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#81 User is offline   Trinidad 

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Posted 2014-April-28, 08:32

View Postgwnn, on 2014-April-28, 08:05, said:

Has anyone ever seen people bidding with playing cards? I thought it was pretty funny the one time I saw it (it was in a long competitive auction with someone who had already shown a lot of spades "bid" 6 over 6 with the six of spades). Of course you can only do it with understanding opps in a non-competitive game, and once every 10 years seems enough.

I have seen this in real life, but it wouldn't fit this category.

My RHO, an elderly lady, dealt and opened the bidding by putting the 2 on the table. After our initial objection, it was clear that she was not aware that she did anything wrong (or funny). So, we called the TD.

We told him what had happened, and he asked the lady why she put the 2 on the table. Her response: "Why? What is wrong with opening 2?". It took the TD quite some convincing to let her pick up the playing card and pull out the bidding card. I am pretty sure this lady is not with us anymore, but if she would be she probably still thinks that we were illegally trying to bar her from opening a perfectly allowed 2.

(I must say that this was in the ACBL, where the bridge players are very old, and at a time that bidding boxes were just starting to be introduced there (around 1995!).)

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Posted 2014-April-28, 08:43

View Postgwnn, on 2014-April-28, 08:05, said:

Has anyone ever seen people bidding with playing cards? I thought it was pretty funny the one time I saw it (it was in a long competitive auction with someone who had already shown a lot of spades "bid" 6 over 6 with the six of spades). Of course you can only do it with understanding opps in a non-competitive game, and once every 10 years seems enough.

Dave Treadwell used to do this quite a bit. Furthermore, after the bidding was concluded, he would often say "You didn't have your bid." If I had bid 4, he would then demonstrate that I didn't have my bid by putting the 4 down in the dummy.
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Posted 2014-April-28, 09:47

That was one of the standards in the "crazy bridge" tournaments. You could only bid what was in your hand. Of course, book didn't count - you could bid 1 to take 1 trick (I can't remember what the scoring rules were).
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Posted 2014-April-28, 12:09

View Postgwnn, on 2014-April-28, 08:05, said:

Has anyone ever seen people bidding with playing cards? I thought it was pretty funny the one time I saw it (it was in a long competitive auction with someone who had already shown a lot of spades "bid" 6 over 6 with the six of spades). Of course you can only do it with understanding opps in a non-competitive game, and once every 10 years seems enough.

I've seen it once. I almost did it myself once, but I caught it before I put the card out.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 00:50

View PostArtK78, on 2014-April-28, 08:43, said:

Dave Treadwell used to do this quite a bit. Furthermore, after the bidding was concluded, he would often say "You didn't have your bid." If I had bid 4, he would then demonstrate that I didn't have my bid by putting the 4 down in the dummy.


Once against Helgemo-Forrester, Forrester made some conventional call that Helgemo explained as showing 4 spades, but when Forrester put down the dummy he had only J4 and apologized for his misbid. Then he said, "Actually, my bid showed the 4 of spades. His English isn't too good."
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Posted 2014-April-30, 00:54

View Postbarmar, on 2014-April-09, 08:58, said:

Forgot one of the classics: "Grossly underbid". Said when you bid a normal part-score that makes enough tricks for game, or a game that makes slam, because of an extremely favorable lie of the cards.


I sometimes say, "Meckwell would've bid it," especially if it's such an unlikely result that even R-M wouldn't go near it.
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Posted 2014-May-04, 17:32

Some I'm prone to:

Bidding dies out at the 1 level: "Don't everybody get excited at once."

Auction something like (I'm in 2nd seat)

1 P 1 1
X P 2 P
P 2 3 all pass

"Operation Push Them To The 3 Level has succeeded."
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Posted 2014-May-04, 18:25

View PostGreenMan, on 2014-May-04, 17:32, said:

Some I'm prone to:

Bidding dies out at the 1 level: "Don't everybody get excited at once."

Auction something like (I'm in 2nd seat)

1 P 1 1
X P 2 P
P 2 3 all pass

"Operation Push Them To The 3 Level has succeeded."

There are certainly auctions like that at the club...not possible, though, if we are at the table either direction.
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Posted 2014-May-06, 07:11

I've several times seen the thing of people showing a card to make the bid, but I'm told that Bocchi has just sent the 2 through the screen on the tray to bid 2!
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Posted 2014-May-06, 16:10

View Postgordontd, on 2014-May-06, 07:11, said:

I've several times seen the thing of people showing a card to make the bid, but I'm told that Bocchi has just sent the 2 through the screen on the tray to bid 2!


An exposed card during the auction? How did you rule? Or was 2 known to be from another pack?
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Posted 2014-May-06, 16:16

View Postjallerton, on 2014-May-06, 16:10, said:

An exposed card during the auction? How did you rule? Or was 2 known to be from another pack?

I wasn't asked to rule. None of the players at the table commented.
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Posted 2014-May-10, 00:38

We have a player at our club, whenever the defensive cards break 3-3 he says "Oh, you good people."
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Posted 2014-May-10, 02:18

View Postpaua, on 2014-May-10, 00:38, said:

We have a player at our club, whenever the defensive cards break 3-3 he says "Oh, you good people."



Once when playing in a 7-6 fit, partner played a round for fun and then said, "Oh good, they break."
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Posted 2014-May-10, 14:30

I had a regular partner who called the 13th card in a 4333 suit Elmer. As dummy after all followed to three rounds he would sometimes say "Who's got Elmer?"

Playing with him I occasionally got to call for Elmer off the dummy. I am easily amused.
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Posted 2014-May-10, 16:13

I'd heard this one somewhere before.

Partner overbids and gets to declare. He finesses on the opening lead, takes a deep finesse on the next trick, cashes trumps which split 3-2, does a few more shenanigans and lands with an overtrick or two.

LHO say to my partner "with your luck, it's a surprise the trump suit didn't break 2½ - 2½ !!"

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