Newsletter 9 December 2022

In this week’s newsletter...

  • President's Message
  • Supervised Sessions
  • Upcoming Events 
  • Youth Pizza Day - 11 December with Will Jenner-O'Shea
  • Wednesday night Pizza - phone Jon if you want pizza
  • Christmas Party - 21 December 
  • Summer Festival of Bridge Program for January 2023
  • Results 
  • Bidding Challenge with Ian Morison
  • Congratulations Adam Robinson!  
  • Lighter Moments 

 

 

President's Message

 

Many of you have been advising you wish to renew your memberships with the club next year. We really appreciate your support and can guarantee new and exciting activities are in store. To help our hard-working managers to identify everyone accurately, could you please add your ABF number in the identification field when making electronic transfers, as well as your name. It saves time and thus money, so we can continue to keep our charges lower in this inflationary environment.

If you wish to find out information on fellow members you just need to go to Pianola where any public information which has been authorised by yourselves, can be accessed. Some members have restricted information so you may need to approach them yourself rather than using Pianola.

As Christmas approaches, we have teams of volunteers working behind the scenes preparing for the final supervised session on the evening of Wednesday 14th when pizzas will be shared, and the day session on Wednesday 21st when we are having our Christmas party. Mark the dates and sessions in your diaries and come and join the fun.

Thank you to all the people who are making suggestions in the suggestion box. I hope you are noticing that we are trying to implement your ideas. We even had a suggestion that we get a suggestion box placed in there!

After completing your day’s play it would be really helpful if your push your chairs into place and clean and tidy the tables, putting any rubbish into the bins and placing cups and glasses into the dishwasher.

If your partner has won the contract following the bidding, please wish them good luck after revealing dummy’s hand.

 Tim Mather

 

Upcoming Sessions

Our weekly sessions are the same as last week - see our homepage. The Butler is back running on Thursday mornings assuming we have a viable number of tables.

Links to online sessions are on our RealBridge page.

 

December Supervised Sessions Wednesday nights and Friday mornings at the Club

  Our last class of supervised duplicates for 2022 is on Wednesday night starting at 7.00pm and Friday morning starting at 9.30am.:

  • 14/16 Dec: Higher Level Opening Bids - Summary

The supervised program for the year will restart in the first week in February. In January we will run supervised duplicates as follows: Wednesday (commences 7pm); Friday (commences 9.30am). An experienced player will be available to provide advice. There will be no supervised lesson. 

If you are interested, please come along. You don’t need a partner. There is no need to book. If you would like a copy of the notes, please contact Morag Lokan - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 The teaching team wishes everyone a safe and happy Christmas break! The Club will be open every day except Christmas Day so supervised sessions will occur (no lesson) on 28 and 30 December.  

 

Master the Basics

Master the Basics virtual lessons are on Thursdays at 9.00am. The topic on 15 December is Play Problems  - Declarer Play Challenges. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want to be added to the Zoom class. It's $6 for members and $8 for non-members. The lessons run for 30 minutes.  

As this is the last session for 2022 Barb wishes everyone a safe and happy Christmas break! The Club will be open every day except Christmas Day so supervised sessions will occur on 28 and 30 December.  

 

Upcoming Events 

  

Learn to play bridge for Under 30's - 11 December

On Sunday 11 December, the Canberra Bridge Club will be hosting a "Learn to Play Bridge for Under 30's" with Will Jenner-O'Shea. The day is planned to be lots of fun and there will be pizzas provided for lunch. If any members have children/grand-children/nieces/nephews (or anyone under 30) who wish to learn to play bridge, please let them know. We will need to know how many hungry mouths to feed so please advise Mary Tough by cob today Friday 9 December This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you wish to join us.

Time:          10:00am - 3:00pm

Where:        Canberra Bridge Club, 5-7 Duff Place, Deakin ACT 2600

~~ Youth Bridge is Bridge's Future ~~

 As this is an investment in our future, there is no charge for this event.

 

Wednesday Xmas Pizza Night - 14 December

As Christmas approaches, we have teams of volunteers working behind the scenes preparing for the final supervised session on the evening of Wednesday 14th when pizzas will be shared, and the day session on Wednesday 21st when we are having our Christmas party. Mark the dates and sessions in your diaries and come and join the fun.

Please call Jon on 0414 272 778 if you want pizza on Wednesday night at $5 per half a pizza.  

 

Club Christmas Party - Wednesday 21 December -  straight after Bridge

You're invited to a buffet style Christmas lunch with drinks - please advise any dietary requirements.  

Price $30 for lunch and sparkling, wine, beer or non-alcoholic beverages.

Non-members welcome!

Email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - cut off noon on Monday 19 December.  

 

 

Canberra Summer Festival of Bridge 10-22 January 2023

The Summer Festival of Bridge is on at the Rex Hotel Northbourne Ave. This is the first F2F event since 2020.

The Festival offers events for players of all levels. There are events for players with fewer than 100 masterpoints, to under 300, 500, 750, 1000 and  many open events.

There are single day and multi day events with all events providing Gold Masterpoints.

A full program is on on the notice board at the Canberra Bridge Club, and also available on MYABF or at https://www.myabf.com.au/media/Congress-downloads/2022/10/31/sfob2023.1pdf

 

Results 

 

ABF Australian Mixed Teams Trials 2 - 8 December

In the Australian Mixed Teams Trials the Hoffman Team (including Jodi Tutty, Stephen Fischer and captain Julia Hoffman) came second.  Other good results -  Christy Geromboux, Sebastian Yuen and David Hoffman were knocked out in the semi-finals.  

 

AWT Club Knockout Final 

Congratulations to our own Anita DeLorenzo, Elizabeth Yoo, Liz Shonk, Jo Thomas and Helen Little who took out the under 750 points Teams in the AWT Club Knockout Final on RealBridge!    

 

Up Over v Down Under RealBridge Challenge 

RealBridge hosted a special festive event on 6 December allowing club players from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to compete against players of a similar standard from the UK and Ireland (“Down Under versus Up Over”). 

Almost 20 players from Canberra Bridge Club participated in the Down Under / Up Over Realbridge competition earlier this week. Feedback was very positive and members particularly enjoyed being able to meet and play with people from different countries. In all, over 1,100 players from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa participated in open, restricted and novice segments.

 

Looking for a Christmas Gift that keeps on Giving?

If you know someone that is interested in learning to play bridge, consider giving them a gift certificate for a set of beginner classes. It costs $69. For this they receive 6 x 2 hour lessons with notes and hand records and 3 free supervised lessons. The next beginners classes start in February.

 

Bidding notes with Ian Morison

If you want to read Ian Morison's article on bidding a challenging minor hand please open here.  

 

Inclusion Award

Congratulations to one of our regular Tuesday afternoon players, Adam Robinson, for receiving recognition at the ACT Chief Minister’s Inclusion awards on Wednesday night. Adam, a full-time disability carer, won the award for excellence in Support work. For many years Adam has supported Jackson, a young man with intellectual disability, to lead a life of interest, social inclusion, respect and dignity. Adam is also involved with the Woden Youth Centre.

 

Lighter Moments 

 

What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck? A Christmas Quacker!

What did the bald man say when he got a comb for Christmas? ‘I’ll never part with it!’

What do Santa’s little helpers learn at school? The elf-abet!

Why does Santa have three gardens? So he can ‘ho-ho-ho!’

What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations? Tinsillitis

 

Be kind to each other

 

Tamara (for Kerry and Tamara)