Bridge Club News

After six grueling weeks and a good deal of chopping and changing amongst the leaders, the winners have finally emerged. As promised, a bottle of (fairly) decent red wine (2016 Shottesbrooke Single Vineyard Shiraz) goes to each of the following:

Blue Division (Open):   Leslie Treasure and Carolyn Dowling
Red Division (U120):    Sue Evershed and John Simmonds
Green Division (U20):   Neil Mitchell and John O’Riordan

Details of the results are to be found here.

This brings to an end the series of Cumulative events we have been holding every Tuesday since June. We shall start a new series later in January but, in the meantime, there will be stand-alone events for Open and Under 100 fields.  

By way of recap, here are the winners of all the events this year:

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Melbourne Cup 2020 at Peninsula Bridge club was marked by teamwork and fun. Members enjoyed a memorable day with good bridge, good company and a great race, peppered with music, games, and fascinating headwear. Thanks to everyone who helped make this day such fun.

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One of the Peninsula Bridge Club’s major events, The Club Teams Championship, is to be conducted on three Thursdays during November, the 12th, 19th and 26th, starting at 1pm on each day.

Members only.  Red points.

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The long awaited Online Teams Congress will be held by the New South Wales Bridge Association this Sunday 25th October 2020! Even more exciting, they are going to host this Teams event on a brand new online platform REALBRIDGE – an online platform on which you can see (yes see!) and talk to your partner, teammates and opponents at the bridge table. This is really the next best thing you can have to a face to face congress.

The Congress will start at 10.00am on Sunday 25th October, 2020 on RealBridge:

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The Club ran a gold point teams event in the clubhouse over three Thursday sessions in October. Twelve teams competed, each playing six matches of twelve boards.

Congratulations to the winners of the event: Anne Small, Lynn Smith, Jan McLennan and Linda Abbenbroek.

Members of teams received gold masterpoints for each winning match. Ronnie Ng directed.

The event was run using a Swiss draw after the opening round was determined based upon the order of teams’ entry (quasi random).

We are now looking at SALT4.   Given the proximity of the year end and in the interests of exposing club members to different types of competitions I am proposing the following:

Start date 26 October    End date 14 December.

Play times Monday evening.    Substitutes allowed.

Matches 2 10 board matches (as with SALT3).    Scoring IMPS/VPs (same as SALT3).   Masterpoints Green.

Structure one division.  Swiss format (means after 1st round each team plays the nearest ranked team that it hasn’t already played).  The result is you tend to play teams of your own standard.

Cost TBD (estimated one off payment of $30-$35 per player).  Please let both Viv Eldridge and myself know if you wish to enter.

As always we run a matchmaking service if you don’t have a full team

This event has now finished and congratulations to the winners and thankyou to all participants.

Serpent Division - the Eldridge Team (Viv Eldridge, Alan Davies, Robin Devries, Peter Bendelstein)

Staircase Division - the Eason Team (Susan Eason, Lynne Talmont, Simon Hunter, Bronwyn Neal)

SALT4 coming shortly.

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Reinforce your core play techniques as declarer and defender by joining a Zoom based series of small group lessons on Wednesday evenings (6.30-7.30pm) presented by David Farmer. Newer players who have completed a beginners course may find this particularly useful.

We will usie Joan Butts' Help with Play course material to cover 10 key ideas for declarer and follow this with 10 similar key ideas for defenders. As a small group we will use Zoom for discussion and then to jointly play hands that illustrate the key points. There will be time for questions and notes emailed to students.

The topics covered (two per week) will include:

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