Sheinwold bridge joke.
A player at a tournament went up to an expert and asked him where he had gone wrong in playing a hand.
The expert explained. Two days later the player got a bill for $100 from the expert. Irate, the player phoned his lawyer.
«I don’t have to pay it, do I?» he asked.
«I’m afraid you do,» answered the lawyer. «He’s a professional and you sought his counsel.»
Two days later the player got a bill for $100 from the lawyer.
Krauss told a story about the legendary Oswald Jacoby.
Jacoby was playing a hand in which the opponents held seven diamonds, including the queen.
«Of the seven missing diamonds,» said Ozzie, «I knew that five were on my left, two on my right, so I calculated that the odds were precisely 5-2 that the queen was on my left.
Just then the player on my right dropped a card. It was the queen of diamonds. I immediately revised my estimate.»