There have been many bridge stalwarts from Matunga Gymkhana, one of them is Ramani, who is an ardent tennis and bridge player. I often wonder if his tennis play has influenced his rapid speed movement on speech as well as well on his bridge!! At one Matunga Gymkhana Bridge tournament, sitting South, Ramani has showed his fast but not furious skill in the above deal.
West led the ♥10 and dummy’s ♥J won the trick. Ramani played a spade from the dummy, East ducked and South won the ♠Q. Now fast came the stroke of Scissor coup, Ramani played a ♥2, disconnecting the opponent’s communication! Poor West had to win with the ♥7. West had a choice of cashing the ♥A and let South have the ♥K as ninth trick or shift something else. He played the ♦3, South won the ♦A,♦K, ♦Q and played ♣10, East played ♣J and South the ♣K. He went to dummy with ♠A, and played ♠4, East took the ♠K and played ♠10 to South’s ♠Q. Now Ramani played the ♣Q to East ♣A and ♣9 was his well earned 9th trick.
A bridge player was matched up with another player when he showed up without a partner. All through the match, whenever he made a mistake, his partner would say “No man is perfect”. Later, he found out that his partner’s name was ‘Norman’.
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