Bridge Club News

Please welcome new member Pat O’Connor.

We currently have 610 members.  481 have PBC as their home club and the rest are alternates.   Cassandra Mitchell and Robin Ho have done a lot of work to get people to renew and contacting and checking with non-renewing people.  They have just sent to the ABF a list of 113 former members who have not renewed, to update their records.  Only 24 of these were members last year.

Having just completed my first game in StepBridge I'm very impressed with how it compares to BBO.

Regular masterpoint tournaments are run 3-4 times a day - 1pm, 4pm, 8pm and sometimes 10am. A couple of times a month there are red masterpoint events.  Each tournament has 3 board rounds, 8 rounds and 24 hands. All up it takes just under 2 1/2 hours.

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On Sunday 8 March, Peninsula Bridge Club hosted the Margaret Smale North Metro Interclub Teams Challenge.

The event is named in honour of Margaret Smale, who played at bridge clubs across northern Sydney from the early 1990s. Margaret served on the Peninsula Bridge Club committee and as a director for many years. She was also one of the driving forces behind PBC acquiring a dedicated facility – the spacious, airy room which PBC bridge players are lucky enough to enjoy every day. An excellent bridge player herself, Margaret was always a very encouraging mentor to new and upcoming players. 

Sunday’s event drew teams from Trumps, Manly Leagues Bridge Club, Balgowlah/Dee Why RSL Bridge Club, North Shore/East Lindfield Bridge Club and Peninsula Bridge Club. The day belonged to North Shore/East Lindfield Bridge Club who were the overall winners.

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Alan Davies has provided this interesting board from the Gold Coast Congress - the Ivy Dahler swiss pairs - that he and Vivien played and which was the top board.

They were sitting NS.  The bidding went:

E 1D,  S 2C,  W pass,  N pass (At the post mortem N acknowledged that they should have bid spades),

E X,  S pass (sensing a trap),  W pass (a trap!),  N XX (we're in trouble, take it out)

E pass,  S pass (nowhere to go!),  W pass.  Lead 9D.

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The Club Pairs championships were held in mid-February in 3 sections and over 3 sessions with the last 2 held on Sunday Feb 16th for a grand finale. 

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Some info on successes in the Gold Coast Congress:

Nerida Gillies, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst winning the Restricted Teams

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The eligibility criteria for this pairs event on Sat 21st March have been changed to be:

Entrants must be over 70 years of age or have 20+ years membership.

Congratulations to Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who came second in the 25-50MP section of this statewide competition held in November.

The best club pairs in the other sections were:

<10MP       Kim Driscoll and Simon Fitzhardinge    28th

10-25MP    Savitri Newman and Simon Hunter      5th

50-100MP  Judith Croxall and Robert Gaven         18th