Here is my eagerly awaited New Year’s List of the most infuriating things partner can do:
1. Bid ridiculously to game, get doubled, go for a telephone number and say: ‘Sorry, partner, I could have made that.’
2. Double the opps into game, and when it makes, as it ALWAYS does, say ‘Sorry, partner, I could have beaten it.’
3. Balance in pass-out seat when the opps have stopped in a part score, get doubled and go for 500. Or 800. Or 1,100.
These things happen so regularly that they have become a standing joke, not to mention the butt of my most withering sarcasm. But for once my team resisted any deeply clever moves in the Teams’ Tournament at the Year End — and won!
My partner, Nick Sandqvist, brought home his favourite contract, 3NT, on this deal:
Nick always thinks he is worth 3NT, and I suppose he was expecting to get more in dummy for a fourth hand opening.
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