Like Garfield the cat, I
had an aversion to Mondays. But then my schedule put me in the office
on Sunday nights, which defused the dread of that first day of the working week. And for the past two weeks, Monday's been one of the
brightest days of the week at the bridge table.
Bob Kaprove helped lift
the gloom back on the 10th (Palm Monday?) with the best game I've
seen since Feb. 9 – 59.17%, good for 1.75 points, second overall, losing to
Mike Silverman and Martin Pieterse by half a match point.
The percentage was
lower but the reward was better on Easter Monday as Carolyn Siracuse joined me
in a game that improved from a fourth-place 51.67% finish to a first-overall
55.83% when I found a scoring error that reversed a minus 790 to a plus 790 (4
Hearts doubled vulnerable made against Joe Rooney and Bill Boardman) and
bumped us up 5 match points. 2.33 master points, thank you.
According to the hand
record, we should have made that 4 Heart bid anyway. The very next hand,
however, was another top, and I believe it was because my partner broke one of
the cardinal rules of the game (See Blog 948).
Meanwhile, let's also haul
aboard that Saturday game with Denise Slattery – where our 55.30% made us
second overall, first in the B strat for another 1.90 points – and April starts
to look pretty good. 9.88 points overall so far.
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