How much bridge can we
stand? Second regional tournament in three weeks is coming up at the Crowne
Plaza Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ont., beginning Tuesday, and I’m at once excited
and chagrined.
Excited because Niagara
Falls is where I got my life master hat trick – regular life master, bronze and
silver – all in one fell swoop in 2011. Also excited because it seems like I do
better there than at the Buffalo regional.
(Let’s do a little
fact-checking via the ACBL website.
2013 – 2.02
2011 – 13.67
2008 – 1.50
2006 – 2.32
Hmmm. Not true. Guess
it’s bigger in memory than it is in fact.)
And then I’m chagrined
because all my arrangements are up in the air, despite my best efforts to nail
them down.
Thanks to the tournament’s
partnership chairwoman, I’ve lined up three sets of teammates for the knock-out
competitions Tuesday through Saturday – well, maybe just through Friday – but all
that has come into doubt courtesy of Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday partner Barbara
Sadkin.
She announced at the
club game Monday that she won’t be able to play Tuesday. Her daughter bought
her tickets to Colm Wilkinson: Broadway and Beyond at the UB Center for the
Arts Tuesday night. So now I’m obliged to line up somebody else to partner for
Tuesday knock-outs at the last minute. Will I get away with telling them they
can’t play Wednesday if we survive the Tuesday rounds? God only knows.
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