Bridge & Humor: A message from whom?

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:

aaxx

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.”

 

 

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