We began our first session at 8 P.M. 24 C teams showed up for the McNab Grand National Teams and we were put in eight three team round robins. After 2 sessions two teams from each round robin will advance creating a 16 team bracket. After the first session last night we are beating one team 38-16 and losing to the other 31-46. We play 14 more boards against each team this afternoon before its decided whether we advance or not.
Overall I thought Jeff Buckwalter and I played well. We defended most of the night bidding one slam and one game in 28 boards. I declared only 2 hands all evening, whci probably explains why we aren't doing worse ;-).
One hand that I am not happy about I held AK10xxx, 10xx, A, AQx. Jeff opened a 10-13 NT and I decided to begin with 2d game forcing stayman to get more information. The auction went 1nt-2d-2h-2s-3d-3s-4s and now I decided that the slam wasnt there unless partner held perfect cards. Unfortunately, Jeff held Qx, KQxx, KQxxx, 9x and the slam was cold as the cards were placed. I'm open to suggestions on how to get here. The opponents auction is not worth mentioning but they got there. Luckily this was a non-vulnerable slam and a 6d vulnerable slam we bid earlier opposite the opponents 3NT kept this from being a disaster.
More later this afternoon.
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