A Good Day
We had two tough matches today. Yes, I know it is the round robin and the only really important thing is to qualify, but we wanted to win them and make things a bit easier. Sylvia and I played the first match against the Wolpert Team with Francine and Julie. Everyone played very well and we won the match. Sylvia played very well thoroughout and I tried to keep up. Francine and Julie really picked things up in the second half to get a good score. Then, our teammates had a good match against the Nisbet team and suddenly we find ourselves in the top spot. Its nice to walk downstairs and see that all went well while you were asleep.
We won the third match with a good score and the standings after 6 matches with 3 matches to go are:
Us with 115
Smtih 107
Norman 106
Nisbet 97
McGregor 92
So it is still very close. Sylvia and I are sitting out the first match and will likely play the final two matches. I confess this is not my preferred schedule since we start late and then play until late with not much of a break but you have to accomodate partner.
The last half of tonight’s match was all the other way. Somehow Rhonda and Samantha managed to get to every game that had a chance and made the lot. They tell me that is because they are playing Precision.
Would you get to 4S with your favorite partner on these cards?
S KJ9653 H 104 D A4 C Q64 opposite S A74 H K3 D KJ8532 C j2 No problem. When the HA was onside and the spade came down it rolled home. I decided to open the rather terrible South hand with 1C. It seemed to make it even harder to get to game at our table. I held
S 82 H Q987 D Q9 C AK1053
I had been conservaitve all evening (which turned out to be right) so give me a break. At our table the auction went 1C-1S-X-2D-P-2S-all pass. Perhaps the 2D bidder should have tried a bit more with 3S. ‘
In the open some of my picks have definitely moved up int he standings. I still think L’Evuyer who has moved up to 9/10 will be there and I see that Carruthers has at last moved up into a qualifying position.
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You go girl! lol. Seriously, prior to 1st match eat mostly protein and fat (eggs, sausage or bacon, etc) and prior to the 2nd match eat light carbs and carry some big granola bars with you that you can snack on as the match progresses. No booze until after the 2nd match! Good luck
Follow up. Between sessions, an appetizer (not main course) shrimp or scallop fettuccine Alfredo with a side salad with oil and vinegar and a breadstick or ONE roll with no butter is about right. NO CHABLIS (sorry Love).
You can substitute scampi. The you have a dipping sauce for your breadstick or roll too! The whole idea is to be awake and ready for the 4th quarter. If you don’t like any of this or it doesn’t work for you, go out in the hall and do 25 jumping jacks with pard. Slap each other if need be. Just win, baby!
If all else fails and eight boards left, go in the hall and play a CD of “Eye of the Tiger”
Thanks for the advice. One of the hardest things for all of us is to get enough sleep. The jetlag is making it much worse than usual. I am up at 5:15 AM again. Sigh. Yesterday I had time to rest between matches when I sat out match 2. Today we are out for match 1 so I am going to try to rest some this morning.
My experience is that all competitors just about have some difficulties sleeping. Part of it is finishing late and having all that bridge cricling your brain.
By the way, is there a world out there some where doing something besides playing bridge. 🙂
Consider Melatonin to rebalance jet lag fast.