Tom Townsend, my esteemed teammate and the Telegraph’s bridge correspondent, did the double last weekend at the London Easter Festival of Bridge. First he won the Championship Pairs playing with Mark Teltscher and then he won the teams playing with … me! Well — on my team anyway.
Tom and Mark have had considerable success playing Pairs together even though Mark can be found more often at the poker table. But he takes his bridge outings very seriously and ‘warms up’ by playing rubber bridge at TGRs for a couple of weeks before a tournament. His poker skills, reading the opponents and judging risk against reward, will have come in useful on this hand:
Mark was sitting South. His 1NT overcall is a fair shot at pairs, but after it got doubled most of us would run to 2♣, but most of us don’t have Mark’s chutzpah.
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