Last week was pretty good, despite being very busy at work. The word “samped” comes to mind. There was a lot to be done for my architecture project but I / we managed to get all work finished in time. Some other nice details of last week involve bridge. On Tuesday I played with Serena at “de Lindeboom” and we scored exactly 0imp. I find that a rather funny score and felt that it was quite a good accomplishment.
On Thursday we played a teams match at “Isala”. I played with Tom. Our team mates were Paul and Jan. We won the first match of the evening with 25-1, partly because of a nice slam that Tom and I bid. Here’s the layout:
| AQx | Tx | |
| AKxxx | Qxxxx | |
| AJxxx | KQxx | |
| - | xx |
Tom opened the bidding with 1♥ and my RHO follwed 2♣. Despite having only 7hcp, I felt that the hand deserved an invite for a ♥ game so I bid 3♣. Tom surprised me by bidding 6♥ in one go. Result: 6♥+1.
Unfortunately we lost the second game of the evening. I had a rather unfortunate lead against a 3NT contract and Tom didn’t find the proper play of a 3NT contract and a rather tricky 1NT contract. Our team mates didn’t do anything spectacular to compensate so we lost the match. Better luck next time.
Yesterday I played with Tom again in the pairs competition of our district. We were somewhere in the middle of the leage so we could definately use a good score. Well, we did that with a first place (58%). We’re now in 4th place. I’m not sure if we’re still in the race for promotion but that’s another story.
Last but not least: I went biking again today. Almost 30km in the rain which took about 70 minutes. Not bad 