{"id":3191,"date":"2021-11-29T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2021-12-08T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:00:52","slug":"with-michael-berkowitz-at-fall-2021-austin-bridge-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2021\/11\/29\/with-michael-berkowitz-at-fall-2021-austin-bridge-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"With Michael Berkowitz at Fall 2021 Austin Bridge Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After partners had to cancel, I paid to play in Nail Pairs with Michael Berkowitz, son of David and Lisa Berkowitz, a clear and friendly teacher, a member of the board of the Educational Foundation. With a 63.86% game in the second session, we qualified for the finals and earned 7. 27 Platinum points. One highlight was this squeeze at 3N for an overtrick for a tie for top.\u00a0(See below; actual bidding was 1N 3N. Double dummy makes just 3N.) East led the H6 and then overtook his partner’s Q to return a third Heart to my Ace. After three rounds of Clubs ending in my hand, I advanced the S10, East failing to cover, to isolate the Spade menace to East who was also guarding the Hearts. In the end position I was on the board with SA7 and D2, with HA5 and DA in my hand. East could not guard both suits and had actually chosen to unguard the Hearts, so I played the Aces of Spades and Hearts and won the last trick with the H5 in my hand.<\/p>\n

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Enjoyed the rest of the week with Herman Xiao, from the pre-tournament partnership desk. The last day I played with Bill Golush, also from the pre-tournament partnership desk, whom I ran into. On one board he was the only one to bid (and make) 7H (doubled). The bidding: 2N P 3D 5C P P 6H P 7H P P x. After all that bidding, with my extras and the Club Ace behind North, I had no trouble raising to 7, and Bill had no trouble finessing North for the Club King and South for the Heart Queen.<\/p>\n

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After partners had to cancel, I paid to play in Nail Pairs with Michael Berkowitz, son of David and Lisa Berkowitz, a clear and friendly teacher, a member of the board of the Educational Foundation. With a 63.86% game in the second session, we qualified for the finals and earned 7. 27 Platinum points. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}