♠♥♦♣DAILY BULLETIN~ Burt Garrell Rochester Regional Bridge Tournament~

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Friday, May 15, 2015Team Winners

Winners of the Rochester KOs Bracket 2 are:Dennis Glazebrook, Christine Pentesco, MaureenClark and Sandra Smee. Congrats!!

Congratulations to the winners of the RochesterKOs: E Davis, Bob Bambrick, Douglas Dolbearand Keith Heckley.

Congrats to the Goldrush Swiss Team winners:Max Rutherford, Liz Bryers, Janet Glazebrookand Allen Wirch.

Kudos to Alan Lee, Richard Chan, Bill Koski andEdmund Fok for winning the Open Swiss Teamson Thursday.

Tournament NewsHospitality

There will be hospitality every night in Room 518 from5:45pm. Beverages and snacks will be available. Each nightwill feature a special menu. On Friday we are offering SloppyJoes, Macaroni Salad, Pistachio Salad and Dessert.Fast Results

Tournament results will be available through Fast Results.If you do not have a free subscription, instructions can be foundat the bottom of page 3 of this bulletin telling you how you canget 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 theflyer on the web. Instructions are at the bottom of page 3 of thisbulletin.

For players in the Gold Rush games and the 99er, there willbe prizes for section tops and above. Please don't forget to stopat the information desk to pick up those prizes. Gold RushGames are limited to players with under 750 masterpoints. Allplayers placing will be awarded either red or gold points,depending on where they place.

Speakers (all sessions are at 9:15am)• Friday: Joann Glasson Who’s Got What? (You make an

opening lead against a NT contract and your partner plays the perfect card; so who’s got what?)

• Saturday: Dan Boye Jump In - the water's fine! Preemptsmade easier - offensively and defensively

Table CountWe are pleased to announce that as ofWednesday evening our table count is:

590

THURSDAY OPEN SWISS29 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, RochesterNY; Martin Caley, Montreal QC 81.00

10.44 1 B Gayle Phillips - William Foster,Rochester NY; Alex Booke - SandyBooke, The Villages FL 68.00

7.83 2 1 Edythe Krauss - Stephen Pope -Courtenay Footman, Ithaca NY; GaryAmundson, Fayetteville NY 67.00

5.87 3 Jerry Manioci, Rochester NY; JoanRenzoni, Toronto ON; BarbaraPhillips, 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; LeoBirmingham, Whitney Point NY;Lorraine Garvin, Toledo ON; LindaRoach, Smiths Falls ON 56.00

WED/THURS KO TEAMS9 Tables

24.40 1 Robert Bambrick - E Davis, Ottawa ON; KeithHeckley - Douglas Dolbear, Hamilton ON

17.08 2 Martin Hunter, Mississauga ON; John Duquette,Oshawa ON; Douglas Ross, Pittsford NY; DanielBoye, Farmington NY; Sam Maitra, Rochester NY

9.76 3/4 Sally Hill, Webster NY; Jerome Weiss, PenfieldNY; Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY; John D'Errico,Acton NY

9.76 3/4 Donald Dalpe - Barry Ko, Baldwinsville NY; ThomasAndrews, Utica NY; Robert Simard, East SyracuseNY; John Hemmer, Syracuse NY

WED/THURS KO TEAMS - BRACKET 210 Tables11.22 1 Dennis Glazebrook - Christine Pentesco - M

Maureen Clark - Sandra Smee, St Catharines ON7.85 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 GAME8.0 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%

Congrats to B Gayle Phillips,William Foster, Alex Booke andSandy Booke for their Strat winin Thursday’s Swiss Teams.

Jonathan Forde and StancaCiupe finished second overallbut won their strat in Thursdayevening’s sidegame Congrats!!

Winning their strat in theGoldrush Teams are: CobyValensa, Luke Valensa, CarolSchilling and Robert Valensa.

Here was a fun slam we had in the Wednesday knock-out atthe regional. It is sort of a trump coup, but a typical trump coupinvolves a high trump that iyou cannot finesse. Here we will seesome little trumps to coup away.

1: Good hand, usually a limit raise or better in hearts, but maysometimes be just a strong game forcing hand

2: A stall, since South still does not know where the hand isgoing

3: Roman Keycard Blackwood for hearts, 1430 responses 4: 1 or 4 keycards 5: Ask for the ♥Q 6: No ♥Q7: If we’ve got six footnotes why not have a seventh?

If I had been able to show the ♥Q then I would do so bybidding 5♠, which would show the ♠K as well. Now partnercould visualize 13 tricks, because he can see a club pitch com-ing on the spade. However, in a team game, do not bid a grandslam if you are off the queen of trumps.

The play is the interesting part though. In fact, just ignorethe bidding if you don't like it, and play the hand in 6♥ by South.

West leads the ♣K.You win the ♣A, then play a heart towards the ace. If both

opponents follow suit in trumps, you can virtually claim 12tricks because you can discard the club in dummy on the ♠K.But to do that, you need to use that diamond queen as an entryto your hand. All of this is no problem as long as trumps are noworse than 3-1.

However, it turns out that West discards a spade when youlead towards dummy at trick two. So East has all four trumps,the Q872. Your fear is that when East wins the ♥Q, they canforce dummy to ruff a club. This will leave dummy with onefewer trump than East holds. You can then get your pitch of theclub in dummy and try to draw trumps, but you will have no re-entry to the long diamonds.

The answer is simple. But you absolutely need to think thisthrough, to visualize what happens, and why it works. So win

the club at trick one. Play a trump to the ace, then cash the ♠A,and return to hand with the ♦Q. Cash the ♠K, and pitch the clubin dummy.

Here are your hands at this point. The lead is in the South.

If you try to draw those trumps while ending in the dummy,East can force you to ruff a club when she gets in with her queen.This is the position that you feared, but you had no real choicein the play.

Have no fear however, as this is the position you saw earlyin the hand, now come to life. Just lead a trump to the 10 indummy. Suppose that East wins the queen, and then returns aclub to force a ruff in dummy. You ruff with the 3 spot. Then juststart to play diamonds.

Those diamonds are all good now. What can east do? Sheremains with two trumps, the 87, but if she ever ruffs, you willoverruff. You also have two trumps, the J9. So if she ruffs, thenyou overruff, and play your last trump to dummy. That will drawher remaining trump, and you have only good diamonds left indummy.

Now, think about what happens if earlier, East ducks theheart when you played to the 10 before. This would leave herwith Q8. You start playing diamonds with the K3 remaining indummy. If East ever ruffs a diamond, then she can do no morethan to get her one trump trick, but that is the end for her again.

No matter what East does, you will spirit those long trumpsaway in her hand. It is a trump coup, but not the classical trumpcoup you see in the books. It is a trump coup you can visualizeas soon as you see the poor trump split.

As it turns out, this hand is probably crucial. You gain 17IMPs on the board, since they went down in the heart grandslam. They went to 7♥, which never had a chance to make,because they never bothered to find out about the missing trumpqueen. If you essentially push the board, that might let themsneak past you in the knock-out.

Submitted by John D’Errico

Trump coup makes slam

♠ A♥ ΑK103♦ AKJT94♣ 104

♠ K10♥ J9654♦ Q♣ AJ653

Dlr: EastVul: Both

W̌est North East Southpass 1♥

1♠ 2♠1 pass 3♣pass 3♦ pass 3♠2pass 4♠3 pass 4NT4pass 5♣5 pass 5♥6pass 6♥7 all pass

♠ -♥ K103♦ AKJT9♣ - ♠ ??

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♥ J965♦ -♣ J653

Hospitality MenuFriday, May 15Sloppy Joes, Macaroni Salad, Pistachio Salad,Dessert

Room 518 5:45 pm

THURSDAY AFT SIDE GAME9.5 Tables

A B C 3.79 1 1 Richard Hurd - Eleanor O'Connor,

Trumansburg NY 60.59%2.84 2 2 1 Morag Horsman, Ancaster ON; Faye

Baker, Hamilton ON 59.12%2.13 3 3 Barry Ko, Baldwinsville NY; Thomas

Andrews, Utica NY 58.53%1.60 4 Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY; John

D'Errico, Acton NY 54.99%1.63 5 John Hemmer, Syracuse NY; Robert

Simard, East Syracuse NY 51.54%1.49 6 4 2 Barbara Fallone, Lady Lake FL;

Vince De Pasquale, Niskayuna NY 50.85%1.02 5 Christine Malarkey, Fort Myers FL;

Pawan Matta, Williamsville NY 50.72%THURSDAY EVE SIDE GAME

6.0 TablesA B C

3.03 1 1 Douglas Dolbear - Keith Heckley,Hamilton ON 71.25%

2.27 2 2 1 Jonathan Forde, Geneva NY; StancaCiupe, Blacksburg VA 55.42%

1.70 3/4 3 Craig Duncan, Rochester NY; JamesSakr, Pittsford NY 52.08%

1.49 3/4 Dick Wilson, Delray Beach FL;Ronald Mittleman, Pittsford NY 52.08%

1.49 4/5 2 Beverly Torraville, Toronto ON;Shirley Towers, Pickering ON 51.67%

1.12 4/5 Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY;Joan Dunbar, S-Mountain ON 51.67%

Winners of Thursday evening’sside game are: Douglas Dolbearand Keith Heckley.

The Hospitality Hostesses respon-sible for arranging the wonderfulfood are Sandy and Kathy.

It’s not too late to join the crowdenjoying the hospitality at thetournament. Stop by later today!!

The place to get important info such as :I/N Players Info Sheet

Daily Bulletins on the Web

http://district4.info/Rochester/bulletins2015.htm

District 4 Website

THURSDAY GOLD RUSH SWISS38 Tables

A B C 8.82 1 Liz Bryers - Janet Glazebrook, St

Catharines ON; Max Rutherford,Mississauga ON; Allen Wirch, FortErie ON 89.00

6.62 2 1 Kay Richardson - Brian Richardson,Ottawa ON; Jo Wilson - BarbaraMcIver, Rochester NY 84.00

4.96 3 Roger Newell, Pittsford NY; RobertDewey - Gary Gottermeier, FairportNY; Graham Holroyd, Webster NY 83.00

3.72 4 Mary Ann Morrow, Fairport NY;Marshall Atwell - Edmund Reppert,Rochester NY; Nancy Mason,Pittsford NY 81.00

4.25 5 2 Roberta Burkell - Keith Burkell, StCatharines ON; Beverly Torraville,Toronto ON; Shirley Towers,Pickering ON 79.00

2.52 6 John Noronha, Pittsford NY; MurrayScott, Raymond NH; Nelson Mathias -William Wooster, Fairport NY 77.00

3.19 7 3 Betty Marshall, Orillia ON; BrendaMoffatt, Coldwater ON; PaulPointet, Mississauga ON; CarolynOverland, Toronto ON 75.00

1.96 8 Ann Wilkinson - Sharon Richardson,Oakville ON; Mary Lyke - GerryRide, Rochester NY 74.00

1.76 9 Audrey Natoli - Elaine Brigman,Webster NY; Norma Mooney, PittsfordNY; Joyce Groth, Palm Bch Gdns FL 73.00

2.39 10 4 1 Coby Valensa - Luke Valensa - MCarol Schilling, Fairport NY;Robert Valensa, Webster NY 72.00

1.76 5/6 Kathy George - Sheila O'Donnell -Vinod Patel, Rochester NY; NancyKoch, Pittsford NY 68.00

1.79 5/6 2 Mariann Glynn - Lezlie Cullen,Toronto ON; Raymond Mitchell -Nancy Lucas, Etobicoke ON 68.00

1.34 7/8 Julianne Huse - Patsy Beers,Pittsford NY; Elaine O'Brien, SunLakes AZ; Mary Ann Hargrave,Rochester NY 66.00

1.34 7/8 Pat Smith - Gary Smith, RochesterNY; Gary Conners - Gwenyth Conners,Pittsford NY 66.00

1.34 3 Shirley Miller - Deborah Price,Canandaigua NY; Jane Iannello - KenWinkler, Farmington NY 43.00

A huge thank you to Mary Miller for the opportunity toteach a lesson on Defense, as a fund raiser for our schools inCambodia, on Monday morning, just before the start of the

Regional. And a thank you to the teachers, who helped to getthe attendees there. It was wonderful to have such a largeclass. I hope that all of the attendees enjoyed it as much as Idid.

And another big thank you to all of the attendees andothers, who made donations to support our projects. $1,900was raised - enough to pay for a teacher for a year and a halfat one of our schools in Cambodia.

The playing site for the Rochester Regional was excel-lent and the hospitality was superb. Congratulations to Maryand all of the organizing team for making the tournament sodelightful.

Thanks again to Mary and to the bridge players ofRochester and area for their generous support of our schoolsin Cambodia. Please see my website (www.pattilee.ca) formore information about what we are doing in Cambodia.

With gratitudePatti Lee

Big Thank You

Masterpoint Race1 49.89 Richard Chan 2 49.89 William Koski 3 49.89 Edmund Fok 4 49.89 Alan Lee 5 38.08 Roger Woodin 6 37.63 Corey Krantz 7 37.63 Rhoda Kratenstein 8 28.65 Sally Hill 9 27.98 Richard Briggs 10 26.22 Liz Bryers 11 26.22 Janet Glazebrook 12 25.47 Arnold Krause 13 25.47 Walter Galloway 14 24.39 Andrew Firko 15 24.39 Jack Shinehoft 16 24.39 Roger Snowling 17 24.39 Gary Westfall 18 24.11 Michael Carney 19 23.67 Lois Sanders 20 21.92 Wendy Krause 21 21.92 Janet Galloway 22 20.13 Dick Wilson 23 19.95 Guy Arie 24 19.75 Martin Hunter 25 19.75 Douglas Ross 26 19.75 John Duquette 27 19.75 Daniel Boye 28 19.75 Sam Maitra 29 19.42 Douglas Dolbear 30 19.42 Keith Heckley 31 18.45 Barbara McIver 32 18.39 Brian Richardson 33 18.39 Kay Richardson 34 17.98 Martin Caley

35 17.98 Mary Poplawski 36 17.98 Harry Nuckols 37 17.98 Susan Hill 38 17.82 Stewart Cramer 39 16.75 Carol Boyer 40 16.41 Gerald Hitt 41 15.08 Lewis Rothberg 42 15.08 Douglas Spiker 43 14.83 James Carroll 44 14.37 Edythe Krauss 45 14.37 Stephen Pope 46 14.29 Joseph Hruschak 47 13.99 Dick Tuttle 48 13.99 Ronald Dewey 49 13.95 Lyn Stevens 50 13.95 Betty Youmans 51 13.95 Charlotte St Amant 52 13.95 Judith Elliott 53 13.83 Robert Bambrick 54 13.83 E Davis 55 12.93 Michele Griffin 56 12.40 Robert Simard 57 12.07 Joan Viidik 58 12.07 James Bridges 59 12.07 Tony Viidik 60 11.89 John Noronha 61 11.83 Stephen Snell 62 11.83 Richard Folwell 63 11.83 Donald Jones 64 11.66 Judy Overland 65 11.66 Wendy Dooley 66 11.66 Bev Ross 67 11.66 Eva Upper 68 11.57 Eugene Nawotniak

West North East South1♣ pass 1♠

dbl 2♠ pass 4♠pass pass pass

Opening lead: ♥Q

You are declarer on the above auction in yesterday’s SwissTeams. There is nothing unreasonable in the action at the tablebut you have to play the hand correctly as you are in a teamevent and misplaying this hand may cost the match.

It appears that you have three club losers. (West did doublefor takeout and should have some values in clubs.)

You win the opening lead with dummy’s ♥A. The ques-tion is how to play trump. On the auction, West may have a sin-gleotn spade. Other days West will have two spades.

Take a minute to decide how you would play the trump suit

before reading on. (Yes you can guess that East should have the♠Q because West’s takeout double implies spade shortness butcan you come up with a play whihc guarantees the contractagainst any lay of the cards. Afterall, our opponents don’talways make perfect takeout doubles and West may have the♠Q.

This is a trick question as declarer’s best play is to delaydrawing trump. Look what happens when declarer goes abouttaking a few tricks and ruffing a few others.

Start by playing a diamond to the ♦A and ruffing a dia-mond in dummy. Now cash the ♥K and ruff a heart. Follow byruffing a diamond in dummy and another heart in hand. Younow have seven tricks.

Dummy has the ♠AJ and you have the ♠K108. Exit a cluband wait patiently for your three spade tricks. This brings yourtrick total to 10 and your contract is safely home.

The actual hands were.

Friday, May 15• Binghamton KOs (1st & 2nd Rnds) 10 am & 2:30• Stratiflighted Open Pairs 10 am & 2:30• Keuka Lake Sidegame Series 10 am & 2:30• Goldrush Pairs (2 Sessions) 10 am & 2:30• Evening KOs 7:30• Watertown Compact KOs (1st Rnd) 7:30• Evening Sidegame Series 7:30Saturday, May 16• Binghamton KOs (3srd& 4th Rnds) 10 am & 2:30• Stratiflighted Open Pairs 10 am & 2:30• Ithaca Compact KOs (2 sessions) 10 am & 2:30• Keuka Lake Sidegame Series 10 am & 2:30• Goldrush Pairs (2 Sessions) 10 am & 2:30• Evening KOs 7:30• Watertown Compact KOs (2nd Rnd) 7:30• Evening Sidegame Series 7:30

Sunday, May 17• Stratiflighted Swiss Teams 10 am• Goldrush Swiss Teams (2 Sessions) 10 am

Tournament Schedule

Masterpoint StratificationTop KO Bracket may be handicapped

Stratified EventsA 2000+, B 750 - 2000, C 0 - 750

Goldrush GamesA 300 - 750, B 100 - 300, C 0 - 100Stratiflighted Open Pairs/Swiss

A 2500+, B 1500 - 2500, C 0 - 1500

♠ AJ92♥ ΑK65♦ 4♣ 9875

♠ K10876♥ 72♦ AQ7♣ K62

Dlr: NorthVul: Both

How to play trump

♠ AJ92♥ ΑK65♦ 4♣ 9875

♠ Q♥ QJ108♦ KJ1085♣ AQ4

♠ 543♥ 943

♦ 9632♣ J103♠ K10876

♥ 72♦ AQ7♣ K62

Dlr: NorthVul: Both