[mike777]

With the upcoming local Regional starting Monday I had no plans to play the week long event. My new partner lives five hours away and teaches during the week and does research the rest of the time.
We have only met in person twice.
While I believe we have qualified for the District GNT, nothing in writing yet. I have let the team know ahead of time I probably will be out of town and feel free to qualify with others
We did qualify for the NAP in Dallas however he may not be able to fit it in his work schedule. That is ok I let him know

However a very good local player texted and asked me to play Monday in the pairs. He is much better than me. We will practice this Friday at the club. Virtually no system. Will separately post any interesting hands but thought I would use this thread to discuss the journey.


This morning confirmed playing in the pairs on Tuesday with another out of town player. Never met him, don't know him, never even talked on the phone. All texts and emails. From what I hear he is an excellent player, much much better than myself.
Sent him some 2/1 system notes and even some transfers over one club , unbalanced diamond notes. He at least wrote back he would read them. Smile.

I just don't want to embarrass myself.
I made very clear I am a low intermediate level player.

Will update..

[pescetom]

mike777, on 2026-October-21, 16:13, said:

With the upcoming local Regional starting Monday I had no plans to play the week long event. My new partner lives five hours away and teaches during the week and does research the rest of the time.
We have only met in person twice.
While I believe we have qualified for the District GNT, nothing in writing yet. I have let the team know ahead of time I probably will be out of town and feel free to qualify with others
We did qualify for the NAP in Dallas however he may not be able to fit it in his work schedule. That is ok I let him know

However a very good local player texted and asked me to play Monday in the pairs. He is much better than me. We will practice this Friday at the club. Virtually no system. Will separately post any interesting hands put thought I would use this thread to discuss the journey.


This morning confirmed playing in the pairs on Tuesday with another out of town player. Never met him, don't know him, never even talked on the phone. All texts and emails. From what I hear he is an excellent player, much much better than myself.
Sent him some 2/1 system notes and even some transfers over one club , unbalanced diamond notes. He at least wrote back he would read them. Smile.

I just don't want to embarrass myself.
I made very clear I am a low intermediate level player.

Will update..

My experience is that if they are much better than me then they can read my system notes in an embarassingly short time and make a few pointed questions to which I rarely have an answer
Just discuss openly, relax and enjoy.
Let us know how it goes.

[mike777]

 pescetom, on 2026-October-21, 16:21, said:

My experience is that if they are much better than me then they can read my system notes in an embarassingly short time and make a few pointed questions to which I rarely have an answer
Just discuss openly, relax and enjoy.
Let us know how it goes.

I did send him my full 2/1 notes.
I don't think I actually have ever played the full notes with anyone so....
I should note most of the 2/1 notes is stuff my old bridge friends play and I copied what I like.


As for the transfer system stuff
I barely sent anything, on the assumption if he asked, I got notes and notes..
We may play the full rest of the week which is why I sent any notes. Besides he asked..
Again, I should note the debt I owe MikeH and DavidK and the rest of you for the input on the transfer stuff.

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Btw1 I should add, 😊, since I may play on Wednesday I pushed back a week my scheduled CT scan. I wanted to demonstrate my priorities...my Doc understands 😊
I get these routinely..I am older than before..


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