Ireland Imp Pairs 8pm every night

Ireland Open Imps Pairs at 8pm every night 

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 Good evening folks 

Ireland Imps pairs moves back to 8pm each night as it has been affecting my Netflix viewing. The hands will continue to be exciting both for players and kibitzers. Some folk don't like playing or cannot commit to a full 2.5 hours of bridge play so they might maintain a watching brief. 

Some like watching some of our experienced players hitting the Beechers Brook or the other fences that jump up in front of them 

Meanwhile if you want a little practice 

http://www.bridge-now.com/ is a fine FREE website which will give you a score after each board you play. 

also http://bridgez.net:3002/playonthecloud

All results of Ireland Open imps are stored here 

https://www.bridgewebs.com/irelandimps/

There is also the Peter Pigot Bridge Club 

https://www.bridgewebs.com/peterpigotbridge

An interesting hand from Malahide on Thursday night ..Hand 9

 Ireland Imp pairs every night 830pm has some good exciting hands ..We call them Elvis hands ..

All shook up...

Last Friday morning while reviewing the Malahide offering from the night before one spotted hand 9 had many people going down without any fight in 4S on this offering 

the play started generally with a small heart lead to the Heart King and trick 2 was Heart Ace and 

trick 3 was another Heart which you probably ruff. 

How come a string of Inter As and Masters went down quietly in this hand which to me looks like 10 tricks on top. I had a look at the 2 folks who made it. Line number 2 blasted into the running all my 6 spades line and hope the opposition will crumble which they did. It is hopeless for 2 defenders with no signals or idea what to signal or how to go about it to stop 4S. On the run of the spades the defenders threw away some cards and eventually bared down to 2-2 in clubs and the declarer played Ace and another club to establish his 3rd club as the 10th trick. Its very hard for defender East to figure out what to discard but an early club ..keeping one saver on his Club King doomed him. He had some hearts to discard first while he pondered his fate ... 

Meanwhile up on line 1 the defence quickly attempted to cash diamond Ace attracting the declarers interest to the Diamond QJT in dummy and this declarer managed to set up the diamonds and pitch a losing heart before making 11 tricks. The other 7 declarers failed to get near 10 tricks at all. 

So why did so many fail to make 10 tricks legitimately .. 

Ireland Imps Pairs every night 830pm Monday to Sunday.

 Thinking of new Ireland Early imps at 7pm every night. 6 minutes a board. 16-18 boards. 

Good evening folks 

Last night in the Ireland imp pairs Katie and Bobbie had an eventful night. 

Somehow they managed to allow Emer home in 4DX from a 7 trick start. 

Then on Board 23 there was some misunderstanding somewhere

as katie got to declare in a BJ special 1SXX for 1520 points. 

Vinmar and Robbie did a car crash .. 

.......

Every night YOU can do same or suffer same as the Ireland imps 

brings many surprises and few 4333 hands. 

I deal 32 and throw out 4 flatties leaving the rest. 

A hand from 1990 training session. The Damian Lynch team. The Ireland Imps tourney.

 Every night eamongall runs the Ireland Imps Pairs. Maybe its too long at 28 boards but nobody told me 

that yet. Maybe I should change to 2 times 15 board sessions and combine the 2 events for those that want the long event. Who knows as nobody tells me anything. 

eamongalligan62@gmail.com 

https://www.bridgewebs.com/irelandimps/

Amazingly back in 1990 I was part of an  Intermediate A bridge team. Noel Mitchel Damian Lynch David Dunne and Eamon Galligan. We also had a subs bench which included Sean Mitchel Pat Cassidy and James Danaher and maybe even brainiac Kevin Mitchel. 

I found this hand on an old computer and am amazed how much trouble it is causing some Area Masters Inter As and Inter Bs. 

Make 6S ... 

Answers to eamongalligan62@gmail.com

The folk of today don't seem to understand the mental pursuit of working the opponents hard. 

Back in the day one of our team produced a set of 32 bridge boards. They were divided up between us and each player got 8. The plan was that on one Sat or Sun we would meet at a designated venue and each of us would bring 8 hands were we were meant to be the dummy. Then we would play them out under dummies direction. 

Thus we actually had training sessions for our bridge team. 

As intermediates we did not fear the "Masters and Seniors " 

One time we won the Regional Teams out in Malahide and could not understand why we were handed Best Inter A prize and a qualification for Inter A All Ireland Final ... 

Meanwhile a team of Masters from behind us went off to play in the Kelbourne Cup. 

This was in a time like in the Bible BC... but for us bridge players it is BF 

Before Fred ... or arguably BC before Clegg. Matthew Clegg was the okbridge founder. 

Fred Gitelman developed what became Bridgebase Online 

Irish Team win English Gold Cup 2020

 The Gold Cup of the English Bridge Union is arguably the toughest event in English bridge to win. 

Yesterday evening the team of Adam Mesbur Nick Fitzgibbon John Carroll Mark Moran Tommy Garvey and Swedish assistant Fredric Nystrom won the Gold Cup

Good videos with good commentary can be found here 

https://www.twitch.tv/eopenbridge

More later 

The Ireland Imp Pairs the best and most run event of the lockdown .. A 4H contract 830pm EVERY NIGHT

 The below hand is published to emphasize that entries are the lifeblood of bridge ...the South player just happened to be on site.  

Last night in the Ireland Imp Pairs we spotted the very decent player Martin Garvey being slapped into 4H by his robot who has seen his skills before. 

South received the opening lead of the S6 and rose S9 and won Queen with Ace 

A quick heart to queen followed by HA for a 2nd round of trumps. Galligan watched incredulously as thegarve squandered his possible trump entry with Heart 8. Declarer should have had a fair idea spades were 4-2 from lead but the extra entry was gobbled up. 

Now garve is very good and quick to offer free advice to lesser players after the hand. Unfortunately most players instead of taking this FREE advice would rather verbally square up to the giver. Me personally I scoop up everything he says about bridge. 

Some nights I learn new ways of putting  people down  but its generally harmless banter or generally directed at those players who have much improved in the COVID era of bridge. 

We have a few folk trampling the online Ireland games who have skills that could win the Bermuda Bowl.....................

Anyway the garve continued to draw a 3rd round of trumps and is now an entry short. 

He needs to reach dummy twice but has only 1 entry .. if only he had have taken that extra chance in the hearts one might think. 

......

However West spoiled my story by pitching a club and thegarve prevailed and made 4H. This is a 16 imp swing for thegarve and enabled him to enlever la batte. Apparently in a London team game of the 1970s a young garve and others were allowed announce "Raising the Bat " to indicate 50 imps in the plus column. Probably totally Unauthorised information but that was the game of those days. 

I think Englishmen in their version of hurling are allowed "Raise the bat " after scoring 50 points.

I have been corrected as above or is it below by one of the non-GAA Malahide folk

(For good order on your blog, the Englishmen “Raise the bat” after scoring 50 runs, not points, when cracking the leather upon the willow).....😜😜

Something like Joe Canning or some of those Limerick lads reaching 2-10 in the hurling. 

If you got this far you will find a very decent game of SWISS IMPS at 

https://www.bridgewebs.com/irelandimps/

All results of previous games and the hands are published above.