In the first match after lunch the SBU team played against Ireland, and Scotland against Wales. These were the final matches in the first round robin.
I know what happened to both my pairs on this hand.
At their table Artem opened the North hand 1D, and Shiva bid a direct 5D. This makes, so I can't complain too much. But I'll complain a bit - South should respond 1H and they should end up in an easy 3NT instead.
In their match Niamh and Artem took a circuitous route to 3NT, which gained IMPs when on the other table Ireland bid to 6D. Isla doubled this and led her Ace, Eunice encouraged, and took her King of Spades for one off.
Both teams bid a safe game here
Eunice & Isla made 4S, and so did Andrew & Maoyan. Top marks to Kajetan and Prajjwal from Scotland U26 who got to the making 7H.
At the end of the match our SBU players came out jubilantly, claiming they had beaten Ireland, by a handsome margin of 30 IMPs. I didn't believe it, and waited for the official score. That seemed to confirm what they had said, a famous win!
In the other match Scotland narrowly beat Wales. Well done both teams!
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It literally was too good to be true, and the scores against Ireland had been accidentally reversed. We actually lost by 30 IMPs.
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