Te Awamutu Contract Bridge Club

 
           
         

About our Club

The Te Awamutu Contract Bridge Club is affiliated to the New Zealand Contract Bridge Federation and is a fast growing organisation. During 2002 we have seen

  1. The opening of its own rooms for the first time in it's 41 year history.
  2. The development of this website with results online as soon as the scoring is complete - the first provincial town to do so.
  3. The development of its own online bridge tutorial. 

 

Details of Playing Sessions
There are four regular sessions

Monday 7.30 p.m. This is a smaller session of around 8 tables, mostly of the more senior members, though some newer members have started to play.

Tuesday 11.00 a.m. Starts around April. Bring your lunch. This is mostly newer, less experienced players, but with a few senior ones. There are usually 9 - 12 tables. It is treated very much as a training session, and more experienced players will give advice when needed during the hands, and will even look at your hand to assist if required. No C points are awarded for this reason. It is great if you are new to club and duplicate bridge.

Wednesday 7.30 p.m. Mostly junior and intermediate players, a good relaxed room of 12 - 15 tables. New players who cannot play during the day on Tuesday start here.

Friday afternoon 1.15 p.m. A real mixture from players just out of class to open grade partnerships. 13 + tables 

Summer Bridge Most of us just cannot go through January without our bridge, so we also play on Wednesday evenings throughout January.

Training   Once a month we have Sunday afternoon sessions, starting at 1.30 p.m. with a talk on some topic and playing at 2.00 p.m. Newer players will be sat at tables of 2 or 3 per table and with one experienced player. They will then play together for the afternoon, shuffling and dealing thenselves and analysing each hand for as long as they want. They do their own thing!. Finish when you want. It is for practice. These will be held on the fourth Sunday of each month. No partners are needed. Just turn up! No table money for this session

Visitors to our club are most welcome, and partners can be arranged for you by ringing one of the following partnership stewards.

Monday - Kathy Hobbs 871 5227
Friday - Brian Sloan 871 5127
Tuesday,Wednesday and summer bridge - Margaret Smith 871 8412

What does it all cost? Subscription is $50 per year and we pay $2.50 "table money" each time we play.

Interested in learning to play Bridge?

What is bridge?
The most popular card game in the world by far, it's origins can be traced back almost 400 years to the development of whist in England It was only in about 1896 that the game of bridge as we know it evolved. It took off in 1925 when an American millionaire Harold S. Vanderbilt and a group of friends went on a cruise through the Panama Canal. He basically invented slams and vulnerability and these features of the game have lasted until today.

If you have ever played Five Hundred, you will love bridge. It is all about taking tricks in conjunction with a partner, and using trumps.

Today there are over 17,000 members of 112 clubs affiliated to the NZ Contract Bridge Association, and in the recent Manchester Commonwealth games it was a demonstration sport

We run courses starting in late March/early April each year. It's not too early to put you name down now, and we will contact you when they are due to start next.

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