April News
Hello Fellow Egg Lovers!
Welcome to April with Jewish Passover and Easter celebrations together with
commemorating Anzac Day. Greetings to all those celebrating the festivals and the
holidays.
* Our regular Bridge sessions will continue as usual during the holiday period.
Welcome to our Beginner’s Class Graduates!
We celebrated the graduation of our latest beginner’s class. I had the pleasure to meet them
at our Pizza Party last month. A lovely (large) group of keen players whom we welcome
warmly to our club.
State Mixed Pairs Final
The top three pairs in the Monday qualifying rounds held last month are heading to the State
final next month, representing and sponsored by our club.
We congratulate Kerry Hill & Roman Naiman, Margit Short & Lester Tsang and Agi Herman
& Allen Rosenberg. We wish them all the very best in the Final!
Upcoming Events – Put these dates in your diary!
Our Club Championship (with Red Points) will be played on Wednesdays 7, 14 & 21 May,
with a fully-catered Party to celebrate after play on 21 May at 4pm. If you have not got a
regular partner, why not find one, either on our WhatsApp Matchmaking Group or through
our talented Matchmaker, Theo.
Also, if you don’t normally play on Wednesdays, why not think about playing in the Club
Championship and all members are most welcome at the Party, regardless of whether you
are a Wednesday player (subject to RSVP in time).
Australia Wide Novice Pairs will be played on Tuesday 27 May at 12.45pm. All players
with under 100 masterpoints are eligible to play. More details in next month’s Bulletin.
March Winners
Congratulations to the monthly winners below!
Player of the Month (average of best 5 scores)
1 Pat WALKER 63%
2 Roman NAIMAN 63%
3 Allen ROSENBERG 62%
Monday Mixed Pairs (best 2 of 3)
1 Kerry Hill & Roman Naiman 68.0%
2 Margit Short & Lester Tsang 62.3%
3 Agi Herman & Allen Rosenberg 62.1%
(These three pairs to represent Easts at the State final in May)
Tuesday
1 David & Riva Taitz 65.2%
Wednesday
1 Agi Stanley & Paul Larby 60.87%
Most improved Rating
1 Trevor Stafford +2.06
2 Tamara Pollak +1.38
3 Terry Simmons +1.35
Bridgemate Result Display
In February, we introduced a couple of changes on a trial basis to make play and movement
between rounds quicker. Players quickly adjusted to the new procedure for the bidding
boxes to remain on the starting table for the whole session.
Over the last two months we gathered player feedback regarding the change to Bridgemates
showing only the percentages for each side, rather than the results of other players. This
culminated in an anonymous survey sent to all players during February and March.
The result after considering all feedback including the survey, was that there was no majority
in favour of changing back to showing full results.
Taking into account your feedback, the Committee has decided that the Bridgemate result
display will not change. Please see below, for helpful information regarding results detail on
our Results web page.
Using our Website
Here is a link to our web page:
https://www.easts.bridge-club.org/
If you just want to go straight to results, here’s that link:
https://www.easts.bridge-club.org/bridge/au2065/all-results-index
** AN INTERESTING TIP **
On the Results webpage, you can replay any of the hands for each session and you
are guided how to play and make the optimum contract, card by card:
You can go into each hand to see which contracts were makeable, see the results for other
tables and even replay a hand, with guidance on making the optimum contract. Just click on
the Replay and Analyze link at the bottom of the details for the particular board.
FROM THE CHIEF DIRECTOR, NICK HUGHES
DO YOU KNOW THESE OFFICIAL BRIDGE RULES?
Keep the bidding cards (bids) out until the first card is led
As was the case with written bids, the bids should remain on the table so all players,
including the one leading, can see the bidding until the first card is led when they should
be put back in the respective bidding boxes.
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