Well, the bad news is that Adam and I shot a little under 55% in our 2 sessions today.

The good news is that it wasn't a 2 session event.  We coupled a horribly unlucky (we don't break 55% if we're both flawless) 45% in the afternoon with a 1st overall 64% and change in the evening.  Ironically, I think we played better (or at least, more consistently) in the afternoon. (Yes, I'm overdue for a haircut.)

And the Senators closed out the Devils tonight.

Victory is sweet.

Since I'm running low on 'Good' hands (I'm not sure what that says about me as a player, but hopefully it says more about the game being a game of mistakes)  I'll stick in my favorite hand from tonight even though it wasn't particularly brilliant.

We'd just let an extra uptrick through against a couple of somewhat cocky opps (they'd been gently making fun of their previous opponents as we sat down) and I was none too pleased.  I picked up in 4th, all white:

AQ73 / QJ65 / A6 / AJ4

I opened 1 Club, Adam bid 2 Diamonds (we play a jump shift in the other minor shows a limit raise by an unpassed hand (single raise game forcing) and a constructive raise by a passed hand (single raise limit raise)) and I bid 3NT.  Lefty led a low heart and dummy tracked.

82 / K / J7542 / KQ963

The King of hearts holds, now what?

Attacking diamonds is a real longshot.  You need them 3-3 and clubs 4-1 onside or 3-2 (for entry purposes.)  Even then, if the spade hook is on you might not end up with any more tricks than the 2 Spades, 2 Hearts, 1 Diamond and 5 Clubs that you started with.  It seemed better to run all the clubs and hope that whoever started with 4 or more spades pitched down to 3 (being unlikely to pitch diamonds with so many on the board.)

So sure enough, righty pitched a heart, a spade, and a diamond on the clubs and lefty pitched a spade and a heart.  I hooked a spade, cashed the ace, cleared spades, got a heart and a heart back and claimed 5.

'We're putting a real defensive clinic on at this table,' I remarked.