One for Harry P. fans

I noticed this hand in an old article about the 2003 ANC.

Round 13 vs. WA: Board 12 2nd RR – Dealer W NS Vul
North: Simon Hinge
South: Cathy Chua
West: Henry Christie
East: Ron Cooper

	NORTH AQ732 6 A7642 85
WEST 85 J10987 105 A1032		EAST K1094 43 KQ83 764
	SOUTH J6 AKQ52 J9 KQJ9

‘Sorry’, said Gold-Ebery when we came to score up this hand. They had let 3NT through when it should probably be defeated. No matter. At our table North opened 1S and rebid 3D, not aware that this was a high reverse. South bid to 6NT and East doubled. West led….

Has anybody out there tried to invoke ‘The Room of Requirement’? It will, apparently, be familiar to Harry Potter fans. It is a special room that you can only find when you are in really urgent need of something. For example, if you desperately needed to go to the toilet, you might come across a room filled with chamber pots. I needed a dummy. I thought hard about dummies. I closed my eyes. And lo, I entered a room full of baby pacifiers.

I have no intention of a blow-by-blow account of this hand. Suffice to say Henry got thrown in at the end to give me my ninth trick. -800. Could the curse of evil Lord Voldemort be happening again? I don’t have much idea of what happened in the rest of the match. I recall Ron looking more cheerful than I would have liked, but that’s about it. Still, it scored up alright and with a round to go VIC was actually locked in. It would take many, many, many frivolous appeals to keep us out of the final now…

I haven’t actually ever read a Harry Potter book, so I have no idea where my research came from….

See you on Monday.

Chickengate. The definitive review.

I’ll have a hand or two up later today.

But in the meantime, I hope you will be amused by the definitive review of Chickengate, the video. If you’d like to see the video first, which personally I recommend, go to my other blog here for a link to the video, which contains also a typical reaction….The review itself is here.

If you happen not to know the Chickengate scandal, which is an AFL affair, think rugby players make video which may or may not be a statement on the abuse, sexual and otherwise of women. In this regard I think we can be in agreement that one football code is much the same as another…

Please come back later in the day for a couple of hands…