{"id":12831,"date":"2019-11-11T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:10:48","slug":"funbridge-exclusive-tournament-milan-macura-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/en\/funbridge-exclusive-tournament-milan-macura-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan Macura\u2019s Exclusive Tournaments – November – #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a record week at the end of October, we had a small decrease in participation. Still, 1,476 players participated in weekly exclusive tournaments<\/strong> \u2013 612 in MPs and 864 in IMPs.<\/p>

MPs Results<\/a><\/p>

IMP Results<\/a><\/p>

Replay the board 6 with me to win the tournament<\/a><\/p>

Videos of Milan Macura’s MPs and IMPs tournaments<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

MPs Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We had very interesting boards offering a chance to score over 80%, but no one did. Lewlew<\/strong> 🇺🇸 coped the best with a score of 78.51% ahead of OceanWave<\/strong> 🇫🇷 with 76.90% and EttienneR<\/strong> 🇬🇧 with 76.23%. After 5 boards, I had an average of over 86%, but the last 3 boards were all disasters and I ended up with \u201conly\u201d 59.51%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top 11 ranking of the MPs tournament – General <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Top 11 ranking of the MPs tournament – Milan’s friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

IMPs Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The highest average per board, almost 6 IMPs, had ClemLaLou<\/strong> 🇫🇷 with +47 IMPs. 2nd place goes to lexod<\/strong> 🇵🇱 and Jim Hermann<\/strong> 🇺🇸, both with +39 IMPs. There were not many swing boards if you played standard and if I hadn\u2019t overbid on board 2, I would have had all plus scores. +24 IMPs is still a great score, only Aymeric<\/strong> 🇫🇷 beated me among my friends\u2019 list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"milan
Top 11 ranking of the IMPs tournament – General <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"milan
Top 11 ranking of the IMPs tournament – Milan’s friends <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Replay the board 6 with me to win the tournament<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You have a nice 3-suited hand with 16 HCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Yes, this hand can be considered as a 3-suiter because you have 3 cards in spades. When you are evaluating the hand, you can take into account the distinction below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Balanced hands<\/strong> \u2013 Worth for playing NT mainly,\nMajor if you find a fit.<\/li>
  • 1-suited hands<\/strong> \u2013 Good for playing in that\nparticular suit as trumps or in NT and use the long suit as a source of tricks.<\/li>
  • 2-suited hands<\/strong> \u2013 Usually good to play in your\nsuits, NT only if it is a misfit and you have 24+ HCP or if you have minors. 55\nor 64 hands can be considered as good 2-suiters (unbalanced) and 54 hands as bad\n2-suiters (semi-balanced). If you have a 6-card major and a 4-card minor,\nconsider that as a 1-suiter. <\/li>
  • 3-suited hands<\/strong> \u2013 These are mainly 4441 or 5440\ndistributions, but if you have 5431 and 43 Majors, you can play the contract\nalso in 3 suits. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    You open 1♦ and partner responds 1♠, what is your bid?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    With a\n2-suited or 3-suited hand, you should show the second suit if you haven\u2019t found\nthe fit yet. 2♥ is a reverse and Argine describes it as 18-21 points. But that should\nbe included in the distributional points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Criteria other than HCPs for reverse bidding<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Losers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With\nsemi-balanced 5431 hands, you have three options. With a garbage hand (11-14\nHCPs) with 7 losers or standard hand with 6 losers (13-16 HCPs), rebid the\nminor in both situations. With a maximum hand with 5 and fewer losers (15+ HCPs),\nbid reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Quick tricks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Number of\ntricks your hand generates for a NT contract. This hand has a potential of 7\nquick tricks \u2013 bid 2♥ as the reverse. If it is hard to count your winners and you have less\nthan 16 HCPs, it\u2019s better to repeat the minor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Partner rebids spades to show a 5-card suit. You can now jump to 4♠ because your hand is maximum for all criteria: controls, quick tricks, ruffing potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    East leads the ♦ 10, how do you plan the play?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    You have\none or two losers in spades and four losers in clubs. You have to lose one club,\nyou can discard one on the third winner in diamonds, you can ruff another one\nor two and potentially establish the ♣K if West has the ♣A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Unfortunately,\nyou don\u2019t have enough entries to North hand to ruff two clubs. The ♦10 lead seems to be a shortness and\nthere is a risk of overruffing in both red suits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So after\nyou win the first diamond, you should play a trump to gain the trump control\nand prevent East to ruff your diamond winners. West plays low and East plays\nthe ♠10. When you\ncross to dummy with ♥A, West plays ♥Q. What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Here I made\na mistake that cost me the victory in the tournament. I played the ♠6 instead of the ♠9. West jumped with the ♠A and East discarded the ♣5. When West played the ♥J back, I had 10 tricks (4♠, 3♥ and 3♦), but I needed to draw trumps.\nKeeping the ♠9 in the dummy blocked the suit, which put me so much in discomfort that\nI didn\u2019t realize that there was still a winning play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I could\njust play the ♠9 and when West ducks, play the low heart to cross to North hand to cash\nthe last trump and claim 10 tricks, potentially 11 if the ♣A is with West. ♥8 is a winner and North still has\none more diamond as an entry to South hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Making 10\ntricks in 4♠ was a top score for 89.49%. A lot of players played in 2♦ because North passed their 2♦ rebid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Two bad\nscores in the row put me in depression and I tried to get a top score on the\nlast board. My aggressive reopening bid over 2♠ was doubled for -1,100. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    When you have a bad\nboard, especially because of you made a mistake, take a break before playing\nthe next one. Staying in a bad mood will cost you much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"milan<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    If I had just\npassed 2♠, I would have scored 48% or 88% depending totally on luck. I would have\nled ♦J. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Argine as declarer\nchose (I guess based on statistics) two different lines of play: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Crossruff the hand immediately: ruff\nthe third round of diamonds with ♠9 and lose 2 club tricks and 2 spade tricks.<\/li>
    2. Establish a club trick: play the ♣J first in order to discard the\nheart loser and score 10 tricks. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      These hands\nare very frustrating for everybody if you are sitting on a wrong chair. These\nthings regularly happen in bridge and it is essential to learn to get over\nthese situations to become a champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Videos of Milan Macura’s tournaments<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      MPs tournament video <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      You can find all the boards in the video which is posted on the Funbridge YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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