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South Australian Bridge Association Newsletter November 2017

In This Issue Back Office News 2

State Youth Coordinator/ Patrons Cup 3

No Fear Friday Nights 4

SABA Swiss Teams C’Ships 6

SABA Quiz Night 7

Spring National Open Teams 9

Barbara’s Coaching Sessions 10

Monthly Winners 11

Funnies Page 12

November Mon PM—John & Nora Martin Mixed

Pairs (RED)

Wed AM—Keith McNeil Pairs (RED)

Thur AM—J & S Rundle Pairs (RED)

Bridge at Campbelltown celebrated it’s 4th Birthday last month.

Campbelltown was the last (so far) of our satellite clubs to be

established and whilst it got off to a slow start, it now has a

regular following. Campbelltown has open and supervised play

every Friday morning from 10am to 1pm.

Happy 4th Birthday Campbelltown

New SABA WIFI

The club has set up a new

WiFi connection which will

be easier to access and is

faster. Connect to:

SABA-WIFI

Password: 0883733995

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Back Office News

The silly season has officially commenced!! There will be lots of things happening at the club before we say farewell to 2017.

The Melbourne cup luncheon is on Tuesday 7th November. Tuesday is now one of our busiest days, so it is important to put your name on the nomination sheet on the Noticeboard if you intend to take part. See page 8 for more details. Also coming up is the SABA AGM on Sunday 3rd December @ 10.45am. Once again booking for the lunch is essential for catering purposes. The cost is just $10 for lunch and bridge afterwards.

The club is keen to resurrect Friday nights and to help make it a friendly social night the start time will be changed to 7pm from 3rd November. This will allow for a full evening of bridge with more time to stay back and have a drink and socialize with other players. More information about Friday nights is on page 7.

$600 in Prizemoney

John and Nora Martin Mixed Pairs

The John and Nora Martin Mixed Pairs is a sponsored event which commences on Monday Nights in November. John and Nora’s son, Robert is a member of the club and has offered extra prizemoney to run a restricted pairs event (Under 300 masterpoints) in conjunction with the Open event. Prizemoney for both sections will total $600. (1st—$150, 2nd—$100 and 3rd—$50 in each section).

[Ed Note: Normal bridge is still available for partnerships that are not competing as a mixed pair]

Significant Change to Friday Bridge

Adelaide Bridge Centre is moving to the Hackney Hotel on 13th November. As part of the move ABC has reduced the number of sessions it will run. This includes there popular Friday afternoon session (almost the same size as SABA’s Friday morning session. The club has decided to run an afternoon session on Fridays to accommodate players who previously played at ABC. This will force a change to the start time for the morning session. Starting on Friday 17th November, Friday sessions times will be:

Morning Session 9.30—12.30

Afternoon Session 1.30—4.30

The club hopes that all members understand the need for this change.

Membership Target

2017 Total 1256

2018 Target 1325

1st November 2017 1272

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APPLICATIONS INVITED

The SA Bridge Federation is committed to developing

youth bridge and is seeking applications from suitably

qualified bridge players for the role of:

State Youth Coordinator

The appointment will be initially for a two year

period.

The Management Committee of the SABF envisions

the suitable applicant will meet the following criteria:

Have good communication and administration

skills;

Be committed to raising the profile of, and

encouraging young players to learn and play

bridge;

Be prepared to act as a mentor for youth

players;

Be pro-active in arranging youth workshops,

education and training sessions;

Maintain records of youth players;

Liaise and report to the SABF Management

Committee as and when required, detailing your

activities.

An honorarium of $5,000 will be offered to the

successful candidate as well as administrative support

from the SABF.

A detailed Job Specification is available from the

SABF Web site at sabridgefederation.com.au

Please forward your application (to arrive before

Friday 10th November 2017) to:-

The Secretary

SA Bridge Federation Inc

PO Box 1033

UNLEY, SA 5061or by email to

anorris@adam.com.au

Patron’s Cup

Linda Alexander has been the Patron Emeritus of the club since 1996 and instigated the Patron’s Cup the following year. The Patron’s Cup is generally held in November each year and is contested by all members playing in the supervised sections. This year the Patron’s Cup will be run on Thursday afternoon at Walkerville, with the winners being the pair with the best aggregate score (3 out of 4) over the month. Whilst it is held at Walkerville this year it is open to all supervised players regardless of which session you usually play in. The winners get their names inscribed on a perpetual trophy and Linda also donates a prize to the winning pair. It is a great event and I encourage all supervised players to participate. The event commences Monday night 6th November.

New Year’s Eve Congress

With the Adelaide Bridge Centre’s move to the Hackney Hotel the venue cannot accommodate bridge on Near Years Eve and will hold their event on New Years Day instead.

This means that SABA can hold its own New Years Eve Congress on Sunday 31st December. More details will be available in the next Declarer

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Only 50 more shopping days till Xmas!! A good time to let your partner how much

you appreciate them. Check out our bridge shop for the ideal gift. Can’t find the per-

fect gift? Special “bridge” gifts can be ordered in time for Xmas.

Some suggestions below.

Orders 3-5 working days (Free Postage)

BOOKS

Bridge in the Menagerie/Mollo

A Good Game of Modern Bridge/Klinger

Winning Duplicate Tactics/Bird

52 Bridge Mistakes to Avoid/Bird

Conventions at a Glance/Granovetter

Set of 12 Test Your Technique Series

Card Play Technique/ Mollo

Posh Bridge Tips by Bergen

Who Has the Queen

Battling the Best

Bidding Topics - Eric Rodwell

When to Draw Trumps

High Quality recent books on remainder

High Quality recent books on remainder

SOFTWARE

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Planning the play of a Bridge Hand

Modern Bridge Def Kantar

Eddie Kantar Teaches Topics in Dec Play

Declarer Play at B:A Quizbook-Seagram/Bird

Defensive Play at B:A Quizbook-Seagram/Bird

GIFTWARE Serviettes -A Womans place Grey Socks made in Melbourne White Socks made in Melbourne Paul Lavings Socks Pair of Oven Mits Art Noveau Greeting Cards Bidding Box Set Card Holders The Winning Hand Card Holders Long White Plastic I Love Bridge Pens I Love Bridge Pens Pen Sets of 4 in Box Piatnik Gift Pack Piatnik Gift Pack Gold Trim Shoulder Bags with suit symbol design 100% Linen Womens Place Tea Towel 100% Linen Tea Towel The Hidden Side 100% Linen Tea Towel The Wrecker Classic Packs - dogs, cats, roses Earrings - suit symbols Daily Bridge Calendars 2007 = 2018 T Shirts "I Hate this Game I Love" Shoelaces Hand Towels 2 Blue and 2 Red Velvet Table Cloth Club Table Cloth Grey

No Fear Friday Nights

Friday nights is off to a slow start, but that is not unu-sual when starting out a new session. The club wants to encourage more supervised players to come along. October saw free pizzas and drinks provided and for the rest of the year all supervised players can play for

FREE. All members with less than 15 master-

points can play in the supervised section for FREE. Drinks and nibbles after play will also continue for the rest of the year. Starting in November the Friday

night session will commence at 7pm to allow more time for socialising after play.

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Front Garden

Most members will have seen that the Jacarandas have been removed. This was necessary as the pods that they drop were a slip hazard for members with walking frames and other walking disabilities. A new garden will be built to give the club a fresh, modern look. In the coming months the club will need some assistance to rebuild the garden.

This will be done in 4 phases

1. Clean up of existing garden and rubbish removal

2. Installation of a watering system and new soil

3. Planting

If you can help in any of these areas (subject to your availa-bility on the selected day) please place your name against the area you can help on the Noticeboard.

10am-1pm

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SABA SWISS TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS The SABA Swiss Teams championships was contested for the second year and was sponsored AND won by

the Eddie team. Andrew is a generous sponsor of the teams and provided over $2000 in prizemoney. 14

teams contested the event over 3 nights with the Eddie team coming from behind to overtake the Harms to by

1 victory point. Final placings were:

1st Place—EDDIE Team ($750)

Greg Sargent, Judy Hocking, Kevin Lange and Andrew Eddie

2nd Place—HARMS Team ($500)

Justin Williams, Jeff Travis, Felicity Smyth, Paul Hudson and Russel

Harms

3rd Place—De Luca Team ($350)

Peter Chan, David Lusk, Jarrad Dunbar and Attilio De Luca

4th Place—ZOLLO Team ($250)

Gary Deaton, Marc Deaton, John Zollo and Roger Januske (Absent)

5th Place—Marler Team ($200)

Pam Morgan-King, Yadi Parrott, Therese De Marco

and Di Marler (Absent)

Best Restricted Team—Donoghue Team ($200)

Jenny Donoghue, Susan Fitch, Marjon Martin and Tony Miller

[Editor’s Note: Why is this team so happy? The fact is they were the

only Restricted team in the event and automatically won the $200

prizemoney on offer. Not a bad 3 weeks… Bridge, free pizzas and

wine, nibbles after play and they made a profit!! Let’s see if we can

get more Restricted teams in the 2018 event.

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2017 SABA Quiz Night

10 tables of members and friends came to the quiz night in October. Whilst there was a winner there were no losers as food and drinks were in abundance.

Many thanks to this year’s Quizmaster and his team for organising a great night.

Also, thanks to Wendy Hopkins for providing the musical questions and John Smith for doing the photography.

Quiz Night photos are available on the desk outside the office for a small donation to fund raising

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Melbourne Cup Luncheon

Tuesday 7th November Bridge and lunch for just $20 (Monthly players $10)

50c, $1 and $2 sweeps available on the day

Please nominate for catering purposes

Lunchtime Fashion Parade sponsored by Scammell & Co

Prizes for Best Dressed, Quirkiest and Best Hat

Bridge and Humor

A Famous Hand by Steve Becker

A K J

Q 9 3

9 8 7 4 3

K 9

Q 7 6 5 9 8 4 3 2

2 K 8 7 6 5

A 10

Q J 8 7 6 5 3 2 10

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A J 10 4

K Q J 6 5 2

A 4

This famous deal occurred at the 1962 Nationals, and

at one table the bidding went as shown

West’s four notrump bid asked his partner to bid clubs

or spades. East duly obliged with five spades, raised

by West to six after South bid six diamonds. When

this came around to South he decided to venture seven

diamonds. At this point, while West was cogitating

whether to bid seven spades as a sacrifice, East

doubled out of turn — and promptly led the ace of

trumps to confirm the soundness of his double!

Naturally, the tournament director was summoned. He

ruled that North/South could continue bidding in turn

and, furthermore, that the ace of diamonds was a

penalty card. (If a defender improperly exposes a card

it becomes a penalty card which must be played at the

first legal opportunity.)

South thereupon ran to seven no trumps. He

recognized that seven diamonds was hopeless, but

thought he might be able to make seven notrump with

the aid of the exposed card.

West led a spade. Declarer finessed the jack and then

scored four heart tricks by trapping East’s king. South

had been hoping that East would show out of hearts

and be forced to discard the ace of diamonds, but he

had no such luck. Declarer now led a club to dummy’s king and cashed

the A-K of spades as East continued to follow suit.

Finally, South played a club to the ace, prepared to

concede down four, but at this point East’s luck ran

out. Having no more clubs, he had no choice but to

discard the ace of diamonds, and the slam come

rolling home!!!.

West North East South

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Pass 3 Pass 3

4NT 5 5 6

6 Pass Pass 7

Pass Pass DBL 7NT

All Pass

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TBIB Spring National Open Teams Posted by Mike Prescott on Monday, 23 October 2017

This year saw a record-equalling field of 62 teams contest the Open Teams. At the end of 9 rounds of Swiss Qualifying, the top four places were secured by:

1st JACOB 150.52 VPs 2nd FISCHER 117.82 VPs 3rd DALLEY 117.40 VPs 4th HAFFER 116.40 VPs

In the two 56 board semi-finals

JACOB Tom Jacob - Brian Mace - Justin Williams - Johnno Newman 144.1

played and defeated DALLEY Paul Dalley - Ashley Bach - Justin Mill - Ervin Otvosi 56

and

FISCHER

Stephen Fischer - David Morgan - Richard Brightling - David Hoffman 139.1

played and defeated

HAFFER Joachim Haffer - Ron Cooper - Matt Smith - Jamie Thompson 99

The 56 board Final was therefore fought out between JACOB and FISCHER. After a hard fought and see-sawing match JACOB

emerged the Winner 92.1 to 74.

Johnno Newman, Justin Williams, Tom Jacob & Brian Mace

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COACHING SESSIONS WITH BARBARA TRAVIS

NOVEMBER 2017

SUITED TO MORE SUPERVISED, INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED PLAYERS You will learn: What is a negative double and why you need to play them How to deal with opposition overcalls, natural bids v. negative doubles How to respond to negative doubles How to penalize an opponent’s overcall when you play negative doubles How to respond to reopening doubles when you have a weak hand Practice, practice, practice

SUITED TO SUPERVISED, INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED PLAYERS You will learn: What bids are forcing (or game forcing) and what bids are non-forcing on your second bid How to bid hands that fit poorly – misfit hands – and stay low if necessary How to think about what your partner’s bidding means What a reverse is (what the barrier is) and what it means to your auction How, when and why to use fourth suit (game) forcing Practice, practice, practice

Cost: $10 per person per session at: SABA, 243 Young Street, Unley

Tuesdays NEGATIVE DOUBLES

14th November 2.30pm to 4.30pm

Negative Doubles: dealing with opposition intervention and getting your auction back on track

21st November 2.30pm to 4.30pm

Negative Doubles: penalizing the opponent’s overcall

28th November 2.30pm to 4.30pm

Putting all the above together and practice

Thursdays SECOND ROUND BIDDING

2nd November 2.30pm to 4.30pm ) Forcing and Non-Forcing Bids, Misfit Hands, Game Hands,

9th November 2.30pm to 4.30pm ) after 1NT Responses and Rebids, what New Suits mean

16th November 2.30pm to 4.30pm Reverses: Bidding Beyond Your Barrier

23rd November 2.30pm to 4.30pm Putting all the above together and practice

30th November 2.30pm to 4.30pm Fourth Suit Forcing

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MONTHLY RESULTS

Monday AM

Pam Morgan-King / Andrew Eddie

Terry Pickering / Rosie Vostatek

Judy Stafford / Suzanne King

Angela Grimaldi / Jenny Kernbach

Bridge on Torrens

Brenda Butcher / Margaret Reid

Helen Fleet / Robert Fleet

Pam Russell / Trish Carmody

Monday PM A Grade

Attilio De Luca / Susan Emerson

Roger Januszke / Robert Bignall

Monday PM

Louise Pfeiffer / Caprice Davey

Monika Vnuk / Alice Handley

Monday PM Supervised

Libby Mcmahon / Larrie

Strautmanis

Shelley Eitzen / Alicia Terry

Tuesday AM

Paddy Mcerlean / Adela Durowicz

Walter Kuiper / Maria Hewlett

John Smith / Bill Lockwood

Tuesday AM Intermediates

Steve Williams / Liz Mathlin

Shelda Foulis / Christine Duke

Tuesday AM Supervised

Nives Vincent / Helen Willmer

Bridge@Somerton Park

Dennis Miles / Cathy Lindus

Peter Solomon / Simon Cameron

Tuesday PM

Jim Smith / Wendy Smith

Tassi Georgiadis / Joanne Bakas

Chris Nettle / Rob Burnell

Wednesday AM A Grade

Gordon Fallon / Adel Abdelhamid

Sue Lusk / Andrew Eddie

Wednesday AM

Ann Fudge / Jennifer Hammer

Lola King / Suzanne King

Wednesday PM

Peter Mika / Helen Gray

Thursday AM

Valerie Paltridge / Michal Koziol

Jean Richmond / Lexie Hutchison

Helga Corbett / Val Churchill

Brian Poole / Rebecca Poon

Bridge on Torrens - Thursday

Chris Roberts / Len Bell

Philip Last / Peter Mckay

Bridge on Torrens - Supervised

Mike Hanzalik / Brian Wheatley

Sharyn Bird / Nola Uzzell

Friday AM

Andrew Eddie / Adel Abdelhamid

Helen Fleet / Robert Fleet

Margaret Stevens / Pat Lake

Judy Hone / Jim May

Bridge@Campbelltown

Philip Last / Ruth Carter

Margaret Mackay / Liz Milner

Saturday

Jim Smith / Wendy Smith

Rita Sziller / Gizella Mickevics

Saturday Intermediate

Monika Vnuk / Alice Handley

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Happy Bridging