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Tauranga Bridge Club September 2015 Issue 342 © Copyright 2015

252 Ngatai Road, Otumoetai, Tauranga P O Box 8037, Tauranga - Phone 576 5022

Website : www.taurangabridge.co.nz Editor: Mike Parker, Phone: 027 353 5563

E-Mail: [email protected]

In This Issue:

From the Committee 2

Support Event Sponsors for August/September 2015 3

Who is the Dummy Then - True Story! 4

The Joker Report 5

30th National Bridge Congress - Hamilton 6

Helpful Tips - Lead Tips 7

Tournament and Club Results 8-11

September 2015 Issue 342 Tauranga Bridge Club © Copyright 2015

Kathy Abel Heather Bernau Rick Bernau

Yvonne Best Wendy Bowden Jessica Davis

Ian Douglas Kristin Douglas Karen Edmonds Adele Gray Tineke Harmer Guy Harvie

Jenny Lynam Carl Madden Lynne Madden

John Masters Pam Miles Trish Mines

Dale Peddie Robyn Phillips Penny Sando

Barbara Sayers Heath Smart John Smith

Jill Stewart Teresa Strange Karen Tills

Donald Young

Jenni Calderwood Warren Coventry John Curtis

Sue Haughey Rae Holmes Teri Logie

Mary Pettigrew Grant Rowell Ngarie Short Maureen Tarrant Kay Troup Sue Unwin

Tony Unwin Pat Verran Margaret White

Welcome to all new members

Alan and Judy have moved and no longer have a landline phone. To contact them you will need to use their mobile numbers which are:

Judy McLeod 021 791 176

Alan Turner 029 576 9357


Please help the club by supporting all our sponsors on pages 8-9 in the 2015 programme.

Your Club Sponsorship co-ordinator is Lyn Bailie

Thanks to the following sponsors supporting these August 2015 events.

Metlifecare Greenwood Park - Intermediate Championship Pairs (Monday) Prestige Framing Pairs - (Monday) Digital Photographics & Video Pairs - (Monday) Travelcom - Tuesday Championship Pairs (Tuesday) Travelcom - Don Menzies - Junior Championship Singles (Wednesday) Brookfield New World - Point a Board Multiple Teams (Thursday) Ultimate Motor Group - Championship Pairs (Thursday) Nautilus Restaurant - Fine Dining Pairs (Friday)

Thanks to the following sponsors supporting these September 2015 events.

Shelley’s Hair Design - Congress Pairs (Monday) Brookfield New World - Supermarket Handicap Pairs (Tuesday) Nulook Windows - Double Glazed Pairs (Tuesday) Cherrywood Shoes - Cherrywood Shoes Pairs (Wednesday) SBS Bank - SBS Pairs (Friday)


The tensions are high on the 3rd night of the Junior Championship Singles. Four players are concentrating on Board 2. They do not want to put a foot wrong, especially given they have a beginner fresh out of the classes watching their match. West is also in contention for the overall competition, so her results are important to her. The bidding goes wild:

West is indignant and thinks to herself, “How dare they steal our contract of 4S ! There is no way they can make hearts, by bidding this suit for the first time at the 5 level, I will have a piece of that, thank you”

Double

As West waits for her partner to lead, she hopes the beginner will be impressed with their bidding skills and the result will be a nice juicy top or near top board. East leads the Ace of spades. Ruff, “oops” thinks West, “I did not expect that, ah well, still should go light”.

Play progresses with everyone engrossed in the play. Finally NS goes one light for -200.

“Oh heck" says West, "that was not a good enough result, was it partner ? Could we have done better, do you think ?”. All four huddle over the Bridgemate studying the hands and debate the merits of the bidding and play. Finally the Kibitzer (the beginner watching) could take no more. Despite being told they should not comment when watching a game, he felt compelled to ask a question. “Excuse me, but was there any reason why no one put down a hand as Dummy ? Am I missing something here ?”

Blank looks all around, then suddenly a load roar of laughter from the table erupts, as the players realise that someone (namely South), forgot to put their hand down and a beginner was the only one to notice !

The Director was called and even she could not contain a giggle. She had never seen anything like it before in her long bridge and directing career and did the only thing that could be done, by awarding an average board.

What a lucky escape for EW and a great story to dine out on for many years to come !!!


Report

Get your Master Points details at www.nzcba.co.nz

After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counselling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married. On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured.

Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched - with a raised eyebrow.

The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze. The therapist turned to the husband and said, “This is what your wife needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?”

“Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish.”

Young Doctors

A woman went to the doctor’s office where she was seen by one of the young doctors.

After about four minutes in the examination rood, she burst out screaming as she ran down the hall. An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was, and she told him her story. After listening he had her sat down and relax in another room.

The older doctor marched down the hallway back to where the young doctor was writing on his clipboard. “What’s the matter with you?” the older doctor demanded. “Mrs Terry is 61 years old, has four grown children and seven grandchildren, and you told here she was pregnant.”

The young doctor continued writing without looking up said, “Does she still have the hiccups?”

(Taken from the Bowls Plus Queensland)


This flyer has been taken from the NZ Bridge website for the National Congress being held in Hamilton from the 26th September, 2015 to 6th October, 2015.

So for more information and entry details please go to this website nzbridge.co.nz to see all the details.


Lead Tip #3

It is important to count declarer's tricks as the play progresses.

If you find yourself on lead and can see that declarer has enough tricks in three suits to make the contract, shift to the fourth suit. Some chance is better than no chance. Your partner may have a golden card !

Lead Tip #4

All too often, leading a short suit can set up the opponent's second suit, so you please take care.

If leading shortage, then the best time to do so, is with the following trumps: Ax(x) or Kxx

If you have a natural or possible trump trick, leading from shortness is counter productive. In particular, if you hold 4 cards in trumps eg J10xx, QJ9x or KQ9x then it is best not to lead a singleton or doubleton.

For more tips and practice hands, please head to the club website www.taurangabridge.co.nz Thanks to Karen Martelletti for making the website interesting and a great source of other information.


09 Aug Bay of Plenty Teams for the Ib Thulin Trophy (Rotorua)

Overall 2

nd Tauranga

Open - Winners of the Open Section

Katy Yule, Ken Yule, Jo Simpson, Sam Simpson

Intermediates – 2nd

in the Intermediate Section

Caren van der Meys, Martin van der Meys, Malcolm Christie, Colin Roberts

Junior – 4th

in the Junior Section

Stacey Hilton, Andrea Andresen, Melanie Rex, Jan Johnstone

Rotorua retained the trophy

19 Aug Tauranga Ladies Pairs 3A

1st

Cynthia Clayton (Hamilton) & Judy McLeod

3rd

Julie Sheridan & Karen Martelletti 4

th Marion Kelly & Jo Simpson

Session Prizes

Margaret Wakelin & Bev Walker Judith Malcolm & Sue Thorpe


22 Aug Hamilton Intermediate Pairs 3B

2nd

Kay Wright & Kim Grounds (Cambridge) 5

th Hattie Curtis & Bruce Ballard

5 Sept Tauranga Intermediate Pairs 5B

1st

Caren van der Meys & Martin van der Meys

2nd

Tina Dudley & Gilda Rowland

Session Prizes

Bruce Ballard & Hattie Curtis

Kay Wright & Kim Grounds (Cambridge)

5 Sept Tauranga Junior Pairs 3B

1st

Jan Johnstone & Melanie Rex

2nd

Brenda Birss & Pamela Pedersen

Session Prizes

Carol Cullen & Joe Brown (Mt Maunganui) Maurine Roisleux & Vivienne Band

Fraser Manor Restricted Pairs

1st

Joy Bates & Amanda Smith 130.35

2nd

Bev Knight & Dot Skousgaard 120.91

3rd

Mike McKeown & Simon Eminson 112.02

September 2015 Issue 342 Tauranga Bridge Club

No 8 Tours Tallis Handicap Singles

1st

Peter Malcolm 180.80

2nd

Judith Malcolm 173.25

3rd

Graeme Boyd 169.72

4th Bob Callcut 167.32

5th Mary Toner 163.70

Prestige Framing Pairs

1st

Grace Mounfort & Derek Webb 182.22

2nd

Pat Rutherford & Lynne Smyth 173.25

3rd

Shirley Knight & Nick Comber 158.68

Travelcom Tuesday Championship Singles

Best 4 of 5 Scores to Count

1st

Cam Fisher 258.66

2nd

Barry Crosby 236.65

3rd

Pat Rutherford 236.60

4th Peter Hagan 236.38

5th Kaye Robertshaw 235.38

Travelcom Junior Championship Singles

All Scores to Count

1st

Margaret Guy 257.69

2nd

Tim Torr 231.23

3rd

Joanne Munro 230.50

4th Lorna Pearson 222.67

5th Don Espie 217.97


Brookfield New World Point-A-Board Teams

1st

Amanda Smith, Christine Gibbons, 60

Stephen Francks, Colin Roberts

2nd

Shirley Bain, Graham Young, 53

Karen Martelletti, Norm Silcock, Carolyn Parker

3rd

Jo Simpson, Sam Simpson 52

Marion Kelly, Hank Ping

August Pairs

1st

Jocelyn Major & Judy Pawson 177.88

2nd

Lois Taylor & Liz Bristow 176.62

3rd

Melanie Rex & Leo Duyvestyn 169.73

Mon 17 Aug Grace Mountfort & Derek Webb 71.25%

Wed 26 Aug Margaret Guy & Brian Schofield 70.71%

Fri 28 Aug Pam Clotworthy & Dot Skousgaard 70.61%

Wed 19 Aug Margaret Guy & Tim Torr 70.21%

September 2015 Issue 342 Tauranga Bridge Club

Have you logged onto the Tauranga Bridge Web Site ?

www.taurangabridge.co.nz

Results, information and links.

Tauranga Bridge Club - Mission Statement

To provide a bridge club with a friendly, supportive and challenging environment in which players of all levels can learn and enjoy a

great competitive game - and have fun !

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