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Pasadena CA 91103
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This past Sunday the club hosted the North American Pairs District Final. This game determines who will be invited to the Spring NABC in St. Louis to represent District 23 (Los Angeles County).
In Flight C, two of our regular club partnerships placed in the overalls and will get their invitation: Peter Kavounas with Richard Parker from Upland and Claremont won the event, and Hsing (Cindy) Fang and Chris Sun from San Gabriel and Pasadena took third.
Peter Jager and Kim Ebner placed fifth and become "first alternate" to make the trip to St. Louis in Flight B.
Flight A was a special case, with only two pairs entered. Both pairs will have a chance to play in St. Louis. Gary Moore and Thompson Jin , along with Sarah Deschenes and myself. It just confirms what Woody Allen said that "80% of life is just showing up." :)
Instant Matchpoint Game Wednesday
Wednesday October 29 our Open Pairs game will be the ACBL-wide Instant Matchpoint Game. This is our third year to host this special game (and it's good to have the practice!).
The game is played like any of our other Open Pairs games, but instead of waiting to get your matchpoint score at the end of the game, you will find your score on a traveling score slip immediately after playing it. (The scores have already been determined, and I don't know how they do that! Probably best that I don't!)
More special features: 1st place in each direction earns one full gold masterpoint. The remaining awards will be a "royal" scattering of black, red, silver, and gold. The top five pairs in each district will be awarded additional points (first place gets 10.0 masterpoints!).
At the end of the game, everyone receives a printed booklet with expert analysis of all 36 hands available for play. (We'll only play 24 of them.)
The game takes a little extra time, so plan to be finished closer to 2:30. We do have to clean and set up the room for the Bridge Basics 1 class that starts at 3:00! Card fees are $14 for this game.
Classes This Week
For all of our courses, you're welcome to join a single class for $25. It's a great way to get a good bite of a subject without a six-week commitment.
- Wednesday, 3:00 PM, Bridge Basics 1 - Introduction "Minor Suit Openings and Responses"
- Wednesday, 7:00 PM Bridge Basics 3 - Popular Conventions "Strong Opening Hands"
- Thursday, 7:00 PM Intro to Defense "Third Hand Play"
Saturday morning is our workshop and game for novice/intermediate players. We start with a free workshop at 9:30 featuring an entertaining hand from Eddie Kantar's "Thinking Bridge" series. You're welcome to come for the workshop even if you're not planning to play in the game.
Coming up ...
Our great friend of the club Jane Winer has been doing so much to help students, new and continuing, to get opportunities to practice between classes. She has been opening the bridge club on Sunday mornings at 10:00 or so and inviting folks to come practice hands from that week's classes.
Jane is also taking on a great organizational duty by helping to arrange for "seat filling" teaching assistants for each class. These are past students from classes who volunteer to fill a three-player table to make a fourth. They come attend a class with the possibility of not being needed!
It's a great luxury for the students (and the teacher!) for the quality of the presentation — to have the maximum involvement in each of the classes, with rarely a need for "5-player" tables.
If you are a current student or potential TA volunteer who would like to join in, drop me a note (reply to this message) and I'll put you in touch with Jane.
Best regards,
Mojo, Jane, Zachary, Lisa, Susan
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