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The Annual Bridge Christmas Party!

Saturday 3rd December

It is always a fun and very enjoyable evening so please make a note in your diary. Dinner followed by Chicago bridge with prizes.

If you don’t have a partner, please get in contact with me (julie@juliebacon.plus.com) and I will try to pair you up with someone. The bridge is all a bit of fun so do come along – you won’t find a poker face among us!

Click here for the poster

Wednesday Evening Duplicates

Effective from 2nd November the Wednesday evening duplicates start at 7pm instead of 7.30pm. This change was in response to the survey we recently circulated; we will trial this new earlier start time for 6 months.

Hope to see many more of you Wednesday evenings!

Paul Mendelson – Live in the Bridge Room

Friday 10am: 11th, 18th, and 25th November- Supervised Play.

Wednesday 10.30am: 16th and 23rd November-Intermediate Lesson.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend Paul’s informative and entertaining classes.

Whatever the topic there is always something new to learn; and I am certainly aiming to attend- and as Rita remarked to me recently, ‘It’s good to be hauled in front of the headmaster from time to time’!

Introduction to Duplicate – 12th December

If you have recently attended a series of classes or just haven’t played duplicate before and would like to try it out, this is the session for you. Please make a note in your diary and come along.

Click here for the poster with full details and how to register.

Report on Queens’ Centenary Cup: 16th October 2022 at Hurlingham Club

By Danny Gesua

This annual event pits the Club against Queens, Hurlingham, Cumberland and the All England LTC.  Roehampton Club won the event on the two previous years when it was played (2019 and 2021).

On this occasion, we came second to Hurlingham who won by a large margin, although we beat them in our head-to-head match. In addition, Hurlingham had an unusual run of luck in that they gained 109 IMPs from just five Boards, entirely through incomprehensibly bad play by their opponents.

It was an enjoyable day, with a good dinner and a pleasant atmosphere.  The Roehampton Club team was Danny (captain) and Sally Gesua, Viv Harris and Paul Ambrus, Peter Bonnor-Moris and Ralph Evers and Philip Howard and Peter Hardyment.

The following hand was unusual.  With a total point count of 26, I opened 2 Clubs. The bidding proceeded as follows:

 

2C  >> 2H (shows 4 to 6 points)

3H >> 3NT (denies 3 Hearts)

4C >> 4D (cue bids: first or second round controls)

4NT  >>  5C (1 keycard : must be DA since East has the other 4 Keycards)

6H >> Pass

 

The interesting thing is that the slam did not look at all certain and was a bit of a gamble.  This is because with a void in Diamonds, I could not be certain of being able to get to Sally’s hand to make the DA or to take a finesse in Spades or Clubs. As it happens, Sally made 13 tricks on a Club lead by ruffing two Clubs and discarding the SJ on the DA.

Ladies Match vs Hurlingham

Ten days later, another trip to Hurlingham by twelve Roehampton Club ladies and another loss unfortunately!

This was the annual Roehampton Club – Hurlingham ladies match, which we won last year but certainly didn’t shine on this occasion and lost by 95 imps!

We had a very nice lunch, and the bridge was played in good spirits, but it was a bit of a shock when we calculated the extent of our loss.

Congratulations though must go to Heather Webber and Angela Elliot who were our sixth pair, that Ellie had put together at the last minute to make up the team. They had never played together before and were the best pair on the day!

The rest of the team were -Julie Bacon (Captain) and Rita Gallinari-Jones, Viv Harris and Kate Blake, Marion Tamblyn and Jeanette Reid, Felicity Irlam and Diane Bricknell, Claire Martin and Henryka Bonnor-Morris.

We will do better next year!

WhatsApp Partner Finder

We have a WhatsApp group to help Members find partners for social or duplicate bridge. Particularly useful for those people who are new to the bridge room or club.

Please give it a go and post a message. You can join the group by opening the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/FNNkh4xEp73HdWXHylBxjL on your phone.

An invitation to Hurlingham’s Annual Swiss team event

Hello Bridge Players!

You are cordially invited to bring a team to the Sixth Annual Hurlingham Swiss Teams Event, to be held on Saturday, 14 January 2023

Click here for the invitation with all the relevant information.

We are delighted to be able to welcome you once again to Hurlingham for this exciting day. All our affiliated clubs are invited to enter teams – the more the merrier.

My contact details as convenor are on the invitation.

Warmest wishes,
Ellen Lyons

Julie Bacon, Bridge Chair