Wednesday, 21 August 2024 - A lovely August Day.  We had only 4 and a half tables, which a few of us thought might be just 2 tables at 7 minutes of Noon..  Please try to get to the Hall about 8 minutes before the game not 4 minutes.  Unfortunately the internet at Centennial hall was down for the day, so sorry about the late posting.  Our winners were Susanne and Paul followed closely by Bobbie and Sid(who jostled Pat and Sherry out by playing hand 6 after everyone else left) , then Pat and  Sherry.   Shipwreck and Jack, were contending for the 9th place (do they think 9th is better than 1st?) So many times they came in first.  The Blue Moon must have fouled up their communication!  We had some interesting hands and even a Unbid Grand Slam,(Board 7)  how we could have bid that is a mystery, but our lessons and teacher on Tuesday, Carl W, might be able to shed some light on.  He has some advanced beginner lessons (really intermediate) and some fabulous Saturday bridge camps!

We had a grand time and thank you for not switching hands or putting the cards in a pile on any of the plays!  

Hand 6 was played late and the scores were included in the final result, but this JPEG, apparently does not have the 4th result, since it was played after most of you went home and I did not realize the bid did not make one of the software corner.   The top two couples were less than 1/4 point apart, so the game was really close!  

thank you all for coming!  You are all Winners!

see you next Wednesday!

Suzanne 

 Tuesday August 20, 2024

We had another lesson on leads against NT in the Advanced Beginners Lesson and a lesson on bidding and responding to one of a minor in the Beginners Lesson.  Next week we will continue have a lesson on leads against a suit contract in the advanced beginners lesson and a lesson on bidding and responding to one of a major.  There will be no advanced lesson on September 3 as I will be out of town at a regional tournament.  Suzanne will conduct the beginners lesson and pupil game on September 3. 

We had 5,5 tables and played 9 rounds of 2 in our pupil game.  The Cullys were the winners with 64.07% and Colette S and David R came in second with 56.07% while Wynne G and Betty L tied Martha R and Sue Hills  for third place at 51.57%.

NOTE: For some reason, known only to the computer gremlins, the last two boards form round nine didn't originally get loaded into my computer from the bridgemate program even after I told it to do so TWICE before I posted the results.  Thanks to Melissa Vokey for pointing out the problem so that I could correct it.

I had a great time as usual and hope you did too!  See you next week!

--Carl