>It's stuff like that that keeps me coming back to the game
Sure.
The game has it rewards and- alas- more frequently- its penalties.
It's the fact that the rewards are so rare and hard to come by that makes them such fun.
My older brother was playing with me as my partner in a collegiate match when I had my ace.
A few years ago he called from New Hampshire where he lives now and told me breathlessly "Well, I finally did it. It took more than fifty years but I had an ace today!"