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I need your help My Amanda won't play with me anymore...

#1 User is offline   Foxx 

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Posted 2011-April-01, 11:35

I met an aspiring young person who introduced herself as "Mandy" last night on BBO. She was a good player, smart and fun to be around. We had a promising start to our first session and I started to think that I could be on to something good.

Then, on Board 15, this hand came up:



I led the ♥J, which seemed to me at the time to be a perfectly reasonable and natural lead. Then, before I could even blink, the play went ♥A, ♦A, diamond ruff, ♥K, diamond ruff, ♣A, diamond ruff, heart ruff, ♠A, spade. We got two trump tricks and a club. Well, all OK, right?

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That's when it got going. Mandy began to go off on a tirade, saying that any bridge player who was any good at all and in his right mind would have led the ♠K.

I tried frantically to reason with Mandy and explain that the ♠K lead would be bananas without so much as being able to see dummy but she wouldn't listen. After remarking that it was "clear as day" to lead the ♠K and a little more ranting she left the table and since then hasn't said to me another word.

Despite this, I know that the fun and bright person who is Mandy is still there, and the thought of losing her for good is as much as I can bear... :( ..... Help?
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Posted 2011-April-01, 11:42

If she thinks it's even an option to lead the ♠K you don't want to play bridge with her.

Perhaps there might be a case for a low trump lead, but even that is resulting quite a bit. Personally I'd want nothing to do with someone if they went off on me for a lead like that.

Nobody could find that lead unless they have X-Ray glasses.
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Posted 2011-April-01, 12:03

Adam, I believe you just walked right into it :P
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Posted 2011-April-01, 12:06

 jschafer, on 2011-April-01, 12:03, said:

Adam, I believe you just walked right into it :P

lol I like to play along sometimes
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Posted 2011-April-02, 01:15

APRIL FOOLS

The hand was inspired by a couple of deals from Pavlicek's defensive play contests.

The theme was inspired by this song: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=y-qCuYEUGug

BTW, here's Mandy:

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