TGR’s Bridge Club in Paddington is the daily home to those of us who want to play bridge but cannot always adhere to the times of local duplicates. There is a game every afternoon and from time to time there is also an evening Goulash game; any contract at the one level (or passed out) is redealt in some form of 5-3-5 combination. This makes for very distributional hands which often end in slam either bid to make or as a ‘save’. A couple of weeks ago I picked up, first in hand, the following:
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♠A K Q J 10 9 8 7 5 4 3 2 and a singleton ♦A! I opened 7♠ and obv made it. This is the most humongous hand anyone has ever seen at rubber bridge (or anywhere else for that matter) and the fact my suit was Spades meant I couldn’t be outbid.
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