DA~I BLurt GaYrrell R ochBester RUegionalL BridgLe TourEnamenTt ~ IN ♠♥♠ ♥♦♦♣ ♣ Friday, May 15, 2015 Team Winners Congratulations to the winners of the Rochester Winners of the Rochester KOs Bracket 2 are: KOs: E Davis, Bob Bambrick, Douglas Dolbear Dennis Glazebrook, Christine Pentesco, Maureen and Keith Heckley. Clark and Sandra Smee. Congrats!! Kudos to Alan Lee, Richard Chan, Bill Koski and Congrats to the Goldrush Swiss Team winners: Edmund Fok for winning the Open Swiss Teams Max Rutherford, Liz Bryers, Janet Glazebrook on Thursday. and Allen Wirch. Tournament News Hospitality Speakers (all sessions are at 9:15am) There will be hospitality every night in Room 518 from • Friday: Joann Glasson Who’s Got What? (You make an 5:45pm. Beverages and snacks will be available. Each night opening lead against a NT contract will feature a special menu. On Friday we are offering Sloppy and your partner plays the perfect Joes, Macaroni Salad, Pistachio Salad and Dessert. card; so who’s got what?) Fast Results • Saturday: Dan Boye Jump In - the water's fine! Preempts Tournament results will be available through Fast Results. made easier - offensively and If you do not have a free subscription, instructions can be found defensively at the bottom of page 3 of this bulletin telling you how you can get results sent directly to your phone, pad or computer. Novice/Intermediate Players Pick up a copy of the Intermediate/Novice Flyer which pro - vide greater detail on activities and events. You can also find the Table Count flyer on the web. Instructions are at the bottom of page 3 of this bulletin. We are pleased to announce that as of For players in the Gold Rush games and the 99 er , there will be prizes for section tops and above. Please don't forget to stop Wednesday evening our table count is: at the information desk to pick up those prizes. Gold Rush Games are limited to players with under 750 masterpoints. All players placing will be awarded either red or gold points, 590 depending on where they place. THURSDAY OPEN SWISS 29 Tables / Based on 65 Tables A B C 25.43 1 William Koski, King City ON; Alan Lee, Willowdale ON; Richard Chan, Markham ON; Edmund Fok, Scarborough ON 98.00 19.07 2 Walter Galloway - Janet Galloway, Willowdale ON; Wendy Krause - Arnold Krause, East York ON 86.00 14.30 3 Mary Poplawski - Harry Nuckols, Vestal NY; Susan Hill, Rochester NY; Martin Caley, Montreal QC 81.00 10.44 1 B Gayle Phillips - William Foster, Rochester NY; Alex Booke - Sandy Booke, The Villages FL 68.00 7.83 2 1 Edythe Krauss - Stephen Pope - Courtenay Footman, Ithaca NY; Gary Amundson, Fayetteville NY 67.00 5.87 3 Jerry Manioci, Rochester NY; Joan Renzoni, Toronto ON; Barbara Phillips, Stuart FL; Dian Petrov, Buffalo NY 65.00 4.40 4 2 Shakeel Ahmad - Manju Ceylony, Clarence Center NY; Ken Meier, Orchard Park NY; Gaurang Sheth, Williamsville NY 60.00 3.26 3 Joan Dunbar, S-Mountain ON; Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Lorraine Garvin, Toledo ON; Linda Roach, Smiths Falls ON 56.00 Congrats to B Gayle Phillips, Jonathan Forde and Stanca Winning their strat in the William Foster, Alex Booke and Ciupe finished second overall Goldrush Teams are: Coby Sandy Booke for their Strat win but won their strat in Thursday Valensa, Luke Valensa, Carol in Thursday’s Swiss Teams. evening’s sidegame Congrats!! Schilling and Robert Valensa. WED/THURS KO TEAMS 9 Tables 24.40 1 Robert Bambrick - E Davis, Ottawa ON; Keith Heckley - Douglas Dolbear, Hamilton ON 17.08 2 Martin Hunter, Mississauga ON; John Duquette, Oshawa ON; Douglas Ross, Pittsford NY; Daniel Boye, Farmington NY; Sam Maitra, Rochester NY 9.76 3/4 Sally Hill, Webster NY; Jerome Weiss, Penfield NY; Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY; John D'Errico, Acton NY 9.76 3/4 Donald Dalpe - Barry Ko, Baldwinsville NY; Thomas Andrews, Utica NY; Robert Simard, East Syracuse NY; John Hemmer, Syracuse NY WED/THURS KO TEAMS - BRACKET 2 10 Tables 11.22 1 Dennis Glazebrook - Christine Pentesco - M Maureen Clark - Sandra Smee, St Catharines ON 7.85 2 Dick Rohrberg, Rochester NY; Robert Howell - Jo Ann Filipe, Fairport NY; Michele Griffin, Penfield NY 4.49 3/4 Barbara Pieterse - Martin Pieterse, Lancaster NY; Arthur Matthies - Joyce Greenspan, East Amherst NY 4.49 3/4 E Meacham, Warsaw NY; Richard Muse, Arkport NY; Valarie Davidsen, Canisteo NY; Susan Randall, Chocton NY THURSDAY MORNING SIDE GAME 8.0 Tables A B C 3.41 1 1 Norma Deambra - Diana Laurent, Oswego NY 61.90% 2.56 2 John Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Lloyd Arvedon, Woburn MA 61.61% 2.42 3 2 1 Anna Gray - Bruce Bowden, Port Hope ON 57.74% 1.47 4 Evelyn Stateler - Jack Stateler, Rochester NY 55.06% 1.08 5 Helen Pawlowski, Westfield MA; Karen McCallum, Exeter NH 53.57% 1.81 3 Richard Furlow - Sarah Furlow, Skaneateles NY 50.89% 1.36 4 Joseph Hruschak, Webster NY; Arlene Clarkson, Ontario NY 50.30% 1.61 5 2 Christine Malarkey, Fort Myers FL; Pawan Matta, Williamsville NY 49.40% 1.20 3 Margaret Symington, Rochester NY; Marie Kilian, Pittsburgh PA 49.11% Trump coup makes slam Here was a fun slam we had in the Wednesday knock-out at the club at trick one. Play a trump to the ace, then cash the ♠A, the regional. It is sort of a trump coup, but a typical trump coup and return to hand with the ♦Q. Cash the ♠K, and pitch the club involves a high trump that iyou cannot finesse. Here we will see in dummy. some little trumps to coup away. Here are your hands at this point. The lead is in the South. Dlr: East ♠ A ♠ - Vul: Both ♥ ΑK103 ♥ K103 ♦ AKJT94 ♦ AKJT9 ♣ ♣ 104 - ♠ ?? ♥ Q87 ♦ ?? ♠ K10 ♠ - ♣ ?? ♥ J9654 ♥ J965 ♦ Q ♦ - ♣ AJ653 ♣ J653 Wˇ est North East South If you try to draw those trumps while ending in the dummy, pass 1♥ East can force you to ruff a club when she gets in with her queen. 1♠ 2♠1 pass 3♣ This is the position that you feared, but you had no real choice pass 3♦ pass 3♠2 in the play. pass 4♠3 pass 4NT 4 Have no fear however, as this is the position you saw early pass 5♣5 pass 5♥6 in the hand, now come to life. Just lead a trump to the 10 in pass 6♥7 all pass dummy. Suppose that East wins the queen, and then returns a club to force a ruff in dummy. You ruff with the 3 spot. Then just 1: Good hand, usually a limit raise or better in hearts, but may start to play diamonds. sometimes be just a strong game forcing hand Those diamonds are all good now. What can east do? She 2: A stall, since South still does not know where the hand is remains with two trumps, the 87, but if she ever ruffs, you will going overruff. You also have two trumps, the J9. So if she ruffs, then 3: Roman Keycard Blackwood for hearts, 1430 responses you overruff, and play your last trump to dummy. That will draw 4: 1 or 4 keycards her remaining trump, and you have only good diamonds left in 5: Ask for the ♥Q dummy. 6: No ♥Q Now, think about what happens if earlier, East ducks the 7: If we’ve got six footnotes why not have a seventh? heart when you played to the 10 before. This would leave her with Q8. You start playing diamonds with the K3 remaining in If I had been able to show the ♥Q then I would do so by dummy. If East ever ruffs a diamond, then she can do no more bidding 5 ♠, which would show the ♠K as well. Now partner than to get her one trump trick, but that is the end for her again. could visualize 13 tricks, because he can see a club pitch com - No matter what East does, you will spirit those long trumps ing on the spade. However, in a team game, do not bid a grand away in her hand. It is a trump coup, but not the classical trump slam if you are off the queen of trumps. coup you see in the books. It is a trump coup you can visualize The play is the interesting part though. In fact, just ignore as soon as you see the poor trump split. the bidding if you don't like it, and play the hand in 6 ♥ by South. As it turns out, this hand is probably crucial. You gain 17 West leads the ♣K. IMPs on the board, since they went down in the heart grand You win the ♣A, then play a heart towards the ace. If both slam. They went to 7 ♥, which never had a chance to make, opponents follow suit in trumps, you can virtually claim 12 because they never bothered to find out about the missing trump tricks because you can discard the club in dummy on the ♠K. queen. If you essentially push the board, that might let them But to do that, you need to use that diamond queen as an entry sneak past you in the knock-out. to your hand. All of this is no problem as long as trumps are no Submitted by John D’Errico worse than 3-1. However, it turns out that West discards a spade when you lead towards dummy at trick two. So East has all four trumps, the Q872.