An Unjustified Reward
by Mark Blumenthal on
February 25th, 2009
Some time in the mid-sixties Bob Goldman, Mike Carson, Bill Landow and I played in a board a match team club team championship. I had played with all the other members of the team, and Billy and Mike had played as a pair often, but when the four of us lined up as a team our best arrangement seemed to have my playing with Mike and our pairing up Bobby and Billy.
On the first hand Mike opened one no trump. It went double. I bid two clubs which was running with a bad hand and clubs in in this sequence. My LHO passed. Instead of passing as he should have, Mike bid two diamonds. Which was promptly doubled. I bid three clubs which was also doubled so that became the contract. Luckily, I managed made it. After the hand was finished I asked Mike why he hadn’t passed two clubs since it hadn’t been doubled. Mike said, “because it wasn’t game.” It turned out Bobby and Billy had a mixup on the hand and had and went down redoubled. The only way for us to win the board was to bid and make a game as which we had somehow managed to do.
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