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I missed the wild game last night. But, I wonder if anyone has ever seen this happen.

 

It was a small game -- three tables. My friends Bob and Tom headed into the last round against my wife and her partner with quite the score. As it turns out, at this point, they had a 94% game! Yes, NINETY-FOUR PERCENT!!!

 

Then, they met my wife and her partner, a first-time partnership. In that last round, one average and FOUR ZEROES for the leading pair. They still ended up with a 77% game.

 

One of the bottoms was a "Leahism." A "Leahism" is an action taken by my wife, Leah, that succeeds for reasons that my level of theory understanding cannot grasp. This time, her partner opened 1NT. When she counted her points, she got to 15. Unfortunately, her math was slightly off, and she really only had 10. She must have got caught up in my 3 1/3 Klinger adjustments and the like; great body, 10's, etc. Anyway, she decided to treat her (10)15-count as a good 15-count and pursued a slam. When partner showed up with only one Ace, her lack of any Aces (an aceless 15-count surely deserves an upgrade, especially when it is really an aceless 10-count) convinced her that the slam was long-odds, and she signed off at 5. This went set two tricks for a cold top. The opponents at the other tables all found a heart game (made ) the other way. Tough for Bob and Tom that they couldn't find their heart game in this sequence.

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My stupid session was in the qualifiers for the under 25 pairs in the UK, a long time ago.

 

I was visiting my old uni when the heat was played so I asked them to find me a partner and they did.

 

The movement was such that we played 24 boards before the break, and 16 after. We had a 42% score in the first "half" and 1/3 of the field qualified. Warp drive was then engaged. Our second "half" consisted of one average and 15 70%+ scores for an overall 84% in the second session to qualify in some comfort.

 

Then found out it was some obscure religious holiday and he couldn't play in the final :lol:

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In my last year of school (before university) I played in the national schools pairs. In the first session (23 tables) we managed to pull out a 76% session over 24 boards. This was then followed up by a 70% session in the final (top 12 qualified, 22 boards 2 vs each of the other pairs). Needless to say, we won comfortably enough (though the wierd scoring format of the competition meant that our final score was "lower" than last place in the consolation).

 

Not that that even compared to 94% lol.

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