Ireland Imps Pairs tonight at 830pm .. Hopefully tonight the Granda will show up and we will give him good trimming. He caught me off guard last night as I accidently set event to Matchpoints.
You see the Granda is a matchpoint specialist ..and he won
Boards1-4 was fairly quiet as Granda got into his stride ... against Allways3 and Molly
Board 5 saw Sean Connor doing a strange play in 3NT .. You would think he would play in the
Offaly cold 4H contract. 6 card HEARTS to AJT987 ...we call those trumps in Dublin.
Board 7 we saw the Granda open up the throttle
Despite reaching 6H which was scoring a tidy 73% the granda threw all the grandkids in
the ring and for some reason backed his ordinary declaring partner all the way to GRAND SLAM.
The 3H bid is amazing .. The grandma clearly does not play the AUNTY double.
Needless to say zaczaczac called the police who changed it to 6H+1 .. No problem from Granda
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Even I was stunned by the Granda's next move. Took me a while to take it all in.
I don't believe it ..The Granda wheels out the old farmers bidding trick ..
The Strong Club ...and the Negative Diamond
No alerting No nothing ..
However its a serious move ...and catches a large fish..
Now this could be legit ,,,,granda might be using the forcing club neg diamond to find
out if his partner has 6+ hcp and we might be thinking its all strange ..,,but it might be perfectly
normal in Granda land .. Like back in 1989 Galligan thought he was the business when he bid 2S response to 1NT with 20 hcp to find out if partner held a maximum or minimum. He did not know
the 4NT quantitive back then.
Anyway Granda hoovered in 100% for being in the right contract.
He just does not understand the cardplay
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But down the end ... Granda went on a crazy run... all nothing to with him
board 24 saw granda gifted overtricks in 3NT
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Then boards 25-27 saw Higgins and O'Sullivan put on the Santy Hats ..
Those three 100% hands were not the doing of the great Granda tom.
On the first, his opponents failed to compete to 3♣ with their nine-card fit, although they were doomed for a bad score as long as GT didn't fail to win a heart before cashing both his diamond winners.
On the second, he achieved a fantastic score by jumping to 3N with ♠AQx ♥xx ♦AKxxxx ♣xx. Maybe a little unusual, but the crime here was North playing a third round of spades after South discarded all his spades and made it clear that West was cut off. This turned -2 into a make.
On the third, Granda tom got his top when his opponents bid to a bad contract, and then misplayed it (despite there being no way to do any better double dummy).
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So Granda we will be waiting for you in the Ireland Imps Pairs ...
Every night 830pm .... Keep away from that Sligo warren of iniquity.
Fearghal will have you playing bad bridge soon ...
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