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 ... (there were 33500 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. ) Before the pandemic somewhat below 20000 was peak.
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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IMPORTANT NOTICE
On Wednesdays Fearghal O'Boyle will run an intermediate event starting at 1930. So any intermediates who wish to play intermediate can look out for an event at 1930 directed by ansuid. Intermediates are welcome to play in 8pm Ireland imp pairs but now can choose the intermediate event on Wednesdays.
A link to Regent Bridge Clubs advice and BBO information (I hope they won't mind)
Someone asked about BBO dollars and Prime.
BBO Dollars info
Prime is an upgraded BBO which includes free advanced robots if you are someone who uses robots. I personally used to rent basic robots for 3 dollars a month so Prime at 5 dollars a month is a good deal for me.
An event for Fitzwilliam Tennis Club will run at 1500 hours on Mondays and Thursdays. This event is limited to their members.
It will appear at Competitive ..Free Tournaments from about 1315 hours to accept entries. Be online at 1500 hours or you could get deleted by Bridgebase and Eamon has no control on this.
There is also The Ireland Bridge Club which folk can use as a meeting place if necessary ... Anyone can set a table and maybe folk from Ireland or their own club will join them
Ireland Imps Pairs March 26th
Board 1 looks like a handy 12 tricks in spades as the trump finesse is working.
However we don't bid slam on missing an ace and a king of trumps. However if you have reached 6S you might as well play to make it. We have 3 down in 6S and 1 down in 5S.
Board 2 is a mean hand unless you get a non-heart lead and sniff out the good news by discarding the hearts on clubs and after not suffering a ruff on 3rd round of clubs you might be in a position to play for 4-0 trumps.
Board 3 another horrible hand for declarers in 3NT ,,,
Aksooted went to the fridge leaving no pressure on declarer with spade king lead and thinking there was no encouragement switched to a heart .. What does a defender do here when following spade king apart from nod the head across the room encouragingly. Some might say you pitch the spade Jack. However a declarer might still cash out for 8 and pick up doubleton diamond queen.
Board 4
Ben 2 found the diamond king lead for some reason. Maybe it was unbid suit. Maybe holding trump Ace and a doubleton it might be a good lead.
Creativepard got a diamond bid from his partner so he was rocking.
Mloda_K found the diamond king lead and Ronan was happy to encourage I think.
Board 5 saw lots of players launch into a grand slam .. 32 hcp seems a long way off GRAND.
Small slam on this deal was paying out 9 imps plus.
Board 6 saw 10 declarers down in 4H on a very makable layout. One might play for 3-3 diamonds with the spade finesse in reserve.
That will do me for today ..
Fitzwilliam Tennis Club results
Declans Academy results
More to follow
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