Ireland Imp Pairs Every night at 8pm ..Free Tourney
Open to all Ireland flags..message eamongall if you cannot get in. However change to an Ireland South flag and its usually ok.
I think BBO selects the current group of Ireland flags and my followed list at creation of the event so I need to refresh if a person changes from say Northern Ireland to Ireland flag.
If you want to play for first time .. best not arrive at 758pm .. look in earlier and try registering. Tourney is visible from about 615pm.
Be aware that in these days of BBO capacity issues ... (someone indicated there were 28000 logged on at one stage last night and this is only those inside the front screen. Another 1000 or 2000 or so could be playing on the front page incognito. )
BBO will issue you a warning after a few minutes of inactivity and then log you off if no action. This could happen if you play 2 fast boards and leave the room with 8 minutes of the round left. Sometimes people forget they are in a tournament and get distracted in the house and then they are subbed.
Its just BBO minding its resources not an insult or not me kicking you.
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Last night we had 24 tables of intrepid bridge players. We gathered in some new BridgeBasers but despite a slightly slowing down of proceedings we managed okay.
Last nights winners by a large margin were dandyman1 and ben 2. I have no idea who they are in real life.
We had a few people doing a dance when they presumed someone was pulling a stroke on them. Reality was it was probably Tommy who qualified as a chartered accountant in 1961 or Mick who used to run the airport in the 1980s trying to work this new fangled way of playing bridge. However various legends of the keyboard did not seem to get this. Then you had a very regular BBOer who decided I will try the web version live for the first time tonight and wondering why it could not work it.
And so on we went and we got these results ..
Click here to see all results of IIP23March 2020
You can also click the link above to make your way around the tournament and find out
any information you wish
Again you can make it larger (the hand record I mean ) by using some phone zoom or computer zoom. If anyone wants the soft copy of the hand file I can email it so hit me at
eamongalligan62@gnail.com
Last night I spotted the very thoughtful Colm McDonald ending up in 2nd place after losing his original partner Liz who had connection issues.
We noted on hand 11 a man picked up a hand of 11 tricks in hand and was so shocked he accidently passed. No problem ... Mrs man across the room was playing 3rd hand light opening so they arrived in 6H like normal people....just a slight diversion in bidding.
However the opponents roared ..Come here and look at this crazy bidding. Yer man passed with a 100 highcard points and his partner opened with 9.
Without even going to the table I could see ACCIDENTAL PASS or misclick..
Anyway they arrived in 6H and the patient died.
We had a visit from Harold Curran famous coach of the NIBU reserve team who conquered the FRONT team in weekend 1 of Camrose. His plans for a 2nd victory fell apart when one of his team decided its okay to be still driving to an international bridge match less than an hour to game time.
Could be less as I was not there.... End result the 3rd pair had to go into battle at 30 minutes notice when planning a nice sitout.
For those who found it a struggle I counted 32 folk who have represented one of the Irelands at international level or some stronger country like Wales or England playing last night.
The lowest placing of an international was 36th place. Both players in that pairing have played international. We also had the 3rd best player in Britian but he was not wearing the shirt last night.
Last night Michael Dun Laoighre also ran a pairs event for that club.
The results can be found here
AceAlan played well in this event.
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