[PrecisionL]

Meckwell down at the half in Bracket 1 by 30 IMPs, halfway through the second set of 12 boards started a rally with:

A DOUBLE, DOUBLED PART SCORE IN A MAJOR MAKING for a 15 IMP swing!!!

Jeff played 3 of a Major DOUBLED making and his teammates played 2 of the other Major DOUBLED making!

Team: Carolyn Lynch, Mike Passell, Adam Zmudzinski, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Cezary Balicki.

26 Brackets on Monday - Tuesday with Bracket 1 paying 57.54 Gold Points. (Reported to the author by Keylime who heard it straight from Eric.)

Total Number of Tables - 8,549 through Saturday (Edited 2:54 pm EDT 4/17/11)

[barmar]

They've pulled off similar miracles in national and world championships. I think we all learned many years ago that you can almost never call a match against Meckwell unless it's mathematically impossible for them to recover.

[han]

If you have a team with 5 truly supurb players, plus one very weak player who only plays the first half of each match, it is expected that the team will come back from behind many times.

[PrecisionL]

I wrote this post because of the "DOUBLE, DOUBLED ..." not because Meckwell again came from behind.

Gatlinburg final table count = 8917.5 - first time under 9000 tables in several years.

Overall MP Winners:

174.95 Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL
158.92 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL
155.07 Cezary Balicki, Smolec
155.07 Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV
155.07 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ
155.07 Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice 40-479

Jeff played Saturday with Sally Meckstroth (wife?) and won an additional 16.03 MP with a 3rd in the Open Pairs to top the list (as usual).