Tuesday June 17 2025
We had a lesson on defense in Adv beginners and a lesson on Blackwood in beginners.
There will be NO ADVANCED BEGINNER LESSON next week and Suzanne will be teaching the beginner lesson which will be a review of pre-empts and responding to pre-empts.
We had 6 full tables in the Pupil game. The winners were Guil S and Bob E with 58.89%! Second place went to John Safford and Bill Swett with 57.78%.
NO ADVANCED BEGINNER LESSON NEXT WEEK, but there will be a beginner lesson by Suzanne Sayer. I will be back as usual on July 1. See you then.
Thursday Open Game 12 June 2025
Wow - 14 tables here today! Thak you all so much for coming. I was really happy how the game went. However, we need to work to reduce the noise. Also, players must get here earlier. The Monday game sends people away if they are not here within 15 minutes of start time. It creates a lot of trouble for me and confusion for everyone f I need to keep changing the game to accommodate late comers.
Congratulations to Rita/George and Brent/Darrell for the first place finishes! Both of these teams were in the C strat. In fact take a look at the score below - there were more finishers in the C strat than in the B strat which was 500 - 3000 mps. All those with a Q after their names below are eligible to compete to represent our district and get a free trip to the spring 2026 regional.
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Wednesday Open Game 11 June 2025
I was really happy to see 10 full tables today. Carl will direct next week's game starting at 11:30. The group which was originally playing her on Wednesday has decided to play on Mondays so Wednesday will only be an open game.
Congratulations to Carl/Cliff for the first place overall finish. Bob/David were first place EW. Nancy/Jim were first place in C followed by Judy/Carolyn.
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Tuesday June 10 2025
In advanced beginners we discussed signaling to your partner with your card play and in beginners we talked about Splinter bids as an alternative to Jacoby 2NT when you have opening points, 4 of your partner's opening major and a singleton or void. Next week, we will talk about Blackwood and Roman Key card 1430 in Beginners and developing tricks on defense in advanced beginners.
We had six tables in our pupil game today. Jan pulled the director up to first place with 61.38% and Mary Lynn and Claire came in a close second with 61.00%! We only played 16 boards today, because we could only get in 8 rounds by 3:00, but it was still a fun time!
See you next week! ---Carl
Thursday Open Game 5 June 2025
We had a very smooth 8-1/2 table Mitchell movement today for our NAP game. Congrats to Nick/Bob and Nancy/Skip for first place finishes. The new partnership of George/James came in second place. The oldest partnership of Leslie/Bob (that is a joke) got a good finish, as did the Carole/Carole team, the Labonte team, Ed/Jim and Joyce/Carl.
The previous fun game which was running as a separate section on Wednesdays has moved to Monday so there is now plenty of room for you to come play on Wednesdays also.
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Wednesday Open/Fun Game 4 June 2025
Next week's FUN game will be held Monday at noon which is what I originally suggested. This will be directed by Suzanne. The Wednesday game will only be a single session open game.
The Fun Game had a 5-/2 Table Howell movement. The Open game had a 6-1/2 table Howell movement.
Following are the results for the FUN game:
Following are the results of the Open NAP Game:
Tuesday June 3 2025
We had a lesson on signaling in Adv Beginners and a lesson on Jacoby 2NT in Beginners. Next week we will continue discussing signaling in Adv Beginners and we will discuss splinters in Beginners.
We had 6 full tables in our pupil game.Betty and Wynne were back in the winners circle with 65.56% and Mary Lynn carried the director to a second place finish with 62.22%. Thank you all for putting the tables away after the game for the recital tonight.
The weather is warming up and we will need those air conditioners the rest of the week. See everyone next week! --- Carl
