Sheffield Bridge Club	Established 1936

THE  PIG  TRADER……..

                                        …….is not as good a player as he likes to think he is! His bidding can be over adventurous and his declarer play often requires as much opportunism as skill!

All the stories have appeared either in the Sheffield Bridge Club Newsletter or in English Bridge. Many stories have been edited for this compilation; some have been rewritten extensively.

The stories reflect actual events at the bridge table. Apart from the encrypting of some names, the only fictitious element is the impression given that the Pig Trader and I and different persons! The invention of the character “Pig Trader” was to allow me to relate stories of hands where I make contracts, often when I should not have been in those contracts in the first place! Thus I could reserve my own name for describing those hands where I had really got it wrong!

The deals described occurred at Sheffield Bridge Club in Match Pointed Pairs events except where I have indicated otherwise.

Barrie Partridge                                                                                                                           October 2007

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