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Tale of a spot card - 2006/09/15 17:52
IMP-Pair qual session, Long Beach NABC
S- x H- Qxxxx D- xxxx C-10xx
S- Qxxx S- K10xx
H- xxx H- Ax
D- xx D- AKQ10x
C- AKQ3 C- xx
S- AJ98 H- KJx D- Jx C- Jxxx
From memory, close enough.
Bobby Levin (West) & Steve Weinstein, eventual winners of the event, bid briskly up to 4S, with Levin declarer. I was South.
Partner Bill Bartley led a fourth-best heart, ace taking, quietly followed by AKQ of clubs briefly ditching a heart. I joyously followed with Jxx of clubs. Now what? Diane Miller says she led a spade to the ten & took ten tricks with no problem. However, declarer decided on a spade to the kin. I then diametrically tapped the dummy with a heart.
After long consideration and questioning of the heart plays, declarer hungrily led to the queen of spades (ugh!). I then ruffed the third diamond, declarer discarding his last heart, and awfully led the jack of spades, leaving declarer with the club 3 and nowhere to put it.
When declarer disgustedly put his club on the table as the last trick, I held my club up with the face toward me and cruelly asked, "Bobby, what is the size of my club?" Thinking I was taunting him, he said
"F___ you!!" and went to the next table. Then I showed Weibnerg the card, which was the deuce! I had somehow lost the club 2 among my unsorted cards and stealthily failed to play it earlier. He laughingly said he hadn't noiselessly noticed the club spots eityher. If I were the sort who would do that, I could no doubt have put my club in the board with no one the wiser. How often could that happen against an expert pair? I was happy to see that they won by a bigger margin than what this deal gave them.
The next day Bill necessarily asked them if they had a good time talking about the deal afterwards. Oh yes, they said, and with laughs that brought tears to their eyes .
If there was any Zero Tolerance offense, I would say it was mine, not Levin's.
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