2,000 Billion Billions to One Chance Against!
A Bridge Miracle — Four Players Dealt Complete Suit Simultaneously An event which surely deserves the title of “miracle” has occurred in a gan\e of Auction Bridge at the Cavendish Hotel, Bedford. In the course of a third rubber with the same pack, which was not new when they began, and had been cut and shuffled in the ordinary way, each player was simultaneously dealt a complete suit! “If it had occurred in the first deal,” said Mr. J. C. E. Robinson, a Bedford chartered surveyor, who was one of the players, “I should have thought that someone had been playing Patience with the cards. I believe the mathematicians have worked out the odds against this division of cards on a normal deal at something like 2,000 billion billions to one.” All four players have sent a certificate of the authenticity of the deal to the editor of the “Auction Bridge Magazine.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 10
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1582,000 Billion Billions to One Chance Against! Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 10
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