Last night in the Ireland Imps Pairs we had the unheralded Malahide pairing of Joe Caulfield and Peter Wilson playing well above their handicaps. A final placing at table 6 or 7 would have been okay but these guys ended up 3rd overall with regular trials players Connor and Doyle ahead of them. Denis Sheehan is well known down Munster way but Sean Maguire is beyond my time.
Meanwhile down at the Virtual Regent Club Peter Goodman ran a 14 table matchpoint event and Adam Mesbur and Nick Fitzgibbon dominated a curtailed Mitchel movement. 10 rounds meant if you were East West and seated yourself 10 seats from Mesbur Fitzgibbon you were on a 1 board start over the 10 unfortunates who got picked apart by the aforementioned pair.
Hand 18 saw the rampaging Mesbur Fitzgibbon slowed down although it was nothing to do with them. After all their is only one man in Ireland who might find the Ace of Club lead and I am not playing these days. Fitzgibbon was unfortunate to find the human rightsided the contract (whoever Thabo might be) goes by the name of Mike G ... maybe G is for Galligan.
Then having right sided the contract the man gathered in all 13 tricks and there was me thinking it was the robot.
One notes a couple of bridge legends in their own minds chose a 1NT opening or rebid thus wrong siding the contract and facing a possible downing club lead. Mr Comyn recently relatively successful in the well attended Malahide Congress Teams might say .."When you got 6 card suit of something you open it or rebid it. " However 4 many time international and national Irish champions for some reason failed to get this. Well Mr Comyn learned some of them out in Malahide.
Out in Malahide Congress there was no Mesbur or Fitzgibbon but Comyn and his band of Bearpark Boyle and Guy cuffed the powerful MacMaugh team in the final round. Sadly for them the Rebecca team of ladies passed them at the post. Seamus Boyle is a former Malahide player ..although still a life member who departed Malahide for the Templogue area.
Results of Malahide wonderful Congress can be found on http://cbai.ie and http://fob.ie
1 comment:
Eamonn
Thank you for hosting the Bridge competition last night. It was my first time taking part in an online competition. I found it to be a very intuitive system and thoroughly enjoyed the game although I will have to stop my fingers actioning the screen before engaging my brain
I am Secretary of CRC bridge club and I am a member of a number of other clubs in Clontarf. I am in contact with those clubs to see if there is interest in setting up a game similar to yours for our club members
If I get enough traction and we do set up a game and if I need some advice, would you mind if I contacted you
Dan O’Mahony, CRC Bridge Club
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