On Thursday 23rd we celebrated Joan's 90th birthday.  Joan joined Gloria Gilmore, Marie Wilson and Martin Steiner in our very special 90s plus members' group.

We look forward to enjoying Joan playing in our club for many more years - especially in her favourite contract of No Trumps.

Thank you to everyone who helped to make our annual tournament so friendly and happy.  There were 80 players who took part and lots of bridge was played.  Thank you to all the members who brought food or helped on the day to make it all go seamlessly. A special thanks to our Director, Pam Moore and scorer, Mike Neels. Ian Moore and Kevin also spent a lot of time helping to ensure the day was a success.

Players are welcome to join us at 7pm this Friday for this NZ wide event that is played at the same time in many clubs across NZ . Please be seated by 6.50.

The cost is $10 and includes a booklet to take home about the bidding and play of each hand.  The proceeds go to NZ youth players.  The table money comes out of the Cambridge club member’s Compa$$ account.  Visitors are welcome and should bring $10 cash.

Please enter online on the NZB website or on clipboard in club.

The Taupo club tried something a little different in their Kefi Cafe-sponsored event on 4-Oct - a Restricted 8B Swiss Pairs in which two Opens were not permitted to play together. Swiss Pairs is becoming rather popular these days - usually as a source of fractional A points for the less-than-famous in the Open format. Another innovation will become available to clubs next year - 3A Open Restricted events will come onto the calendar.

🏆 That’s a stellar showing from Steve Hunt and Sue Keating! Winning both the morning and afternoon sessions and taking the overall title at the Matamata Intermediate Bridge Tournament is no small feat. Their consistency across the day was extremely impressive.
 

👏 Hats off as well to Nandy Costa and Denise Whybrow for clinching 4th overall—top-tier placement in a competitive field.

Well played them!

On behalf of Cambridge Bridge club, I am extremely sorry that we are announcing a change in the results of the Cambridge Sixes.  This is the first time in its history that I can recall this has been necessary.  The adjustment has occurred due to the players at one table sitting in the wrong directions for the first round of the day.

Here is the link to the Team Photos on my Flickr page. The photos can be downloaded from there using the download button which is the vertical arrow above a line. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesimages/albums/72177720328286392

But also .. they can be viewed in the Gallery on this the Cambridge Bridge Club website

Whether you helped for all of the day, part of the day, donated generously to the raffle, baked, made savouries, helped setup or pack up, assisted with the planning of the event or played- or all of the above- the committee wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU.  Without the generosity of the club members, the event would be a shadow of its amazing self.  There is simply no other tournament like it in terms of its offerings: great bridge, fabulous food all day, tantalising trivia, unbeatable raffle and dastardly dressup!