If you have enjoyed playing board games, or card games such as Euchre and 500, then bridge is the game for you. Develop a new interest, meet new friends and keep your brain active while learning to play at the Central Coast’s leading teaching club,
Brisbane Water Bridge Club.
We are at the Peninsula Community Centre Woy Woy. (Corner of Ocean Beach Rd & McMasters Rd
From Tuesday 5th September @ 10am. Lessons will be followed by supervised bridge games. You will be helped with all aspects of bridge until you are ready to play in our regular daily games.
The cost is $50 for seven weeks of lessons and practice sessions.
Ring now to register or inquire about returning to bridge after a break at our open supervised session where you can get help with the bidding and play. Meet new friends and keep your brain active.
Phone Christine: 0488194737
Christine Hadaway - Blair Glass, Jim Routledge - Karen Ody, Pam Joseph - Susan McCall
The Annual President’s Cup was held on Thursday 13th July.
It is a special Red Point event to thank President Sylvia Foster for all the hard work, both seen and unseen, she has done for the club over the past twelve months.
With the coming out of COVID restrictions and all the other problems faced by clubs of all sorts and sizes, not just Bridge, this was a particularly challenging year for her and the committee.
During the period of this insidious disease our numbers diminished considerably. Some started play on-line, a few battled on and unfortunately some followed other pursuits. Thanks to Sylvia’s hard work and dedication our membership is steadily growing again and attendances are on the up.
The competition was particularly hot with joint winners and joint runners-up in the North/ South field.
This Championship was conducted over two consecutive Wednesdays.
When both weeks results were combined the winners were ...
Restricted Pairs Championship Overall
Place
%
Pair Name
1
61.23%
Warren Nicol - Edith Marshall
2
59.17%
Graham Woof - Peter Wheatley
3
58.16%
Kerrel Walker - Carol Long
Here are the session results :
The first session had the normal N/S and E/W fields. This produced some, what some would consider surprising results, with players with varying degrees of experience featuring in the results.
Restricted Pairs Championship Session 1
North-South
Place
%
Pair Name
1
66.04%
Peter Hume - Elaine Hume
2
63.33%
Linda Cunningham - Jo Ampherlaw
3
60.42%
Warren Nicol - Edith Marshall
East-West
Place
%
Pair Name
1
62.73%
Graham Woof - Peter Wheatley
2
53.94%
Walt Alma Van Der - Kathryn Ivits
3
53.47%
John Drew - Denyse Stephens
The second session was a Howell movement which meant that every pair played each other at some time during the Championship. This tricky movement, devised by Director, Peter Hume, certainly kept us on our toes. He was ably assisted in this by Marcelle Goslin who told us where to be seated when we got lost.
Someone once said a week is a long time in politics. It certainly can be in Bridge. The leaders from the previous week came back to the field as others demonstrated their prowess. Special mention to Carolyn Harper and Kerry-Anne Durrant. Kerry-Anne is our most regular player and joins us almost every day. Good to see them on the podium.
Restricted Pairs Championship Session 2
Place
%
Pair Name
1
62.03%
Warren Nicol - Edith Marshall
2
61.02%
Carolyn Harper - Kerry-Anne Durrant
3
59.46%
Meg McGregor - Hilary Owen
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to Peter and Marcelle.
The Annual Winter Teams Championship was conducted this year in a revised format and attracted a red hot field including many former winners.
The Teams format gave all players a better chance of collecting some of those illusive Red Points.
The leaders after the 1st round were Team Fane with 33 points after a decisive win. They were less fortunate in Round 2 surrendering the lead to Team Lindsay, who continued on their winning way to retain their lead going into Round 4. They had a handy lead of 16 points over the eventual winners.
Director Peter Hume was kept busy all day with a slight computer glitch.
Members and visitors are reminded that our Super Congress will be held over the weekend of July 22/23 with Pairs on Saturday and Teams on Sunday. Entries should be made on the NSWBA website.
Team Members VPs W-D-L Rpts
Barry Foster - Hope Tomlinson - Martin Johnson - Chris Hasemore 59.75 4-0-0 0.64
Lorraine Lindsay - Richard Carter - Wendy Mitchell - Dorothy Berzins 56.4 44-0-0 0.64
Jim Routledge - Karen Ody - Sylvia Foster - Jaan Oitmaa 53.34 2-1-1 0.40
Jorgen Boettiger - Deborah Guthrie - Julie Teague - Joan Walsh 44.55 2-0-2 0.32
Felicity Fane - Heather Brown - Peter Hume - Elaine Hume 40.88 1-1-2 0.24
Christine Hadaway - Chris Hannan - Robin Vaughan - Ed Vaughan 35.17 2-0-2 0.32
Susan McCall - Judy Wulff - David Adams - Pamela Joseph 32.91 1-0-3 0.16
Edith Marshall - Hilary Owen - Marcelle Goslin - Frankie Craven 32.41 1-0-3 0.16
Kerry-Anne Durrant - Carolyn Girdwood - Jennifer Tebb - Irene Irvine 84 4.55 0-0-4
Alma, Kathy, Elaine & Jim (Team Captain) - 2023 Teams of 3 winners
Bridge can be fun.
What a nice break from the really serious stuff this competition was.
The Teams of Three combines three friends with a truly accomplished player. Each friend playing with the ace, in turn. The fun starts when the expert is expected to learn our funny ways of playing and foibles in about two seconds and then promptly forgetting them when they are joined by the second member of the triumvirate. Makes for a very short, sharp learning curve.
The friends also have to try to remember what they have discussed a few minutes ago, Some of us are better at that than others. I welcome you to the others.
Many, many thanks to all our top players:- Jim Routledge, Hope Tomlinson, Christine Hadaway, Sylvia Foster, Martin Johnson, Barry Foster, Chris Hannan, Jaan Oitmaa, Robin Vaughan, Lorraine Lindsay, Karen Ody and Ed Vaughan. I just hoped we didn’t teach you too many bad habits.
A big thank you to Director for all his hard work.
Place
Team
W-D-L
1
Elaine Hume - Kathryn Ivits - Alma Van Der Walt - Jim Routledge
