Tor Helness, the Norwegian-born superstar who now plays for Monaco, partnering his wife Gunn in the European Mixed Teams, had a total meltdown and stormed out when she let through 3NT. As you would. When he stormed back in she informed him that he would be playing the rest of the tournament with their (female) teammate as she couldn’t take him any longer. And off they went to play their match and convened for scoring up.
‘She played like a magician,’ he gushed as Gunn’s jaw hit the floor. ‘For once I could totally relax putting dummy down.’ I would have shot him!
Here, on the other hand, is my partner, Saint Artur of Malinowski, playing Teams with me in Biarritz.
Look, it was hot, I had been sitting in the sun, and clearly I was unfit to play.
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