A couple weeks ago, the
wind was in my sails. I was leading the November master point race at the Airport
Bridge Club. It looked like this was going to be a banner month.
But for the past week,
nothing. Nothing compounded by inactivity over Thanksgiving weekend. Surely I would
bounce back in the double session Monday.
Hopes soared when I saw
me and partner Nadine Stein atop the intermediate results for the morning game.
With 20 boards out of 28 tallied up, we were first by half a match point with
56.06%. Minutes later, after 23 boards, we’re even better – ahead by more than
1.5 match points with 57.57%.
But then the winners
get announced and where are we? In those final five boards, out of a possible
15 match points (it’s only four-table game), we get only 2.60. We finish at
49.96%. Out of the money. Unbelievable.
Surely, I’ll fare
better in the afternoon, paired with one of the better players, Mike Silverman,
in an extra-point game. We get off to a roaring start against Dottie May and
Carolyn Siracuse – top boards defending against a 4 Clubs doubled contract that
goes down five and scoring four overtricks on a 3 Diamond hand that should only
make one overtrick.
But in this 3½ table
game, you have to get top boards consistently. And we don’t. We get only two
more tops, more than offset by six bottoms. It didn’t feel like we were that
awful as we played it, but we were. A measly 43.48%. It doesn’t seem right. (Continued
on Blog 919-A).
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