Author Archives: Lee Lin

Bridge Adventures: Omaha With Buffett, Gates, Hamman, and Osberg

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Lee Lin

Once upon a time when I had under 5 masterpoints, I worked at some nerdy quantitative hedge funds. We managed money using math and computers while taking advantage of leverage and relatively high turnover strategies. But I always respected value … Continue reading →

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Online Regional Awards 49.99 Gold For Two Sessions

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Lee Lin

In probably the largest payout ever for a non-NABC regional, one-day event, one pair received 49.99 Gold for first overall in the open pairs. We were predicting a prize over 50 last week, based on the usual ACBL formula. Formula … Continue reading →

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Chance To Become Life Master In Just One Day!

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Lee Lin

Most players have no trouble reaching 500 masterpoints required for Life Master. The bottleneck is the specific pigment requirements. In particular, many struggle to obtain 50 gold point, having long won plenty of the other colors. The ongoing Save Your … Continue reading →

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Online Gold Point Overload

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Lee Lin

Unfortunately, BBO seems completely swamped as we kick off the first online regional, promising to give away tons of gold and red points. Speaking of kicking off, I got disconnected just now from the crowded overload. If you can’t get … Continue reading →

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Win ACBL Gold Points Online April 30 to May 3rd 2020

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Lee Lin

Just when we thought it would be impossible to get lots of gold points online, ACBL comes through with the upcoming “Stay At Home, Play At Home” tournament. I also completely missed the ACBL Club Championship that happened this past … Continue reading →

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Who Are The Popular Bridge Streamers?

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Lee Lin

I recently discovered Bridge Overlord, the twitch streamer. It was amazingly entertaining to watch, although it’s clearly not going to attract newcomers to the game. More likely, bridge streaming could be a stepping stone for beginner and intermediate players to … Continue reading →

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Twenty Daylongs, Twenty Black Points

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Lee Lin

Earlier I pledged to finish out the remainder of my black points required for Life Master playing entirely in Support Your Club Events. As an update, I’ve hit my goal, beginning with the first Support Your Club daylong on March … Continue reading →

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Montreal NABC Summer 2020 Cancelled

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Lee Lin

The Summer 2020 NABC held in Montreal is officially cancelled. Many of us saw this coming, but we were holding on to hope that the public health situation was improving. However, even with 3 months to go, the Quebec government … Continue reading →

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Clarification on Enhanced Virtual Private Club Games

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Lee Lin

Excellent news. When we say we are going to dig into things some more, we try to be timely about it. Thankfully, we were able to figure it out in one day. Yesterday we discussed the possible changes to the … Continue reading →

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Nationwide Versus Virtual Private Club Awards

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Lee Lin

There is just so much changing day to day, it’s hard to keep up. Only last week, we had our first 0-3500 game. For those who were waiting for the dust to settle, we are nearing what should be a … Continue reading →

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