Behaviour in the club

[Sigi_BC84]

Luis, your stories and humour are just great. I would love to sit against ppl like you more often. Unfortunately most people are too preoccupied with pointing out partner's faults instead of developing some humour at the table. --Sigi

[luis]

Oh I have many funny stories, like the day I broke a chair when my pd passed my 4NT rkcb bid, I jumped from the chair, raised about 1 meter in the air, and I missed the chair on my way down falling to the floor while grabbing the chair desperately, the chair went down and broke in 2 pieces. My pd then said "my bidding is so powerful, I can make people jump in the air.... and 4NT was probably RKCB". Sometimes he takes a pass card from the bidding box and asks an opponent: "can you break a chair with this pass card? I can".

 

While playing a relay system we faced a pair that didn't like it, called it "stupid relay thing" and called us "silly relay guys", in the middle of a long relay auction (using screens) I bid 3♦ and my screenmate said "I pass" without putting a pass bid on the tray. I told him "you have to put a pass card in the tray" and the answer was...

"I'm not going to put a pass card in the tray every time you make one of your stupid relays, if you want you can put it yourself I just pass everything you bid from now on"

I could have called the TD and force him to put a pass card on the tray but a devilish idea crossed my mind. I used relays to ask about shape, then about aces, kings, queens and jacks, the bidding was up to 5NT. I was carefully putting a pass card on the tray for my opponent every time. When I had all the information I needed I bid 3NT put a pass card for my opponent and passed the tray. TD was called on the other side of the screen, TD came to my side, after some questions were asked the TD ruled that my LHO verbally anounced he was passing "any" bid made by me and that would include insufficient bids as long as they were legal, so the 3NT bid had to be accepted. In a nerve attack they missdefended and 3NT was made.

 

And there are a lot more, my pd is quite a character so whenever we face nasty opponents funny things happen. We finished 7th in a tourney with 20 kibs at our table while there were 1 or 2 kibs watching the leaders and all because a lot of funny things happened when a lady declared "I'm not going to tell you" when I asked about carding methods. But that's a different story...