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.
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Last night I decided to replace two robots with myself and the nearly winner of Clonmel intermediate pairs. However I had no idea that the original robots has hoovered up nearly 40 imps from boards 1-5 against some humans
Thus when the results came out I was thinking something was wrong.
I was saying to myself how can we be plus that much.
Anyway the mystery was soon solved.
37.5 imps head start from the robots made a reasonable score better
Followed by 3 good boards against what appeared to be a starting off pair of bridge players.
The middle board I thought might have been plus more imps but for some reason folk did not bid or else went down in a reasonable slam. The new folk made 13 tricks against us
Its definitely a 12 tricker hand so getting only average when our opponents stopped in 3NT was a little disappointing.
A very interesting play hand ..A quick glance without double dummy helper seems to indicate one might be in a Vienna Coup situation after playing off 6 hearts and 2 spades leaving only 5 cards. South gets in trouble in his 3 queen suits and gets squeezed. However 2 folk bidding and going down in 7H left us with the average.
As my friend Sally used to say in Fitzwilliam ...plus in part score beats down in SLAM.
Later we found bigswinging in a generous mood as he stormed towards the oak tree and slammed his head into a low hanging branch. Elephants don't tend to understand DUCKING.
So he got a sore head and Cobol Cate ate all his rolos in 3NT.
If the big elephant had ducked on trick 1 maybe its 12 imps gone the other way ..meaning instead of plus 8 imps we lose 5 imps for him making 3NT
However Cobol Cate turned up and not the other one who throws imps like confetti at a wedding.
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