Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Sometime after the Buenos Aires Bridge debacle, I received a
Sometime after the Buenos Aires Bridge debacle, I received a phone call from Alan Truscott (now married to Dorothy Hayden) inquiring if I would write the introduction to an upcoming book supporting charges that Reese and Shapiro cheated in the Buenos Aires Championship Bridge Tournament.
Truscott apparently thought the validity of the cheating accusations
Truscott apparently thought the validity of the cheating accusations leveled against Reese and Shapiro needed further affirmation, so he dreamed up the idea that John Scarne (famous for his card-cheating exposes during World War II) should write the introduction supporting the accusations, thereby strengthening the cheating charges.