What can be more regrettable than picking up a huge hand and landing in the wrong contract?
It happened to me recently in a Hubert Phillips match. I had a 3-3-5-2 twenty-four count, all Aces and Kings, and my left hand opponent opened 3♠ which was raised to game on my right.

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