The Rosenblum | Michael Yuen

by Michael Yuen on October 5th, 2010

The World Open KO Teams starts to-morrow. There are at press time 147 teams, with 757 players from 48 countries.

I will be playing with Maurice De la Salle on the Todd Team, the other players are Doug Fisher, Bob Todd, Karl Gohl and Neil Kimelman. All friends from Winnipeg.

Teams will be seeded into 16 groups of 9 teams. Each group team will play a complete round robin in the next three days. 64 teams will qualify for the Knockout phase.  

This morning Apolinary Kowalski playing with Susie Miller, took the right view on this hand.

2nd Session Mixed Plate. Board 23. Dealer South. All Vul.

He was North held  ? 6 ? Q5 ? K532 ? J97642

This was the auction.

These were the hands.

North
? 6  
? Q5  
? K532 
? J97642West
? J87 
? J104 
? 84 
? AKQ83 East
? AKQ10954 
? Ak98 
? 9 
? 10South
? 32
? 7632 
? AQJ1076 
? 5 

West led the Ace of club then switched to a trump in time, however in the play East didn’t let West in again to lead the much needed second trump. South went down four for -1100 and with it most of the match points.

The World Mixed Pair won by Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni, second went to Kismet Fung and Brian Glubok. Joan Lewis and Robert Hopkins was third.

Donna and Fulvio

Kismet and Brian

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Today we start the Rosenblum, the World Open Knockout Teams Championship. It's not knockout yet though. We are in a ten team round-robin for the next three days with the top four to qualify for the knockout stages. Our group consists of players from America, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, China, Turkey and Belgium. BBO vugraph is covering the whole event from the second match today.
Yesterday Sam and Tim completed the Mixed Pairs final with their best session and finished 102nd in the world. This was the second best British performance behind the Bakhshi's who were 46th. In the plate Frances Hinden and Graham Osbourne finished 6th.We failed to win our knockout bracket on handicap. A couple of interesting hands that I may post later.

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