Bridge Club News
What are Bridge Base Dollars?
Bridge Base Dollars (BB$) are like pre-paid entry fees for use on BBO (BridgeBase.com).
They are added to your account primarily when you purchase BB$. They are deducted from your account when you purchase entry to tournaments, as well as when you rent a robot, and so on.
Note - BB$ are not cash. They are not refundable, nor can they be withdrawn as cash. BB$ purchased on the site expire three years after your username becomes inactive (no logins to BBO).
Please welcome new member Pat O’Connor.
We currently have 610 members. 481 have PBC as their home club and the rest are alternates. Cassandra Mitchell and Robin Ho have done a lot of work to get people to renew and contacting and checking with non-renewing people. They have just sent to the ABF a list of 113 former members who have not renewed, to update their records. Only 24 of these were members last year.
Having just completed my first game in StepBridge I'm very impressed with how it compares to BBO.
Regular masterpoint tournaments are run 3-4 times a day - 1pm, 4pm, 8pm and sometimes 10am. A couple of times a month there are red masterpoint events. Each tournament has 3 board rounds, 8 rounds and 24 hands. All up it takes just under 2 1/2 hours.
On Sunday 8 March, Peninsula Bridge Club hosted the Margaret Smale North Metro Interclub Teams Challenge.
The event is named in honour of Margaret Smale, who played at bridge clubs across northern Sydney from the early 1990s. Margaret served on the Peninsula Bridge Club committee and as a director for many years. She was also one of the driving forces behind PBC acquiring a dedicated facility – the spacious, airy room which PBC bridge players are lucky enough to enjoy every day. An excellent bridge player herself, Margaret was always a very encouraging mentor to new and upcoming players.
Sunday’s event drew teams from Trumps, Manly Leagues Bridge Club, Balgowlah/Dee Why RSL Bridge Club, North Shore/East Lindfield Bridge Club and Peninsula Bridge Club. The day belonged to North Shore/East Lindfield Bridge Club who were the overall winners.
Alan Davies has provided this interesting board from the Gold Coast Congress - the Ivy Dahler swiss pairs - that he and Vivien played and which was the top board.
They were sitting NS. The bidding went:
E 1D, S 2C, W pass, N pass (At the post mortem N acknowledged that they should have bid spades),
E X, S pass (sensing a trap), W pass (a trap!), N XX (we're in trouble, take it out)
E pass, S pass (nowhere to go!), W pass. Lead 9D.
The Club Pairs championships were held in mid-February in 3 sections and over 3 sessions with the last 2 held on Sunday Feb 16th for a grand finale.
Some info on successes in the Gold Coast Congress:
Nerida Gillies, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst winning the Restricted Teams
The eligibility criteria for this pairs event on Sat 21st March have been changed to be:
Entrants must be over 70 years of age or have 20+ years membership.
- NSW Under 100 Masterpoints Pairs Championships 2019
- Bushfire Victims Appeal Fundraiser
- Peninsula Pairs Championships 2020
- Peninsula vs Peninsula rematch - POSTPONED
- Canberra triumph
- Charity Day May 2021
- Dementia awareness public presentation
- Sandy and Nerida in the NSWBA UHMP Championship
- Ho Ho Ho Christmas 2019
- Thank you from Chris
