The little Transfer bid that got supported and rose higher

 Yesterday morning out in North Dublin near the sea I spotted some folk playing a bridge hand 

West opened weak NT 12-14 

East did a transfer bid to SPADES

Nasty South bid 3H just to be awkward 

For some reason West decided to go further in SPADES despite only having TWO ..

Passed around to SOUTH who figured double might work 

Passed back to East who figured maybe if I bid 4S they won't double me next time

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That was 1400 later ... Lucky it was only 1 matchpoint board as opposed to 50 cent a 100 

Strangely enough the minus 1400 pair won the event with a 68% score 

You would think a pair who run from 3S doubled into 4S doubled might not be so good 

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Its not good to raise a transfer bid unless you got 3 or 4 card support ... 

And if the transfer bid is doubled ..you don't complete it unless you got 3 or more trumps 

So with a Doubleton you PASS 

DNR Regional Teams ... the winners are the Inter As leaving the Masters behind.

 This morning while examining the Robots dash through the Dublin North Region Masters competition I spotted the robot toying with the masters. 

Robot offered to win the last 3 tricks with the lowest cards the TWOS

Robot did not rub it in though and played diamond 2 to diamond 7 ...as East 

has diamonds higher than the 2. Still it makes a pretty picture. 

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Unfortunately Robot team failed to qualify for the Regional Teams as it got beaten by the powerful Intermediate A team powered by the Sutton Kellys and Sheena Duffy and Evelyn Doyle. Its interesting that an intermediate team can win a Master competition. Well done to them. 

Congratulation to the Deane team who won the best Masters prize despite getting destroyed by the robot squad 19-1 in the last match. Happily they still qualify as best Master Team despite being 11 VPs behind the winners. 

Big problem is will they as winners be sent forward as the Master Team and miss out on their chance to win the All Ireland. Surely a team that defeats Masters should be a warm favourite to win the As. 

Were the National Finals of 2020 ever held. Did the teams who won in November 2019 ever get to play in their Nationals ... I cannot remember what happened then. 

DNR Teams results

Great experience for the Inter Bs to play against the DNR masters. 

The Ducking Play takes down the Setting Trick

 Good afternoon ...

Nope I am not taking over from John McAllister but last night I saw the Ducking Play replacing the Setting Trick. 

https://soundcloud.com/john-mcallister-221670174

So the West decided he did not like the Setting Trick 

Last night we had the Ducker defending 3NT and with 4 tricks scored up the famous Ducker 

decided it was time for another Duck. He got a near duck alright. Either the guy misclicked or else he was executing some far out ducking strategy. 

So he ducked his partners spade return thinking he was going to endplay the dummy maybe. 

or was reluctant to allow dummy win all those nice spades in dummy. 

Unfortunately for the ducker when declarer won with spade Jack he was locked in his hand and only 

had winners remaining and grimly played every winner to the end 

No claiming here despite having all winners. Its not often that the maestro gets the better 

of Donald the Ducker. Donald duly got almost a duck for ducking.