Thursday I have partnership nailed down for a
change. Art Matthies is my guy, though he certainly regrets it during the
morning single-session pairs side game. Five out of the six East-Wests are
under 50% and we're last among them with an even 40%. Way out front are Junko
Hemus and Joel Wooldridge at 77.50%. If I ever have time, I want to do a
comparison of them vs. us in this game to see what they did right.
We fare better in the afternoon side game. Way
better. 63.49%. Better than Joel and Junko, who are tops North-South with
57.14%. 3.60 points, of which some will convert to gold when we play again
Friday afternoon.
En route to the men's room during the dinner
break, I run into Cleveland Fleming, who's dropped in to play the evening pairs
game. Partnership chairman Dian Petrov is there and pairs us up immediately. I
like playing with Cleveland at lot and we fare fairly well. Despite a
weak-looking 51.95%, we're third North-South and pick up 1.05 red points. We
agree to play pairs again on Saturday.
Total for the day is 4.65 points, which doubles
my take for the tournament so far. At this midway point, I'm at 9.08.
How does this compare? Last year I got 15.66,
best I've ever done at the Buffalo Regional.
Going back even further:
Going back even further:
2015 – 5.38.
2014 – 9.77 (Hamburg
2013 – 4.59 (last year on Grand Island
2012 – 12.12.
2011 – 6.97.
2010 – 7.59.
2009 – 4.15.
2008 – 12.70.
2007 – 5.44.
2006 – 1.94 (held in March!!!).
2005 – 2.73. 
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