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On Monday 23 June the Members and Novices Teams was a fun day with many novice members enjoying the first or second experience playing in a team event. Photos of all the teams can be found on our PBC Facebook Group - please consider joining this group!

It was well attended with two categories - a Green category with a partly experienced Novice pair combined with Restricted team mates, and a Blue category with a Novice pair with no teams experience combined with an Open pair. Everyone played the Peninsula Basic System to make it a pleasant more even playing experience for our novice players. 

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Join us for our second major congress of 2019 - this one being our Swiss Pairs event using IMP scoring. Check all the event details.

In 2018 the event was very well received by those that participated. Ronnie Ng did a great job as director and everything went very smoothly. Volunteer caterer Cassandra Mitchell provided wonderful food all day which was much appreciated.

The 2018 winners were Peter Jeffrey and Yimin Lee ahead of runners-up David Hudson and Paul Lavings. The Novice Prize (under 100) went to Sarah Young and Rob Scott and the best Peninsula Pair was Vivien Eldridge and David Farmer. 

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Coming up on Mon 24 Jun is our Members and Novices Teams. This is a single afternoon teams event, designed to introduce newer players to the fun of teams.

Two experienced players combine with two newer players (<50MP) as teams - pairs can play in any combination. Everyone plays the Peninsula Basic System (Green Card) - these are out of print but you can download it here.

Join the fun by registering on the noticeboard by noon Fri 21 Jun. Check the event for all the details. Inquiries to convener, Cath Whiddon.

The Australia Wide Novice Pairs (<100MP), organised by Australian Bridge, was played at Peninsula on Friday 31 May, with two sections each of 8 tables entering.

This event involves scoring across the entire field covering many Australian bridge clubs with about two thirds of the entries submitted so far - so it is too early to be certain how we fared. Normally we would have local results in the interim but with two sections even this is not completely certain, though the raw score of 68.45% by Sue Evershed and John Simmonds in one of the sections was definitely impressive. 

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In an impressive comeback from a poor start the Davies team managed to win the three week 2019 State Open Teams qualifier in the very last match. Apologies to the Duggin team...

Ten teams battled it out, over three Thursdays in May. Director Brian Soutter gave us a nine match round robin, with three matches per week. Unlike a Swiss movement this completely fair movement makes it hard to know who the interim leaders are, and a number of teams made it harder still with volatile performances.

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Thirty one pairs entered the 2019 Lawrence Shield event on Saturday 1 June. This event commemorates the huge contribution Verl and John Lawrence have made to the club over many decades.

Verl almost won the event, playing with Lloyd Cleaver, but came second to Vivien Eldridge and Patrick Starck. Congratulations to Vivien and Patrick.

The top five pairs and their % results were as follows:

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Dear all,

The Charity Day went off very happily, thanks to Sue and all the helpers who made the day run so smoothly, and raised money for two local charities - the NSW Rural Bush Fire Brigade and Mona Vale Hospice.

We also had one of our major congresses, our Swiss Pairs, which was a hugely successful day - a big thanks to Cassandra who was the convenor, Gayle, and to the whole team who made sure everyone had such a great day.

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 Dear members,

Our Swiss Pairs Congress

This month, we host our annual Swiss Pairs Congress, one of our major events of the year. Players come from many other clubs to enjoy this event.

It is a full day of bridge, from 10am until late afternoon.

If you haven’t attended a Congress before, it is an exciting way to start. The great thing about Swiss Pairs is that very quickly, everyone finds their ‘level’ in the room, so you are soon playing at a table with people with similar experience.

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