Wednesday, March 03, 2021

The legendary Sean Whelan thinks he is good enough not to cash the Setting Trick

 Ireland Open Imps Pairs at 8pm every night on BBO. This is a good training session as well as competition. You won't leave this event without some story. 

Derek Stokes Teams .. Derek was a partner of mine in the past. We played in Irish trials using his B points to enter as I only had about 7. Derek said ...Eamon I have enough for both of us. 


Here we have Sturdy defending 3NT with the fine player Mary who leads a nice small πŸ’” and whelo goes 10πŸ’–.

Declarer Kelly crosses to dummy in ♣ to run the ♦10 taken by Mrs with the King and she comes πŸ’• for Whelo to take 3 πŸ’–tricks .. So 4 in the bag and Ace in hand one normally takes setting trick but not our Sean. 


Sean figured on establishing a club for another trick but Kelly won Gueen of clubs and ran 4 rounds of diamonds forcing Sean to discard 4♠ and then A♠ .....

The rest is history and covered by GDPR.

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