[MFA]

Playing with a teammate in my first Danish pairs championship, we had agreed to play Viking club (which we both played with our regular partners).

The bidding went:
(pass)-pass-(pass)-1♣ strong
(pass)-2♦-(pass)-2♥ relay asking
(X)-pass

We had agreed that pass was 1st step, that is a normal 2♠ bid showing 5♦-4♠. But I was confused. Actually I wanted to play 2♥XX but suddenly I was afraid that XX was not to play (which of course it was)... What to do?

Then I saw the solution! It was matchpoints and redoubling didn't seem crucial. Slam was far away and a doubled partscore should be fine. So I passed 2♥X.

When I made 8 tricks (in spite of a somewhat surprising 6card ♥ suit to my left), but when +470 was translated into an icecold zero with the rather lucky 12 tricks in 4♠ that were taken at ALL the other 19 tables for +480.

[jdonn]

I've never seen someone get screwed by 10 points as often as you!

[skjaeran]

jdonn, on Mar 4 2009, 01:47 AM, said:

I've never seen someone get screwed by 10 points as often as you!

Maybe he's got a talent for it!

[Fluffy]

2 Wrongs making a right.

1♠-2♥
3♠-4♣
4♦-4NT (4NT was regular blackwood for north, and RCKB as spades agreed for south)
5♣-5NT
6♦-7NT (6♦: Showing 1 King. Becuase he never showed heart support South judged that ♥Q was worth a king)

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After the lead North started to yell at south (me). For showing 1 King when he had none. He actually yelled me for about half a minute before realicing that he had 13 tricks. Then claimed.

East face after this:

When they bid 7NT and he has nothing
When dummy appears and north gets a bad gesture
when north starts to yell
When he realiced partner's got ♠K offside
when north claims
after seeing that the claim is right and dummy's losing 7 spades fly away.

Also worth noting that with the same partner we made once 7♣ on something like these:

♠KJxxxx
♥x
♦xx
♣KQxx

♠x
♥AKQJ10xx
♦-
♣Axxxx

after a diamond lead south's spade was ruffed in dummy .

[mycroft]

It's not a zero, but...

Red on White, I bid 1NT (11+-14)-X. Partner bids 2C, scrambling (all other calls are to play). Agonized pass. I pass, forced ("to play unless doubled"). Pass. We play the 3-1 club fit, for 4 tricks. My RHO said that she knew this was going to be a massacre, but if she doubled, we'd run to a better fit (which was correct, 2Hx-1 was available, and our system would have found it).

Flat board - everyone else was in 3NT=.