Lockdown has opened up a new venue for bridge players all over the world: HOME! Last Sunday the Helgeland Junior Bridge Club organised an auction pairs online to raise money for their Juniors to play in the prestigious Marit Sveaas pairs tournament at the end of May. They opened the bidding online at the end of January, which gave everyone a chance to bid for the star of their choice, from near and far, raising more than £13,000. I was lucky enough to ‘buy’ young Danish superstar Dennis Bilde. Sadly, I was muppet of the match! On the very first board the visuals on the RealBridge website made me think Dennis had overcalled 1♠, so with my two Aces I bid a no-trump which immediately got doubled. Dennis, thoughtful as ever, pulled to 2◆ (also doubled) which cost -500 for an outright bottom! And I didn’t get a lot better.
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