Source: The hand of a lifetime By FRANK CAYLEY 
  
  
  
If you were vulnerable and dealt yourself the following hand in a game of rubber bridge:
AKQ110862  – AKQ AK — what would you bid? I am sure you would regard it as the hand of a life time. Would you bid seven spades? And then, if an opponent doubled, would you redouble? If so, you would suffer a huge penalty of 2,200 Points, less a miserable 150 for honours. Here is the complete deal—although it never really happened. It was concocted for fun some years ago.
Note that seven no-trump is unbeatable and can be reached by any player who follows up an opening “force” with a Blackwood 4NT to ask for aces.
Even then the lure of “150 for honours in spades” would have to be resisted — and not many people could bring themselves to do this.
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