[32519]

I stumbled across this humouristic list of lesser known bridge coups. I've posted it here for you to chuckle as well.

How many of your own "lesser known bridge coups" can you add to this list?

[Cascade]

32519, on 2012-September-11, 22:36, said:

I stumbled across this humouristic list of lesser known bridge coups. I've posted it here for you to chuckle as well.

How many of your own "lesser known bridge coups" can you add to this list?

I call two plays - defensive errors - affectionately by the name "coup".

1. The Easter Coup - He has risen.

When a defender goes up with the ace in error.

2. The Elvis Presley Coup - the king is not dead

When with an king sitting under an ace the defender cashes the ace.

I suppose these could also be applied to declarer errors

[32519]

How about this one, called the Idiot Coup?

[masse24]

hmmm...I once had a partner who often attempted something similar to the Ostrich Coup, but his head was not in the sand, it was elsewhere.

[barmar]

32519, on 2012-September-12, 03:14, said:

How about this one, called the Idiot Coup?

Seems similar to the Grosvenor Gambit.

[32519]

The Bigot-Johnson Coup contains another 3 variations of the Idiot Coup.

[Quantumcat]

I got Grovenored this weekend. I didn't think it really happened in real life. I had AQ9x of spades in dummy and 8x in my hand. Spades are led. I play small to see what happens. RHO wins the king and switches. Later on as I am playing off long suits, LHO discards the jack. This is quite suspicious, cause if he hangs onto both the jack and ten, he can stick one in when I play the suit to keep me to two tricks (he'll have J7 and I'll have 9x with no more smalls to lead towards it). When I lead a spade, he follows small, and I play the ace, expecting the ten to drop (this is why you should pay attention to the opening lead spot, so you can use rule of eleven later!). But it doesn't. Grr!

[32519]

Thought I may as well list all the other better known coups as well. If I’ve missed any, please add them to this list.

Definition: a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.

Alcatraz Coup
Bath Coup
Belladonna Coup
Coup En Passant
Crocodile Coup
Dentists Coup: This term refers to the extraction of a safe exit card from the hand of the opponent, and, by inference, the removal of a card that allows an opponent a safe play.
Deschapelles Coup
Devils Coup
Galileo Coup: The Galileo coup is so named because Galileo Galilei is usually credited with the invention of the telescope; this coup arises when the contract is in a suit in which the declaring side is missing both the Ace and King; if successful, the defenders end up being forced to play the Ace and King of trumps to the same trick, thus "telescoping" their two trump tricks into one.
Grand Coup (Trump Coup)
Merrimac Coup
Mortons Fork Coup
Pitt Coup
Robert Coup
Scissors Coup
Serpents Coup
Superglue Coup: The Superglue Coup is where a defender pulls out two cards together (as if they were superglued together). Declarer sees the cards and assumes they are adjacent in rank in the defender's hand. For example if declarer is missing K103 and one defender pulls the K and 3 out together declarer can assume that the defender does not have the 10.
Trump Coup
Vienna Coup

[Zelandakh]

32519, on 2012-September-14, 00:04, said:

Alcatraz Coup
Superglue Coup: The Superglue Coup is where a defender pulls out two cards together (as if they were superglued together). Declarer sees the cards and assumes they are adjacent in rank in the defender's hand. For example if declarer is missing K103 and one defender pulls the K and 3 out together declarer can assume that the defender does not have the 10.

If you are going to include stuff like this then you should also include other dodgy things like running a long suit quickly and throwing in a trick of the suit of the same colour somewhere in the middle in order to try and provoke a revoke.

[Quantumcat]

Zelandakh, on 2012-September-14, 04:24, said:

If you are going to include stuff like this then you should also include other dodgy things like running a long suit quickly and throwing in a trick of the suit of the same colour somewhere in the middle in order to try and provoke a revoke.

Anyone enjoying reading about that sort of thing should read www.poorbridge.com. It has loads of cool (but illegal) coups.

[semeai]

Quantumcat, on 2012-September-12, 17:29, said:

I got Grovenored this weekend. I didn't think it really happened in real life. I had AQ9x of spades in dummy and 8x in my hand. Spades are led. I play small to see what happens. RHO wins the king and switches. Later on as I am playing off long suits, LHO discards the jack. This is quite suspicious, cause if he hangs onto both the jack and ten, he can stick one in when I play the suit to keep me to two tricks (he'll have J7 and I'll have 9x with no more smalls to lead towards it). When I lead a spade, he follows small, and I play the ace, expecting the ten to drop (this is why you should pay attention to the opening lead spot, so you can use rule of eleven later!). But it doesn't. Grr!

Of course it happens in real life. A common one is for a player not to split honors when it can't hurt to do so.

Simple example:

Dummy: K10xx

QJxx .............. Axx

Declarer: xx

Not splitting as West is really bad,* but it happens. You'll almost never be called on it. I recall this one in particular because a while ago when I was starting out I failed to split in this situation. Declarer then sat there staring at me, apparently having picked up some tell. He even said something like "did you just fail to split"? He eventually went with the K, but it was quite memorable.

* Assume it's some trump contract and it's clear that declarer can't get or won't ever need a second trick in this suit.

[barmar]

Zelandakh, on 2012-September-14, 04:24, said:

If you are going to include stuff like this then you should also include other dodgy things like running a long suit quickly and throwing in a trick of the suit of the same colour somewhere in the middle in order to try and provoke a revoke.

That's called a "Color coup" -- they don't always get really clever names.

[32519]

Zelandakh, on 2012-September-14, 04:24, said:

If you are going to include stuff like this then you should also include other dodgy things like running a long suit quickly and throwing in a trick of the suit of the same colour somewhere in the middle in order to try and provoke a revoke.

Apologies Zel, but you're spot on here. Alcatraz and Superglue should have been excluded.

[32519]

In last nights English Premier League, Round 3 of 3, Robson as declarer on board 6 successfully executed the Galileo Coup. In doing so he gained an IMP for his side. Check-out what happened on trick 3.

[Vampyr]

32519, on 2012-September-22, 22:29, said:

In last nights English Premier League, Round 3 of 3, Robson as declarer on board 6 successfully executed the Galileo Coup. In doing so he gained an IMP for his side. Check-out what happened on trick 3.

Errr, no, it was Tosh who executed it...

[Quantumcat]

32519, on 2012-September-22, 22:29, said:

In last nights English Premier League, Round 3 of 3, Robson as declarer on board 6 successfully executed the Galileo Coup. In doing so he gained an IMP for his side. Check-out what happened on trick 3.

Tried the link but all I got was a blank hand record?

[Fluffy]

In Spain we call it the Oostrich cup, when novice declarer doesn't know what to do and hides his head in the ground by ruffing in the long trump hand

[PetteriLem]

KJT9 in dummy and AQ behind it. When declarer plays to 9 and it is taken with ace, what is this manouver called?

[aguahombre]

PetteriLem, on 2012-September-23, 04:14, said:

KJT9 in dummy and AQ behind it. When declarer plays to 9 and it is taken with ace, what is this manouver called?

The coup most likely to backfire. Unlike the Grosevenor Gambit, which must be successful (and accidental) in order to be a Grosevenor Gamit.

[ggwhiz]

aguahombre, on 2012-September-23, 07:19, said:

The coup most likely to backfire.

This one actually worked on me back when I was a guppy.

4♥ doubled, they knocked out my stopper in their suit at trick 1 and when I led a ♥ to JTxx the AKQx ducked.

They were getting in later anyway but I led them again and went quite a few extra in the glue.