The AGM of Easts Bridge Club

will be on Monday 27th November, at 4:00 pm, following the conclusion of the bridge game. 

Do attend and have your say in the running of our Club.

Snaks and drinks afterwards!

State Open Pairs Results

1st           Leigh Foran & Theo Mangos                       63.8%

2nd          Toni Paramore & Ruy de Menezes              60.55%

3rd           Leah Rona & Beverly Luland                       59.35%

Leigh and Theo will represent our club at the Final played at NSWBA, November 18th & 19th

Good Luck!

A qualifying event played at Easts on Mondays 11th, 18th, 25th September.

Best 2 out of 3 scores to qualify one or two pairs (depending on attendance) for the Final played at NSWBA, November 18th & 19th. Red Points at State Level.

Monday 28 August at 1pm

Usually there would be a $5 surcharge, but Easts Bridge Club will cover that, so, normal table money.

Each player will receive a souvenir booklet with analysis of every board. After the results are in, there will be a personalised booklet available on the Australian Bridge web page.

There are over $4000 worth of CD and magazine prizes for the top 25 pairs.

All pairs who score over 52% nation-wide will receive red masterpoints. (Approximately 3200 people will be playing) 

The last month has certainly been a busy one for our club. We have had the State
Mixed Pairs Qualifying and The Club Championship Sessions and Nick ran a well-attended workshop on declarer play in suit contracts. I only hope I can ruff as well next time I play as I did at the workshop!
Most of those who played in the final session of the Club Championship stayed on for pizza and drinks. These informal functions are proving popular and are certainly a good way of getting to know your fellow players.
The numbers at the sessions are slowly increasing with a few new members and also many of the participants in the last Beginner’s Course now playing at the Tuesday Supervised Session.

President Terry-Anne Maunsell presented her report at the AGM:

"It is wonderful to be able to hold an AGM in a relatively restriction free atmosphere.

"Last AGM we had resumed Monday and Tuesday sessions albeit with small numbers and were still negotiating with Easts Club re the resumption of Wednesday sessions. Thankfully we were able to resume Wednesday sessions fairly soon after. Over the year the number of tables at each session has slowly been increasing and it has been wonderful to see so many familiar faces returning.

"Numbers are not yet back to pre Covid levels for a number of reasons including many of our members taking the opportunity to again undertake overseas travel. Our experiment of Tuesday night sessions was not very successful but may be revisited in the coming year.

"Our Beginner's classes have been popular with the latest commencing a week ago with 20+ participants. Some are people who had their previous course curtailed by Covid but most are those who have heard by word of mouth from members or previous students.

"We now have 114 members and our financial situation is recovering after the losses incurred during lockdowns etc. We have been able to resume offering free game tickets to monthly winners and to the top pair (N/S or E/W) when there are 10 or more tables.

"A big occasion during the year was the 100th birthday of Maurice Steinfeld. We were honoured to be able to celebrate this big day with Maurice and his family. Many members attended to wish him all the best and enjoy the pizza and drinks we funded with him. There was also a delicious cake supplied by Easts Club who also arranged a photographer to record the occasion. Many thanks to Nicoleta who together with the family arranged a slide show of photographs of Maurice's life.

Learn to play BRIDGE

6 easy lessons!

Tuesday 7 March 2023 at 1 pm

Enquiries:    Nicoleta 0414 876 175

It has been wonderful to see the increasing number of people returning to the bridge table over the last few weeks. We also have an enthusiastic group who are now halfway through their  Beginners Course and I hope to see many of them joining the regular sessions before too long.

We will be having a celebration of our 25th Birthday on Wednesday November 30th at 4pm at the conclusion of the bridge session. We hope you can come along and join your fellow players in commemorating this milestone. I think after the difficulties we all have endured over the last couple of years , we certainly  deserve some festivity. If you have any photos of  the club ( either sessions or events) , we would love you to bring them along to a session before this date so we can scan and show a presentation at the party.

 Also  mark your diaries  for December 14th as Maurice Steinfeld who is known to most of us will be celebrating his 100th birthday on that day and we will be  having  another party on that day.

We are reintroducing free game tickets for the monthly winners, as well as the top scorers in sessions of 10+ tables. (North-South OR East-West).

At the last meeting of your committee, the decision was made to increase the annual membership  for the first time in a number of years. The new fee will be $50 and forms will be available at sessions from November 7th.

Regards

Terry

While we now have three sessions of Bridge at Easts per week , the number of tables is smaller than at pre COVID times. The cold weather and many cases of colds and flu have probably contributed to this as well as many people finally taking the opportunity to travel again. I hope to see the numbers gradually increasing over the next few weeks. I ask you to encourage any people you might know that have not returned as yet to do so.

As you can see in the newsletter the club has a number of competition events over the next couple of months and I hope that there will be good levels of participation. In the meantime. keep well and warm and remember " Bridge is a test of your skill against your opponents' luck"

Terry Maunsel