My advice to bridge players is to start working on pigmented points, especially Gold, as early in your bridge career as possible.  It took me forever to reach 50 Gold points.  When I first started playing bridge I never thought I would get 100 points let alone 500.  Then COVID happened and I was playing bridge constantly online.  I didn’t take as much advantage of the tournaments and other opportunities for getting pigmented points when I was at a lower stratification.

I enjoy both online and face to face bridge, and now that I finally made Life Master and don’t have to worry about having to play in a  higher stratification, I may play in person more often.

District 4 has been great and I don’t have any suggestions for improvement.  I enjoy reading the 4 Spot , club newsletters, and ACBL magazines.