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We have all picked up bad hands, but the west players Friday afternoon really really picked up a bad hand on board 30.

That west hand makes a Yarborough look good. The odds of getting a Yarborough are 1,827 to 1. But the odds of picking up a hand with nothing higher than a seven are 254,397 to 1. Yep, that stinker is 139 times less likely than a Yarborough.

From time to time players complain about computer dealt hands, often along the lines of "These hands are fixed in some way." The truth is that the hands at ACBL tournament hands are decently random and certainly not setup to make our life more difficult.

Here is what the hand looked like at one table (they played 2N EW and were down four):

Five EW pairs got plus scores when NS played 2♥s or 2♠s and went down one or two.

So the next time you pick up a bad hand just remember it is almost certainly better than the one folks had Friday afternoon at the 2016 Sarasota-Manatee Regional.