Please mark your calendars and make a mental note to celebrate properly: August 2nd is the International Beer Day 
We’ll follow suit here on BBO with a Beer Card Contest – obviously!
On Friday, August 2nd, we’ll reward the best “beers” scored on BBO. If you don’t know what this means, please read here about the beer card and see a quick example in the video below. Submit your beers in the comment box at the bottom of this article, and the most interesting entries will win BB$ prizes!
Prizes
• BB$5: Best beer as chosen by BBO, based on prettiness of play, difficulty, originality.
• BB$3: Best comment associated with a beer hand entry.
• BB$1: Consolation prize.
Conditions of Contest
– Submit hands where you beered, either in defense or as declarer, in the comment box below
– The hands must be from a BBO tournament, team match or club game with random deals (not prepared deals, not teaching table deals)
– The hands must be played on Friday, August 2nd. If the hands are from a daylong, please wait until Saturday, August 3rd to post them. Do not show deals from daylongs in progress, other people may still be playing them.
– Submit the handviewer URL or the link to hand from myhands, along with an explanation of where the hand was played so we can retrieve it in your hand records
– You are welcome to leave a comment, either to tell the story of your beer, or to commentate on someone else’s entry
– Contest ends on Saturday, August 3rd, at 23.59 US Eastern Time.
– Click here for a brief video showing how to get the link to a hand.
– You can also find your hand records in myhands database.
– Have fun beering!
Comments
33 responses to “August 2: Beer Day Contest!”
Once while playing with my mother, we were defending against 6 diamonds. Holding 97xxx in diamonds i pitched the 9! Had my eye on the prize 😀 Declarer then followed to draw all diamonds (my 7 aswell). Thank god mommy had two tricks!
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robot rebate 55% #6194
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Cheers! 🙂
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Getting drunk…
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Doubled beer!
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The hand was played on Just Play Bridge
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P (that is bot), you must buy me a beer…
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Slam squeeze beer
Penalty beer for misplaying it. Need to cash two spades, throwing two diamonds. RHO must retain three diamonds, else we cash all our tricks, ending with the beer of course. If RHO pitches any clubs, the C5 is a guard against LHO’s clubs for a heart oriented double. If RHO pitches two hearts, it becomes a guard squeeze. The last case highlights the importance of retaining all three hearts in dummy.
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I had 12 top tricks at the lead, but had to play clubs first in order to get the beer.
Playing clubs could result in 2-4 tricks in clubs for the defense…
Clearly I risked a few tricks for that beer!
Risked $5 total points entry when I played for the beer on board 21.
https://www.bridgebase.com/myhands/mbthands.php?tourney=9508-1564774201-&username=Leo+LaSota
http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?bbo=y&myhand=MBT-9508-1564774201-21-Leo+LaSota
#9556 Board 4 1NT – Alchemistb on a Beer
ACBL tournament #9601, deal #3. Contract 3N + 3 = +490. Beer.
curtak – Curt Kristensen
ACBL tournament #9601, deal #9, contract 3N, result +490. Beer!
curtak
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1NT making 2. 94.4% board.
How about a nice cold Fat Tire for this one?
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Redoubled, overtrick beer in 3NT.
Here’s one, if diamond partials count:
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Came up in a star challenge.
Regular auction and when the dummy came down, the game was obvious just losing A!h. Had to play carefully to get the beer. Easy buck just 30 min before the end!!
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Risky beer at the stroke of midnight!!
Came up in star challenge
Massive hand and regular auction ending up in 3N. I sensed beer, but many things need to work out. The only entry for my beer was the singleton Q. If opponents lead S anytime I need to go dry. On top of everything, E was holding the master diamond over my beer!!
Finally very happy to make the contract and the beer at the stroke of midnight!!
When I looked at the score, I was even more surprised as the “star” player played in 5C -1 for an IMP of 12.
#1. I guess robots don’t like beer: https://tinyurl.com/y5nunrev
#2. Some people say down one is good bridge? https://tinyurl.com/y28d966d (yeah, I could have made this)
#3. Finally! https://tinyurl.com/yx8wb27t
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with 7 losers: 5s, Ac Kd, wait, hold Q club, dump AD to end 7D winner & beer please! gr8 sac
ref #9556 Board 4 1NT
But you were down!?! That steals the beer
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Two in a row on Daylong MP A. Second one gave me a 100% score.
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I tried for several hands until this one came up. With diamonds 4-3 the beer card was surely a possible final card and sarted diamonds early never endangering my contract. This was a challenge and even though my opponent did try playing a diamond early he just claimed not even mentioning the beer. I guess he doesn’t like them…
While playing in an ACBL daylong on 8/2/19 I was not able to score a beer card, but can you believe that I had not one…. but two beer cards scored against me by the robots. This first one I was pushy to open 1nt and got what I deserved going down one in 3nt,
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Two boards later this deal appeared. Now I realize that it is not a true beer card if diamonds are trump but it was funny to have the robots score the 7 of diamonds twice against me in the same tournament.
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While playing in an ACBL daylong I was not able to score a beer card, but can you believe that I had not one…. but two beer cards scored against me by the robots. This first one I was pushy to open 1nt and got what I deserved going down one in 3nt,
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Two boards later this deal appeared. Now I realize that it is not a true beer card if diamonds are trump but it was funny to have the robots score the 7 of diamonds twice against me in the same tournament.
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2 in a row on Fridays daylong MP A. The second one gave me a 100% score
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2 in a row on Fridays daylong MP A. Second one gave me a 100% score.
ACBL tourney #9601 deal #9 contract 3N result +490
Played and made 12 tricks, preserving the beer card at trick #13.