Bridge | 7 April 2016

Well done to Janet and her team for their victory at the London Easter Congress. My own team — David Gold, Peter Taylor and Ingar Hansen — were lying first equal at one point, but ended up slipping to tenth after Janet and her crew beat us in our head-to-head match. I seem to have been jinxed by the number 10, as David and I came tenth in the Pairs too. I wish I could say we didn’t have much luck. The trouble is, the hand that sticks in my mind is one where we got very lucky indeed: I made a poor lead against a slam but our opponent managed to go down by making an even worse play. Although I didn’t give the slam much thought at the time, I was chatting to Peter Taylor about it afterwards, and he said how surprised he was that half the field had gone down, when in fact a simple squeeze brings it home:

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