[CSGibson]

paulg, on 2013-August-06, 03:36, said:

Good luck to all the Brits playing in the round of 64 today, especially the non-professionals who I'm sure will put up a good fight against the higher seeded pro teams that they'll be facing. Sam and Stephen are playing with Chris (CSGibson) against Rosenthal. Another British team, consisting of three regular forum members, has not mentioned that they are out there so I won't identify them by name but just say we're supporting you just as much.

Good luck!

Sam and Stephen rocked today. Not one game was missed, and all slams that should have been bid were bid. I mistimed a slam hand, but by that point it didn't matter.

[Mbodell]

CSGibson, on 2013-August-06, 19:23, said:

Sam and Stephen rocked today. Not one game was missed, and all slams that should have been bid were bid. I mistimed a slam hand, but by that point it didn't matter.

Congrats, way to go on the win!

[JLOGIC]

BINK, good job Chris. Sorry to the gnasher team.

[paulg]

CSGibson, on 2013-August-06, 19:23, said:

Sam and Stephen rocked today. Not one game was missed, and all slams that should have been bid were bid. I mistimed a slam hand, but by that point it didn't matter.

Congratulations on a great team performance. As I've said on my blog, with us as team mates we only scored 25 IMPs in 48 boards against that team in March so you must be doing a tremendous job too.

Keep playing well and give Kasle the same treatment today. Then I think it will get really tough

[gnasher]

Well done Chris.

[blackshoe]

Congrats, Chris.

One of these days I'm going to remember that I want to go to the NABCs once in a while before the thing actually starts.

[barmar]

More congrats to Chris, defeating Kasle to make it to the round of 16. BridgeWinners is calling the Peterkin team the Cinderella story of the Spingold.

[JLOGIC]

barmar, on 2013-August-08, 00:02, said:

More congrats to Chris, defeating Kasle to make it to the round of 16. BridgeWinners is calling the Peterkin team the Cinderella story of the Spingold.

Jesus, so sick. Ofc if I know Chris (which I basically don't at all), he will not accept congrats for round of 16, he's goin for the win. He has a really tough draw tomorrow, IMO he's playing the best or 2nd best team in the event, but whatever, he's been an underdog in every match and pulled through. Keep playin good.

[paulg]

JLOGIC, on 2013-August-08, 01:28, said:

Jesus, so sick. Ofc if I know Chris (which I basically don't at all), he will not accept congrats for round of 16, he's goin for the win. He has a really tough draw tomorrow, IMO he's playing the best or 2nd best team in the event, but whatever, he's been an underdog in every match and pulled through. Keep playin good.

I know Sam and Stephen very well and one of them will be extremely excited by getting to the round of 16 - it is a big deal when you've never got through the round of 64 before. The other one will probably be playing the piano.

But they will sit down against Gromov (my pick to win it) knowing that they are in their rightful place.

Good luck!

[JLOGIC]

paulg, on 2013-August-08, 01:41, said:

I know Sam and Stephen very well and one of them will be extremely excited by getting to the round of 16 - it is a big deal when you've never got through the round of 64 before. The other one will probably be playing the piano.

But they will sit down against Gromov (my pick to win it) knowing that they are in their rightful place.

Good luck!

It is a big deal to make the round of 16 period, esp if you start as a low seed since you have that much harder of a path to get there, and something they should be extremely proud of if they lose today. I just meant it's not a good mindset before the match to be really happy you got to the R16 (IMO). If you are thinking you've already done great to get to the R16 and you are outclassed then you're more likely to lose. I didn't mean to act like they haven't achieved something great, they def have, but once they are there they gotta be in the right mindset to make the R8 and beyond. Ecstasy can be just as bad as tilting (I think this was a bols tip).

Edit: I guess my point is while you're still in the event, your perspective should be you have another really hard match, and another one after that and that etc till you win. This keeps your emotions grounded and prevents you from even subconsciously having the feeling that even if you lose today you did better than you expected so it's alright. I think if you have that feeling and everyone is congratulating you etc it dulls your killer instinct and fight and is not a great mindset to be in. Being super excited just to be there rather than thinkin hell yeah I'm playin awesome I'm gonna beat Gromov and eveyrone after that and win cuz I'm playin so well is not good imo. After the event is over for you is the time to soak up what you have accomplished and bask in the glory. But maybe this varies person to person.

[paulg]

JLOGIC, on 2013-August-08, 13:32, said:

It is a big deal to make the round of 16 period, esp if you start as a low seed since you have that much harder of a path to get there, and something they should be extremely proud of if they lose today. I just meant it's not a good mindset before the match to be really happy you got to the R16 (IMO). If you are thinking you've already done great to get to the R16 and you are outclassed then you're more likely to lose. I didn't mean to act like they haven't achieved something great, they def have, but once they are there they gotta be in the right mindset to make the R8 and beyond. Ecstasy can be just as bad as tilting (I think this was a bols tip).

Edit: I guess my point is while you're still in the event, your perspective should be you have another really hard match, and another one after that and that etc till you win. This keeps your emotions grounded and prevents you from even subconsciously having the feeling that even if you lose today you did better than you expected so it's alright. I think if you have that feeling and everyone is congratulating you etc it dulls your killer instinct and fight and is not a great mindset to be in. Being super excited just to be there rather than thinkin hell yeah I'm playin awesome I'm gonna beat Gromov and eveyrone after that and win cuz I'm playin so well is not good imo. After the event is over for you is the time to soak up what you have accomplished and bask in the glory. But maybe this varies person to person.

I think you are absolutely right especially as non-pros. I was particularly concerned that beating Rosenthal would be seen as their crowning glory, particularly as we'd lost to that team so heavily in March. But the team's heads were clearly in the right place when they sat down against Kasle and I'm sure they will be against Gromov.

I shouldn't have stressed the round of 16 as the milestone. I should have said that they will be really excited to beat two top teams with the opportunity to beat a third.

But I think your advice is really spot on for all of us who only achieve such success so rarely.

[Phil]

WTG Chris knocking off two giants.

Markleon and I battle on tomorrow on day 2 of the fast pairs. Didn't play particularly well today but that seems to be the nature of playing bridge at 5.5 mins/ board.

Had a fun time here but it's time to go home tomorrow night. Nice to meet a few forumers I hadn't met previously.

[CSGibson]

Oh my god Gromov kicked our asses six ways til sunday. I'm a little drained, but I can't really say that I'm disappointed, just that I wish I played better today, especially since my partner was playing very well if I gave her the opportunity to succeed.

[chasetb]

Well done Chris, you repped the BBF very well. I just looked at the brackets, and my word Gromov is indeed stacked. The Hamman-Diamond scoreline of 66-54 was also shocking, at less than 2 IMPs a board - must have been some great bridge at that table.

[Mbodell]

Nice job Chris, a great run.

[mike777]

CSGibson, on 2013-August-08, 22:08, said:

Oh my god Gromov kicked our asses six ways til sunday. I'm a little drained, but I can't really say that I'm disappointed, just that I wish I played better today, especially since my partner was playing very well if I gave her the opportunity to succeed.

Congrats and very well done run. Superb.


Hope to see some hands on forum that you found tough.

Again Congrats.
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Hamman vs Diamond seems weird score....very unusual I would bet, very rare.

[Thiros]

Congrats on the run Chris.

They don't get much deadlier than those Russians.

[paulg]

Thiros, on 2013-August-10, 19:28, said:

Congrats on the run Chris.

They don't get much deadlier than those Russians.

Apparently they do #2020hindsight

[bluecalm]

Just wanted to say that my regular BBO partner with whom I played maybe 10k hands together just won Spingold main event.
He is Wojtek Gawel (redds on bbo). Congrats to him!
I feel great as well as we practically learnt to play bridge together before he took a shot at going pro with one of the big Polish names (Rafal Jagniewski). I knew they have world class potential but winning Spingold and showing it to the world is whole different story.
Amount of work they did in last 1.5 year is staggering (especially system work). Winning their first big US event is a dream scenario coming true

Oh, and they had most difficult draw possible beating Bermuda Bowl winning Netherland pairs (Zagorin), legendary Nickell, Bocchi-Madala and Buras-Narkiewicz (Gromov) in the semi and Grue in the final.

[wyman]

Was great to see and play against csgibson, mbodell, Phil, gnasher, and I'm sure several others.

Made the finals of two open events, so pretty pleased with that even if the finishes weren't super high. The LM Pairs was my first open overall, so now I know what it takes to do well in those events, and I feel like this is just the beginning. Pretty exciting week for us, even if we didnt play super well in the non-open events we entered.