There is something decidedly Groundhog Day about the international bridge calendar. The second weekend of January is TGR’s Auction Pairs and the last weekend is Iceland’s wildly popular four-day Pairs and Teams tournament. Everything ticked along happily in the same vein as every other year. Two days of Pairs (in which we came nowhere) and then an unexpected but very welcome turn of events: we won the teams!
I played with Artur Malinowski — Thor-Erik Hoftaniska and Thomas Charlsen our teammates. Here is Artur showing that great players rarely have to guess because they pay attention to every detail:
Lots of people had lots of ideas on how to bid this hand. Some passed intending to come in with a two-suited overcall when they got the chance.
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