In an impressive comeback from a poor start the Davies team managed to win the three week 2019 State Open Teams qualifier in the very last match. Apologies to the Duggin team...
Ten teams battled it out, over three Thursdays in May. Director Brian Soutter gave us a nine match round robin, with three matches per week. Unlike a Swiss movement this completely fair movement makes it hard to know who the interim leaders are, and a number of teams made it harder still with volatile performances.
Thirty one pairs entered the 2019 Lawrence Shield event on Saturday 1 June. This event commemorates the huge contribution Verl and John Lawrence have made to the club over many decades.
Verl almost won the event, playing with Lloyd Cleaver, but came second to Vivien Eldridge and Patrick Starck. Congratulations to Vivien and Patrick.
The top five pairs and their % results were as follows:
Members are asked to ensure their emergency contact details have been provided and are up-to-date.
While rarely used these details may be very important should some health or other need unexpectedly arise.
You can update your own emergency contact details by logging into Pianola and then clicking on the My Account option visible when you click on the downwards arrow to the right of your name (showing in the top right of the screen).
You will find your Emergency Contact details showing as per the image for this article. Note you can also update your email address, phone number and postal address on this same page. When you have completed your updates you need to scroll down and click on the Save button!
Websites not your thing? Talk to Greg Hay, our hardworking Membership Secretary, Susan Coleman, our hardworking Club Secretary, or me (David Farmer) if you need help. And yes I have now updated my emergency contact details (I have two contacts there now)...
On the weekend of 4-5 May, we competed in the Autumn Nationals Bridge Congress in Adelaide.
Trumps members Neil Williams and Rob Holgate invited us to join them to enter the Under Life Masters Teams.
To qualify for this category, three team members were required to be under Life Master rank (300MP) while one team member could be a Life Master, but below Bronze Life Master rank.
Sometimes the director might be busy with another call, and at other times it may take them anything up to 10 seconds to arrive. What do you do while you’re waiting?
This article is not going to answer that – instead it will provide some advice on what NOT to do in various situations:
You’ve revoked (or so the opponents claim – as if!)
For members who do not regularly read the ABF Newsletter, now is a great opportunity to see what you miss.
The June issue has just been released - you can check it out electronically or you can wait till printed copies reach the club in a week or two. A new editor, Brad Coles, has taken over this year - check out the changes he has made.
Here are the topics covered in this issue:
The club has six events a year where it serves alcohol, e.g. Christmas, Melbourne Cup, Club Congresses. Our liquor license requires that the person serving must have a Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate (RSA).
As part of our volunteer culture we would love some of our members to become RSA certified and help out at these events. The club will organise and pay for the training. You can do it face to face (about 6 ½ hours) or if you prefer, at home at your computer. This will take 5 to 6 hours and is self paced.
These events are important to the club and they have a long history. However, the club must comply with NSW legislation and if we don’t have sufficient RSA volunteers, this sadly may mean that no alcohol can be served or ticket prices may need to be increased to pay for certified servers.
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April saw the Autumn Individual event fought over four Mondays, with the best three scores counting.
Players had to play with different partners each week for the scores to count.
Congratulations to Verl Lawrence who prevailed with excellent scores, ahead of Sue Riley and Hans van Weeren. Verl cleverly planned ahead and played with her closest rival, Sue Riley, in the last week.
