Ireland Imps Late Entries 930pm .start1007pm
Folks
I just read the commentary on the first 4 boards and the knowledge contained in the Kokish commentary is serious. Anyone who has travelled on a line not mentioned in the commentary has some seriously free learning here. On board 4 Kokish talks about 3NT and 8 tricks or even 7 on a bad day. However 12 of our 22 tables are assisting declarer to a vulnerable game and 600 in the out column. Clearly many of our "experts" are a long way behind the real expert.
About 12 or 13 years ago my phone rang and it was Eric Kokish...
"Eamon blah blah ... I want to try out some online training with Skype and the like...
Can you get a partner and go on Skype with me" ...I got Matthew Haag and 3 hours later we had completed the exercise with Eric. "
Eric would be deemed by many as the top bridge coach in the world ...well maybe Christy Martens
is getting up there on the European side.
So have a read and while we are at it maybe some of our simultaneous pairs events and commentaries could be upgraded. Of course maybe the recent sims hands don't have the content to get our commentators going.
I got a message from Declan Murray last night saying "Thanks Eamon " but he was not even playing... "It was great watching that " .... Now he has a book to read on his watching..
Martin Garvey pointed out that on the 5S hand posted yesterday where Sonic1974 found a prossecco fueled 5D bid that 5D can be taken for another trick via a trump promotion thus making the 5S bid even worse. The 5S bidder has muttered since that he expected 8 card diamonds in Sonics hand etc ..
However Sonic had passed as dealer so that shows a lack of attention to detail as surely even the intermediate Sonic will figure out to open 3D or 4D on 7-8 carder ...when prossecco fueled she can arrive at a 5D bid on a 5 bagger.. the hand we are talking about is at the bottom of the previous blog article.
Here on board 5 despite Kokish indicating that 4H is a walk in the park kind of hand ..we have a player named by some as the 3rd best player in Britain coming a cropper and going 3 off in a cold one. No it was not zaczaczac on the declaring ..I checked
thegarve trick condenser ..replay
The commentary on tonights hands by Eric kokish
Hands 1 to 21 were in the 10pm game
Hands 22 to 36 were in the 5pm game as hands 6-20 thus giving us same dealer and vul
Early Game BBO Link
Late Game BBO Link
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