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.

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.

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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.

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.

It has been great being back playing bridge at Easts and it is particularly pleasing to now have sessions on Wednesdays. The number of tables at all sessions is less than at pre COVID times but is slowly building up and I hope will continue to rise. Unfortunately our trial of Tuesday night sessions was not as successful as we had hoped and we have discontinued them but we may consider another trial later in the year.

It has been lovely to be back playing face to face bridge at Easts. The number of players is slowly increasing at the Monday and Tuesday afternoon sessions.

The "experiment" of holding a Tuesday evening session has not been as successful as we had hoped so we will be discontinuing it for the time being. We may revisit the idea in the coming spring .