Director Yefim once told my BAM teammates at the end of a Harmonie Club game, “Congratulations. Your team got a 100% game today.”
Our E/W pair had a 63% matchpoints game going in to the last round, and my partnership was the team N/S pair sitting at 37%. Together our scores added up to 100%. Indeed, with one pair at section top and one pair at section bottom, the BAM results can easily go both ways.
Two Sessions of Silver Lining Per Day, Four Partners
So far I’ve played 4 sessions of silver lining, trying hard to rotate my play equally among my previous favorite partners and venues.
Afternoon open game at All For One: 60.85% (3.24 Silver)
Good ole Monday Night with Tom and Yefim: 43.38% (0.66 Silver – yay Strat C)
Weekday Afternoon at Shore Bridge Club: 61.00% (2.94 Silver)
Aces / Cavendish Aaron Silverstein Game: 39.38% (Sad Trombone)
Schedule Coming Up Later This Week
With only limited data points, it seems my 1st session of the day has been the better game. If you are one of my partners, take note! Whatever my morning score is, the afternoon is nearly 100% – morning.
Anyway, some remaining games I plan to play for Silver Lining week, as I leave the hibernation of robot only bridge:
Sagamore “Alliance” Green Section
University Club Open Pairs
All For One Pink Section
Twenty Boards For $20 Bucks with James
Mid-Flight 0-3500 always in the mid-afternoon
More Honors Open
Will There Be More Online Silver?
If you didn’t make plans for this Silver Linings Week, I’d say you’ll get more chances.
Table counts point to a very successful promotion at the club level. The gold point online regional early May was also record shattering on many fronts. There are active proposals to allow Districts and Units to hold their own online events soon, but let’s be careful. Players always love when it’s raining masterpoints, but we should plan for the long term about and think through changes that are hard to undo.
Regardless, I still need quite a few for LM, and I don’t expect to get nearly enough all this week.