Ireland Imp Pairs March 20th ......Running again tonight 8pm

To find this tournament you got to logon to www.bridgebase.com and find Competitive then Free Tourneys and search for Ireland Imp Pairs from 7pm onwards. Then register with your partner or go to Partnership Desk. Tournaments start showing about 100 minutes before start time.

There is also available from a link on Bridgebase the free digital bridge care pack
including a free book from Julian Pottage and several other items.
It seems to be getting added to since I first saw it.

https://www.bridgeshop.com.au/digital-bridge-care-pack

Last night we had in my humble opinion a very successful Ireland Imp Pairs. We added to 2 boards to play 18 boards in the session. 18 boards completed in just under 2 hours. For the final board I added several minutes to make sure all finished board 18 without intervention.
Last night we had Grandmaster Anna taking on the novice player Kitkatgirl and coming off the worst of it. Paula Tolan and Mr Blackwood came in first place despite paula stopping to whinge about her partners name changing all the time. I suspect she was confused due to color blindness.
Just after the event she expressed an interest in how does Imp Pairs work ... I said "Teams" She said " but we were playing as Pairs" ... I decided its time to eject from this conversation.

Denis and Jim found the boards too tough last night and Cian Holland waxed on about misdefending 2 hands. I am sure there were many other stories. Zrinka came all the way from Derry with the man who carries a fridge in his van full of meats and cheeses. Imagine bringing a fridge to the Holmes Wilson.

And lets try a bonus for our players

I think the image can be copied and expanded on phones or other devices.
Otherwise I am going to make a pdf and post it....hmmm does not seem to like pdf files.
Anyone wants it send me an email at eamongalligan62@gmail.com
It is also possible for the techy types to get the hands from www.bridgebase.com

Meanwhile Kelan has been crying about me never posting about his victories and his endplays and stuff... well its not often I beat Kelan so I may as well mention it.

Here is the legend in his own mind in action on http://bridgez.net:3002/playonthecloud
only yesterday.

Here for some reason we have the poor robot making a good spade lead and somehow the legendary expressive Kerryman manages to allow 12 tricks ... and possibly the Kerryman might say if the robot led 4th highest diamond he would not make the mistake. It should be a quick minus 1 but maybe the Kerryman is distracted by the first loss to Galligan in months and that the press showed up just on that day. I think its because he has not been getting to Dublin enough. Into his 30s now and no sign of an All Ireland GAA title. Donegalmen climbing trees to look at Kerrymen training in the GAA.

How can you leave out 12 tricks beggars belief though.

However Kelan is doing quite okay in the overall scheme of things so there is some good news.
I don't want him whinging all over messenger about all his wins at bridge

Kelan is maintaining a good average on the boards he completes. 60.73% in 3rd place ahead of some well known Ireland players. Not the top Ireland players but some decent folk are present.
Vince Bisset a retired chess player once of Malahide. Rashers and Sausages are a sometimes partnership in real life. Elvis is a legend in his own brain out in Malahide. The ericf I am tracking as he only plays the first hand each day and possibly ditches the hand if it is going badly. The brains of Hull is in 2nd place.....same place as he finished against Fearghal in the Camrose match.