Bridge Blog 453: Bella flecks of gold

          Who’d think of getting gold master points in club play? Well, for one, there’s Bill Finkelstein, the director of the Airport Bridge Club. He’s doing 18-hand Swiss team games on alternate afternoons this week and there’s gold points to be had in them, albeit itsy-bitsy fractions of gold points.
          Then again, I picked up about a third of a gold point when the Airport Club did this a year ago and I gathered a little more on Monday, when my team (partner Ginny Panaro and teammates Bill Regan and Myra Razik) came in one victory point shy of first place. All of us were rewarded with .11 of a gold point within a larger award of 2.07 points overall. The top team won .13 of a gold point. Flecks of gold, Bill Finkelstein calls them. But they could add up.