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The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part XCII: Poor Frank’s Poor Bet
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part XCII: Poor Frank’s Poor Bet By Ray Adams frankandarchie@yahoo.com Regular readers of this blog know that Poor Frank’s bridge career would be much happier were he not constantly exasperated by the lucky plays … Continue reading
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part LXXIX: The King of Finesse
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part LXXIX: The King of Finesse By Ray Adams frankandarchie@yahoo.com Poor Frank’s bridge club was recently honored by the visit of one of the country’s leading bridge players, Jasper J. Jesper, commonly known … Continue reading
The Tale of the Ten of Hearts
The Tale of the Ten of Hearts By Ray Adams frankandarchie@yahoo.com Intermediate Place was jumping just the other night. The Ten of Hearts was buying drinks for all the other tens, as well as the nines and eights. The … Continue reading
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part XXX: New Agony for Archie By Ray Adams frankandarchie@yahoo.com Poor Frank had beaten Lucky Archie quite badly during a recent run at the local duplicate club. This led the Lucky One to … Continue reading
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part XVIII: Poor Frank’s Dangerous Finesse By Ray Adams frankandarchie@yahoo.com Poor Frank had an interesting play problem just the other night at the local duplicate club. As usual, the outcome of the hand would … Continue reading
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part III: A Brilliant Finesse
The Adventures of Poor Frank, Part III: A Brilliant Finesse By Ray Adams frankandarchie@gmail.com The entire local club was talking about Poor Frank’s brilliant finesse the other day. It all came about on the following hand: Dealer: North Vulnerable: … Continue reading