Justin Lall

National Pairs Champ!

justinlall — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:13:49 +0000

Feels great to win a national pair game! My partner, Ish, played double dummy the second final session.

The End

justinlall — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:33:22 +0000

Super drunk right now, but we picked up 31 to lose by 45 in the last set. The Dutch played better than us and deserved the win.

Finals Set 7

justinlall — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:23:56 +0000

We lost 22 more this set so we’re down 76. Doesn’t look great, but I’ve seen bigger comebacks. Hopefully we play well and get lucky!

Last Day

justinlall — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:02:14 +0000

2 sets left, we are stuck 54. We have all come back from more than that in 32 boards in important matches. It’s all about playing well on every board and not giving them anything. Let’s do this.

Finals Set 5

justinlall — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:23:47 +0000

We think we lost 2 for the set, but the vugraph has us losing 5. So we are down 65 or 62. I made a horrible bid to miss a slam, and the Dutch had a good system to find a fit that we had no chance to find. Still 48 boards, not desperate yet.

Finals Set 4

justinlall — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:57:40 +0000

We lost 38 more, down 60 now. It sounds like a lot, but there’s 64 boards left, so it’s not that much. It’s important for us to remain calm and play solid bridge and grind it back.

Finals Set 3

justinlall — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:59:54 +0000

Our team played horribly in the third set, unfortunately the Dutch played very well and we are now down 22.

There are still 80 boards left, so despite this setback we are still only down 22 in a very long match. Tomorrow is a new day, and I’m confident we will rise to the occasion and return to form.

Honestly, we have been down with 5 sets to go every match anyways, this is not a big deal, as long as we get our act together. Tomorrow should be fun!

Finals Set 2

justinlall — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:57:48 +0000

I think we picked up 12 or something, and are up 24. Was pretty bad bridge, by myself especially.

Edit: It seems I never clicked publish on this one, but I wrote it after the second set.

Finals Set 1

justinlall — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:12:17 +0000

I sat out and we picked up 13, so we’re up by 12 after carryover. This is notable because we have lost imps the first set of every day basically. Today we started out poorly after 5 boards, but my boys grinded it back.

Finals!

justinlall — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:50:03 +0000

We lost some back, I’m not sure how many, I think we won by fifty something. We play the Netherlands in the 8 segment, 128 board final. They seem to be playing really well and have home field advantage, it should be a great match.