Somerset Maugham famously called Monte Carlo ‘a sunny place for shady people’. Today über sponsor Pierre Zimmermann has rather unexpectedly turned it into the bridge capital of the world. Last week he achieved another huge win for the principality by moving the world’s biggest money tournament, The Cavendish, from Las Vegas to Monaco for a week of thrilling tournaments that attracted over 100 of the best players from all over the world.
The auction pairs event, generating a whopping €150,000 for the successful buyer, was won by astonishing Israeli Juniors Ron Schwarz and Lotan Fisher. But for me the pair of the tournament was the not very junior Philippe Cronier and Jean-Christophe Quantin from France, a no-nonsense, unflashy, steady, BRILLIANT duo, who quietly beavered away to come second.
Philippe Cronier produced perhaps the play of the tournament on this hand:
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