Posted 2005-September-22, 21:22
My wife has been playing bridge for about 6 months. She recently played against Walter Johnson (she had no idea) with my Dad as her partner. Against a suit contract, she found a "great lead" that my Dad found hilarious.
The problem from Dad's perspective. In a suit contract, not spades, the opening lead is a small spade (the 5) from my wife. Dummy hits with QJ97, Dad held 86 doubleton. Walter called for small from dummy, Dad dutifully played "third hand high," and, as you can see (Rule of 11 and all), won the trick!!!
A spade was continued, to the Ace, King, 10!!! No other way to take three spade tricks and then a trump promotion for Dad.
She learns well -- fourth best from longest and strongest usually works.
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
-P.J. Painter.
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