) I was in Fargo playing bridge this past weekend. A local bridge player was finally able to achieve her Life Master ranking. To achieve this ranking you need 300 Masterpoints. Now, masterpoints are of various colors and you need x gold, x red, x silver and x black/red/silver. Most people have trouble getting the "gold" points as those are only won at Regional or National tournaments. Many players can have way over 300 points and are considered 299's until they get all of their colored points needed.
Katie from Minot had around 500 points but needed around 5 more gold. She did it this past weekend at the regional in Fargo at the young age of 93!!!!!
Now for some boring bridge drivel hands for those that are interested in giving comments as to my poor bidding and whatnot.
Partner and I are E/W and I am W.
Dlr-W
Vul-none
Bidding:
Opponents are silent during the auction
P-2C
2D-waiting-3C
3N-Bad bid?-4N-asking Key cards C
5H-two no Q-5N-K ask
6C-zero-6N
My hand:
A42
T9876
AJT
T2
Partner:
K
AQxx
void
AKQJ8643
I get the KD lead --cover with A and play JD giving them their Q and claim.
Was 3H bid better than 3N or on my first bid should I have bid 2N instead of 2D?
Other table found 7C and of course KH is in the box. I asked the E hand how they bid it and he said "not scientific".
2C-2D
3C-3H
6C-7C
My partner said when she found me with no Kings she was not willing to "gamble" on me have QS or having me play 7N on some finesse. How would you bid this hand? In a team should we have got to 7?
This is a Swiss Team match we wind up losing by 2 imps.
Dlr-W
Vul-Both
My hand:
QTx
QT953
K
AJ8x
1H-1S-2D(game force by our methods)-P
3C(bad bid? 2N better?)-P-4N(Key cards C)-P
5C(1 Key)-P-6H-P
P-P
Ok, can I open this? With the 2D bid by partner I feel I can't bid 2N because I have 1D and maybe not a stopper in S. My 3C was showing 2nd suit right? Wrong? At this point I am thinking we are heading for NT or H if partner has 3.
Partner hand:
Void
A764
AJT9xx
KTx
I will give play of the hand later. And on the 2D bid over the 1S my partner wanted it to be game force 2/1 even with intervening bid--I don't like it but we played it. Should we be in slam?
Overall I had a good tournament. Won a side game with a 70% game. (a whole lot of tables---4 1/2)
Took 2nd in a Compact KO and won a Bracketed KO. Placed 3rd in the B/C/D Swiss team event. 28.69 points and most of them gold.
