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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
Details of Playing Sessions
There are four regular sessions
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.