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!
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.
Coming up on Mon 24 Jun is our Members and Novices Teams. This is a single afternoon teams event, designed to introduce newer players to the fun of teams.
Two experienced players combine with two newer players (<50MP) as teams - pairs can play in any combination. Everyone plays the Peninsula Basic System (Green Card) - these are out of print but you can download it here.
Join the fun by registering on the noticeboard by noon Fri 21 Jun. Check the event for all the details. Inquiries to convener, Cath Whiddon.
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.
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:
Members are asked to ensure their emergency contact details have been provided and are up-to-date.
While rarely used these details may be very important should some health or other need unexpectedly arise.
You can update your own emergency contact details by logging into Pianola and then clicking on the My Account option visible when you click on the downwards arrow to the right of your name (showing in the top right of the screen).
You will find your Emergency Contact details showing as per the image for this article. Note you can also update your email address, phone number and postal address on this same page. When you have completed your updates you need to scroll down and click on the Save button!
Websites not your thing? Talk to Greg Hay, our hardworking Membership Secretary, Susan Coleman, our hardworking Club Secretary, or me (David Farmer) if you need help. And yes I have now updated my emergency contact details (I have two contacts there now)...
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.
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:
