Winning points in the Buffalo Bridge Center's party game last Saturday with Florence Boyd was no small feat. A lot of heavy hitters were there. I was particularly amazed to see us finish ahead of Platinum Life Masters Jay Levy and Chris Urbanek.
How did we do it? Not against the good players, that's for sure. We didn't see them in the first two rounds and we accumulated a big cushion accordingly.
Leading off with three hands against Pat Haynes and David Schott, we notched 13.5 match points out of a possible 15 by taking an extra trick in a 2 Spade contract, holding them to a single overtrick in a 4 Spade hand when almost everyone else made two and keeping them to a single overtrick again, this time in a 1 No Trump hand, while most others made two.
Just to show that wasn't a fluke, we followed that up with a similar round against Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, who helped us along with a couple of gift tricks. This time we gained 10.5 match points. After two of nine rounds, we're sitting pretty with an 80% game.
It wasn't long, though, before we were hammered by Tova and Andrei Reinhorn (11.5 to 3.5 points) and when Jay Levy and Chris Urbanek came to our table, suggesting this was not their best day, they almost picked us clean, taking 12.5 of the 15 points. I was glad to limp home with 53.70% and 1.85 master points, narrowly outdistancing two of the better players, Mike Ryan and Howard Foster, at the next table, who had 53.33%.
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