Congratulations to Anne Small and Hans Van Weeren on winning the 2022 Club Pairs Championship. Runners up were Ian McLennan and Linda Abbenbroek.
With players continuing to return to face-to-face bridge at the club, we were pleased to see 12 pairs competing for the championship.
You can see the overall results in Pianola and the club website.
Thanks to Annegrete Kolding for convening the event.
Congratulations to Bruce McDonald and Peter Wilson who were the convincing winners of this 3 week closely fought event followed by Di Agostino and Robert Scott.
You can see the overall results in Pianola and the club website.
Thanks to Max Paterson for convening the event.
Congratulations to Nerida Gillies and Sandy Carter who won the Ivy Dahler Butler Swiss Pairs Restricted competition at the ABF Gold Coast Congress in February. This is a huge achievement with stiff competition and a gruelling 10 Rounds of Bridge.
Our volunteer run club needs to upgrade its marketing, both to support its important bridge education strategy (principally by attracting new beginners) and to enhance its internal and external image during its premises changes over the next few years. We would love to use any marketing experience and skills you (or a family member or friend?) may have gained in the past.
How this might work in practice depends on the experience, skills and willingness of those we are able to attract. There is also a possibility that we might be able to find a marketing student intern that might join the team.
If you (or someone you know) are able to offer us marketing experience and skills, please talk to me (David Farmer 0415 715 743) or to our Secretary, Simon Hunter (0451 130 330). Thank you in advance!
Our club is diverse but our website doesn't always get all the best stories. If you have an ear for a story and would like to help these stories find an appreciative audience via our newsletter, then please help.
What's involved? Keeping an ear, an eye and/or a nose out for a story that would be of interest to our members - could be profiling one of our volunteers or new members or old members. Compile a short easy-to-read story and ideally grab a photo to go with it. And send it in.
If you'd like to try, let me (Simon Hunter) know on 0451 130 330 or at
Within its powers under the constitution the Club Committee defines the Club's Playing Rules and Operating Procedures.
The Committee intends to keep these Playing Rules and Operating Procedures, published here and on the Club noticeboard up-to-date with changes as they occur in the future.
And in March 2016, the Rules for Substitutes in Major Events were amended. Please click HERE for the updated rules.
The Cath Whiddon Cup was very much interrupted this year by Covid. Despite this the Club was very motivated to persevere and was determined to hold this important Honour Board event.
The event commenced at the Clubhouse in June. We initially had strong interest, however almost immediately we went into lockdown and the competition had to be moved to be played on BBO. Unfortunately the number of entrants dropped from this point, as some members were unable, for various reasons, to play online.
The final results and congratulations to the following members are:
1st Debbie Sate and Sachiko Cathcart
2nd Jane Cummings and Anne Moulston
3rd Kay Armstrong and Dianne Sidoti
4th Neil Mitchell and John O’Riordan
Well done Debbie and Sachiko. Thank you to Simon Hunter, John Rogers and David Farmer for their combined efforts in directing the event.
Trish Berry, Convenor
The Metro North Interclub pairs event was held on Sunday 31st, online on RealBridge. For the full results see here.
Overall, North Shore were the winners. For Peninsula, a special mention of Patrick Starck and Barbara Gassman who came 1st in the U750 and Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies and Susan Jensen and Annegrete Kolding who came 2nd and 3rd in the U300 sections.
The number of participants was very disappointing, EG only 9 pairs in the U100. I have heard people say they don't like RealBridge but i thought it was fine. BBO, StepBridge and RealBridge are quite similar; the distinctive feature of RealBridge is that it enables video and audio during the play. Personally i am not interested in the video but the audio allowed people to chat. In fact in the U100 section it was a very relaxed and friendly day.
RealBridge is likely to be used in serious competitions as the audio-visuals help reduce the possibility of cheating. If you are interested in trying it, they run free 8 board taster sessions.
