Bridge Club News

The Australia Wide Novice Pairs (<100MP), organised by Australian Bridge, was played at Peninsula on Friday 31 May, with two sections each of 8 tables entering.

This event involves scoring across the entire field covering many Australian bridge clubs with about two thirds of the entries submitted so far - so it is too early to be certain how we fared. Normally we would have local results in the interim but with two sections even this is not completely certain, though the raw score of 68.45% by Sue Evershed and John Simmonds in one of the sections was definitely impressive. 

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In an impressive comeback from a poor start the Davies team managed to win the three week 2019 State Open Teams qualifier in the very last match. Apologies to the Duggin team...

Ten teams battled it out, over three Thursdays in May. Director Brian Soutter gave us a nine match round robin, with three matches per week. Unlike a Swiss movement this completely fair movement makes it hard to know who the interim leaders are, and a number of teams made it harder still with volatile performances.

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Thirty one pairs entered the 2019 Lawrence Shield event on Saturday 1 June. This event commemorates the huge contribution Verl and John Lawrence have made to the club over many decades.

Verl almost won the event, playing with Lloyd Cleaver, but came second to Vivien Eldridge and Patrick Starck. Congratulations to Vivien and Patrick.

The top five pairs and their % results were as follows:

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For members who do not regularly read the ABF Newsletter, now is a great opportunity to see what you miss.

The June issue has just been released - you can check it out electronically or you can wait till printed copies reach the club in a week or two. A new editor, Brad Coles, has taken over this year - check out the changes he has made.

Here are the topics covered in this issue:

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Thank you to the club for launching a tournament for all of us falling under 15 MPs, commemorating the fabulous Cath Whiddon.

Most of us have had lessons with Cath and have learned so much from her. Appreciating her kindness and sense of humour in the face of our sometimes difficult learning experience. Thing is we are all improving thanks to Cath and remember that if diamonds are not forever, and clubs are for cave people, we will always bid hearts or spades and hope for the best.

Congratulations to all the pairs who participated over three consecutive Mondays and to our inaugural winners Margaret Wayland and Peter Sate, and runners-up Doreen Heideman and Hazel Carroll!

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Sometimes the director might be busy with another call, and at other times it may take them anything up to 10 seconds to arrive. What do you do while you’re waiting? 

This article is not going to answer that – instead it will provide some advice on what NOT to do in various situations:

You’ve revoked (or so the opponents claim – as if!)

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On the weekend of 4-5 May, we competed in the Autumn Nationals Bridge Congress in Adelaide.

Trumps members Neil Williams and Rob Holgate invited us to join them to enter the Under Life Masters Teams.

To qualify for this category, three team members were required to be under Life Master rank (300MP) while one team member could be a Life Master, but below Bronze Life Master rank.

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April saw the Autumn Individual event fought over four Mondays, with the best three scores counting.

Players had to play with different partners each week for the scores to count.

Congratulations to Verl Lawrence who prevailed with excellent scores, ahead of Sue Riley and Hans van Weeren. Verl cleverly planned ahead and played with her closest rival, Sue Riley, in the last week.