[gartinmale]

Hi guys,

My regular partner and I and a friend are looking for a fourth, or failing that a partnership, for the Truscott Open BAM in New York City at the Edgar Kaplan Winter Regional. It's December 27th (and 28th, should we qualify for the second day).

My partner and I are young (mid-20s) Life Masters with sustained reasonable success in flight A/B at local sectionals and regionals. We play a reasonably middle-of-the-road 2/1, balance aggressively, and play EHAA-style weak 2 bids at favorable. We don't sacrifice as often as our peers. We have very little experience with BAM. We have the seven of diamonds marked under "Special Carding".

Another friend of ours, also a mid-20s Life Master, is interested in playing the BAM as well. He has essentially the same (non)-credentials as us, but has won the flight C GNTs and has made it reasonably far in the flight B GNTs with his regular teammates. He also has very little experience with BAM. He plays 2/1.

We'd ideally like a fourth person to play the BAM. If we make it to the second day, great, because this is annually a really tough field; if not, oh well. If we have a good time, we'll be around for the Thursday teams as well. It'd be great if you knew something about BAM, or were the best player on the team, because then we'd be better than we are now. But really the only attributes we're looking for are friendliness, competitiveness, willingness to play with us, ability to play 2/1, and desire to go look at the hands over a beer afterwards without murdering one's partner or one's teammates.

If no one is interested individually, but you're part of a partnership that is interested in teaming up for the BAM, we'd be willing to talk about that too.

Send me a private message on BBO with your email if you're interested and I'll email you. If you want, we (or we and our third) can play a bit online to see if our styles work together.

-gartinmale