USBF Trials for Turkey - Sunday

We're in! The trials are over, and it was very close for us. We were leading the event for 3 rounds, then we played Bryan Delfs and Andre Asbury... We had several bad boards against them, and then we played Kevin Fay and Jason Chiu the last 2 rounds (it was a swiss movement with playbacks). The first round against them went OK, then the second round, almost nothing went our way. One of our last 4 boards was dreadfully interesting:

♠ AQ9532 ♥ T ♦ 3 ♣ AJ965

♠ ♥ AKJ75 ♦ KQ97652 ♣ 7

West	North	East	South
	p	1♦	p
1♠	p	2♥	p
3♣	p	3♦	p
3♠	p	4♦	p
4♠	p	p	X
p	p	p

I'm not too happy to admit to being either one of the people in this auction, however I am guilty as West. I should have probably bid 2S instead of 3C, and looking back on this... 4S was absolutely awful. Kevin couldn't help doubling, and this was a quick Zero when we were -2.

The next one Jason declared well and the 3rd one I misplayed in 1NT... We needed a top on the last board to qualify. We had the opportunity:

	♠ AK86 ♥ 532 ♦ KJ42 ♣ 53
♠ QJT73 ♥ QT84 ♦ 7 ♣ J62		♠ 2 ♥ AK96 ♦ QT653 ♣ KQ8
	♠ 954 ♥ J7 ♦ A98 ♣ AT974

West	North	East	South
p	1♦	1♥	p
2♥	p	p	X
p	p	p

2H Doubled made with an overtrick, which was enough to make us Qualify to go to Turkey!! I was not so worried about the trials itself, I was way more worried about the form of scoring. Having to play Matchpoints was tough for me, since my system and everything about how I play is so tailored towards IMPs. The qualifiers are in bold below:

1. Justin Lall-Jeremy Fournier 171.76
2. Matt Meckstroth-Kevin Dwyer 168.66
3. Kevin Fay-Jason Chiu 156.39
4. Alex Hudson-John Marriott 155.93
5. Owen Lien-Zach Brescoll 155.56
6. Adam Kaplan-Cameron Shunta 148.98
7. Michael Lieberman-Alevtina Asarina 148.14
8. Andre Asbury-Bryan Delfs 147.73
9. Dan Wolkowitz-Peter Zoogman 146.16
10. Robert Glickman-Sam Katz 145.46
11. Monica Guo-Argenta Price
12. Brad Haas-Blake Haas 129.68

For the hands in detail:

Session 1:
http://www.homebaseclub.com/hands/83-124249.html
Session 2:
http://www.homebaseclub.com/hands/1332-124251.html
Session 3:
http://www.homebaseclub.com/hands/1532-124258.html