Missed
all of Friday’s first day of the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament, which is
something I never do (see Blog 712), and then I only play half the second day Saturday
due another pressing social obligation. Worse yet, after Friday’s freewheeling
bid fiesta in St. Catharines, I had little to work with sitting east in the
morning session with Celine Murray.
Not that I mind playing a supporting
role, but Celine was not at her best. Twice she made a mistake in play akin to
the whopper I committed Friday, putting down the wrong card. She plunked down a
Queen of Hearts on one hand, thinking it was trump, but Diamonds were. Not only
did she fail to take that trick, but she also missing collecting a Heart trick
later with the Queen.
I was guilty of even more disastrous
mishaps when I eventually became declarer. Twice I guessed wrong in trump
finesses where there were three cards left, one of them honors. In both cases,
if I went up with the Ace from the dummy, I would have nailed the outstanding
honor card on the fence. In each case, I discovered later, this cost me about
10 match points. Give us those and we would have had a 50% game, or maybe a
little better. As it was, we finished at 45.35%, 11th out of 14 East-Wests in
our section.
Attendance seems to be very good at
this sectional. There were 28 tables in the morning session, including at least
four Canadian pairs that I had seen Friday, and someone said there were 32 on
Friday, a total boosted by some folks from Rochester. Could make for a bigger-than-usual
Swiss team session on Sunday.
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