Bridge

Jun. 12th, 2007 12:38 am
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*Last* time I played bridge it was all 4443, 4443, 4432, 4443, 4443, every hand making me go "OK, now how do you bid to an uncontested partial score again?"

*This* time, 55s and 67s and other crazy shit singleton beer cards[1] abounded. I arrived to witness J play four consecutive hands, the last three with 4-0 or 5-0 trump splits against. *Several* hands with no notable feature other than a spade straight[1]. But it was fun and instructive, as always.

[1] The beer card is the 7 of diamonds. A spade straight is 356789 or similar. Neither has any importance for the play of the game, except if you find your life insufficiently illuminated by bidding conventions.