European Mixed Teams tomorrow. Can you make 6S

Good afternoon folks
Tomorrow morning the European Mixed Teams gets underway followed on Saturday by the Open Teams.
Some Irish players will take part.

Mixed Teams

Cashel .. Joe Walsh Dolores Gilliland Maria Whelan and Gordon Lessels..
Hanlon  Hugh McGann Fiona Brown Marianne Harding and Thomas Hanlon

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Women  Teams

Brid Kemple and Cathy Bearpark join Gilliland and Whelan on Team Cashel

Kenny Kirby Pattinson Rigney make up a team of Candidates or Earhores

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Open Teams

Mark Moran Thomas Hanlon Rory Boland John Carroll Hugh McGann Thomas Garvey
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And last but not least

The legendary Paul Porteus who is the best known bridge player in Ireland and knows who is ringing him up before the phone rings leads out his Senior Team with trepidation. I hope they have been doing their pressups.

Paul Porteus Des Houlihan Bob Pattinson Fred Barry
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If Team Hanlon have been doing their pressups as advised they could go deep in the Mixed Teams but this is
not the Holmes Wilson so there is danger lurking around every corner.

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A hand from todays Wbridge5 event

The contract was 6S and the lead was a small diamond with the left hand

Little old men lead singletons with left hand.

 Galligan after pondering for some time eventually saw the solution. 

I guess other folk were on trick 5 6 7 before the eyes finally glazed over and the realisation hit them that they were going down ..

I have not looked at the list of Irish luminaries who went down yet but I scored 90% on a 450 player field so lots went down. Lets have a look 

All the players who went down in this contract would each consider themselves accomplished bridge players. National champions Trials players Camrose internationals Senior Internationals are included in the 7 players who I know went down. However on the plus side BJOBrien and David Synnott guided it home. 

I wonder would Paul Porteus be up to making it. 

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Eamon will organise Teams on BBO for any folk who show up at eamongall table on BBO tonight from 8pm .I have at least 8 who indicated their presence.

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