the A, went to my hand and ran the SJ. Rodwell led a spade from Qxx knowing the AK would show up in dummy I will never forget the look on his face. Probably ducking at trick 1 is better.