Sunday, April 15, 2018

Bridge Blog 1022-A: Buffalo Spring Sectional Day 1


Friday the 13th. How bad could it be?
Well, first bad, I’m relegated to playing in the side game because I’ll have to pick up my other half from the airport after the morning session ends at 2 p.m. or so.
Not so bad, though. It fulfills the Art Matthies strategy. Play against the less experienced pairs in the single-session side game and have a better chance of winning than you will in the big double-session open pairs game.
But wait, bad again. They have a half table in the side game and a half table the big game. Director Brian Meyer comes to me and Denise Slattery and asks if we’d play the big game. We acquiesce. We’re up against the big guys.
But not so bad. We have what seems like a pretty decent round. Seems even more decent when the electronic scoring devices show us in fourth place with 53% after we finish the last hand.
The final tally is better yet. 56.64%. First in the B strat, third overall, 2.01 master points. I feel lucky enough not to fret about not playing the afternoon game.

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