1.30 AM, Saturday the 15th of August. Lotan Fisher runs out of the appeal committee room and screams loudly as he passes me in the hall. I look into the appeal committee room and see two guys that I really like; Allan Graves and Richie Schwartz. They are spaced out after a long day and a long night. Allan scratches his head and can\u2019t believe that we just lost 2 IMPs on the appeal to lose the match by 1 IMP. When the chairman of the committee, Joel Wooldridge, is asked how the appeal could turn out this way, this is some of his response: \u201cWe tend to believe people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Losing small is the worst to me. Because even if you have played a terrific day of bridge you could still have nipped it if you just played a little bit better. Espen and I had a good day against Lauria-Versace (three sets) and Cayne-Seamon (one set, which was very pleasant and with Jimmy playing really wel). Still Espen and I could have done a couple of things better, and Espen was really disappointed with himself not having seen the squeeze in 5 clubs on board 28 where Jimmy found a good defense. Except that we were almost card perfect (the way I look at bridge) so it was a good day at the office. Except for losing.<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t able to sleep until 5 AM and woke up again at 7 AM. I decided to go onto my computer to have a look at what had happened at the other table (Allan and Richie played set 2 and set 3 against Fisher-Schwartz, while Huub Bertens and Dan Korbel played the Israelis in the last quarter).<\/p>\n
I went to Allan and Richie\u2019s BBO table for the second segment in the match, and to me it didn\u2019t seem like they were on top of their game. They were handing away too many tricks in declarer play and defense, but luckily there weren\u2019t too many crucial hands. Then I looked at the third segment in the match (same table) and saw this hand (Board 2, Closed room):
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