Lady Milne Match 3 Stanza 1 Ireland England

Good morning all few of ye

This morning  I am continuing my Lady Milne series of videos. This is the 5th video of hopefully 10 videos telling the story of the Lady Milne 2019.
The event was held in the City North Hotel and it was a great venue.

Today we have

Ireland v England as my main match. We also glance at the other 2 matches if we notice anything interesting.

http://fob.ie is my source for results and scores and all things Lady Milne

Thats Fearghals wonderful world of bridge above

Here is the link to my video on Youtube

Ireland v England M3 S1

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In the Kelbourne Cup I think 2 of my picks placed in the top 3 but maybe I need to check again.
WESTERN won the event leading the field a merry dance.

In the Inter A event some team led almost all the way and then Murphys Law came into play.
Murphyslaw is a well known bedroom bridge player only emerging from his cocoon to play as a replacement in Ireland National Finals  with his favourite partner Michael O'Mahony.

So the long time leaders were cruising to victory playing the final 4 boards of the weekend against a mid table team who presumably wanted just to head off and reach Malahide.

However Team Murphy somehow exploded into action or got loads of luck on the final 4 boards to oust the long term leaders and present the prize to the Mid Leinster Region which happens to be Murphys home region. Murphyslaw ...the Kingmaker.

National Team Finals ..Kelbourne Cup

This weekend 16 teams contest the Kelbourne Cup. To my passing eye there appears to be a large gap in bridge ability.
The possible winners in my view are in no particular order.

EASTERN
WESTERN
NORTH MUNSTER
DUBLIN SOUTH
HOLDERS
RUNNERS UP

Of those 6 WESTERN DUBLIN SOUTH and HOLDERS are my top 3 picks.

The DUBLIN NORTH team could get lucky and storm the event but its going to be hard for them to beat all 6 of my top 6 picks. DUBLIN NORTH last won the Kelbourne in 2006 or so powered by the powerful Dave Terry Pat Kelly imp machine with Paul Delaney holding the reins. However many years later its Dave Terry and some new kids on the block.

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In the Intermediate section the online player Murphyslaw emerges from his computer and sets his sights on the National Inter A championships. However Murphyslaw will not be used to real cardplayers so could find the cuteness of the country boys and girls to be too much.
Murphyslaw is assisted by Interprovincial superstar Michael O'Mahony and new Master player Mary Deane and her good friend Rosaleen Murphy.

I am writing this without view of the running scores.

The HOLDERS are a powerful squad with Derek O'Gorman Cian Holland and the mercurial Ciaran Coyne. Tom McCarthy is also a very capable force of nature.

DUBLIN SOUTH could grind it out DELANEY ROCHE DUNNE BRADY look a little on the boring side but they have plenty of national titles along with the added artistry of Sean O'Lubaigh.
Sean once played in TWO pairs events at the same time. A Mens Pairs and an OPEN PAIRS.

WESTERN with KEAVENEY GLYNN SCANNEL and WALSH on board have a chance as
there is plenty of flare  there, However WALSH GLYNN were medium in the CAMROSE and Paul Scannell might not be at his sharpest as I have not seen him around too often recently.
This is my fault as I don't be out on the sea sailing.

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Now I look at the running scores

In the Inter B event I see the Carabine sisters back in 11th place of 22 teams.

In the INTER A event Murphyslaw is being held tight at the back of the field.
However one expects O'Mahony will let him off the leash soon

NOW to look at the big one and check out my picks

2 of my 3 picks are in the top 3 after 4 matches but my HOLDERS are after getting a trimming from North Munster 19-1 so are well back for now.

I am afraid WESTERN are after dispatching HOLDERS so that might be the end of HOLDERS for this year. They are 38 VPS out of the lead having already played the leaders WESTERN.

DUBLIN NORTH have just dispatched MLR by  18-2.

In the INTER As Murphy just ran into the famous Martin O'Briens and came out the wrong end.

Lady Milne Match 2 Stanza 2 Ireland Northern Ireland

Good morning

Here is the 4th video of the series on Lady Milne Trophy 2019.
Match 2 Stanza 2

The event was held at City North Hotel and organised by CBAI Office.

Fearghals Website

I am using Fearghals website to show the boards and results along with Bridgebase onlines vugraph archives.

Here is Match 2 Stanza 2 video link

Ireland Northern Ireland

Two of the big boards of this match happened near the end so ye will have to wait.

Looking at the abovc screenshot one can see a large number of imps transferring on the final 5 boards. 50 imps out of 129 happened on the last 5 boards.
The big one was Northern Ireland venturing into 7S on what seems to be a misunderstanding.
The opposition took the 3 aces that Blackwood missed.

Lady Milne Match 2 Stanza 1 Scotland CBAI

Good morning folks 

This morning we continue with the Lady Milne 2019 series of videos. Video 3 of probably 10 videos. Today  I planned to cover the Northern Ireland v Ireland match but unfortunately the vugraph operator stuck in the wrong names or did not know the players. So instead of Kenny Rigney we had McDonagh Sharkey and it did not look good. 

So I decided to switch to Scotland CBAI. This was not good watching if you are a CBAI fan or player. A good hiding was had by all. 

Fearghals Website  has all the information on the Lady Milne 2019. England won the event but these videos will focus on the Ireland teams.

Team IRELAND were captained by the well known bridge coach and teacher MR PETER PIGOT.

Team CBAI were captained by former rugby international Diarmuid Reddan or maybe it was former bridge international. 

Eamons video on Scotland CBAI

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Last night there was 32.5 tables playing in Wed Captains prize in Malahide Regional. I forget who was winning. 

Lady Milne Match1 Stanza2 video

Good morning folks
Here is the 2nd of hopefully 10 videos on 2019 Lady Milne Trophy. This event was held the weekend of  April 12-14 2019 in the

City North Hotel

The link is above. A grand spot if you doing anything near the airport.

Information on the boards and results can be found on Fearghal O'Boyles website

http://fob.ie

And search for Lady Milne Trophy 2019. Loads of stuff is there on all the boards and plays.
England won the event in comfort with half their top team. Scotland had the full squad on duty but failed to take full nourishment from the 3rd to 6th teams.

Paul Porteus CEO of  Contract Bridge Association of Ireland indicated afterwards that the event was there for Ireland to win but  I personally think it was always Scotland or England.
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Last night in Malahide I had 10.5 teams turn up for a team event. So rather than send someone home we went with a pairs movement scored by imps. I think it went well.

Looks like Youtube has done its job ..

Lady Milne Match1 S2

Link to video at above link ..

No offence is intended to any player. Its all about improvement for the next time.

Lady Milne Match 1 Stanza 1 City North

Last weekend in CityNorth saw the Home Internationals for the Lady Milne Trophy take place.
6 teams from England Wales NIBU CBAI Scotland and Ireland took part.

I made video report on the first half of match 1 with reference to Ireland and CBAI in the main.

The link to the video is posted below

Lady Milne 2019 M1 S1

CBAI took a trimming from Ireland in first stanza .. 53-5 in imps

However looking through the boards there were plenty of chances for CBAI especially to close the gap to at least manageable levels.

Fearghals website has information

Hopefully another video tomorrow.

John Carroll plays well in USA

Thomas Hanlon reports that John Carroll visited Graceland while in Memphis last week.
After getting trimmed in the first round of the world renowned Vanderbilt Trophy Team Street with Hanlon and Carroll on board managed to place 2nd in some teams event later.

I think it is called North American Swiss Teams but I will look it up as we go.

We will go to ACBL.org and look up Thomas Hanlon. I don't think they do GDPR in America.

ACBL Live

Then you click the above link and you enter the search for Tom Hanlon ...

ACBL calls him Tom but a long time ago I was severely reprimanded by Annie Hanlon who explained to me clearly that her sons name was Thomas.

Then you will see that Tom Hanlon won 93 masterpoints for 2nd place in the Jacoby Swiss Teams
I think it is called after Jim Jacoby or his dad Oswald Jacoby.

https://live.acbl.org/event/NABC191/SWIS/4/summary

If you go on the above link you will find many great players placing behind Hanlon and his gang.

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Moylan Cup on the weekend in Malahide sees Hanlon Carroll in action again ...
3 sessions Sat Sun starting at 1330 on Saturday.

Cannot remember who won it last year but maybe it was the Phelans or was that the year before.
Time goes by so fast ..