Sunday, September 14, 2025

Bridge Blog 1164-A: Buffalo Fall Sectional Part I. Underachievers.

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At least we had a good time, Judie Bailey and I console ourselves after Friday's sessions end at the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament a...

Bridge Blog 1164-B: Buffalo Fall Sectional Part II. Bumps in the road.

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The Buffalo Fall Sectional was like a car with more than 75,000 miles on the odometer. Little breakdowns kept slowing things down or bringin...

Bridge Blog 1164-C: Buffalo Fall Sectional Part III. The old gray mare.

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Sectional tournaments in Buffalo ain't what they used to be, I reflected as I looked around the cramped rooms at the Bridge Center of Bu...

Bridge Blog 1163: 3,000!

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Bridge Blog 1163: 3000!       To my mind, 3,000 has always been a magic number. Back in the 1980s, when I was reading Barron's, it used ...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Bridge Blog 1162: Picking up where we left off

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     Nothing sharpens the senses like a long layoff. When I walk into the Niagara-on-the-Lake Duplicate Bridge Club on Friday, Sept. 5, I ha...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Bridge Blog 1161: First date

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  With my usual Canadian teammate, Selina Volpatti, unavailable for the game Friday at the Bridge Club of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., i...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Bridge Blog 1160: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

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What’s the difference between earning master points and finishing dead last? Near as I can figure from reviewing the 24 boards in Friday’s g...