| Bridge Trivia | |
The longtime president of the Washington Post died in 2001. What most news stories did not reveal was that she was on her way to a bridge game when she had the untimely fall that led to her death. Who was this rich and talented publisher?
Scroll down to find out. |
| Forward to a Friend |  | |
If you enjoy our Deal of the Week newsletter, why not forward it to a friend?
|
| Sign Up for Our Mailing List | |
If this newsletter was forwarded to you, sign up to be added to our mailing list.
|
The Daily Deal
Each day we "seed" one lesson deal somewhere into our otherwise randomly dealt set of boards. The board number is different each day. You never know which board it is. The daily deal is a free mini-lesson. You can take home a handout of the daily deal every day. We hope you find it educational as well as entertaining. To see past Daily Deals, click here. |
|
Replay At Home  You can now replay the boards you've played at the club - in the comfort of your own home.
Replay the exact same hands with any of several commercial bridge programs such as GIB or Bridge Baron if you own one. If you have not purchased one, we have a free program for you to download. Click here for instructions. | |
|
Free Bridge Lessons
Rich answers your questions every Tuesday prior to the game. |
Thursdays, we have a vugraph presentation. Rich reviews interesting deals of the past week. Each board in question is projected onto our large video screen for all to see as we discuss it. |
|
Bridge Trivia Answer
Katharine Graham
She was on her way to play bridge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. This caused William F. Buckley to comment, "One doesn't know about her prowess in bridge, but a playful imagination wonders: If the bridge game had been consummated, would Buffett or Gates have ended up owning the Washington Post?" |
|
|
Continuing our series of famous bridge deals ...
The infamous "Oh, Shit!" case from the March, 1999 Vanderbilt Knockouts in Vancouver. The contestants were Bobby Wolff and Dan Morse vs. JoAnna Stansby and Michael Shuster.
This deal resulted in perhaps the most controversial decision ever by an appeals committee.
Scroll down to read the whole story. |
 Free Lunch Tomorrow |
Tomorrow, Monday, May 2, we will serve a special free gourmet lunch at 11:15 to celebrate the end of the tourist season.
Several of our most loyal players have offered to donate their time, money and cooking talents to make this possible. The menu will feature Nella's Risotto Alla Milanese - with prosciutto and portabella mushroom, salad, cheesecake and wine. |
BOLS Bridge Tips Online |
|
Check out our new page of free lessons online.
The BOLS Bridge Tips competition started in 1974, and took place off and on for more than 20 years. During that time, virtually all the world's greatest bridge players and writers contributed their ideas to the series.
Not sure what to lead? Can't decide the right bid? Want to make more contracts? Get pointers from the all-time greatest names in bridge -Reese, Rodwell, Zia, Flint, Goren, Hamman, Wolff, Schenken, Garozzo, Belladonna, Chagas and many more - they're all represented. All the advice is here in a perfect potpourri for players of every standard.
These tips are terrific. I will be publishing many of them here. Check back often. |
New Location for Saturdays |
|
Since St. Demetrios is rented out so often on Saturdays, we will hold Saturday games at Billy Rose's bar, Jester's. It is located at:
801 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334
Next Saturday's game will be followed by a Kentucky Derby party! |
Oh S#!t! |
|
Although Wolff and Morse originally received the correct ruling from the Tournament Director, it was later reversed. Inexcusable! There oughta be a law against it.
Here is what happened: Wolff led his singleton heart against 6 , won by declarer in dummy. She then led a diamond from  K-J-9 and when Morse, fearing a singleton Q, popped up with his A declarer ruffed. All she had to do was pull trump and claim her slam as she had a discard for her losing spade on the K.
However, instead of the rest of the hand being a pianola, Stansby must have had a "senior moment" (not uncommon, even at the high levels). After ruffing the diamond, she played a low trump to dummy's Q and then played a spade away from the  A and Morse hopped up K and gave Wolff a heart ruff for down one. As she led the low spade (and after Morse won the K), her universally quoted comment was echoed, "Oh, Shit!" Wolff described it later, "It was a phrase that was to become so famous that those two words will always be synonymous with the most ludicrous appeals decision that ever came down the pike."
After the play was over, declarer's partner suggested they call the Tournament Director, Stan Tench, to the table who ruled that the result would stand as played. Ten minutes later he was coerced into reversing his ruling, after Chief Tournament Director, Henry Cukoff became involved. Unfathomable as it is, declarer was allowed to take back her card and 6 was chalked up as making. Yes, read it again. You are not seeing things!
UNBELIEVABLE! |
|
As always, you can follow the play of this deal with our Bridge Movie on our website. |
|
|
|
|
