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.
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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.
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