I was playing with an unfamiliar partner, agreeing to play Benji Acol with a few gadgets including splinters and RKCB. I leave it to the reader to assign the blame for the final contract. It is the result that counts!

West led the K. If I tell you that 7 was made, you could almost reconstruct the hands! They were:

North played A, finessed the 10, drew trumps, cashed the A and claimed!

[We thought this article was appropriate as it's the 99th we've had on poorbridge.com. So is it the luckiest hand of the century (let's see, 0.327 x 0.5 x 0.52 = 8.5%)? I suppose you'll have to wait until next week to see. —Ed]

Xebon got an email yesterday from a Mr Roberto Bonari, asking us to plug his system notes on our website. No kidding. We thought at first that he had never read poorbridge.com before and was just mindlessly spamming lots of bridge websites in order to get some airtime for EHAA Sixtheme ("Six are the main features, so we call our version EHAA Sixtheme."), but his system seems pretty crap so we thought we'd honour it with a link. We particularly like the 18-19 2NT opening and the fact that 1-level overcalls seem to be sounder than 2-level overcalls.

See the system notes here.