Dlr: West
Vul: None
North
82
QJ
AKQ97642
K
West East
853
KJT74
9754
AT
8
J
A9742
QJ863
South
AQ8
K8632
T53
T5
Auction:
South West North East
1
1
1 NT P
3 NT P P P
Actually, I have at least two pet peeves reflected by this hand.
The first has to do with players who bail from a hand when they think they are facing a bad result. I was West, and partner gave us the potential to have a great result by leading a
. I won the ace, and as I returned the
6, partner bailed. My eventual partner won the ace, and made the no-win play of a the singleton
. Instead of being down 3, declarer now made overtricks.
These bailers must think they can escape the bad result by being absent from the table. It is not the way BBO works. Once you are the first bidder in a particular auction, if the hand is played, the result attaches to that bidder. You may as well stick around for the result. It also is not far to your partner who has to play with a partner who is stepping into the middle of play. Face to face, someone would provide a brief description of the play (but then the situation would only happen in the case of severe illness), but it doss not seem to ever happen in BBO.
My other peeve has to do with how these massive one-suiters get bid. There is no consistency in describing good or bad hands. in this instance, the opponent treated the hand like an ordinary opener, they took a reasonable flier when their partner showed a stopper after my overcall. Earlier in the evening, I saw
Ax
A
Axx
AKQxxxx opened 5
, and then when my partner overcalled 5
, tried 6
with seven biddable after a 2
opener.
Oh well, if you are not playing with a regular partner, what can you do?
