Premier Pairs after 2 sessions

1	7	Adam Mesbur & Nick Fitzgibbon	319	588	54.25	3	1
2	8	Tom Hanlon & John Carroll	309	588	52.55	3	1
3	1	Cian Holland & Anna Onishuk	305	588	51.87	4
4	4	Rex Anderson & David Greenwood	293	588	49.83	2
5=	3	BJ O'Brien & Terry Walsh	287	588	48.81	2	1
5=	5	Eddie Fitzgerald & Michael MacDonagh	287	588	48.81	3	1
5=	6	Peter Goodman & Mike Pownall	287	588	48.81	3
8	2	Ciaran Coyne & David Walsh	265	588	45.07	1

Well my first 2 horses are placed 1st and 2nd ... I got Coyne Walsh all wrong but a fast start tomorrow could rise them a little. Lets be fair though there is nothing between 4th and 7th. 

Mesbur Fitzgibbon Hanlon Carroll and Onishuk Holland have been the pairs in form so far. 

I have a 1 euro bet with Joe Coyne about Onishuk Holland against Goodman Pownell.

my horse Goodpown is 3% down at the moment and thats after 2 sessions so they better 

play well tomorrow. 

Now the more serious side of the event .. 

3 sessions with prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd of 1000 500 250 for each session. 

Thats 9 prizes for the sessions 

Then 1st overall is 2500 euros 

.........2nd overall is 1500 euros 

.........3rd overall is 600 euros 

No pair may win more than 3 prizes

and curremtly 5 pairs have won a prize out of the 8 entrants ..

For vugraph we have help from Conor Boland Nathan Doyle Stephen Barr Michael McAulliffe Aoife McHale and I operated a few sessions myself.

Downstairs in the bar Barbara Seligman is talking about all the hands as they come up. 

Some of her favourite words begin with the letter G. Was it a ghostly contract ..

My account is enabled for voice commentary and I was hoping it was not turned on as I logged 

the PC in on my account. Would have been the best vugraph commentary ever. 

A player was late this morning and jokingly I offered to play a board and my offer was accepted. 

Sadly playing 5 card majors my style is short club opener rebids 1NT with balanced and will only show a 4 card major when unbalanced. 

So 

1C 1D 

1NT 3NT ...... when we had a 4-4 spade fit ... 

Board 35 I think and the Heart 9 was led. I was just about to declare for 10 tricks and maybe something in the wash when the late player arrived. I offered to finish the hand but I was sent back to vugraph operator. I would have walked home 10 tricks and had a shot at some guard squeeze in the wash for 11. So when I handed over my cards there was 10 on top but I was not so good at the vugraph operating and could only make 9 tricks 

Fair play to the partner for standing by its late partner and discussing the merits of a 4S contract 

when the truth is given a minute or 2 more I would have got the 10 or 11 tricks for 2nd top on the board. 

Maybe I should be playing in this event ... but then ..........