Thursday, August 30, 2018

Bridge Blog 1039: August countdown ... Houston, we have a problem ...


OK, I did the math. Three days to go, 3.95 points needed to meet that goal of 15 for the month. Some major thrust was called for, a couple seriously good games.
But the propellant started leaking in the very first round with June Feuerstein on Wednesday. We were a trick short of what we should have made in the first four hands and things just sputtered after that. We finished with 43.33%, well out of point range.
That put a payload of even heavier expectations on Thursday’s reunion with Denise Slattery. And those hopes crashed in a mighty series of trick shortfalls, missed bids and brilliant maneuvers by our opponents. Only a miracle – a top board from a 6 No Trump contract, bid and made – saved us from totally imploding and sinking below 30%. Worst game of the year – 32.14%.

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