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  • Battle Royale

    On March 25th Vickie & I played in the 8PM Speedball Toonimint — lo & behold, first round we drew the MECKs! (Jeff & his son Matt). Ironically, that very evening we hoped we’d be playing Jeff in the First Final session of the National Mixed Pairs at the Columbus Nationals — on Jeff’s own…

  • Bob Hamman was right, again!

    Steaming toward a great last-board win in the 126 table 12-board Daylong IMP Toonimint May 4th, I faced that final curtain: Pass, 4♦, 5♦ and 3NT are all reasonable guesses over 3♦ — but I soooo HATE missing a game at IMPs. Sadly, my Bridge World Magazine Master Solvers Club instincts clikked in — I…

  • When time stood still

    I held back considerably, thus the makeable (GRAND) slam was deftly avoided. Vickie ruffed out West’s ♠5 lead, cashed ♥AK, then ♦10-J-Q held. Then she exited 3rd ♥ to East’s Q and ruffed the ♠ back with ♥10, her last trump. Now 2nd ♦ to K-Ace, ♦ back to her 9. All this went ZIP-ZAP-ZOP…