Bridge Club News
When declarer makes their plan, the last consideration must be to decide in which order they will take their tricks. This Joan Butts Bridge Declarer Play - Entries workshop on Saturday 8 April (9.30-11.30am) will give you an easy plan to make sure you reach those winners. It is multi-level material suitable for all improving players.
Workshop is followed by the nornal duplicate game at 12.30pm with hand analysis led by Joan Butts and Cath Whiddon, along with a glass of wine and cheese, at 4pm
You can come to both without a partner.
Check the event for full information including costs and how to book.
Thirty two teams competed in a great day at the Peninsula Teams Congress on Sunday 26 March.
Congratulations to the Peninsula team of Annegrete Kolding, Marieta Borthwick, Ray Hurst and Heidi Colenbrander who won the Restricted category.
In the Open category, the winners were the Fleischer team (George Fleischer, Matthew Vadas, Andrew Peake, Peter Gill), ahead of Kaplan (Rena Kaplan, Anita Curtis, Tony Leibowitz, David Beauchamp) and A. Baker (Ann Baker, Helena Dawson, Susan Humphries, Colin Baker).
Congratulations to Catherine Whiddon/David Farmer, Vona Hadfield/Hans Van Weeren, Joan Fawcett/Norman Grech and Lynn Baker/Peter Robinson for finishing first to fourth in the three week State Mixed Pairs qualifier and thus being eligible for the Club's payment of their entry into the State Mixed Pairs Championship on 27-28 May. Go Peninsula.
You can check the qualifier full results.
A great win by Sandie Rooke and Alan Davies at the Swiss Pairs event on 22 March.
They were hotly followed by Marieta Borthwick and Vivien Eldridge and Terry and Lois Rothwell who came equal second.
It was such a well organised and fun evening with 13 tables, despite the torrential rain during the early part of the night. We were lucky to have Joan Butts to introduce the evening and point out the different aspects of play and scoring when taking part in an IMPs scoring event like Swiss Pairs.
The full results can be found (for a while at least) on our Results page.
Congratulations to Sue Falkingham on becoming an ABF accredited teacher, Peninsula's second member to be so recognised.
Today, Joan Butts, the ABF teaching coordinator, came to Peninsula and presented Sue with her certificate.
Peninsula Bridge Club is going to revamp its website to make it more representative of the large and vibrant club that it represents.
This involves many aspects such as its design, structure, and functionality and of course the content it presents.
We'd love your help in reviewing what we have and what we want. If you have used our existing website or have used any other bridge club website, we want to capture your views of what works well and what doesn't. We have a simple form below to help capture your thoughts in a way we can use. Please give us your views - and submit a comment many times if you have thoughts on lots of pages!
The winners of the 2017 GNOT qualifier were the Whiddon team with Cath Whiddon, David Farmer, Lyn Smith and Jocelyn Bertram. Well done to them all! The runners up were the Davies team of Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Anne Small and Ron Smith.
This event is a rare opportunity for members to gain GOLD POINTS at PBC and it was wonderful to see 14 teams participating this year. Thanks very much to our calm and competent director Ronnie Ng.
Jean Quin has been an active member of Peninsula Bridge Club for many years and today Sarah presented her with a bouquet to say farewell and good luck as Jean is moving to Queensland.
Beverley Schultz reminded us of the many contributions Jean had made to the club in the past. The cakes during the tea break were delicious - particularly the lemon one!
