Thursday Open Game 8 May 2025
Welcome to 2 new players today - Barbara Garnis and Cindy Eaton! We were a little worried, but I have since learned that Gordon is fine. We played a 9-1/2 table Mitchell movement. Congratulations to Herb/Ron for the first place overall awards today - I guess Ron is recovering! Nick/Darrell and Connie/Roger took first place in the B strat and Liz/Andi and Linda/Nancy were first place in the C strat. the points should be adjusted to award 25% gold mps.
Wednesday 7 May 2025 - Sunny after what seems like a month of rain! I think the drought is gone!
Today we had a 6 Table Howell movement where everyone played 2 hands with 8 other couples. The top 6 couples were so tight - only a 4 percentage point different. Unfortunately, there is always a winner even though you all played very well. I hope you had a great time! The winners today were by Mary Lynn and Claire (still taking advanced beginning lessons (they must work!), Jan/Carolyn with a 57% (rounded up -only one of you were taking lessons!), followed by Hildy and Paul with a 57% (rounded up). Next comes the team of Penny/Rick Marion(56% rounded up) and Cynthia and Marion (56% rounded up) , followed by Jack and bill with 53%!
You all did very well!
Summer is coming and I understand that some of you are going on vacation! Have a great time and remember we are sitting here missing you! Please come back.
Suzanne
Tuesday 6 May 2025
We had 3 tables in the Adv Beginners lesson and 8 tables +1 in the beginners lesson. WOW!!
We started the series on defense in Advanced Beginners and discussed Reverses in the beginners lesson. Next week we will cover more on defense in Adv Beginners and attack competitive bidding in Beginners.
We had 8 full tables in the pupil game as one person did not stay for the game. That is a new record for our pupil game! The big winners today were Mary Lynn and Claire who bid and made 3 of the possible 7 slams today for a 66,27%. Crazy Hands!! Second place went to Jan and Dianne with 60.71%.
I had a great time, even though I hardly got a chance to sit down with 8 tables worth of questions during the bidding of these crazy hands! I look forward to seeing all of you next time! I know a couple of you are away next week, so I will see you when you get back. Have a great week! ---Carl
Thursday 1 May 2025
May Day! May Day! Carl Wikstrom directed this game!
We had a lesson on Jacoby 2NT and splinters and when to use them today at 11:00. We had 10.5 tables in the sanctioned game that started a few minutes late.
We had two new members Kenneth Gminski and Jude McLean who finished second EW with 60.84%, Very nice for C strat players. Our C strat players did quite well today as Nancy Barron and MaryEllen Dunbar finished first NS with 62.05%. Yours truly was carried into first EW by Joyce Sweeny with 65.59%. Second Place NS went to Linda McCabe and Pat Betts with an even 60.00%. Congrats to all and thank you for playing with us in North Hampton! Skip should be back next week. See you then!
----Carl
Had an error on board 22 that has been corrected. --Carl
