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Most bridge players know this book well, and frequently refer to its two main characters, the Hideous Hog and the Rueful Rabbit. The running joke is that the Hog bids 3NT because he wants to be declarer; then the Rabbit doesnt find the percentage play, but what he does works anyway because of the distribution of the cards. If youre not a bridge player, youll just have to trust me: its funny! At least, it is the way Mollo tells the story.________________________________________________OK, heres an attempt to explain the running joke. (By the way, if this isnt obvious: I am far from being an expert bridge player, but you only need a basic understanding of the game to appreciate the book). The Hog bids 3NT (Three No Trumps) so that he can become declarer, i.e. assume responsibility for playing the cards. Hes being condescending and rude in not bidding according to the normal rules; his reasoning, which is transparent to the other players, is that most important thing is not to get to the best contract, but to make sure hes in charge. In Bridge parlance, he is hogging the contract, hence his name. Once hes in the drivers seat, he figures out some terribly clever scheme, which absolutely optimizes his probability of success. Hes a big expert. The Rabbit, in contrast, knows nothing, and makes some terrible decision, which is only going to work in the vanishingly unlikely case that the cards are distributed in exactly the right way. But bridge is a game of luck, and the Rabbit is phenomenally lucky. His guardian angel is alert, and the cards turn out to be just where they have to be in order for the Rabbit to triumph and the Hog to fail. The Rabbit doesnt even understand hes been lucky, or grasp why the Hog is fuming. Its sort of the card-play equivalent of the scene in Revenge of the Pink Panther where Peter Sellers is blithely walking around the fairground, not realizing that 50 of the worlds top assassins are all unsuccessfully trying to kill him, but only managing to kill each other.The book is funny because its an exaggerated version of what you see all the time at the bridge table. People do clever things that dont work, and stupid things that do work, and the less skillful players often have no idea why the experts are cursing and groaning. Of course, the experts are experts because in the long run they do come out ahead.
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