Bridge & Humor: A message from whom?

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Reno 1998

    

Hugh Ross and Mike Lawrence played Bart Bramley and Sidney Lazard in the first Open Pairs qualifying session of the 1998 Spring NABC in Reno.

The auction went:

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Ross tells the rest of the story: “Sidney thinks a while, trying to decide between doubling and bidding 6.

He looks in his bid box but there’s no 6 card. So he doubles, thinking God is sending him a message.

“Wrong message. We made 5 doubled.”