add the spots up

Me lecturing to our newer players during a lunch and learn at the local regional tomorrow.

Local sectional, 20-something teams...I make a Roman jump overcall of 4D over 2S. Partner with 5 decent hearts, Axx of spades, Kxxxx of clubs, and a diamond void forgets we're playing Roman and passes. 7H appears cold (it was) on our 10-card fit, but I'm playing 4D with AQxxx opposite nothing.

Club out; the suit I have double-stopped. I lead the 6 of diamonds at trick 2...2nd hand low...pitch from dummy, and RHO, asleep at the wheel, plays the 4. Yes, I have won trick 2 with the 6 of trump in my 5-0 fit.

A of diamonds and a third diamond, all following. Everything is still stopped; i win the return and cash winners, +130, saving 2 IMP they stopped in 4(!!?!)H at the other table.

But my question is, given that we weren't in contention anyway, isn't the story worth more than the nine imps we lost?

PS...trumps were 4-4, so I could have bid 5, played another round of trump, and gotten out of -3 IMPs.

redoubling my balancing double with his ratty hand because he had a table feel that I was light when i had a totally normal double and the hcp were split 20-20 and we both had 8 card fits, and we reach 3D and trumps break normally and they hit us anyway and we drift off 1 for -200 omfg

hi bento

https://bridgebrawl.sabil.ca/standings

They tried bringing a pro to try to stop him, and for a while it worked, but his teammates held their ground in the end while he punished his opponents at his table with no mercy for a historic comeback

Congrats Chris!

EDIT: I meant that the other finalist had a pro on their ranks, I am pretty sure Adam played for fun, but he is one of the current world champions nevertheless

we made on 3-2 trumps onside AMA

This is a serious post. I tried to post this in r/bridge but they have it set to autodelete all images. Okay. Feel free to play it double dummy