Sat with a World Champ...

Had the freaky opportunity to sit with a Senior Bowl winner and his mentee. The SB winner was in disguise, but I know his student and that scored me the seat.

I got my clock cleaned. Big time.

Without quibbling re: the auction that got us there, he's a hand my pick-up pard and I managed to massacre while at the table.

How would you play 3NT?

♠ 98752 ♥ Q52 ♦ Q86 ♣ 42

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Blog lag, or "Blag"

Sorry for the lack of content here... The build up to the holiday season has been busy.

Add to that, I've been pretty bummed re: my game lately. I'm making a lot of 'brain dead' mistakes.

Back...

Back from a good, long vacation. Got plenty of time to sit and vegetate, which is exactly what I needed.

As far as bridge goes, I think my game is still improving. Don't get me wrong - no one called me to sub in at the Reisinger or anything... But I continue to see good, incremental gains in the things I'm working on. I need to start concentrating on memory so I can get better at spot recognition and counting down the hand.

Jan Martel started a forum on youth bridge over on the BBO Forums. Should be very interesting. For a while I've been considering poking into the JuniorBBO sessions, since I just barely qualify still. Seems like a good way to get some more experience.

Finally, someone else posted a rumor that Zia Mahmood is likely to replace Paul Soloway on the Nickell team. Hamman/Mahmood, Meckstroth/Rodwell, Nickell/Freeman sounds like a pretty good lineup to me...

Now, Soloway/Hamman used to be nicked 'Hamway'. Will the new partnership be 'MahMan' or 'HamMood'?