Copenhagen Bridge Invitational

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Bulletin No. 2 Friday 5th November 2010
Copenhagen Bridge Invitational
Tournoi International du Prince Consort de Danemark
Editors: Henrik Kruse Petersen, Ib Lundby, Jan van Cleef etc.
THE STRONGEST FIELD SEEN ON
DANISH SOIL _ SO EXCITING!
In his opening speach Jens
Auken adressed His Royal
Highness Prince Consort of
Denmark with a special welcome and added:
_ On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the Danish
Bridge Federation I am very
happy and proud to bid you
all a very warm welcome. It
is the strongest field we have
ever seen on Danish soil _so
exciting.
And the running results
shown on the wall proved that
Jens was right in his prediction.
The final result was that the
poker king, Gus Hansen, and
Irish Tom Halon managed to
win the PRO-AM tournament
only 1 point ahead of Jens
Krusaa_Boye Brogeland.
BOLD BIDDING
RO-AM Tournament, 4. november 2010, 1.
ektion
ndestilling Kortfordelinger Startliste
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Jens
10Krusaa
11 12(in13the grey jacket)
K64
Antal Res Point
1 -200 20
ED9852
18 -450 1
9872
1 -650 -18
E
B932 1 -980 -20
EKDB963 T872
64
KB
K43
ET6
DT875
54
T73
DB5
12
V/NS
Runde Total Plac.
and
38 115 1
et
5
96 2
ming Danielsen
15
80 3
ns
33
72 4
Bjarnarson
30
72 4
Mahmood
-2
55 6
uche
2
42 7
n Schaltz
14
41 8
elland
8
29 9
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holdt
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is a AM and a bold bidder
vest
nord
øst
Krusaa Brangaard Brogeland
2< 1 pas
2> 2
2¤
3¤
4
6¤ pas
pas
pas
3>
4ut 3
pas
syd
Garner
pas
pas
pas
pas
1. Strong. 2. Relay. 3. RKC-1430 4. I think 6¤ is a winner.
The winner off the east_west-side was Jens
Krusaa_Boye Brogeland. When you are a bold
bidder, you sometimes need a bit off luck. Jens
Krusaa was very optimistic, and bid this 6¤.
North lead >E and continued with a diamond.
When Jens now played all his hearts it was difficult for North_South to keep the right cards
in the black suits, and when West at last played
<E and a club to the king, he got the last trick
with <3 and a lucky but very welcome top on
the way to be the best east-west pair.
l - PRO-AM Tournament, 4. november 2010, 1.
sektion
KEEP IT SIMPLE
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
B9
Antal Res Point
K852
1
500 20
B3
1
100 18
T9532
1
-720 16
D3
EKT72
3 -1370 12
ED63
B7
1 -1440 8
ED5
KT
1 -1460 6
DB87
EK64
11 -1470 -6
8654
2 -2220 -19
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One of the good advices in the welcomespeach
to the Pro’s and the Am’s was ”keep it simple”.
Plac.
In board nr.Runde
10 the Total
Danish
AM, Claus Hastrup,
28
91
remembered the lesson. 1
Blakset
Brogeland
12
77
2
- Flemming Danielsen
65
3syd
vest nord18
øst
Lars
Lone
Claus
- Zia Mahmood Blakset
0 Hastrup
57 Sælensminde
4Erik
Kjær
d - Steve Garner 7 1#
54
5pas
regers Bjarnarson
42 1 6pas
2<
pas22 4ut
Bekkouche
20
40
7pas
5# 2 pas
7<
Martens
39
8pas
7ut
pas7 pas
Hanlon
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36
9
1. Aces?
- Martin Schaltz2. 2+<D
-4
27 10
Claus opened at
n Reinholdt
15the one-level
27 10 with 1# , and when
his partner bid192<, Claus
set his mind directly
Roy Welland
21 12
on the route to7a grand
ni Shanurin
20 slam.
13 After controling
the aces he very1 bold20bid 13
7<, and Lars Blakset
an Carlos Ventin
in South had a-7
little bit
inclusive #D,
Auken
19 in reserve
15
nnar Hallberg and it was match
9 points,
17 so
16he corrected to 7ut.
No problem in-2
the play,
tricks, when the spaärd - Frederic Wrang
15 1317
Maybe North would
Philippe Cronier desuit produced
2 5 tricks.
14 18
have preferred
to play11against
and - Trine Binderkrantz
-12
19 7<-:).
Only one more
Zorlu
4 pair6 had
20bid the grand slam,
couse) Zia
ael Askgaard and it was (of 31
5 and
21 Ulla Korre Pedersen.
van Cleef
12
5 21
berto Bocchi
-20
4 23
drik Nyström
-2
2 24
Helgemo
-15
2 24
Howard Weinstein
-7
1 26
Assael
1
-9 27
Blakset
-6
-11 28
rycia Liberski
-7
-13 29
øren Christiansen
-19
-22 30
osman - Agustin Madala
0
-23 31
a von Armin
-9
-28 32
drey Gromov
2
-28 32
ob Røn
6
-31 34
en - Krzysztof Jassem
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3 Copenhagen
Invitational
Claus Hastrup bid grand slam
TODAYS
PROGRAM
10:50-11:00
11:00-12:20
12:20-13:30
13:40-14:20
14:20-15:40
15:40-17:00
17:00-18:20
Welcome and official opening
Rounds 1
Round 2
Lunch break
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Danmarks Bridgeforbund
Copenhagen Bridge Invitational - PRO-AM Tou
sektion
Turneringer Slutstilling Rundestilling Ko
Foss, Sælensminde, Martens and Lone Kiær
The Hamman rule
Do you know Hamman’s Rule?
„When three notrump is one of the alternatives, choose it.“
Nils Foss picked up this hand in the middle
of the tournament:
#43 ¤7 >KQ8654 <AT43
Stilling efter 6. runde
11
S/Ingen
B86
KB65
732
K82
43
Antal Res Point
7
1 1020 20
KD8654
2 1010 17
ET43
2 990 13
T52
1 940 10
T942 2 520 7
BT9
4 510 1
D97
3 490 -6
EKD97
3 460 -12
ED83
1 430 -16
E
1 420 -18
B65
1 230 -20
1 2 3 4
and when partner, Krzysztof Martens, opened
1#, of course he bid 2>. 2¤ from Martens,
and ...
Nils doesn’t know Hamman’s rule, but for
many years he has used his own rule, the very
same: 3nt!
6nt from Martens didn’t affect Nils _ he
made 12 tricks without problems with this Nils was rewarded 32
with
+13Krusaa
_ I don’t
know
for
Jens
- Boye
Brogeland
distribution:
sure, but my guess is, that he received a club lead.
31 Claus Hastrup - Lars Blakset
29 Preben VM Schmidt - Flemming Danielse
5 Nils Foss - Krzysztof Martens
27 Tofa Nadelmann - Gregers Bjarnarson
26 Ulla Korre Pedersen - Zia Mahmood
20 Helle Krogh - Nadia Bekkouche
4 Anne Mette Schaltz - Martin Schaltz
3 Michael Solgaard - Roy Welland
23 HKH Prins Henrik - Philippe Cronier
35 Kell Krogh - Christian Reinholdt
21 Gus Hansen - Tom Hanlon
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19 Kjartan Langvad - Juan Carlos Ventin
Prince Henrik and Philippe Cronier
in a French system talk
Carefull play from court
His Royal Highness Prins Consort of Denmark
loves the game of bridge, and we were grateful
when he accepted to participate in the PROAM tournament playing together with French
Philippe Cronier.
l - PRO-AM Tournament,
4. november 2010,
Communicating outside the bridge table was
sektionno problem of course.
... because I am Startliste
an ex-French, Prince Henrik
ng Rundestilling _Kortfordelinger
laughed.
But seated at the bridge table ... what about
5 6 7of 8bidding?
9 10 11 12 13
de 1 2 3the4language
oint
0
7
3
0
8
5
2
6
7
by careful play _ thus adding +18 to the +17
from the first board of this round.
The play went like this:
After the >K North shifted to a trump: Low
heart, king and ace. Now, heart to ¤Q and
back to the jack was followed by <8 to <Q.
A spade went to the #K and #A, and North
had quite of a problem. He didn’t dare to play
spade from the #J, but the diamond shift was
no better. West ruffed, played a club to the ace
(thanks!), and after two more club tricks West
was able to reach dummy on the well preserved #Q to discard the spade looser on the last
club.
Very well played!
It was a nice experience!
After the tournament I asked Prince Henrik of
his opinion about the event:
_ It was very well organized, and as a
player I liked the good atmosphere among the
players in the tournament. Indeed it was a very
experience to me being here, and I ap1.nice
preciated the partership with Philippe Cronier
very much. In the middle of the tournament
we managed to be in the group who faught for
medalas and prizes, but we ended up as 13.
Not so bad in that strong field, I think!
_ Thanks, Your Royal Highness.
EB953
Antal Res Point
T54
3 660 18
KD4
3 630 12
K7
1 600 8
KT2
D874
2 150 5
EB932
D86
1 130 2
T
5
1 110 0
B986
ED543 5 -100 -6
6
3 -200 -14
K7
1 -450 -18
EB987632
1 -500 -20
T2
18
Ø/NS
vest
nordTotal Plac.
øst
syd
Runde
Torsten
Philippe
Ivan
s Blakset
37 122 Cronier
1
Bernes
Nadelman
2>
Brogeland
-6 119 pass
2
2¤
3>
4¤
pass
- Flemming Danielsen
4 105 3
pass
pass
Hanlon
11
87
4
At seven tables North-South made 3nt, but at
n - Zia Mahmood
-1
81
5
this table game was bid and made on the Eastf Martens
6 made 11 tricks
West cards, and23Prince75Henrik
Philippe Cronier
35
71
7
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Bridge
Invitational
Roy Welland
6
69
8
Gregers Bjarnarson
1
68
9
His Royal
Highness As a player I liked the good atmosphere!
All in ... in bridge!?
„Keep it simple!“, the players were advised
before making deals about what to play in this
Maybe you have witnessed Gus Hansens suctournament. Simple? Look what Irish Hanlon
ces at the poker table, but who knew that he
had in his bag for Gus:
is a bridge player as well?
Danmarks Bridgeforbund
2nt was gameforce with trump support, 3<
„I started playing bridge when I was about
asked for cuebids, and that was what followed
14 years old, but not very much. Chess, go,
until RKCB/1430 revealed the lack of first
backgammon and poker took over. In my
controls.
The dangerous fivelevel
was used as2010,
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The lead, #3, went to the #Q, East came in
forward to play withTurneringer
Tom Hanlon,Slutstilling
who by theRundestilling
with the Kortfordelinger
¤A, and shiftedStartliste
to a diamond. Now it
way is a poker player as well.“
didn’t take Hanlon many minutes to make 12
I sat down at Gus’ table to see the very first
tricks, as one club disappeared on the fourth
hand:
diamond
after
1
2 3 4 and
5 the
6 other
7 8 on
9 the
10 #A
11 12
13 the
Stilling efter 1. runde
marked finesse.
480 was
board _ 18Antal
timesRes
the Point
1
D5
Antal Res Point
D654
2 top on the
score was 450, while one player bid and made
N/Ingen DT8753
1 480 20
Ø/NS
ET
1 650 20
2nt(!) and another went one down, probably in
ED7
18 450 1
B43
13 620 6
6¤.
K5
1 120 -18
1 500 -8
Welcome to the K983
bridge table, Gus!
T8764
K32
1 -50 -20
K93
3 300 -12
4
E
D842
B753
1 170 -16
53
9864
KDT
E98752 2 -100 -19
ET864
B9732
BT7
D54
EB9
EBT872
KB962
K96
KBT2
6
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vest
Nielsen
nord
Hanlon
øst
Zorlu
syd
Gus
Runde Total Plac.
21 Gus Hansen
26
26
1
1¤
pass - Tom
2utHanlon
15 Christel
Henner-Welland
- Trine Binderkrantz
21
21
2
pass
3<
pass
3>
pass
3#
pass Pedersen
4< - Zia Mahmood
26 Ulla Korre
18
18
3
pass
4#
pass
4nt
41 Anne Grete Toft - Søren Christiansen
18
18
3
pass
5¤
pass
pass
31 Claus Hastrup - Lars Blakset
15
15
5
pass
29 Preben VM Schmidt - Flemming Danielsen
14
14
6
33 Lennart Petterson - Howard Weinstein
12
12
7
23 HKH Prins Henrik - Philippe Cronier
11
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Tofa Nadelmann - Gregers Bjarnarson
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7 Olaf Ries - Salvador Assael
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9 Charlotte Schwarz-Rosman - Agustin Madala
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13 Lilian Askgaard - Andrey Gromov
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14 Christina Lund Madsen - Krzysztof Jassem
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16 Charlotte Brandgaard - Steve Garner
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18 Peter Rindom - Geir Helgemo
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1.
PRO-AM PRIZEGIVING
During the evening buffet Jens Auken handed over prizes to the winners – the four best NS- and
the four best EW-pairs.
Tom Hanlon and Gus Hansen –
#1 North-South and #1 over all
Boye Brogeland and Jens Krusaa –
#1 East-West and #2 over all
Ulla Korre Pedersen and Zia Mahmood
#2 East-West and #3 over all
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Nils Foss and Krzysztof Martens –
#2 North-South and #3 over all
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We played Mitchell, NS pairs numbered 1-21, EW numbered 22-42
Gus Hansen - Tom Hanlon 130 Jens Krusaa - Boye Brogeland 129 Nils Foss - Krzysztof Martens 97 Ulla Korre Pedersen - Zia
97 Mahmood Preben VM Schmidt - Flem80 ming Danielsen Ingerun Syrén Sjösvärd - Fre71 deric Wrang Claus Hastrup - Lars Blakset 68 Kell Krogh - Christian Reinholdt 62 Kjartan Langvad - Juan Carlos
44 Ventin Peter Nielsen - Nafiz Zorlu 43 Peter Rindom - Geir Helgemo 41 Rob Lindeman - Jan van Cleef 34 HKH Prins Henrik - Philippe
29 Cronier Michael Solgaard - Roy Wel24 land Jette Nyvang - Michael Askga22 ard Christel Henner-Welland - Trine
21 Binderkrantz Lene Fiorini - Daniela von
15 Armin Lilian Askgaard - Andrey Gro14 mov Tofa Nadelmann - Gregers
14 Bjarnarson Grete Skafte - Knut Blakset 13 Anne Grete Toft - Søren Chri12 stiansen Hanne Borland - Fredrik Ny11 ström Helle Krogh - Nadia Bekkouche 4 Anne Mette Schaltz - Martin
1 Schaltz Dorte Krak - Sabine Auken 1 Christina Lund Madsen - Kr-6 zysztof Jassem Pernille Foss - Tor Helness -6 Charlotte Schwarz-Rosman -7 Agustin Madala Olaf Ries - Salvador Assael -18 Michael Rübner - Gunnar
-27 Hallberg Lennart Petterson - Howard
-30 Weinstein Michael Fiorini - Norberto Boc-39 chi Charlotte Brandgaard - Steve
-50 Garner Dorota Liberski - Patrycia Liber-59 ski Hanne Bjarnarson - Peter
-72 Berthau Maria Lohfert - Evgeni
-87 Shanurin Ivan Nadelmann - Torsten
-88 Bernes Aage Schwartz - Jacob Røn -89 Hans Sachs - Jens Auken -92 Lone Kiær - Erik Sælensminde -106 Frederik Wedell-Wedellsborg -128 John Carrol Michael Mogensen - Per Ege-173 lund 8 Copenhagen Bridge Invitational
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