This autumn has been the busiest (bridge-wise) I can remember. It started with the Crockfords final at the beginning of September (we came second), then there was the World Championships in Orlando (we came nowhere) and the Pairs and Teams Grand Prix of Poland in Vilnius (we came second in both). We have just played the third and final weekend of the English Premier League, which we had been leading all the way, and we came… second, beaten by the strong Allfrey team by one VP. What a heartbreaker!
Of course there was much discussion about the hands between rounds. Who was in which contract? Who had made? Who had gone down and why? This one comes from the final weekend and proves that greed is not always good when playing teams:
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