Congratulations to Ireland who make it two Lederer wins in a row! Well done everyone.
2025 Lederer Winners Ireland
Runners-up Team Harris
Well done to Team Harris who were in contention for most of the event and eventually took second place.
Butlers winners Erichsen and Malinowski
Well done to Espen Erichsen and Artur Malinowski who had a monster last match and topped the Butlers (by a smidgen).
Ireland win!
Ireland win, Harris second, Malinowski/Erichsen win the Butler prize. More anon…
Good switch partner!
A lot of tables played in 3C by west on board 1 of match 6. This is a little tricky to defend. On a heart lead south needs to resist the urge to cash the second honour and instead switch to spades.
In the match between Harris and Dyson, Jonathan Harris opened the bidding with 1NT, partner Steve Root transferred to spades and Tom Townsend bid 3 clubs which ended the auction.
Steve led the J hearts and Jonathan won with the A. He then found the necessary switch of the 6 of spades. Steve won with the A and played the J spades back. Declarer has only one entry to dummy and so he can’t take the club finesse and play back to his Q hearts. One down. Well done Jonathan. (Thanks to Tom Townsend for this report.)
The helpers
Day 2 gallery
Still Ireland from Gillis after 8
Gillis got 2 VPs of their deficit back in the head-to-head against Ireland but Ireland still lead by 8. Harris 4 VPs again behind second. Still all to play for in the last.
Leaders playing each other in Match 8
Ireland (current leaders) and Gillis (in second) are playing each other head to head now in match 8. Watch on BBO!
Still Ireland after match 7
Ireland are still ahead but Gillis have now moved into second place. 10 VPs is the difference between the top 2. Harris also still in contention a further 3 VPs behind in third. (The head-to-head between the top two is match 8 and being shown on BBO now!)
Lederer Trophy 