I got some action on the Sligo Fast Fridays

 Tonight a well known Master player allowed me back on Granda Tom against his pair in the Sligo Fast Fridays. Master player has the advantage as his partner is a Northern Ireland international player and Granda Tom only has Finola from Derrygonnelly. 

Also I cannot watch the race as Fearghal like most other clubs has the kibitzers blocked. 

My horse is in 2nd place after 6 boards .. However the leader is my betting opponent. 

My horse dropped back after round 3 but the Granda is still running strong. 

He is like Frank O'Mara in the running he has a powerful kick once 

he don't leave too much to do. 

After round 4 I think my horse has climbed into the lead. 

Hopefully the Granda will continue to fire and make me some money 

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I cannot see anything except the tables ... Fearghal does not allow gamblers in his 

games. My opponent AKsooted is playing against the Maura O'Keefe bridge player and Mister O'Keefe so hopefully their teaching skills will hold back Chipshop boy 

Its Chipshop man versus Granda Tom in the battle of Butler Yeats 

I see Butcher man is also coming up on the inside too .. 

Connell from high up in Donegal ..maybe Glenties

Can you believe it ..the best player in Ireland does not know how to duck a trick at 

trick 1 to make 3NT ... Cost me 5 euro the weak declarer

Then on the next board he is doubled in 3S and takes the lazy route to down 2

instead of the good player route to one off via a possible squeeze. 

Why would you lock yourself in dummy giving you no chance 

Bloody hell ..don't bet on Granda Tom as he not good at the playing cards

The 1st bridge cheater in Ireland was my brother ..Wait until you see what came after him

 Back in the early 1990s I had a bridge program called Meadowlark Bridge and PCs were becoming affordable. I was down in Cavan my home town for a few days and brought my PC with me. I was happily playing the Meadowlark every day upstairs. 

Then one day in I went and played a hand and noticed I was way down the leaderboard as some Socrates has taken over. Board after Board I played but the relentless Socrates was always top on every board. 

Finally I realized what had happened. My much younger brother ...21 years younger had slipped in and bid 7NT on every board and claimed 13 tricks on every board. Later on he learned double and redouble. 

My Meadowlark was ruined and every time I reinstalled it ..the results remained as they must have been stored somewhere else. 

So that was the first bridge cheater I encountered 

Meanwhile in Ireland nearly 30 years on we have the new version of my brother 

I think this one was a misclick ..South meant to bid 2NT 

Our man West tried it on Real Bridge and got hosed in Camrose by England

Here East West pushed them into the going down slam but then misdefended by grabbing Spade Queen too early ...South misplayed by floating the spade 10 ...and East grabbed the bait. 

Here it seems Mr Peeper goes for the top spot knowing about his nice diamond stopper

In this case Mr Peeper is also the club director 

Surely when God gives you AKQJxx and 4 card support she means those as trumps.

Here Mr Peeper or something roars into 3NT buying a 15 count in dummies passed hand 

Here we have an East seemingly knowing it is safe to introduce spades 

A different Mr Peeper 

Above  Granda tells me about someone taking him for a fool and getting hosed 

Here we have one of the Mr Peepers on lead ... No Spade Queen for him 

He leads 5th highest to his partners King doubleton with no bidding 

Mr Peeper is the KING 

And here is the King of the Peepers ....this chap can divine a doubleton club in his 

partners hand and knows his partner got trump Ace ..

This man has God on his side or maybe the other chap.

Led a club and when pard won Trump Ace early ..another club and bingo ruff

And here Mrs Inter A2 Peeper is able to NOT lead Diamond Queen like 32 other hopeless opening leaders. NO NO NO ...Madame Peeper finds a nice Club 10 lead ...to partners A8763

No way she leads Diamond Queen ..thats for dodos 

3NT down 1 

Oh and by the way Madame Peeper looked good and did not lead 4th highest to block the suit 

And finally he King of the Peepers ... We got KQJ53 and even God herself will lead Spade King  but our Peeper is made of stronger stuff ... Spade 3 .... and Partner got ACE TEN small ....

And he don't even overtake the TEN second time ...cos its not allowed open 1NT with 5 card major in Sligo cos Feargal said so .. 

The in-form Paul Tranmer cruises to victory in the NIBU Camrose Trials

 This weekend the most in-form player of the Covid era cruised to victory in the Northern Ireland Camrose trials. Aided by regular partner Wayne Sommerville a top player in his own right Tranmer Sommerville led the 4th place pair by 18 VPs at the end of 16 board match ups. 

Tranmer has been the form man of the Northern section of the NIBU throughout COVID. One night himself and the missus posted a plus 135 imps total over 24 boards. Thus it was no surprise that they made the team. Of course the COVID opposition is much weaker than the Camrose Trials opposition with many multiple capped internationals in the field.

A major surprise was the failure of the NIBU most experienced pair Greenwood and Andersons failure to make the team. Possibly they were exempted due to their pedigree and only playing for the practice. 

I heard about a great hand played by the famous Derry bridge star Tommy McDaid. 

The incredible John Ferguson a former international player but now well past his prime rolled back the years or the curtains and found the incredible lead of small diamond from South. So 5 3 6 and Jack wins.

Now its McDaid on the hot seat and he greedily goes where no woman would go and finesses a heart ,,,losing to the queen .. 

Back comes a diamond and down goes McDaid ...

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But no Ferguson wins with Diamond Ace and swings a heart through. 

Tommy McDaid says Thanks very much lad and good night. 

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Meanwhile Coffey and the Bishop Lavery rolled back the years and rolled in 2nd place. 

and in 3rd place was Zrinka Kokot hauling McDaid behind her. 

Camrose and Interpro Results

The results as posted on NIBU website are above.