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Newsletter February 2020

Message from the President

Chery McCallum

Some members of the Management Committee have been working hard in the background, reorganising the office and storeroom. I hope it will make things easier to find and keep neat and tidy.

We seem to be having a problem with the contributions from the drinks fridge. Members seem to be availing themselves of the drinks and forgetting to place their money in the box or taking the incorrect change. Please, if you want the drinks to continue to be available, don’t abuse the system.

There have been a number of members commenting on the cars parked so close to our entry driveway. I hope in the near future to have Council approached about extending the yellow, no-parking line to the next driveway. I don’t know if this is possible, but we will try, as it is a matter of safety.

On Tuesday February 18, we are having an open night. We would like some members of the club to be available to play demonstration hands. The night will start at around 5pm and end around 7.30pm. Please let Anne Jackson, Marjorie Askew or myself know if you may be available.

The laughter and chatter in the room during our Australia Day and the general feeling of fun, made our day a happy and pleasurable experience. Many thanks to those involved. It was a great day.



Play Committee Report - Jan 2020

Marjorie Askew

Events Gone:

Australia Day Teams

Sunday 26 January: When the ABF encouraged Clubs to hold a bushfire fundraiser, our annual Australia Day Teams was the obvious choice for us, and we continued our fundraising through the week following. The $s raised will be announced in the next newsletter. The ABF waived the cost of the red masterpoints for the day. This will boost the Club’s $ contribution for the day and also means we have 2 red point sessions to allocate later in the year.

The event was an enjoyable Club Day with a mingling of players of differing experience levels. Bev Peart-Kuter encouraged us to join her in the singing of the national anthem – a great way to start off Australia Day and then bridge began – and at the end of the day perhaps surprise, and popular, winners. Jill Cox announces these with photos on page 8. Thanks to Jill, our Event Organiser, and to Lorraine Bryant and her House Team for the ‘Aussie’ nibbles; although I’m told the lamington favoured chips were perhaps not to everyone’s taste!

Events Coming Up:

Club Pairs Championships: These are underway this week,

concluding in November so pairs can play in up to 10 rounds with your best 6 scores determining the Champions:

First Saturday of month: Open and B Grade

First Thursday of month: Restricted and Novice

Masterpoint limits for Ballina for 2020 Championship events are (per person as at 1 Jan 2020):

Novice: 20, Restricted: 100, B Grade: 300

For this information and all the ABF Master Rankings see the inside cover of your programme book.

N.B: There is a new hard copy ‘booklet’ hung on the noticeboard which lists all members’ masterpoints as at 31 December 2019.

Harvey Norman Mixed Pairs

Wednesdays January 29, February 5 & 12: This event is also underway, with 16 pairs competing, and concludes on Wednesday Feb 12.

A reminder that this 3-week event is also our Club Qualifier for the NSW State Mixed Pairs Championships. Any pair who competes in the event can go forward to the State Mixed Pairs Finals to be held in Sydney on May 23/24. Please let me know asap if you plan to go to Sydney as we submit nominations

with our results.

NB: I had a question about red points when we have a special (state) event such as this. The red points are only for the special event, here awarded by the NSWBA; other sections on the day thus receive ‘normal’ green points. These days are shown on page 3 of your programme book – note the asterisks.

And further FYI: For 2020 the Club received an allocation of 27 red point sessions; this allocation is based on our annual tally of the green points awarded. Again if you look at the list on page 3 in your programme book you’ll see we allocate these across all our playing days.

Country Teams Ballina Club Qualifier

Sunday February 9: We will have 10 teams nominated and we will be playing a Swiss movement.

Teams finishing in the top half of the field are then eligible to continue to the Regional Final (although it is very doubtful that this will be held) or else direct to the Northern Zone Final, usually scheduled for end June/early July, as part of the NSWBA State Teams.

Event Organiser is Marjorie Askew.

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Marjorie Askew

Gala Teams Night

Thursday February 13: I was a bit late in putting up the poster and nomination sheet for this but it’s there now so why not ‘give-it-a-go’? Nominate in Pairs and then Teams are organised. And before Bridge is a wonderful feed.

Event Organiser is Lorraine Bryant.

Ballina Pairs Congress

Saturday March 14 & Sunday March 15: Posters and flyers are on our noticeboard and website and have been sent to clubs in our, and neighbouring, regions. We will also promote the event at the upcoming Gold Coast Congress.

Preferred mode of entry is via the NSWBA website, especially if you are paying by direct bank transfer; this is an on-line process that enables us to closely monitor our entries. Our webmaster, Paul Smith, has set up a direct link from the ‘Happenings’ box on our website to facilitate this. If you do wish to pay by cash or cheque at the Club please fill in a slip at the Club and post in the entry box. Chery McCallum is Event Organiser, I am Entries Coordinator – ably assisted by our Assistant Treasurer Wendy Doyle.

As advised last month we are trialling a 2-day Swiss Pairs event

and it will be IMPs scoring which is becoming increasingly popular for congress pairs events. IMPs is Teams scoring in bridge and thus teams tactics come into play. Many of you will already have a copy of Janet’s handout on Teams Tactics which you may like to review on page 7.

Furthermore in the week running up to the Congress we have scheduled IMPs scoring for our Monday, Wednesday and Thursday club sessions; and all with red points – as a practice run.

We are hoping for strong support from our members for our Congress. If you are still ‘thinking about it’:

i) tis an event for all bridge experience levels

ii) tis a Swiss format so as the event proceeds you should find you are playing against players of a similar bridge ability

iii) for prizes the field is divided into Divisions based on masterpoints

and

iv) we are proud to boast that we award equal prizes per each Division. We haven’t found other clubs doing this yet (– although Yamba tell me they may well follow) and I like to claim this makes us an ‘innovator’!

Club Open House

Tuesday February 18 ( 5 - 7.30pm)

We are hoping prospective members will come along to find about more about us and that game called Bridge! We have adverts and editorial in the Advocate running up to the event, in tandem with the promotion for our upcoming lessons which will also be on Paradise FM. Flyers and posters are being posted in libraries, community centres, local gyms and ... And if you can help by posting a notice somewhere there are supplies at the Club. Plus some have uploaded our ad to Facebook.

On the night, we will have demonstrations of play and lessons, some pizzas to nibble on and members to talk with. We are keen to explore with prospective players maybe evening/twilight sessions, maybe evening lessons, and ...

Please spread the word and encourage your friends, kids and grandkids (and their friends) –

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it would be great to see some ‘Youngies’ (!!) and perhaps find out how we can encourage them to come and play.

Gold Coast Congress

February 21 – 29

Good Luck to all our players who are going to the Gold Coast Congress. There are events for all masterpoint rankings so why not ‘give-it-a-go’? It’s only just over an hour’s drive (and/or lots of accommodation options) and with daylight saving differences a relatively late start each day. For more information go to: http://www.qldbridge.com.au/gcc/

- Marjorie Askew

Important reminder: Membership fees were due on 1 January 2020 - if you pay your fees by bank transfer then please also fill out a paper slip with your name, date and stating ‘fees paid by bank transfer‘. Pay outstanding fees ASAP to avoid becoming inactive. Home members - $45 Associate members - $20 Social members - $20

Rank PromotionsCongratulations to the following achievers!

Graduate: Paul White

Club: Bob Dummett

Local: Denice Richards

*Local: Maureen McDermott

*Regional: Robert Sheahan

Spread the word to your family and friends about our OPEN EVENING

https://www.qldbridge.com.au/gcc/


Ballina Bridge Club gives out a voucher for a free game to each player in a pair that has the top percentage, after handicapping, in a section of 10 or more tables. For this to work there has to be a system that calculates a handicap result for each player and our scoring software Compscore2 actually has three systems from which to choose. Currently this is set to the Pivot Method. This is probably the best option as the other systems do not allow much user control over how the handicap is determined. They all have issues.

Members generally play on several days and as there is a different level of player experience on some days compared with others, no one handicap value per player is fair for every session. Compscore2 allows you to have a handicap value per player per day and this feature is used at our club.

How does the Pivot Method in Compscore2 calculate the handicap result for a pair?

1. For each player the software considers the last eight pairs results for each day the player has attended. Each player is assumed to have contributed equally to any result. The highest and lowest of these results per day are discarded and the remaining six results are averaged. So an unusual result from a very good or very bad day is ignored.

2. Next the software determines

how many percentage points this calculated average is above or below the Pivot which is currently set to the recommended 50%. The formula is 50 - Accumulated Session Average, so players with good recent results will have a negative value and those averaging under 50% will have a positive value. This value is scaled by a multiplying factor which is currently set to 1.25 The result is the players Handicap Factor and this is the number you see next to your name on the Handicap Results printout.

3. To determine the handicap percentage for a pair in a particular session the value in Step 2 for each player in the pair is averaged. This value is then added to the actual session percentage to produce the handicapped result.

This can be represented mathematically as:

Player Handicap factor = (Pivot – Accumulated Session Average) x Multiplier

Today’s handicap result = Actual session result + (Sum of Player Handicap Factors for each

player)/2. An example will hopefully make sense of all of this. I was surprised to get the voucher with Lorraine on Saturday 25th Jan. Our first voucher for a few years. We did get a good result by making fewer errors than usual, some good play, some lucky guesses and some gifts from the opposition.

Compscore2 shows my 8 most recent (very varied!) percentages for Saturday as shown. Ignoring the outlier results of 64.08 and 33.93 and averaging the remaining six gives my Saturday average as 51.24. My Handicap Factor is then (50-51.24) x 1.25 = -1.55 and Lorraine’s is the same so our pair handicap is also negative 1.55.

Having the Multiplier set to 1.25 rather than 1.0 slightly favours players with a positive handicap and correspondingly disadvantages the players who have been doing well recently. The intention here is to encourage the less experienced players with an occasional award when they have done well.

The handicap result sheet that is pinned to the noticeboard uses

The Handicap System

by Mark Miller

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the data for the corresponding day. It shows the Handicap Factor per player next to each name, the actual session percentage and the Handicap Percentage after adding the average of the two Handicap Factors.

None of the three Compscore2 handicap methods are dynamic. The data in step 1 has to be manually refreshed by launching a


Joan was born on 2 June 1930 in Casino and died 17 January 2020 in Ballina. [Photo opposite showing Joan and John Charteris.]

Many of the current members probably don’t remember Joan as she hasn’t played at the club for some years despite insisting that she kept her membership up to date. I remember her as a quiet, retiring and generous lady and was interested to see if I could find out any more about her life.

She was a gifted pianist and won a scholarship to study at the Conservatorium of Music when young but, as a shy country girl, decided not to take up this opportunity. In later life she completed her A Mus A

Vale - Joan Mary Charteris

The Handicap System

by Mark Miller

process to update the information based on results from sessions since the last update.

Where does the system go wrong?

The main issues stem from insufficient data in the Step 1 process. If a player does not have 8 results for a given day then no outliers are discarded and all available data is used for the Accumulated Session Average

for that day. A new player or first time player to the club on that day will be assigned an average of 50% which may be harsh for a newbie and definitely advantage an experienced visitor or member that does not usually play on that day.

There are a few improvements that can be made here and I think the best one is that a player should not be considered for a handicap award unless they have at least 6 results for that day. This will require a software change which I’ll request. Whether the change makes into a future release of Compscore is unknown.

and L Mus A (The Licentiate in Music, Australia is a diploma awarded by examination to outstanding candidates in the fields of musical performance) and taught piano to many students, later teaching music at high school level. She also successfully completed an Arts degree whilst bringing up 6 children.

Her association with the Bridge Club was a truly generous one and she and her husband, John paid for the original air-conditioning and the security shutters in the new club. Barbara Meaney declared that Joan was always first to offer if there was a need for any other purchases.

Thank you, Joan. Rest in Peace.by Liz Jeffery


Teams Tactics. Janet Brown

TACTICS AT TEAMS (IMP SCORING)

Experienced bridge players consider Teams play to be the finest form of bridge. The luck element is considerably reduced, and careful steady play is rewarded.

THE NON VULNERABLE GAME should be bid with certainty, but do not stretch to bid Non Vulnerable Games. If you’re not sure, then a pass is probably best. On the other hand, THE VULNERABLE GAME requires less than a 40% chance to be worth bidding. So - bid any Vulnerable Game that looks to have a faint chance of making. You gain 10 imps if you bid a game which is not reached at the other table. Just look at vulnerability on the board, and if you’re red – bid it ! Go for it ! PLAYING FOR OVERTRICKS is essential at Match Point pairs, but unnecessary at Teams. Simply aim to make your contract. IN DEFENCE your aim is to defeat the contract. If you have the setting trick, make sure you take it. Do not worry about extra tricks. PENALTY DOUBLES are almost forbidden in the Teams game. If you double and beat the contract by one trick, you have turned 50 into 100. (2 IMPs N/V). Big Deal !! If they make the contract, you lose many IMPs. The risk involved for the possible gain is too high. Doubles of part scores are particularly dangerous, and can cost you a victory if they go wrong. So - seldom double at Teams – and if you do, you should set the contract by two tricks. MINOR SUITS are very respectable in part scores at Teams. There is no need to make rash bids, so that the auction ends up in a Major suit or NT. SLAMS require a 50 - 50 chance to be worth bidding. If you are comfortably ahead in the match, do not shoot for a tight slam. If you are the stronger team, do not bid borderline slams. If you are behind, however, or you are playing a much stronger team, then bidding a tight slam may be the way to win the match. GRAND SLAMS are rarely bid at teams. The loss of a small slam score is too much to risk. If you do bid a grand, you must be 100% certain of its success. SACRIFICE BIDDING is not practised as much at Teams bridge as in Pairs. 500 against 620 is not a huge gain, whereas in Pairs it might produce a top score. And if you get it wrong … and the opponents were not making their game … then you may have lost the match. TEAM MORALE If you are holding poor cards and are looking at lots of minus scores, remember that your team mates will be doing their best for you at the other table with the cards of your immediate opponents. They may have a column of pluses. You are part of a team of four players. Do not give a passing thought to overtricks - they are only swings of one or two IMPs. GENERAL TACTICS: The winning approach is to play a careful, steady game, and make fewer mistakes than the opponents. Par bridge will win almost every Teams match. At teams, a 51% game is good enough to win a match. At Match Point pairs, 51% is nowhere nearly good enough, and even 60% might not win a tournament. At Pairs, you must take chances (which means making some bad bids) in order to win. There is no place in Teams for wild bidding, super sacrificing and guessing. Save the weird bids for Match Point Pairs, and keep to the straight and narrow at Teams. At Pairs you are allowed to make some wild “bad” bids, but at teams you must play very “good” sensible bridge.

In conclusion, Minor suits are OK, overtricks are unimportant and in defence simply put the contract down. And – remember to push the boat out and bid all the Vulnerable games.


Australia Day - Red Points DayEighteen teams played on a very pleasant day. Money was raised for the bushfire appeal. Prizes were seafood vouchers, partly sponsored by Northern Rivers Seafoods and thanks go to them for their support.

1st the Stephens team – (L-R)Vicki Ivosevac, Henry Hirschhorn, Barbara Stephens and Paul Buck.

2nd the Hocking team – (L-R) Paul Smith, Carol Hocking, Don Cox and Ken Jones.

3rd the Clark team – (L-R) Sue Perry, Chery McCallum (President), Jill Cox, Wendy Doyle and Betty Clark.

Bushfire Appeal Raffle Thanks to everyone for their generous contributions to our bushfire appeal. Raffle prizes were donated by Harvey Norman and members. Raffle winners:

Goblets: Clive Klugman

Sandwich Toaster: Mary Blanch

Diffuser: Barbara Selman

Sparkling Wine: Judy Forsyth

Cool Bag Combo: Pin Sultas

Merlot: Deb McLay

Skin Care Pack: Judy Weir

If you’re a winner please collect your prize next time you are at the Club.

- Jill Cox


by Paul Smith

You are sitting South and the hand on your right opens the bidding with 1♦, you overcall 1♥. The opponents find a Spade fit and bid to game. Partner is silent during the auction and leads ♥4. The situation looks like this when dummy goes down.

Partner has lead your suit, what do you know? The four is their lowest Heart because you have the three and dummy has the two. This tells you that partner does not have a doubleton in your suit. If they did then they would have played their top card first as the start of a high-low echo - standard leads. You have both been practising your standard leads at https://trick14.com and always lead correctly!

Could partner have three small Hearts? No. With three small cards the correct lead is the middle card (followed by the higher then the lower - MUD = Middle-Up-Down). The four cannot be the middle card and so partner does not have three

Another look at the opening lead

The opening lead can guide the rest of the defence.

small Hearts.

Does partner have four small Hearts? Again, no. With four small the correct lead is the second highest.

The result of these eliminations is that partner either has a singleton Heart or they have three or four Hearts with an honour. You hold the Ace, King and Jack and dummy has the ten. If partner has an honour it is the Queen.

The opponents will have about 25 points for their game contract. You have 12, giving 37 points accounted for. Partner probably has the Heart Queen, 39 points. That’s basically all high cards accounted for. You can deduce that declarer has at least ♠KQ and ♣Q and probably all the outstanding Jacks because they accepted an invitation to game. With all that firepower it would seem that declarer is only going to lose two Hearts and the Ace of Diamonds.

We want another trick and that must be via a ruff in Diamonds.

You win the opening lead with the King. When the King wins partner knows you have the Ace as declarer is unlikely to duck. If you were to play the Ace partner would assume declarer has the King and so your high card points must be in other suits.

Next you take the Ace of Diamonds

to clear the way for your ruff. Now you need to get partner on lead. Remember what the ♥4 told you? Either a singleton or length headed by the Queen. Either way underleading your Ace of Hearts will get partner on lead. Do not be tempted to lead your Jack to ‘beat’ the 10 in dummy, partner may duck this and not gain the lead to give you a ruff. You must lead a low one.

Partner gains the lead with the ♥Q. They realise that you have the ♥A because of the play on the first trick and have underlead it. It should be obvious that the reason for the unusual play is because the ♦A was a singleton. Partner easily finds the lead of a small Diamond which you ruff to take the first four tricks and defeat the contract.

A few points of interest. If North makes the incorrect lead of ♥Q then declarer will succeed because South can no longer get North on lead to get their Diamond ruff.

If South takes their two Heart tricks first then the contract makes. The dummy will ruff the third round of Hearts and North will not get back on lead.

If North’s 4 were a singleton then they would get on lead at trick 3 by ruffing your small Heart. The contract is still defeated.

South never makes a trick with the A.

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by Paul Smith

The opening lead

The opening lead can guide the rest of the defence.

A final question to ponder. Why are you certain that declarer will not be able to ruff the small Heart that you lead at trick three? (Not guessing, not intuition, not hoping, but certain.)

Partner has lead their smallest card, you can see everything that is smaller. With a five card suit they would have led their fourth best - second smallest card. Therefore, partner does not have five Hearts. Four at most. You have five Hearts, dummy two that is 11 Hearts. Declarer has at least two Hearts.


It is commonly thought that a hesitation will result in partner being forced to pass the auction but that is not always the case.

After the dummy is faced, if the defenders believe they may have been damaged by unauthorised information being passed by the break in the tempo of bidding, then the first thing is to determine whether the declarers did in fact hesitate. Easiest is if all at the table agree there was a hesitation. If not, then the Director should be called for their assessment of the auction. The play should then complete whereupon the Director should be recalled if the defenders believe they have been disadvantaged.

The Director must then assess whether the break in tempo has resulted in an action that resulted in damage to the defending side. If there has been damage done, then the Director should make an adjusted score. That bit sounds disarmingly simple but it relies on an assessment of whether an alternative more likely bid would be made by players of similar skill level and that would have resulted in a different bidding outcome.

How can it be assessed that there is a logical alternative that should have been followed? Often the Director may make the decision by themselves but it is best handled by a survey of similarly skilled players and how they would have bid in the auction. If at least three out of five believe a logical alternative was available (usually pass), then potentially a score adjustment should be made.

It’s never pleasant when an appeal like this goes against you and the common cry is “I was going to make the bid anyway”. However, the outcome should never be taken personally. Your bid opens up the possibility of you being influenced at a subliminal level by the hesitation. Consequently, if there has been a hesitation and you end up bidding what the majority of your peers would not have bid, then you simply have to accept any adjustment to the scores.

If you hesitate in the bidding...

by Howard Jeffery

Welcome to our new home members:-

Janet Chester

Max de Boos


Ngaire has made a significant contribution to Ballina Bridge Club. She is a past President and a current Director. Ngaire and her husband are planning to move interstate. She will be greatly missed by the Club.

Member Profile - Ngaire Wills - *National Master

by Rob Eldridge

Where were you born, and what do you remember most about growing up there?

I was born in Charleville, in western Queensland and lived there for 4 years before my father, who was a weather forecaster, was transferred to Sydney. After 18 months of city living, my parents bought a sheep and wheat property near Hillston in western NSW where they lived for the rest of their lives. Most of my childhood memories are from this area. For me, it was a great life - a lot of wide open spaces, freedom to explore the countryside and swimming in summer in the river which ran through our property. One of the downsides of living in a remote area was the need to go away to high school, which I did when I was 11.

What family do you have, and what do they do?

We have two children, a son Nic and a daughter Hannah. Our son works in the energy industry and is currently living in Houston in Texas. He is married with a young son. Our daughter is a doctor and lives in Toowoomba. She is married with a young daughter.

What was your occupation, and what do you miss most about it?

I had several changes of occupation during my working life. I started as a Research Assistant with CSIRO and worked on a mining reclamation project in Broken Hill

and Canberra for 3 years. Following a year travelling overseas, I worked again for CSIRO on a wheat and cotton plant breeding project.

After moving to Gatton (Qld), I worked in the education field for a number of years and taught science at the local high school. I took 7 years off to be a stay-at-home mum before returning to work as an Equity Officer at the Gatton Campus of University of Queensland, a position I held for 16 years.

I feel I was very lucky in my employment, having good mentors and great working conditions. I loved working outdoors, even in the summer heat of Broken Hill! The flexibility of working conditions at UQ helped me to balance work and family commitments, especially when our children were young.

What led you to taking up Bridge?

My parents were great card players and taught me how to play 500, Euchre, Canasta and Crib when I was quite young. Saturday nights were usually spent playing one of these games with my parents and grandparents and I fondly remember these nights.

I had the opportunity to learn to play bridge when I moved to Gatton in 1977 when a few members of the Lockyer Bridge Club offered to teach me some of the basics. About 6-8 members played one

afternoon a week on the verandah of the Qld Agricultural College student hospital (one of the members was the resident nurse), and I used to attend after school finished. When they thought I had learnt “enough” I was invited to play in the competition session on a Thursday night. I still remember my first game there and shudder to think of all the basic mistakes I made!

What advice would you give to new players?

Enjoy the game, keep persevering, be kind to your partner, and remember it’s only a game. It gets better and more enjoyable the more you play.

You have made a significant contribution to BBC over the years. What do you see as the major strength(s) of the Club?

I think Ballina Bridge Club would have to rank as one of the best bridge clubs you would want to be a member of. The friendliness of its members, its great facilities, and the number of people who “just do” so many of the jobs that need doing to make the club function, are just some of its strengths. On top of this, our many experienced players and teachers who give freely their advice and help to assist us all improve our bridge, are wonderful attributes of the club.

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Ballina Mah Jong Club News The winners for the month of January were -3rd Jan Susan Allan10th Jan Denise Bridge17th Jan Jan Small24th Jan Shirley Henry31st Jan Lorna SimpsonCongratulations to all.

Photo on the left showing the Mahjong Australia Day afternoon tea celebrations.

Member Profile - Ngaire Wills - *National Master

You are moving from Ballina. Why and what are your plans?

We are planning to move to Toowoomba to be closer to our daughter and her family. Neither of us had the benefit of having our parents close by when we had our children and we would like to take a more active part in our granddaughter’s life. I will certainly miss the club, my friends here, and the relaxed coastal lifestyle. Directors (L-R)Bob Hart, Clive Klugman, Ngaire Wills, Eda Bridgeman, Lorraine Bryant,

Howard Jeffery, Anne Jackson and Chris McDowell at Gold Coast workshop Sept 2019.

Bridge lessons starting in March - tell your friendsWe invite you to join our lessons starting on Wednesday, 4th March, at 8:45am. Lessons will be twice a week on Wednesday and Friday mornings for 6 weeks, that is up until Easter. The full cost is $60 which covers all materials, parking, tea/coffee.

Our Club has over 300 members so you not only learn to play the best card game in the world but you will find a very sociable atmosphere to play in and new friendships to make.

Lessons are given in an easy non-threatening style.

You don’t need expensive gear to play this sport, and it can be done in hot or cold, dry or wet weather in our air-conditioned rooms.

Our teachers are accredited by the Australian Bridge Federation and teach using a student-centred style.

For further infornation or to register your interest contact

Anne Jackson 0429 824 700 or email her [email protected]

We can teach you to play bridge, but you will also be having fun, making friends, and challenging yourself.


Ballina Bridge Club Swiss Pairs Congress March 14 & 15, 2020

Play starts: Saturday 10am, Sunday 9am

Cash prizes in 3 masterpoint divisions

Conducted under the auspices of the NSWBA Green, Blue & Red Systems only

Tournament Director: Chris Snook

Cost: $80pp, includes lunch both days

Entries preferred via NSWBA website, or direct to Club Entries close 5pm Saturday March 7

Event Organiser Entries Coordinator Chery McCallum Marjorie Askew

All players are subject to the NSWBA’s Congress Disciplinary Regulations.

Ballina Bridge Club

13, North Creek Road, Ballina email: [email protected] website: http://www.users.on.net/~bbclub


THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13 2020

EVENT ORGANISER:LORRAINE BRYANT PleasenominateinpairsbySaturday8February

Ifyouarenotcomingfortea,pleasecontactLorraine

HELP! If you can assist with Tea please contact Lorraine asap

6.30pm for CARDS

Only$10forteaandcards

6pm for TEA

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