Janet de Botton

Bridge | 3 January 2019

issue 05 January 2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
 
I have made a resolution to make some bridge resolutions. Here they are:
 
1. When declaring, I will never again play to the first trick in a nanosecond. I will explain to the opps, in an insufferably smug tone, that I always take at least two minutes to plan the play.



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