Bridge Club News
Joan Butts will be running four one-hour workshops on various types of Doubles In November.
Two on Tuesday, 27 Nov, 2.30-4.30pm and two on Wednesday 28 Nov, 9.30-11.30am.
There will be a 10 minute break between the two sessions on each day so that you can come and stay or come and go - and choose precisely what aspect of doubles you would like to learn/refresh.
There are strong rumours that Halloween will come to the Tuesday night session on 30 October.
Don't be afraid you'll miss out! Come along and enjoy it. And of course a good game of bridge as well. There are even volunteers offering to provide transport if you are unwilling to drive at night so close to Halloween.
This photo was from the Tuesday night session in 2017.
The Tuesday night session brainstormed a number of ideas to generate more interest from other players in the session. After discussion, and restricted to where someone was prepared to do any coordinating work, the session decided (with the Committee's concurrence) to trial the following six initiatives. Hopefully one or more of these interest you - you would be very welcome to the session!
Offering transport to/from session - Offering transport to/from Tuesday (and other) night sessions for those not comfortable driving at night - see separate article.
Turning off the Bridgemate results display - Trial for a month (Tue night session only) to see if it has a good effect on timing and friendliness at the table.
About a dozen Peninsula members played in the weekend events (20-21 Oct) at the Sydney Spring Nationals. The best success was achieved by Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst who came third in the Restricted Pairs category (<300MP). Annegrete Kolding and Sandie Rooke came 5th in the Novice Pairs. Congratulations to both pairs.
Our Peninsula expeditionary group included a range of our players from an enthusiastic rookie (learned only a couple of months ago) to those with a fair bit more experience. Most of the pairs in the open competition experienced doses of humility while enjoying some challenging boards. The weekend events were Swiss matchpoint pairs - the rest of the Spring Nationals is teams-based and some of our members are playing there as well. Anne Small and Hans van Weeren did well coming 18th in the open teams. You can see all the Spring National results. Thanks to Annegrete Kolding for the photo.
We'd love to see more players at our night sessions but know that some prefer not to drive at night. If this sounds like you, please consider ringing one of our members below who have offered to drive players who live on their driving routes to and from a night session.
Simply ring the member who drives past where you live and see if you can make a workable arrangement. it would be great to see you join the night session.
If you are prepared to offer such a driving service to one of our night sessions please contact David Farmer on
Six members received ABF Rank promotions on one day when photographer Annegrete Kolding was able to capture them.
The early rank promotions can be very significant for newer players and there were a number of these in the six.
The recipients were Brigitte Grover, Patricia Whicker, Farzi Sayfi, Sandy Carter, Yvonne Edwards and Maria Witeski.
Tuesday night numbers have eased a little compared with the same time last year. While this can probably be attributed to the 2017 program of external expert teacher-directors, we are trying to consider what we can do to increase numbers.
Interested members who play at the session have been contributing and brainstorming different ideas. We had a face-to-face discussion in mid August and have another planned for 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 September to identify a few of these ideas to trial at the Tuesday night session during the rest of 2018. If you can see yourself playing at this session you are very welcome to join us.
If you have ideas about how to improve another session you play in, chat to your fellow players and send your thoughts into the Committee.
Two Peninsula teams made the top five places in a good field of 23 teams at the Trumps Spring Teams on 23 September.
Runners-up on the day were Jocelyn Bertram, David Farmer, Lyn Smith and Catherine Whiddon, with only one loss to the winning Trumps team including Derrick Browne.
Coming fifth were Gerard Hardy, Anne Small, Derek Tyms and Hans van Weeren. Full results are available on the Trumps website.
