[benellis58]

6NT was always cold. Even if EW took the spade ace, we would still have a spade stopper, and we would take all 12 remaining tricks.

But this was a matchpoint game, and if EW did NOT take their spade ace at trick one, I could claim all 13 tricks, and the overtrick would probably give us a better score than "only" taking 12.

Well, I did take all 13 tricks, and I did get a good score.

Not lucky for EW, right? West, the player on lead, didn't guess the best lead of a spade, right? His partner East went to bed with his spade ace when I claimed all 13 tricks, right?

Well, uh, NO - NOT right, because West DID find a spade lead!

So the M.O.R.O.N. in the East stupidly DUCKED his spade ace at trick one, right?

Well, uh, no. Not right again. There WAS indeed a M.O.R.O.N. at the table, but it wasn't East. WEST had led...the TEN OF SPADES (!) from THIS hand: A10952, J3, 754, 864!

https://www.bridgeba...SK%7Cmc%7C13%7C

[benellis58]

Another interesting thread:

https://www.bridgeba...i-get-a-refund/

[benellis58]

Typically stupid lead against South's 3NT by the GIBBO trout in the West: His stiff spade jack...the suit his LHO North overcalled in.

Then when the braindead twit wins his offside heart king at trick three, what does he return? He's a GIBBO robot, so of COURSE he immediately returns a HEART, the same suit DECLARER just played. I.D.I.O.T.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckrtk9n

[benellis58]

North, usually an egregious OVERbidder, timidly bids 3H rather than 2S. Luckily we reach the fairly good game anyway. Now all I have to do is make it.

I'm off three top tricks (AK of diamonds, ace of clubs), so the key worry is the possible loss of a second club.

To make the hand, I have to figure out the club layout so that I don't lose to the JACK as well as the ace.

But playing against GIBBO robots (some of the absolutely worst "defenders" of ALL time), I saw a way to make the hand WITHOUT having to correctly GUESS the clubs. Against these M.O.R.O.N.S., I simply pulled trumps and played diamonds. These two braindead warthogs took their two diamond tricks and then...SHIFTED TO CLUBS (!!!!), as I EXPECTED they would...and now the club suit played itself, without my having to guess it.

Note that when Superstooge in the West led a club at trick seven, he COULD have SAFELY exited instead with either a diamond OR a spade, in which case I WOULD have had to guess the clubs. (Since EW trumps were were originally 3-1 rather than the 2-2 I had hoped for, I couldn't perform a full strip...but against these hopeless C.R.E.T.I.N.S., I didn't have to.)

It's ALWAYS a good idea, when playing in a game with three GIBBO robots, to assume that your "partner" and your opponents are ALL complete imbeciles and then to play based on that assumption.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5cdjjjxe

[benellis58]

Question: When you are playing in a game with three GIBBO robots and your opponents are declaring the contract, what is the biggest clue that they will probably be making it, possibly with overtricks?

Answer: Your GIBBO "partner" has doubled the contract.