2023 Bridge Awards

GNOT qualifying (gold points): Theo Mangos, Leigh Foran, Pat Walker and Allen Rosenberg

2023 Club Championship:        Leigh Foran & Theo Mangos

Mixed Pairs qualifying:              Pat Walker & Theo Mangos

Australia Wide Novice Pairs    21st Bliss Ryan & Judy Bahar Easts 65.6%   

                                                   23rd Kerrie Stokes & Sandy Watson Easts 65.4%

Australia Wide Open Pairs      5th Geoffrey & Kerry Hill Easts 68.4%

Australia Wide Restricted Pairs 9 Judith Rychter & Dawne Cox Easts 66.4%

Best Performing Player with 5 or less Masterpoints : Nick Matin

Best Performing Player with 5-50 Masterpoints: Ruy de Menezes

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.

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