Wednesday 5 March 2025 - Shrove Wednesday

We had a robust 5 and a half table Howell movement where each team played 21 boards and 7 other partnerships!  It was a dreary overcast day, but we could tell Spring is coming!  You all did very well today!  We welcome Marie-Laure, Mark Forsythe and Bob Eberhardt to our Wednesday game. We also had Jan, Virginia,and Colleen come visit us and play!  I hope you had a good time.

Even though all of you did well, we do have a team that came in first and that would be by Dave Pepple and Virginia with a 59.52%, who edged out Hildy and Paul with a 59.38%, then Pat and Marie-Laure with a 55.73% followed by Dave and Zelda!  This was a horse race up until the end!

Thank you for coming and See you next week!  Board  9 was hard to bid if East preempted with 2 spades NS never found its Slam!

Suzanne

Tuesday 4 March 2025

We discussed forcing 1NT response for 2/1 in advanced beginners and responses to 1NT open with flat hands in beginners class.  Next week we will go further with forcing 1NT responses in advanced beginners and transfers and Stayman in beginners.

 We had 6.5 tables in our pupil game and welcomed back 2 players after several years(Emily and Christine) and three brand new players! (Sally, Linda, and Pauline)  Welcome! It was a great time and I am excited to have new players coming to bridge lessons!  We look forward to seeing them next week!

Gerri and Kathy won the day with a very nice 66.9%!  The Kingsburys were second with 63.8% and the Cullys were 3rd with 56.88% .  I hope everyone had fun! I know I sure did.  See you Saturday if you are coming to the boot camp or next week if you aren't.  ----Carl