Bridge Club News
Peninsula participated in Bridge for Brains today and we all had a great day with lots of delicious food and a good bridge game. We offered the 3 rookie tables the choice to join the main game but they preferred to stay where they were so they sat on the side and played 3 rounds of 7 boards.
Thanks very much to Sue Riley and Gayle King for organising and co-ordinating the day and thanks to all those who contributed to the raffles, bought lots of tickets and brought food for the fantastic afternoon tea.
Check your results at http://www.nationwidepairs.com.au/bridge_for_brains.html
Come and take advantage of the great learning opportunities when Liam Milne and Susan Humphries visit the club on Tuesday 22 May.
Liam is a professional bridge player and teacher who placed 9th in the 2014 World Open Pairs. Since then he has represented Australia internationally in the Bermuda Bowl, and his recent national successes include the 2017 Gold Coast Teams and GNOT. Susan Humphries is a many-time New Zealand international representative who was part of her country's historic qualification to the round of 16 at the last World Bridge Games. She recently won the trials to determine the NSW Women's Team for 2018.
Liam and Susan will be:
Hans van Weeren won the 2018 Autumn Individual with a late charge - a mammoth score of 68.41% yesterday, the final Monday. This is all the more impressive as he only played three of the possible four weeks due to his expected partner having to pull out for one of the weeks - so he was not able to drop a poor score.
This is a repeat performance for Hans who also won the 2017 Autumn Individual - and continues his strong results across a range of events.
Hans won ahead of Vivien Eldridge and Anne Small. You can download the full results.
Little things can make a huge difference to our enjoyment of the game and to the amount of work required to make the club hum. We highlight some of these little things below. Thank others when you see them done - and send your suggested "little things" to
- Putting your cup in the dishwasher or washing it up - and offering to do this for someone unable to do so
- Leaving the table ready for the next session
- Putting the section and table number on the table money slip
- Being attentive when the director makes announcements
Thirty three teams, including twelve from Peninsula, played in the 2018 Swiss Teams Congress held on Sunday 22 April.
Thanks to Heidi Colenbrander and others we have an engaging photo record of the day (including all the winners) for all to enjoy. You can also check the full congress results.
The congress went well in spite of an unexpected triangle. The director, Ronnie Ng, did a fantastic job. The 33 teams included 6 ‘restricted’ teams. Gayle King and her helpers provided wonderful food all day which was much appreciated.
The photo by Heidi Colenbrander captures the latest three members to become ABF Accredited Teachers.
Jennifer Ardill, Susan Oxfeldt Jensen and Kelly Barber have all reached the accreditation requirements with the teachers' 2/1 workshop held recently at Peninsula and been awarded their certificates.
This makes eight in total of our members to be so awarded, with five of them currently involved in our Bridge Education program. See Jennifer's ABF Teacher profile.
An unofficial photographer (Cath Whiddon) captured Betty Bevins being congratulated for a significant birthday on Tuesday 18 April.
The photo shows Betty with her partner Amanda Hickey and session director Vickie Busteed.
Betty, who joined a beginners class at the club in 2011, commented that "bridge has become the joy of my life".
Fourteen teams came together on Thursday morning 12 April to battle it out among friends in the Members Teams Day. It is one of the friendly competitive events of the club's year. Check out the photos from the event.
The winning team after the five rounds comprised Ray Bragge, Anne Small, Margaret and Michael Draper. The best remaining novice team comprised Gayle King, Maggie Gibbs, Sarah Young and Jen Ardill.
Thanks to the many players who contributed to the morning tea, to Sue Riley for arranging the fourteenth team (including two rookies Susan Eason and Simon Hunter) and to John Rogers for dealing the boards
