Bridge Blog 477: Not so quicksilver

It’s STaC Week – Sectional Tournament at the Clubs – a chance to earn silver master points without interrupting your routine visits to your local bridge club. Also a chance to earn quite a few silver points if you score well, because they pump up the points at the district level when they tally up scores from all the clubs. For instance, Celine Murray and I had one fabulously successful 71% round in the Summer 2009 STaC that got us 10.74 points.

But we won’t know just how well we did for a couple days. Clubs around the district are slow to report. And the people who tally these things for the district are sometimes slow when it comes to doing the math. So it’s hard to say how much my Monday afternoon game with Marilyn Sultz at the Airport Bridge Club will be worth. It was a good afternoon – I was declarer on almost half the hands and beat a couple doubles. The result: a 65.67% game. Second in A strat. Second in B. On the club level, it was worth .93 of a silver point.

District-wise, we won’t know until maybe Wednesday, but I could extrapolate. If we had such a game on a Monday during last June’s STaC, it would have netted us 7.53 points. Last December, it would have been worth 5.24. I see that some preliminary scores are up on the District 5 website and there are five pairs better than us. Make that six, because Barbara Sadkin and June Feuerstein came in first in A and B  this afternoon. Considering that I got only 1.92 points for the week in the June STaC, anything will be an improvement.