Results of April 16th Ireland Imps Pairs early and late

Tonight Friday April 17th we will post as Peter Pigot Club finishes. About 5pm and 930pm

 Unclocked Imp Pairs followed by full Swiss.

Later I will be back at 2130 for a 2207 start ....the full Swiss Imps ..

Last night there were no sleep ins by Eamon and all went very well.
The early event got off about 545pm and using the unclocked method our 20 board peleton spotted
Fearghals intermediates 14 boarder and whizzed past that group with leading sprinter Comyn finishing at 1919 having started the 20 boards at 1742. Thats a terrific under 5 minutes a board and he may have waited on opponents from time to time but only small less than a minute waits.

Looking through the results a person in the know notices the presence in 6th place out of 36 entries
Declan Cahill and Francis Daly. So no big deal one says ..who are they.

I partnered Declan Cahill in the Monday morning game in Malahide a year ago and having noted early on that this mans hands might need to be kept away from dummy one proceeded to winning a voucher. Near the end of the game one found out that the man started bridge aged 74 years and was not 75 for another few months. 
Now here he is outrunning the legendary John Comyn and leaving famous Malahide Monday morning Masters Deane and Murray far behind along with Area Master Sean Whelan Laois man with the cap. There are even about 6 players who have represented their country in the field.


IIP Early

Ireland Imp Pairs Swiss

Meanwhile in the late game the Brain of Hull and her partner won the night ahead of a sprinkling of very decent players including the distracted zaczaczac and the tiring nervous dec181 who suffered a nose bleed due to the high altitude. Back in 11th place were the legends in their own minds Northern Ireland intermationals Coffey and the now retired from major competition Bishop Lavery. De la Salles finest McKay and Breslin former National Mens champions. Also present are Wexford legends Doyle and Sexton reunited by the Covid.
Finally we reach 37th place and find Welsh international Peter Goodman partnered by the multi talented BJ O'Brien. At the bottom of this page we have a couple of boards of the BJ and Peter accounts misfiring. It might not even be them at all. It might be imposters or scam artists who robbed their BBO accounts.

 Above we see the person running the BJ account open with a weak 2H bid.
Now normally when one pre empts one is done unless partner invites you into the party again.
Not this brave soul .. this person bids 3C with the same weak 2 as his partner scratches his head or maybe thats not allowed in this Convid time. Anyway the BJ account all on its own drives to 3H thinking Joe Carroll is going to let that go with his partner showing a strong NT.
4 down and minus 11 imps.

Next its the petepunt accounts turn to NOT get into the action. The petepunt opens 1S with a hand many might be passing on but given its the spade suit one might find many takers for opening.
So the man opens 1S and the opponents drive to 3NT.
Maybe a time not to lead spades given that the declaring side are clearly not bothered about them.
Anyway spade lead and the contract is booked for down 2.
Declarer wins spade SEVEN lead and wins a club ducked. Diamond finesse wins and another club up taken by Ace. Now it should be time to take stock ...as they say in the beginners defence manual.
Its teams so how can we beat this contract .. Its getting very close to 9 tricks .. North has nothing in diamonds or clubs ..but may have something in spades ..but whatever that might be is not going to defeat 3NT...as it was spade 7 lead and not a lower card.
Maybe its time to swing a heart ...and down we go ..

Nope our person continued to limp along with spades and whoever Waggy1 is was able to roll how 10 comfortable tricks ...

Now I totally understand that it is somewhat after 12 midnight and our two lads are worried about their beauty sleep and after long hard days in front of the TV with reruns of Welsh rugby or cookery shows in BJs case ....the brains may not be on full focus.

No doubt its a different story if chasing the Drogheda Congress Pairs event with thegarve looming in the distance. Speaking of thegarve ... Tom Gilligan was quickly able to end thegarves interest in 3NT on this hand as his well schooled defensive partner Declan Murray gave him the signals to enable the large HEART cash.

I was only reading last night about a similar hand where the book indicated the need for a switch as 9 tricks in 3NT loomed. However I am always reading stuff .. thats why I am so good at bridge...
Well Read. I even got to play with the legendary BJ O'Brien a few times .... won some money too but don't think we ever got better than 2nd place in any Congress.

Better post the Peter Pigot game for this afternoon ..think its 1400 hours unless I am mistaken.