III Copenhagen Bridge Invitational – CBI Main Event, Friday January 16th 2015
The CBI Main Event is an invitational pairs event played in a cross IMP format through 19 Rounds, 8 boards in each round, 7 rounds played today, 6 rounds tomorrow and 6 rounds on sunday. Its being played in BBO.
1st Day:
After the first 7 Rounds, Geir Helgemo-Tor Helness lead the field, second Boye Brogeland- Alon Birman and third Alfredo Versace-Mustafa Cem Tokay … all positions Click Here.
The partnership that ended the first day in the first position added 3/4 (323) of his total score on the sixth round of the day. The victims were Per-Ola Cullin – Peter Bertheau a World Champion pair.
These were the match results: Geir Helgemo-Tor Helness vs
The first board of the match, gave HH 96 of the 323 points scored in the match:
Board 25
![Per-Ola Cullin & Peter Bertheau](http://csbnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Per-Ola-Cullin-Peter-Bertheau.jpg)
Bertheau-Cullin, W/E Vulnerable against NV, arrived to a 4 contract by East, after Cullin’s 1
opening bid and a 1
response, showing spades by Bertheau. Helgemo lead was the
6.
Helness won the trick with his A, and continued with the
J winning the second trick. North continued with his
A and left his hand with his third heart, for one down. These were all the tables results:
Only one table didnt play 4, and only in one of those tables the lead was a heart. With a club or spade lead, the declarers were able to pitch a heart loser in the
K for 10 tricks (a diamond lead, and an immediate heart return also defeats the contract).
Board 27 Helgemo in South opened 1
, and Bertheau in West mentioned his heart suit with 1
. Helness doubled to show his 4 spade cards and Cullen said 2
. Geir continued with a double (showing three spades) and Bertheau insisted with his heart suit. North competed with 2
, and after two pass West said 3
…doubled by North.
Declarer won the 10 lead with his
A, he continued playing the
K and a small club. His intention was to pitch two losers over dummy’s high diamonds. Bad luck, North ruffed, played a spade to his partners king, ruffed a second club, played his
A and another
to his partner’s jack, Geir returned another club and Helness made his
J en passant, the
A was the last defense trick…three down doubled = -500 and 86 points for the leaders.
These were all the tables results: