NORTH HAMPTON BRIDGE CLUB

Located at beautiful Centennial Hall in North Hampton, New Hampshire at 105 Post Road, this club offers two programs to learn and enjoy duplicate bridge; Beginner lessons of 2/1 Game Force followed by a Pupil Duplicate Game (no partner required) on Tuesdays and ACBL sanctioned Open games (Partner required, register or find partner at rsvpbridge.com) on Wednesdays and Thursdays. See Programs below right for details. Contact the Club Manager, Skip Page, at (845)341-7178 or sdeelpage@comcast.net.

Thursday Open Game 4 January 2024

Today we had a very nice 6 table Howell movement directed by Carl. Things went smoothly except for the 3 late plays which we decided to play, and did add extra work for the director. Directors have a difficult time deciding how to run the game when some players are slower than the rest - we do not like to take boards away, but there are always some people who are anxious to see their results and get home.

Roslyn and Brent helped Roslyn make a grand exit with a big win before she heads down to Florida for the winter. Congratulations also to Roger/Connie for a first place B stratification win. I am also happy to see Pat and Louise finish first in the C stratification and for Linda/Nancy to earn points before Linda heads south for the winter.

Thank you everyone for a fun day and a good start to the new year.

Thursday 28 December ACBL game.

On a very Rainy Thursday 28 December 2023 we have a new budding director who answered a lot of "Director Please" calls today! Carl Wikstrom ran a 6 table Howell movement. We all had a lot of fun and enjoyed being inside on this very wet day! You all did very well!

Our winners were Ed Sicard and Robert Abruzese with a 64% game, followed closely by Carl and Joyce. Next were Darrell and Dave, Suzanne and George Lapierre followed by Lisa and Nancy Hornbeck. The last two earning points are Peter and Donna.

Two of the bridgemates were acting up and Carl changed the batteries in them (Bridgemate 4 and later Bridgemate 5). People were asked to leave their score cards (one was left, but no identification of which pairs were playing?) The results we have are posted on the ACBL webpage: we had 3 late plays (please try and keep the hands played to 7 minutes). We had to input the scores for the last 3 rounds of table 5, and the 3 late plays by hand.

Our lesson today was on 4th suit forcing. Next week we expect Skip Page to return. Refreshments (left over Chrismas Cookies! (YUMMY) were provided by Donna and Ann O. Nymous.

We want to welcome Robert Abruzese, a new person, to North Hampton. .

Your assistant director,

Suzanne