The Limerick Imp Pairs ..April 22 results

Well Gordon Lessells and LizAnn O'Reilly won the Early one
and Diarmuid Reddan along with regular Limerick visitor Dan McIntosh the Late One.


Early Ireland Imps

 Late Ireland Imps

Then we had an episode of a chap feeling hard done by because his opponent a reasonably decent player found a very normal defense to his 3NT. Well the 2 of them sat there and sulked.
Are opponents not allowed defend well or are you expected to let the opponents make contracts.

The players featured in the hand above are not the players involved in the accusation.
The prosecutor in the South received a normal SPADE lead into his KJ4 fetching the SPADE queen from East ... so he is up and running.
He leads a diamond to the nice suit in dummy and West rushes up with the Ace ..
West with 11 hcp and having seen the Queen ... knows his partner does not how AK of clubs and can see a bucket of tricks coming from 3 spades ..5 diamonds and as his partner is very slim in clubs ..there was also a 1C opening in South...

Therefore the lad facing 3NT making for the 400 plus out tries the HEART SUIT ... Kxxx in partners hand would do and if not there then so be it ...he would not be giving away the contract ...
A very basic defence from an Andrew Robson article for newspaper readers ...so not too advanced.

However South stands up on his hind legs and indicates "I feel cheated" and sits and sulks and is not playing another card

Ruling ... I adjusted to 3NT-1 ...and threw in a DOUBLE for the insult ...

Straight away the accused pointed out they did not double ...and I said thats for Souths actions.
Later I removed the double as EW were in the running for winning.

Possibly there is some history between the folk as they both swim in the same small pond of bridge players.
As for the pictured EW ... West also found a HEART switch but he for some strange reason switched the small HEART thus blocking the suit and letting out the 3NT.

So I went looking for the mighty GARVE and he was taking no chances ..
His partner fired out a HEART QUEEN lead ...
On first thoughts you would think ..now theres someone in the know over in West
However a little more look shows the garve is in there taking care of business with a 2D bid showing the majors to his partner so the HEART QUEEN or ACE lead is normal here.

The folk involved know who they are ...but a really simple defence hardly required that reaction.

The better players generally win the Ireland Imp pairs and the hands are often technical.
So even more likely the better technicians might win.