2 videos versus Peter

This morning as requested by my many times opponent Peter I recorded the challenge for his knowledge. I did not think the first 8 boards went too well and expected to be about 18 imps down
However turned out Peter got no imps in the first 8 boards so Galligan was ahead.

1st half of live video Pedro

So this morning with end of challenge time looming and a morning session of bridge to play in Malahide ,,,Eamon played the 2nd 9 boards at 7am or so with a cupan tae.


2nd half of live video Pedro

Seems all bridge should be played first thing in the morning and without any Guinness the night before. Galligan was like the Liverpool goalkeeper against Barcelona and Peter returns from his trip abroad demoralized.

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So after playing that challenge it was back to the leaba for a few hours and up then just after 9 for ablutions and the trip to Malahide to partner Mark Cunningham.

So Board 2 I managed to make a complete mess of ..after ending up in a poor contract.

Eamon as dealer opened a weak 1NT and the normal thing would be partner would transfer into HEARTS and Eamon would play 2H probably making for about average score. 

Unfortunately Eamon got passed out in 1NT and the opponents came out smoking with the first 5 Club tricks. Now I needed the rest and I was doomed as one would expect longer HEARTS with the short CLUBS. North discarded a small HEART and Eamon decided it was surely from 4 to the Queen as the odds indicated North had more SPACE for hearts. So down went Eamon by 3 tricks for a horrible ZERO. 

A good HEART guess got me the 100% score but I GUESSED wrong and I was only after finding out that the opponent was a teacher in my local national school. 

Galligan v Mullingar man and Zar points

This afternoon I finished off a challenge with Mullingarman.

Galligan v Mullingarman video

Later in the video we touched on some Zar points and also a hand where someone made 3NT when it was more likely 3NT makes the opposite direction.

Last night in Malahide Regional Bridge Club there was a popular winner of the Presidents Prize in Maria Ewing and Marisa Curran. The singer accompanied their victory march with Viva la Spanya,

Yesterday I made a short video of the end of a Murphyslaw challenge. I was not sure what to expect but in the end I won by 27 imps.

Galligan v Blanchman ..the revenge

The above videos give running commentary as I play and mention any silly things I might do.
I never go back and edit the videos to make myself look better ..it is what it is.

Galligan tries Wbridge5 Daily tourney with Video

Yesterday morning Eamon attempted the Wbridge5 daily tournament

http://bridgez.net:3002/playonthecloud

The link is above.
New players will need to register.

The link to the video of my efforts is placed below .. I struggled home with about 52% and well down the field. However I might have beaten Willem.

Video of Eamons struggle on Wbridge5

Since then I have played a challenge against Murphyslaw from BBO sometimes referred to as Blanchman as he lives near there sometimes.

When the smoke cleared Eamon was shocked to be 57 imps behind after 16 boards.
Murphy is an ordinary Inter A player in Malahide Regional Bridge Club and suddenly he does this to me.

I will just have to take that as an outlier something akin to Liverpool and Spurs both making the Champions League Final from 3-0 down.

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Tonight is Malahide Regional Bridge Clubs Presidents Prize but they can be at rest as Murphy is working the night shift so will not appear at that event.

It was a wonderful sunny day today

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I found a great website from Israel but one might need to learn Hebrew.

http://bridge-tips.co.il/

Thanks
Eamon Galligan

Bridgebase version 3 video with Peter

Folks

This afternoon  I made a video by request of a challenge against Peter. Unfortunately despite playing steadily and avoiding most of the pitfalls I lost by 20 imps.
On further EXAMINATION I noted that my robot team mates had allowed 2 beatable games to make. This cost me 20 imps of loss. However team mates often do this in bridge so what can one do.

3NT with no play on a club lead and the robot made a club lead and then failed to finish the job.
4H with no play on any lead and the robot managed to let it slip through.

However the good side is that our Peter is representing Malahide against the dreaded enemy Saint Anthonys from behind the church this afternoon in the FA Cup final of Bridge.
Hopefully he will lead his team to victory and show them my video on his phone.
Peter is very techy sav. Next year he will be minding the bridgemates.

Here is the link to my 16 board loss against Peter the Shadow.

Peter crushes Eamon

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Tonight I am off to Malahide to run the Kirwins League Final evening.
It starts in Malahide Regional at about 730pm.

May 11th 2019

Good afternoon folks

Today we have Galligan versus Mullingarman video.
We also show a flyer for the Muldoon Cup that came in the post ..

Muldoon Open Cup takes place on
Sunday June 9th 130pm
Two sessions
Dun Laoghaire Bridge Club

Entries .. Michael Rowan 087 7638948
michaelrowan62@yahoo.com

So we have a video below of Galligan v Mullingar

Galligan v Mullingarman

Galligan defeated Mullingarman for the 7th challenge in a row and I don't even play bridge
anymore.

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Later on this month we will be going to Belfast to run the Egan Trophy on vugraph.
This has 10 teams .. 7 Teams from CBAI and 3 teams from NIBU.

All will be well .. I understand our champion Moran team is playing.
However they are resting up at the moment.

New Bridgebase Test with Advanced Robots

This morning I am doing another test of NEW BBO with Advanced Robots. The last time it was boot out Eamon regularly. Later I ran a new test with Basic Robots and that seemed to roll along well.
Today it was a struggle with Murphyslaws Advanced Robots.

Then I found the touchscreen was working good or better. So I Tried some of that.

Then Peter Wilson came along and he always wants it now and right now.
Patience is not his virtue. He burst into my video like Batman in a Robin video.

So I had to leave my challenge and put up a teaching table for him. He wanted to play a loser on loser hand that he had attempted about 10 times already. I even told him how to make it but he was not listening so down he went again.

Anyway here is link to latest video test of NEW BRIDGEBASE ONLINE.

New Bridgebase Online test

Click on above link for a workout on the new BBO VERSION.

The bloody dog made a loud bark there. Scared the robots.

He must have heard Peter Wilson arriving into Bridgebase unexpected to learn about LOSER ON LOSER.

New Bridgebase Online ...better today

Today I made another video with the brand new version of Bridgebase Online.

Yesterday in my last post the new version was struggling terribly so I had to switch to the OLD version. For some reason my I AND O keys are struggling on this keyboard. Must get the Google out and find out why. Its only the capital letters.

Anyway i played against Mullingar man. He is the chap who first tried to teach me bridge and still thinks he is a master of bridge. However he does not realise that AREA MASTER is just jumped up intermediate player. The MASTER is just like the MASTER in masterpoints .. .

its like " I love you long time , you give me mastercard "

Play long time ...get lots of masterpoints ... not good at bridge ..

So here we have a video of Eamon v Sean playing a 16 board challenge on BBO.

Eamon v Sean video     click on that link

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Last night in Malahide Regional Bridge Club we had the Cowhie Trophy ..
Dan Cowhie .... I think he told me he was 95 or nearing 95 last night.

Dan Cowhie who started bridge aged 58 approximately ....now a good many years playing.
His wife Mary also playing a decent number of years but a late starter also.

Anyway the bearded masters won the Trophy last night ...
Charles Higgins and Phil Murray ....Charles is approaching 85 ... and Phil is a right age too.

We also had the annual appearance of Ray McConville a true master of bridge from Malahide.

He could have stroked me good last night when I chose to Double him in a hopeless contract.
As it turned out he could have escaped into 3 hearts making ....from a hopeless 3C doubled.

Hearts was my partners 2nd suit bid so from my point of view looked unlikely but further attention by me would have indicated an 8 card heart fit for them .. so probably I PRESSED on the trigger too foolishly. You see McConville is no fool and 40 years ago he probably worked out he is fecked in 3CX and bids his side 5 card suit ....and gets doubled by my partner in 3H MAKING.

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New BBO versus Flash BBO

Good evening folks

Today I decided to try out the new HTML BBO as opposed to the flash BBO.
I used a CHALLENGE against my good friend Murphyslaw as the material.

From the start I had problems.

1. The advanced robots were slow
2. I kept getting booted out of the CHALLENGE
3. Eventually I started getting messages about cannot connect to GIB robot.
4. Finally I switched back to FLASH BBO and evenything ran like a dream.

You can find my experience here in a video.

Thankfully I managed to defeat Murphyslaw and put him to the sword.

Video of New BBO compared to old BBO

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Last night I saw a bridge player of inter B standard win the last 4 tricks.
However it took about 40 seconds a trick.

I wondered about it so I asked her and she said .. I wanted to make them think they might get a trick.

YIKES ..

Thanks
Eamon Galligan

Lady Milne Match 3 Stanza 2 video

This morning I made a video of the 2nd Stanza of the Ireland England Lady Milne match.
IRELAND led ENGLAND by about 15 imps the halfway stage. However Ireland tossed away about 43 imps in slight misjudgments thus putting them in a losing position.

http://fob.ie

The link above goes to Fearghals Wonderful World of Bridge and I use it in my videos to get information.

Here is the link to my latest video

Ireland England Lady Milne Stanza 2

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At the end of the month I am going to La Mon Hotel to put the Egan Trophy on vugraph courtesy of the Irish Bridge Union. 10 of Irelands top teams will take the floor and we will show TWO MATCHES PER ROUND.

Alan Hill will be the tournament director for this event. It takes place on May 25th 26th at the La Mon Hotel.