So I've decided to move my bridge blogging to a more public forum. I set up DoubleSqueeze a few days ago, and have been having quite a bit of fun with it. I'll keep my personal rants (and some of the juicier bridge stories) here. For a quick taste, check out the worst defense in the history of bridge.

0-5000 Spingold, Day One

I played in the Mini-Spingold in the Las Vegas NABC last week. My team was me, Paul, Buffy, Tomb, and LCC. Tomb and LCC had met for the first time a few days prior to the event, played the Life Master Pairs, and placed a very impressive 59th overall. Tomb, LCC, and I would be anchoring, and Paul and Buffy would be ( Read more... )

White vs. red, imps
A63  8  K963  AKQJ6

LHO opens 4D (asking for keycards in diamonds).

Pard overcalls 4S.

RHO doubles, showing zero keys.

You pass [do you?!]

LHO bids 5H, to play.

Pass, pass.

Your call.

So we made it to the finals-- 12 boards against a pretty god team. We decided we should put our best defenders against Meckwell, so the Mrs and I went up against Curtis Cheek and Reanette Froebuck. Curtis was on my left. Reanette was on my right. Rodwell was in my seat, and Meckstroth was in pard's.

We played boards 1-12. I sat West.

1: The opponents ( Read more... )

We also entered a Morning Compact KO in Reston, with the same team-- UK and Mullet. This was a much smaller event, so we made it comfortably into the nine-team Bracket 1. Would this mean we finally found the tough competition we were looking for? Not on the first day, it didn't. In the first three-way, we got fairly unlucky when a good slam by ( Read more... )

So after a bit of a scare, we sailed into the money round of an event in which we were the huge favorites ( Read more... )

Schedules and such made it so the only time we had for KO events at the annual D.C. 4th of July Regional (held in Reston, VA this year) was Thursday-Friday. A birthday party in Herndon on Tuesday, no new KO on Wednesday, a wedding reception/gaming fest in Woodbridge on Saturday, and a hiking/swimming/shit-shooting adventure in Lexington on Sunday ( Read more... )

The other day this end position cropped up:

♠ --- ♥ 9 ♦ 2 ♣ K8
♠ --- ♥ T8 ♦ --- ♣ Q5
♠ --- ♥ --- ♦ KT2 ♣ T
♠ 5 ♥ 75 ♦
♣ J

I played my last spade, squeezing lefty into shedding a heart winner. When he did, I threw him ( Read more... )

"Namyats? I thought you said 'numbnuts'."

AQ52 85 8763 Q82

You and your partner are silent. The opponents quickly bid:

1C - 1H
2C - 3H
3N - P

Your lead.