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The Tuesday session on 3 April stopped to wish Heather Roseby a happy 90th birthday!

The cake was lovely and accompanied by some spectacular fragrant flowers.

And the 14 table bridge game was as competitive as always!

Peninsula travelled to the 2018 Central Coast Super Congress on 23-25 March. And we had some success, notably Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Kolding were runners-up in the Restricted Swiss Pairs.

Other results to mention include Marieta and Annegrete teaming up with Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst to come 8th equal in the Restricted Teams, and Carolyn Dowling, Chris Duggin, Lori Neville and Yvonne Perkins coming 15th in the Open Teams. Congratulations to those members.

Hopefully a photo is to come.

One player comment recently lamented the decline in numbers at our Thursday afternoon session. Another lamented how full the Wednesday session was becoming. 

Overall our table numbers are growing. There is considerable variability across the year making comparisons difficult but our overall weekly number of tables being played (excluding our supervised sessions) seems to be about 30-40 tables higher than two years ago. The Wednesday and Friday sessions have shown the most growth, with numbers now often touching or just over thirty tables in play.

We currently have thirty-five permanent tables and are working on bringing this up to thirty-seven in the near future, seeing this as the room's capacity while still retaining our social area near the kitchen. We are also planning to buy additional chairs and side-tables to match these table numbers.

The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the full details of these McCutcheon rankings.

For the two months to end February Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Hans van Weeren on 55.28 just ahead of Peter Clarke on 52.26 and Alexander Cook on 35.46. 

Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:

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The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the up-to-date full details of these McCutcheon rankings for our members.

For the three months to end March Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Robin Ho on 35.04 ahead of Alexander Cook on 34.2 and Vivien Eldridge on 33.94. 

Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:

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The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the up-to-date full details of these McCutcheon rankings for our members.

For the three months to end March Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Hans van Weeren on 59.73 ahead of Peter Clarke on 52.88 and Alexander Cook on 37.42. 

Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:

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The Club was fortunate to receive Australian government funding via grant under the Australian Stronger Communities Program. This is being used to assist with the purchase of both needed furniture and technology.

The furniture is expected to include additional chairs and side-tables, to replace the chairs we have borrowed from the Nelson Heather Centre and to complete equipping our playing room to 37 permanent tables. These additional tables should allow us to accommodate some of the growth in playing numbers we have experienced in recent years.

The new technology includes a second directing station at the eastern end of the playing room (for backup as well as allowing greater flexibility), a second large monitor display which will make it easier for our players to see notices and results and a few other smaller items.

As many of you will know, Sue is leaving Sydney at the end of this month to live in Tassie. I hope she has some winter woolies!

On behalf of the Director group I would like to thank Sue for her invaluable contribution to the Club. She has been a fountain of knowledge in the use of the technology required to run day to day sessions efficiently and professionally and has willingly given up her time to pass this knowledge on to the Director group.

She taken responsibility for running our monthly Tuesday night Swiss pairs in a highly professional manner. She has also regularly acted as a director available to play with “walk-ins”. Playing with a new partner and having responsibility for directing the session can be very stressful.

I wish Sue the very best.