Port Macquarie Hastings Bridge Club - Learn & Play Bridge
The first red point event for the year was run on Thursday, 36 pairs contested the event and still found time for the first Thursday of the month afternoon tea, a highlight of the day for some. No surprises at the top of the field with Yvonne Cains & Noelle Kebby sneaking in over Tony Woolford & Mike McElhinny by 1.2%. However coming in third, a further 5% back was the pairing of Graeme McLaren & John Scwab, with Marina Gregg & Murray Booth coming in fourth. To put that in perspective. the combined Master Points of earned last year by Tony, Mike, Yvonne & Noelle are more than the total MasterPoints of Graeme & John.
Six pairs from the Intermediate room competed and were not disgraced. Congratulations to all who competed and to Chris Sinclair for keeping the game moving, only three boards were missed all afternoon.
Full results can be found HERE.
The second red point event was finalised on Saturday with the Restricted Pairs secound round was played. Despite a deal of confusion caused by the need to and lack of understanding of how to score the arrow switch from Round 1 manually, the results were finalised on Sunday morning and can be found HERE. The Director of the day would like to apologise for the confusion and despite his valiant attempts to manually get himself to the front he fell at the last hurdle and came in second. Congratulations to Wally Barnard & Rod Engledow on two consistent rounds to come in 30 points clear of Neil Badger& Linda Richards with Bede Tebbut & Ian Peterson a further 40 pouint sback in third place. Nellie Oonk & June Cook showed their continued good form in Championships being fractionally behihd in fourth place.
Alert Regulations changed Summary in Directors Directives. The full PDF of Alerting Regulations is available from the ABF Website it is 10 pages.
Point of Interest from the November ABF Newsletter in case you missed it. 24.1% of ABF members have between 0- 5 Masterpoints. 70.2 % have betwen 0 - 100 Masterpoints. They mentioned these facts in an article that was encouraging Intermediate players to take part in Congresses.