Gold Coast Bulletin

No 7 Saturday 23rd Feb 2002 Editor Nick Hughes

We have our winners needed to play the set to get their 36 PPs as the top Ozzie team. (Note The top seeds from the two sections that 6 of the 10 finalists were Kiwis.) Final Top 10 played a fast and loose Teams final 1st 1-1 Cornell on Friday. In the end, the Kiwi Cor- VuGraph 2, Bd 11 2nd 2-1 Konig 36 PPs nell team beat Konig comfortably. N/Nil ]83 [Q5 }J9743 3= 2-8 Brifman 9 PPs {8652 3= 4-3 Antoff 9 PPs ]KJ ]Q7 [J2 [AKT9874 }QT852 }A 5= 2-6 Noble 226 {J973 {KQT 5= 4-4 Cummings 230 ]AT96542 7= 2-2 Hirst 225 [63 7= 4-2 Chadwick 229.9 }K6 {A4 9= 2-5 Walsh 221 9= 4-20 Buch 221 Ryszard Jedrychowsky, This was first out of the slot. Malcolm Mike Cornell, Mayer bid himself to the 4] sacrifice. Seniors Tom Jacob & Malcolm Mayer On the [J lead, Ziggy cashed the 1 3 Varadi 36 PPs [AK and }A. He led the [10 for Jim 2 13 Mcgeary 18 PPs to ruff. The }Q came back for a ruff The semi finals concluded on Friday but East fell from grace by leading 3 4 Ali 223 morning. the {K. This turned +500 into +300. 4 7 Goodyer 217 In one semi, Konig came back from No big deal but later: 19 Imps down to beat Brifman 130 - 5 6 Croft 211 Vugraph 2, Bd 15 105. In the other, Cornell extended 6 14 Abbenbroek 209 S/NS ]T764 their lead over Antoff to win 127 - 7 39 Cohen 205 [K6 84. 8 3 Ashworth 200 }QJ864 9 Sedmak 194 For the final, Ziggy decided to {QJ 10 10 Smee 193 change a winning formula by switch- ]J95 ]A3 ing a few partnerships. The final [J97 [AQT8532 Restricted started n the afternoon, while the }9752 }A 1 Sarten 224 rest of us played two more Swiss {T32 {954 2 Dormer 221 matches to sort out the final placings ]KQ82 3 Lyne 213 and category winners. [4 4 Clark 211 Notice that Cummings won the 4th }KT3 5 Lopata 208 floor cash by 0.1 VPs from {AK876 6 Millar 206 Chadwick, who had incurred a 1.1 7 Bell 206 VP fine for an appeal without merit. 4] made in the closed room (from 8 Boland 205 North) but Jim and Ziggy had a 9 De Chastel 203 VuGraph chance to shoot it on VuGraph. After 10 Singey 200 There were the usual minor glitches. the [J lead, declarer ruffed and The commentators were Mike crossed to dummy to lead a trump, Pomfrey, PO Sundelin, David ducked by East. Back to dummy for and-discards. Cornell won the set Appleton, Tony Hutton, Richard another trump. To shoot it, East easily to win by 73 IMPs. Ward, Mike Prescott and Kieran must use his entries to give two ruff- Dyke. (Spot the odd one out ...) There was the usual G C Teams final 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 much-longer-than-needed break Ziggy Konig - Jim Wallis between the two vugraph sets. Kieran Dyke - Ashley Bach 13 53 21 3 90 For second set, Ziggy popped the Bobby Richman - Ishmael Del’Monte bubbly and took a seat in the Open Mike Cornell - Malcolm Mayer 48 36 36 43 163 Room. It is thought Jim and Ziggy Tom Jacob - Richard Jedrychowsky

(1) 41st Gold Coast Congress at the ANA & GCI Meanwhile at the GCI Category winners (provisional) The final of the RetireInvest Senior Mixed Walsh Teams was held at the ANA on Fri- Buch day while the Swiss continued at the Women’s Rickard GCI. Faranda Country Kelly In a 1-sided match, Varadi (Les & Hirst Giselle, Richard Cowan & Margaret Men’s Baker Foster) defeated McGeary (Nancy Afflick Everingham & Judy, Pat & Dermot McCormack) 133 - 53. RetireInvest nesse could find no way to make the Senior Teams winners hand. Normal defence with long Les & Giselle Varadi trumps is to shorten declarer by Richard Cowan & Margaret Foster playing clubs at every opportunity. If the Committee had decided to disal- down. low 2], would they have adjusted to The winners of the inaugural Re- In fact the miracle 1% layout exists. 2[ one off? As the “offending” side, stricted teams were David & Rise ace, draw trumps while ruffing are we permitted to find optimum Susanne Sarten, Harry & Gail two hearts and exit with the }9. defence? Walsh. Voila! More hands to finish The third 6-6 Here’s a missed brilliancy by Not the Queensland factor Match 12, Bd 20 Beauchamp in the semis. I couldn’t Ian Afflick W/Both ]AKJT32 [AKQJ43 find the hand record so this is a re- Match 10, Bd 28 }— construction: W/NS ]K62 {Q E/NS ]74 [J ]864 ]9 [QJ92 }AQ92 [T5 [8762 }KQ {QJ972 }AQJT85 }K9732 {KT862 ]QT85 ]A7 {95 {A43 ]AQJ5 ]K8642 [Q7 [AT9842 ]Q75 [AKT7 [85 }T65 }KJ83 [9 }AJ9 }765 {T863 {5 }64 {A5 {Q43 ]J943 {KJT8762 ]93 [K653 [643 }74 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH }T8432 {AK4 Lowe Wyer Urpeth Mott {J97 3} 4} 5} Dbl WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH No 6} No 6] WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Walsh Strickland McDonaldAfflick Fordham Beauchamp No 1} 1[ Dbl We thought this was an amusing 1] ! No No 2{ 2[ No * auction! Julie Wyer 2NT * No 4] No No 2] End 4NT No 5{ No Les did well to open 3} because 7} 6] End North showed 5-4 either way, Preci- is only -1100. This was the auction sion-style and South had paused at our table: Fordham picked up the psyche via (broke tempo) over 2[. WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Jacoby and settled for six. South led The director (Sean) was called and Chadwick Hughes Kanetkar Giura the }2 and Beauchamp chose the adjusted back to 2[/E for +110, but 3} 4} 5{ ! No nine from dummy for a quick one EW and Sean suggested we had a No 6} 7} No good case. No Dbl The Appeals Committee (Reg I nearly bid 7[ because I thought Busch, Ivy Dahler, Ralph Parker) re- partner’s pass over 6} should show instated the table score of +140 NS the {A. on the basis that 2] was clear-cut (a 75%+ action). The Barry Gomersall factor had nothing to do with it! (BG The ANA Shield (74 tables) was a 1-eyed Rugby League referee 1st Lynn Lovelock from Queensland, reputed to favour Gunnar Halberg 72.9 Queensland in State of Origin 2nd Jillian Hay games.) Ishmael Delmonte 67.1 Back to 2[ and +110 EW. Deep Fi-

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