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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
George RR Martin has three books called "The Song of Ice and Fire" series. I can't wait for the fourth. I look for new Dave Duncan books too, and to a lesser extent, more space opera crap from Lois McMaster Bujold. And any good new bridge books.
In response to yesterday's poll about the most amazing thing you've ever seen, I think mine is when I played in a national bridge event and my partner came down with a 29 point hand, something like
Ax
AKQx
AKx
AKQ
We mis-bid it and wound up in six spades, but ended up winning the event anyways.
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I saw something similar in a national event ten years ago. Our opponents were using a convention called "Albert Two Clubs" (which sounds like the nickname of a made guy from Jersey), but they quickly reached the right grand slam bid. We were minus on that board b/c most of the other partnerships didn't bid it correctly (most of the bids split between 6NT and 7H).
Under our opponents' system, the initial response under four spades was completely artificial (except for one natural bid, which I think might have been three clubs), showing specific point ranges and major suit distributions. It was an alertable bid, at least at the time. I have no idea now.
Hell, I'm not even sure I can play spades anymore.
CDF (former ACBL member)
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