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Partnership confidential Things that help you cope with a bad session

#1 User is offline   hautbois 

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Posted 2014-January-15, 17:18

I sometimes write our plus scores in the minus column if it's a bad result.

I snuck a drink at the bar when I said I was going to the bathroom.

I gave the director advance blessing to give us a slow-play penalty.
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Posted 2014-January-16, 04:06

View Posthautbois, on 2014-January-15, 17:18, said:

I sometimes write our plus scores in the minus column if it's a bad result.

I snuck a drink at the bar when I said I was going to the bathroom.

I gave the director advance blessing to give us a slow-play penalty.


Those things would actually not serve "to help with a bad session" if you were planning on keeping your bridge partner.

I will say that I used to to do the first, but entirely unintentionally, and when I started writing EVERYTHING in the minus column (I tend to always concentrate on what could have gone better), I stopped keeping score. That way I stop concentrating on the bad results, and don't carry them with me to the next board. Otherwise, I will let one bad result cause me to think that EVERYTHING was bad, and it will end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I just don't keep score anymore.
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Posted 2014-January-16, 04:11

View PostElianna, on 2014-January-16, 04:06, said:

Those things would actually not serve "to help with a bad session" if you were planning on keeping your bridge partner.


Well, I have found the trip to the bar helpful at times, but rather than sneaking I bring one back for my partner as well.
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Posted 2014-January-16, 12:14

View PostVampyr, on 2014-January-16, 04:11, said:

Well, I have found the trip to the bar helpful at times, but rather than sneaking I bring one back for my partner as well.


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Posted 2014-January-16, 13:13

This tradition of having a bar handy to the playing areas is something we Amerks need to take seriously.
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