Last week-end I played in the Raleigh sectional at the Jaycee Center (pictured) with a pick-up partner, Louise Watson, and this week-end I played in a Durham tournament for non-life masters with my mom. Louise has only been playing bridge for a year or so. We met her in Wilmington, and she and my mother kept in touch. Louise and I got along fine as partners, but we didn’t do well enough to place in the two sessions we played.
The Durham tournament was well attended, almost doubling the attendance from the previous year. Hard to tell that bridge is dying out.
Mom and I played in four sessions, getting an overall first place in one session and a placing in two others. The competition, at least at this level, is pretty friendly, and many opponents joked about being scared of us as they remembered our four first place finishes in the July Durham sectional. Usually, I’d remind them that we had come in last place on the final day of that event.