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Sunday, July 31, 2022

Two sleeping Defenders and one sleepy Declarer combine to enlighten Poor Spectator

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  This morning I spotted this hand featuring Defender1 and Defender2 and Declarer  Poor Spectator watched in horror as his great friends per...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Last night in Sligo Take 2

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 Last night in Sligo I saw another hand  So the West player found a 1H bid when it seems almost normal to be bidding 1S planning to come bac...

Last night at the Sligo FOB I saw a hand

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 Last night at the Sligo FOB I noticed the 2nd placed pair out of 38 runners played and bid board 1 fairly sadly. There are several good les...
Friday, April 22, 2022

This AM I went into Bridgez and I got a good hand ..46% .. Kelbourne musings

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  Now I have heard of a hand like a foot before but never a hand like 2 feet.  32 high card points ...what can one do  However I will not sp...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

I continued watching the Coen Trophy and I see more stuff and Phil Rice.

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  A nice little hand with some nice bidding  Presume its the 14-16 1NT opening and then the Puppet Stayman 3C and then the 3D saying no 5 ma...

First hand I spotted on Coen Trophy 2022 ...Am I missing something here

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 This afternoon I looked in on the Coen Trophy and saw this ... Board 9 I think  Now am I missing something here ... Does East not play Doub...

Coen Trophy 2022 Eamons picks and the 2Spade opening

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 The Coen Trophy takes place today. Back in the day when the Coen Trophy was limited to above Area Master  Eamons team managed a 3rd session...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Spiro Cup Saturday Feb 26th Eamons picks ..top 17

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 Today we have the Spiro Cup and I have picked out some good runners.  Some are good players and some are good on the computer and some need...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

The final board of the Holmes Wilson featuring 4 declarers of note

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  Link to Holmes Wilson 2022 vidoe First out of the blocks was Bob Pattinson declaring against Moran Hanlon 4S is the contract and Bob had l...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

I heard about a player make no tricks in 1NT the other night .. names redacted

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 Meanwhile if there is not much new stuff here ...checkout the Galligan Youtube bridge channel https://www.youtube.com/user/GalliganBridge 6...
Monday, January 03, 2022

The Magician makes a 2C opening bid but at least he was not peeking

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 This morning I spotted a lad holding a solid diamond suit AKQJxxxx and nothing outside. At the odd table in the odd club I direct in the We...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

One suspects the North lad missed his partners PASS as dealer

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 Good afternoon folks  Here is a hand I just witnessed in the Masters Pairs from CBAI.  South passes as dealer and West launches a 2H weak o...

A hand that shows how hard a game bridge is or is it Hanging on the Telephone

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 Good morning folks  I spotted a hand while doing my rounds this morning. It shows one of the greatest ever pairs to play at a bridge table ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The little Transfer bid that got supported and rose higher

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 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 transfe...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

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

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 This morning while examining the Robots dash through the Dublin North Region Masters competition I spotted the robot toying with the master...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The Ducking Play takes down the Setting Trick

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 Good afternoon ... Nope I am not taking over from John McAllister but last night I saw the Ducking Play replacing the Setting Trick.  https...
Friday, October 29, 2021

I got some action on the Sligo Fast Fridays

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 Tonight a well known Master player allowed me back on Granda Tom against his pair in the Sligo Fast Fridays. Master player has the advantag...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

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

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 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 ...
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