Bridge Without Sam

If you see any bugs, please feel free to tell me how I ought to have got it right! Almost all of the events chronicled occurred in real life, but sometimes my memory is a bit faulty.

Thanks to Sam Dinkin, Walter Hamilton, Mike Shuster, Sylvia Summers, Marshall Miles, Mark Bartusek, and John Jones (and anyone else I have omitted) as either innocent bystanders or active perpetrators on some of these hands. All characters are either real or not at my whim; resemblances to real people are intentional if flattering, for your amusement only if not.

Above His Pay Grade After a Long Layoff All Together Now Always There And a Half? Another Funny Ending Another Push Another Submarine Another Useful Convention Attack! Destroy! Back to Basics Bad Bidding A Bad Habit Besides, He Misdefended Best of Show Bookish Book Play Botched Both Sides Now Breaking Even The Briar Patch Bridge Players Bridge Without Sam Brief Brilliant Business Trip Can't Win 'Em All Careful A Claimer Corrigenda Creative Crossing the Rubicon Decisions Devilish Dilemma Discretion A Distant Third Don't Send a Boy Doublecross Do You Mind? Dreaming The Drillers Driving Home The Dummy Dummy of My Dreams In Earnest Easy EHAA E Pluribus Plurum Eureka Fast Pairs Femmes Fatale Fever Fiction First and Last The First Board A First for Me Five or Four The 5s of Spades Force de Tour For Naught Four Tops Fourth Best Freak Show Freeze 'n Squeeze Frustration Full Speed Ahead Fun! A Fun Match Gambit Accepted Goals Good Lead A Good Start Goren In a Box Grand Defense Grant A Greek Gift A Greek Gift

Half the Field Hamilton Hard to Plan Heat 1 He Took His Eye Off the Ball Hopeful An Hour of Sleep How Many Tricks? The Idiot Coup Inferential Reasoning I'm Annoyed Isn't Everyday It Doesn't Take Much I've Learned Intercollegiates Interesting Jeter Jettison Jim Leary's Cat's Grandmother Juniors Just Another Push Just in Case Just Par Just Double Dummy Kaboom! A Killing Duck Lew Like My Discard, Ma? The Light was Dim A Little Push Little Risk Lots of Problems Lucky Lucky Break Lucky You Matchpoints and Beer Merrimac Mining the Ether A Minor Goal Missed Another One More Ether Ore More Interesting More Likely My Usual Garbage Nailed! Nice Defense, Partner Nice Dummy Nice Lead "Nicely Played" 19 IMPs No Aces No Argument No, 14 No Help No Kidding Not Garozzo Not Good Enough Not My Shining Hour Not Once, but Twice! Not Suspicious Not Me No Way Odd Oh, Cool! Oh, Well One Right One of My Favorite Things The Only Chance Only One Club Will Do Only The Dummy On The Tablecloth On the Way Oops An Overberry Overtricks Orbital Mind Control Lasers Partnercide A Perfect Top

A Phantom Philistines Picked 'em Clean Pizza Break Player of the Year Play it Again, Sam Play it, Sam Post Mortem Decision Prayer Almost Answered Pretty Unlucky? Pro-am Pro-am '93 Profligate Radar Ravaged Real Bridge A Record A Reverse Revokes Riffle-Diffle Robot Squeeze Rubbed It In On the Same Page Say it with Feeling, Podner A Secret Secret Weapon Serves Him Right Short and Sweet Show-Off Show Them 16 Minutes Slow Down Smack! A Solid Suit Spectacularly Unsuccessful The Speaker Stepping Lightly Strong Notrumps Stupidest. Play. Ever. Surprise A Teammate's Problem Think Like a Bridge Player A Thin Slam Three-Way Final Three-Way Finesse 3NT Bid and Made Too Bad Too Tough Torture Torture Bid Tough Defense Tough Week Transfer Trees Triple Tempo A Trump Loser Trust Thy Partner Trusting the Opponents Try, Try, Again Two Lines The Underbidder And Underruffing Unlucky Seed An Unusual Unblock Useful Agreement A Useful Convention Walkin' da Dawg A Weird Decision Whatever Squeeze What's Going On? What Were Your Clubs? Why I Lose at Matchpoints Whoops Why Me? Wilt A Winkle? The World Serious You Wish