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Great news! Peter Clarke and Hans van Weeren were successful winning the two-day Two Men and a Truck Restricted Teams at the 2017 Sydney Spring Nationals event. And Marieta Borthwick, Heidi Colenbrander, Ray Hirst and Annegrete Kolding won the Novice Teams, playing in the same field. Check the full results.
Peter and Hans' team won convincingly with a VP tally of 88.61, 14VPs ahead of the closely contested minor places. They earned more than 10MP, suggesting their time in the Restricted category may not continue forever... The only team to beat them was the Borthwick-Colenbrander-Hirst-Kolding team!
There is opportunity for a free entry for two Peninsula teams into the 2017 NSW State Novice and Restricted Teams Championships to be held at the Illawarra Bridge Association in Wollongong on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 November. One free entry is offered for a Novice team (players under 100MPs) and one for a Restricted team (players under 300MPs).
You can check the flier for all the details. The NSWBA is endeavouring to attract new entries - so those who have already entered unfortunately miss out.
The first Novice and first Restricted team to confirm their interest and availability with full names and ABF numbers to me at
Join us on Tuesday 7 November for the club’s annual Melbourne Cup event. Play some bridge amidst all the excitement! There will be two sections – Open and Restricted. Come early as the friendly bar staff will open at 9.30 and you can start buying your sweep tickets at 10am. Make it easy and bring the correct change for the $5, $2 and $1 sweeps.
Bridge play starts at 11am. Play some bridge then lunch, then more bridge before watching the race live. There will be Lucky Door and Best Hat prizes so come dressed to impress! Check all the event details.
Thanks David and co for your great newsletter!
I like to see what the champs are doing particularly representing our club but also I liked the items written by members:
- Moira's recommendation for another early start day ( perhaps Friday) is great especially for those who need to get way for school pickup or work. Day light saving works so well if we start early too.
- Thanks Terry for the information about the Buddies. Just wondering if it could be with perhaps under 20 Masterpoints (like me !).
This is the second year of this PREMIER EVENT. So find yourself a partner and sign up at the club. The winning pair get their names in gold on the honour board!
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Three Fridays starting on 6th October.
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This is a members only PAIRS competition.
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Only emergency substitutes are allowed. This means the same pair must commit to play in all three sessions.
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The pair with the highest cumulative percentage will win.
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There will be a prize for the best under 15 and the best under 50. Prizes limited to one per pair.
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Entrants must have less than 100 master points as at 01/10/2017.
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Convenor – Ray Hurst/Vivien Eldridge
Are you ready for this PREMIER EVENT? If so, find yourself a partner and sign up at the club.
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Three consecutive Thursdays starting on 1st February.
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This is a members only PAIRS competition.
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Only emergency substitutes are allowed. This means the same pair must commit to play in all three sessions.
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The pair with the highest cumulative percentage will win.
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Cost is $25 per player payable at the first session.
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Convenor – Vivien Eldridge
The third session of The Lawrence on the evening of 26 September was won convincingly by Alessandro Gado and Aleksander Milovanovic on 70.72%, ahead of Brian Ody and Col Dempster, and Ron Smith and Robbie Feyder.
"Not bad," commented Aleks, "given we doubled 3S in the first set for it to make."
The Lawrence in 2017 has a $200 cash prize to the winning pair in each session of the event. The remaining sessions in this event are 24 October and 28 November.
On Wednesday, I experienced my first buddy session with my new buddy, Susan Jensen. I was fortunate in that Susan propagated the program.
The aim of the buddy program is to assist novice players who want to improve their bidding, playing and confidence by playing with a more experienced player over four normal bridge sessions. A novice player is defined for this program as having less than five masterpoints, and the experienced player has 30+ masterpoints.
At the end of each playing session (at a time mutual to both) the pair discuss the preceding session of play. This involves looking at specific boards and improving the bidding, seeing how to better play the cards as declarer and defender. Also, errors of bidding and play, and an assessment of weaknesses in the novice’s game overall.
