LOL Bridge

There are a lot of people who will tell you that being a Life Master means very little.  I confess that I’m one of them.  (Sometimes, anyway.)

There are a couple of reasons for this:

1. Some Life Masters (even ones with 1000+ masterpoints) are really terrible players.  I don’t want to name names, but you know who I’m talking about.
2. The correlative of Item No. 1 is that just about anyone who plays enough duplicate bridge will become a Life Master.
3. Even after you become a Life Master, you’ll find that the “experts” at your club still don’t want to play with you.
4. The way tournaments are flighted, after you become a Life Master you can still play in the “intermediate” section.  Unless you’re a real whiz or a total addict (which may be the same thing), it will take decades for you to have too many masterpoints to play in Flight B.
5. Almost 40% of current ACBL members have 300+ masterpoints.

Even so, I still think that becoming a Life Master is a worthy pursuit.

To be continued…

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