Bridge Club News
Our Bridge Education Team did PBC proud today at our ABF Teacher CPD Day: from Anne opening up, Jen collecting registrations, Susan Jensen preparing all the materials in top quality and opening the session, Susan Falkingham running website demos, Vickie Busteed looking after book sales, Sandie Rooke collecting the feedbacks and Gayle King providing top class lunch - what a team showcasing our club!
NEW Advanced/intermediate Saturday workshops - our first Advanced/intermediate monthly workshop on using the Jacoby 2NT Convention as a response to Partner's Major Opening (instead of a Limit Raise) is on Sat 10 Feb 9.30-11.30am.
This workshop is for keen players who want to add to their established bidding system.
The focus of this lesson is the Jacoby 2NT convention. Players should be familiar with: five-card major-suit opening bids and responses; valuing responder’s hand using dummy points (SP); making a single raise, a limit raise, a forcing raise and a pre-emptive raise using natural methods. We will look at responder’s hand type for the Jacoby 2NT.
Our first Swiss Pairs for 2018 on 30 January was a great success and saw Nerida Gillies and Hans van Weeren triumph (with a box of Swiss chocolates) ahead of Peter Clarke and Jim Rothwell. The turn-out was excellent with 22 pairs playing 4 rounds of 6 boards.
Normally the Swiss Pairs, convened by Annegrete Kolding, will be timed for the fourth Tuesday evening on each month with the next on 27 February (but check the event calendar for exceptions). As an innovation for 2018 we trialed seeding for the first round of the four round event. In future to save time we will probably make this more self-seeding when our pre-session expert presenter is also using the director's computer.
Peninsula had great success at the ABF Summer Festival of Bridge in the Novice category.
In particular Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Kolding had two great triumphs:
- They partnered with South Coast pair Louise and Michael Brassil to win the Novice Teams event, and
- They were runners-up in the Novice Swiss Pairs.
Heidi Colenbrander, Susan Jensen, Ray Hurst and Sandie Rooke also had a great event, being runners-up in the Novice Teams event.
Our open players had some success at the ABF Summer Festival in Canberra.
David Farmer and Cath Whiddon were runners-up in the one-day open Penline Swiss Pairs.
They followed this with eighth place in the two-day Chris Diment Matchpoint Swiss Pairs event. (Performance in their other event was not so newsworthy...)
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:
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).
