Bridge Club News

We're having a Mix-up, Meet and Greet pairs event on Saturday 3 February. Come and get to know others from across the club! Check the event details and find out how to enter.

The emphasis is on fun and getting to know new people. 

And there will be post game wine and cheese and prizes - invite your life partner along for this!

A number of Peninsula players featured in the Australian Bridge Federation 2017 McCutcheon tables. These show the players who accumulated the most masterpoints in their masterpoint category over the year.

Major highlights were Peter Clarke being runner-up in the National category accumulating 106.12MP over 2017 and Hans van Weeren winning the State with one star category with a massive 149.30MP. Congratulations to Hans and Peter.

Also evident based on a quick scan of the full results were:

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Peggy Fisher won the First Wednesday <10MP year long competition run for the second time over 2017. Neville Wells was the runner-up.

This was an individual competition that allowed eligible players to play with the same or a range of eligible partners over the year - their best percentage scores were added.

This competition continues in 2018 on the first Wednesdays of March through November. The best 7 scores will be counted. This complements the regular Wednesday Rookie section (restricted to those with less than 10MP).

The winners of the 2017 Rosemary's Row year long competition on Mondays were Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst.

This competition was restricted to those players with less than 150MP.

In 2018 the event is being reformed to play over four Mondays in July and will be restricted to less than 100MP (as at 1 Jun 2018) - the best three scores will count. Ray Hurst will be convener.

2017 was the second year for the year-long individual competition for those with less than 50MP. Played on the first Friday of each month this competition allowed eligible players to play with the same or different eligible partners and aggregated their best sessions scores over the year.

 The 2017 winner was Sue Evershed, ahead of her regular partner John Simmonds.

In 2018 this Friday competition is changing its eligibility to players with less than 20MP (as at 1 Jan 2018) and will be played on the first Friday of each month from March through November. The best 7 scores will be counted. This complements the newly established Rookie section on Fridays (restricted to those with less than 20MP).

I am travelling, but just tried posting some info on NSWBA and was blown away with the results of the 2017 NSW <100MP Pairs Championships - has anyone else see it? Fantastic - so proud (again), congrats!

Results

Congratulations to our Marieta Borthwick and Heidi Colenbrander for winning the top prize of free entry and an ABF grant to attend the Restricted Butler Pairs at the Hobart ANC (5-6 Aug 2018). They earned the top non-handicapped score, with an amazing 76.79 in the second session.

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Suzanne Cole is quite rightly looking as pleased as punch as she held the winning ticket for the Christmas raffle.

Susan Jensen managed to post this on our Club Facebook Group - and I have placed it here for the wider audience.

Lynn Baker received her Australian Bridge Federation accreditation as a teacher in October 2017.

She follows in the footsteps of members Cath Whiddon, Sue Falkingham and Vickie Busteed who have also received accreditation.