WATER MILL BRIDGE CLUB

GRAND SLAM NEWS

MAY- JUNE 2010

GAMES:  TUES 1 P.M ., WED. 7 P.M. UMC OF SH  FRI. 10 A.M. JCOH

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WORLD WIDE BRIDGE CONTEST FRI. JUNE 4TH 7 P.M. SAT. JUNE 5TH NOON SIGN UP NOW!

The Water Mill Bridge Club will be competing against all the participating countries throughout the world.  It’s an exciting tournament, get a partner and

plan on playing in either or both games.

 

BAUMER’S BRIDGE BITES

Using Your Inner Voice

 

There has been a multiple number of times I get a complaint that E/W or N/S is getting all the points. The truth of the matter is that winning bridge means defending better than others on the same boards that the field plays as well as finding the best contract and declaring that contract well. You get a chance to make a lead directing double by doubling opponents artificial bids, such as:

1N           P              2C (Stayman)        ?                             

1N           P              2D (Transfer)        ?                             

1D           P              1S            P            

 1N          P              2C (New minor force)           ?

1N           P              2H (transfer)          ?

1N           P              2S (transfer)          ?

And all Blackwood or Gerber responses

You can increase the odds of partner making the best lead for your side by doubling appropriately. People

tend to lose focus if a run of boring hands occurs.  Use your inner voice and actively double when appropriate. Its easier on partner and will reap dividends.

PS. If your partner is an aggressive bidder, do not overdue doubling, or partner may start taking saves that may cost too much. You know best concerning your partnership and you can adjust if too many phantom saves are taken.

 

 

It is not the handling of difficult hands that makes the winning player.  There aren’t enough of them.  It is the ability to avoid messing up the easy ones…. Alan Sontag

 

 

 

 

Many of our WMBC players competed in the Regionals this past April.  We would like to congratulate all of the following champs for a “good job well done” (WOW 49.86  CONGRATS RICHARD!!!!)

 

       April 2010 LI Regional Masterpoint Winners 

 

   Total   Gold    Red   PLAYER

    49.86  39.71  10.15  Richard Baumer

    41.00  41.00         Justine Cushing

    11.11   4.95   6.16  Susan Denenholz

    10.86   4.95   5.91  Matt Rewinski

    10.83  10.83         Grace Lloyd

    9.70    7.35   2.35  Fran Gillespie

    7.87   5.25    2.62  Martha Coopersmith

    7.87   5.25    2.62  Joyce Greenberger

    7.87   5.25    2.62  Richard Coopersmith

    7.00   7.00          Robert Gold

    6.61   4.26    2.35  Lorraine O'Loughlin

    5.92   1.31    4.61  Phyllis Vaccaro

    5.81   5.81          Linda Lake

    5.77   1.51    4.26  Beth Raymond

    5.77   1.51    4.26  Steven Raymond

    5.18   3.43    1.75  Geoffrey O'Connor

    5.02   5.02          Charles Kemp

    4.26   4.26          Mimi Lenihan

    3.75           3.75  George Aman

    3.57   3.57          Hanneke Gold

    2.66   2.66          Bonnie Salkind

    2.47           2.47  Gladys Collier

    2.47           2.47  Adele Dusenbury

    2.39           2.39  Muriel Cunningham

    2.39           2.39  Lillian Vishno

    2.22           2.22  Jane Marks

    2.12   2.12          Dorothy Feldmann

    2.12   2.12          Herbert Feldmann

    1.73           1.73  Christiane Castel

    1.68           1.68  June Harrison

    1.68           1.68  Ann Cryan

    1.67           1.67  Joan Whitman

    1.67           1.67  Eleanor Silverman

    1.33           1.33  George Gucker

    1.33           1.33  Carlo Salmaggi

    1.23           1.23  Frank Nelson

    1.23           1.23  John Hanlon

    1.18           1.18  Letitia Mero

    1.00           1.00  Geri Obler

    1.00           1.00  Marianne Carroll

    1.00           1.00  Arnie Obler

    1.00           1.00  Leo Kimmel

    0.96           0.96  Gair Betts

    0.44           0.44  Pamela Geiger

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone who would like to make a contribution to our July/August newsletter can submit copy to me by Julyl 15th.

 

Sue Birdsall shared the following information on WEAK 2 BIDS, learned in her bridge classes taken in Florida and has offered them for your perusal.

 

 

 

 

 

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SILVER POINT WEEK JUNE 7TH  - 13TH