Five Peninsula teams travelled to North Ryde RSL on Sunday 23 May to compete in the 2021 Margaret Smale Metro North Interclub Teams, hosted this year by North Shore Bridge Club. This competition is in four categories: <100MP, 100-300MP, 300-750MP and 750+MP and ensures that teams with all levels of experience can compete and contribute equally to their club's chances of success.
Our two teams in the 100-300MP category blitzed their competition and took both first and second place. Winners were Sandy Carter, Nerida Gillies, Rob Scott and John Simmonds and runners-up in that category were Susan Jensen, Annegrete Kolding, and Jenny and Max Paterson.
Yeah, I know, partner has just make another mistake. We all make them and today it's definitely partner's turn. That's no good for our score but it doesn't have to be bad for my health! Frowning and getting crabby is bad for my health. Mistakes - partner's and mine - mess up our score but I'm in complete control of whether or not I frown so I'm not going to frown. So there.
Easier said than done, perhaps, so perhaps we have to work on our table presence in just the same way that we work on our finesses.
- Reprinted with permission from Graeme Tuffnell of Skybridge
CANCELLED OR DELAYED DUE TO LOW BOOKINGS ON REALBRIDGE - MAY BE HELD FACE TO FACE LATER IN THE YEAR
The Peninsula Swiss Teams congress will be held ON-LINE on Sunday 18th April 10:00 am. More information is available in this link.
This congress is facilitated by MasterBridge Online using the RealBridge platform. There will be two sections:
- Open
- Restricted (<100 MPs at March 01, 2021). Enter from the NSWBA web-site.
I’d like to give you an introduction to masterpoints and the work involved to have them appear in your masterpoint record.
As in other countries the Australian Bridge Federation (ABF) coordinates a masterpoint scheme. Its three main goals are to:
- Stimulate interest in Contract Bridge,
- Provide a means of measuring player achievements, and
- Assist with the financing of the ABF’s national and international commitments.
During March, 6 teams competed over three Thursdays in the qualifying event for the Metropolitan final of the State Open Teams.
Congratulations to the winning team, Lyn Smith, Jocelyn Bertram, Jennifer Ardill and Patrick Starck, who remained unbeaten during the 6 match event.
The convenor was Alan Davies and the director Ronnie Ng.
The Club Pairs championship was held over three weeks at the club. Ronnie Ng directed and did a great job. This was made more complicated by a power failure in the third week and he was relying on the laptop’s battery power to keep going. But Ausgrid came good and the power was restored by 2pm and we were all happy to be playing under lights again instead of in the dark.
21 pairs signed up. Linda Abbenbroek and Jan McLennan had a comfortable lead after week 2 and they were unable to be overtaken although Jen Ardill and Patrick Starck came very close. So it was a win for the veteran players this time.
Click on this link for the results - All Results - Peninsula Bridge Club.
Congratulations to the winners of the SALT5 teams competition: Team Dowling (Carolyn Dowling, Leslie Treasure, Loraine Neville, Jeanette Weaver) who narrowly defeated Team Dickinson (Sue Dickinson, Sharon Thompson, Ray Moon and Maris Taylor). It is interesting to note that Team Dowling had a handicap of +10 whereas Team Dickinson, as rookies, were -17.
Team Kolding (Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander, Sarah Young, Ray Hurst) were third.
Many thanks again to Robin Devries for convening and there is perhaps still time to enter SALT6 which starts on Monday 22nd Feb.
As a club we aspire to facilitate enjoyable bridge for all. The diversity of our bridge players can add to this enjoyment - but can also present challenges if behaviours learned elsewhere conflict with common courtesy and the ethical foundations of our game. The club wants to encourage and celebrate positive behaviours and identify and appropriately respond to other behaviours that might threaten our goal of enjoyable bridge for all.
Here is the club's Code of Conduct (maintained in our Playing Rules):
