[diana_eva]

BBO Forums tourney posted for today at 2PM New York Time (8PM Central Europe).

The tourney is open to all BBF members who have logged on the Forums in the past 12 months.

#8502 Indy BBO Forums Sun 2PM EDT (8PM CET)
Host: diana_eva
20 boards, MPs, clocked, barometer on

If you are on web or on the mobile app, the tourney will be displayed in the list of pending tournaments 2 hours before start time.

[diana_eva]

Come on, where's everyone?

[diana_eva]

So this week I prepared a little surprise for everyone and uploaded prepared hands to the tourney. All 20 boards were hands submitted in the Interesting Hands forum in 2003 and 2004. I tried to choose reasonable hands, not goulashy stuff, but it still felt a bit crazy. We can call this the Necro Indy

I'll post the links to the original discussions in a bit for anyone interested.

The It won. Results here: http://webutil.bridg...8502-1432490685

[hrothgar]

 diana_eva, on 2015-May-24, 14:38, said:

So this week I prepared a little surprise for everyone and uploaded prepared hands to the tourney. All 20 boards were hands submitted in the Interesting Hands forum in 2003 and 2004. I tried to choose reasonable hands, not goulashy stuff, but it still felt a bit crazy. We can call this the Necro Indy

I'll post the links to the original discussions in a bit for anyone interested.

The It won. Results here: http://webutil.bridg...8502-1432490685

It was a fun tournament.

My favorite hand was

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I was surprised that no one bid 6. (Not sure that you should, mind you, but someone always bids something strange)

I was also surprised that some folks didn't make 6, since it looks to be a simple exclusion and end play

[diana_eva]

Here are the original discussions. I tweaked the hands a couple of times, or switched dealer/vul occasionally so some of the discussions will no longer be relevant to what happened in our tourney but in general I did my best to respect dealer and vul.


Boards 1 & 4: http://www.bridgebas...rom-last-night/

Boards 3 & 11: http://www.bridgebas...r-wild-buffalo/

Boards 6, 13 & 2: http://www.bridgebas...tchpoint-event/

Board 5: http://www.bridgebas...eze-or-finesse/

Board 7: http://www.bridgebas...-make-the-call/

Board 8: http://www.bridgebas...ion-impossible/

Board 9: http://www.bridgebas...do-you-make-it/

Board 10: http://www.bridgebas...or-not-preempt/

Board 12: http://www.bridgebas...hat-do-you-bid/

Board 14: http://www.bridgebas...ver-a-pre-empt/

Board 15: http://www.bridgebas...takeout-double/

Board 16: http://www.bridgebas...3nt-with-29hcp/

Board 17 (switched dealer): http://www.bridgebas...-not-a-pick-up/

Board 18 (tweaked it a little to make it less ATB-ish): http://www.bridgebas...sign-the-blame/

Board 19: http://www.bridgebas...nst-bad-breaks/

Board 20: http://www.bridgebas.../2782-your-bid/

[Wackojack]

 hrothgar, on 2015-May-24, 14:47, said:

It was a fun tournament.

My favorite hand was

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I was surprised that no one bid 6. (Not sure that you should, mind you, but someone always bids something strange)

I was also surprised that some folks didn't make 6, since it looks to be a simple exclusion and end play

It is not that simple. At trick 7, South needs to follow with a low diamond. Then the 4th diamond trick cannot be established for the Q♥ discard. The only way of making 12 tricks is to make the unlikely play for North to hold ♦Kx or Qx.

[kuhchung]

Damn. On board 14, I seriously considered 3N but only after I had instaclicked 3S.

I also should just drop the HK at T1. Another thing I noticed instantly af.ter misplaying.