News March 2023

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by Morris Jones

Pasadena Bridge Club Logo <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> News from N Fair Oaks Mojo Pasadena Bridge Club <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> BridgeMojo <https://bridgemojo.com> Courses <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/available_courses> ABTA Master Teacher 649 N Fair Oaks Ave #201 Pasadena CA 91103 (626) 247-4457 pasadenabridgeclub.com <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> STaC Results From Thursday afternoon, congratulations to: * Michael Rodrigues - Sri Nagesh, 1st A, 4.04 mps * Lisa Walker - Karmen Armoudjian, 3rd A, 2.27 mps From Saturday afternoon, congratulations to: * Cathy Martinet - Marilyn Conzonire, 3rd A, 1.21 mps Sunday overalls haven't yet been compiled. To see more overall results, there's a link on the home page for the Pasadena Bridge Club, or click here: https://tournaments.acbl.org/schedule.php?sanction=2303501#schedule Save the date! *May 14*. Yes, it's Mother's Day, of course. But it's also the date for a one-day bridge seminar with *Robert Todd* of Adventures in Bridge <https://www.advinbridge.com/> at the Pasadena Bridge Club. Robert is a phenomenal bridge teacher and player. He's one of my mentors, and I try never to miss a talk by him at a Regional or National. His subjects are suitable for players of all levels of bridge experience, newcomer to expert. I'll have lots more information in coming weeks. (What better Mother's Day present for a bridge playing mom?) Upcoming Courses I'm delighted to host Roy Wilson on Saturday afternoons. He will be offering lessons and practice on the *Precision bidding system*, long one of the most successful bidding systems in tournament play. He'll be meeting the class at 1:00 PM on Saturdays, with the first class on April 8. If you're "precision curious" or like to explore alternatives to Standard and 2/1GF, you may find this worth your while. Meanwhile I have three additional courses having their first meetings next week: * *Bridge Basics 3 - Popular Conventions*, Wed. Apr. 5, 7-9 PM * *Bridge Basics 2 - Competitive Bidding*, Thu. Apr. 6, 9-11 AM * *Two Over One Game Force*, Sat. Apr 8, 9:30-11:30 AM The next /Bridge Basics 1 - An Introduction/ will begin Saturday, May 20, at 9:30 AM. For complete information on current and upcoming courses, visit this link: https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/available_courses "Director, please" There was a movement some years ago to change the way we call the director to the table. Instead of just yelling out "Director!" consider the more pleasant "Director, please!" Isn't that better? Indeed, what is the correct way to get help from the director? 1. Inform the players at the table that you'd like the director to help with an issue 2. Calmly say "Director, please" to get the director's attention 3. Raise a hand so the director can find the table who called Zero Tolerance Over STaC week we've had more than one instance of players expressing anger or provoking other players. Let this serve as a reminder that this is contrary to the Laws of Bridge (74 and 91A), and penalties will be automatic, including score penalties and possible ejection and suspension. In club games, the director is the final authority regarding disciplinary penalties. Such penalties will also be filed with the ACBL Recorder's office. I'll be creating an information page on the web site with more details. Meanwhile, on this link https://www.acbl.org/ethics/ scroll down to "View the Zero Tolerance Policy" and click to see more details. (It's at the very bottom of the page!) Did you know ... ... that you are not allowed to see the previously played trick if you have turned your own card face down? If you commonly find yourself wanting to see the previous trick, try to develop a habit of /keeping your own card face up/ until you are ready to continue to the next trick. It's not just polite, it's the Law. :) Best regards, Mojo, Jane, and Zach

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STaC Update 0-750 Saturday

by Morris Jones

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It's STaC week

by Morris Jones

Pasadena Bridge Club Logo <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> News from N Fair Oaks Mojo Pasadena Bridge Club <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> BridgeMojo <https://bridgemojo.com> Courses <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/available_courses> ABTA Master Teacher 649 N Fair Oaks Ave #201 Pasadena CA 91103 (626) 247-4457 pasadenabridgeclub.com <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> District 22-23 STaC Week "Silver" masterpoints are only won at sectional tournaments, and a couple of times a year, the districts organize a distributed "Sectional Tournament at Clubs" (STaC) allowing players to earn silver points without traveling to a weekend tournament somewhere distant. Here in the Pasadena San Gabriel Unit, there are four games nearby participating in STaC week: three at the Pasadena Bridge Club, and Sunday at the Arcadia Bridge Center. Silver points are important because becoming a Life Master requires at least 75 silver points (among other requirements!). For this tournament, I've added a game on Thursday at 12:00 p.m. We'll still have our social game on Thursday for players who aren't interested in the long formal game. (The STaC game will play 24 boards in about three hours.) To see all of the clubs participating in this week's STaC follow this link <https://web3.acbl.org/stac/participating-clubs?sanction=2303501&UNITNUM=&DI…>. There are many games at clubs in Los Angeles County. District-wide results will be published at this link. <https://tournaments.acbl.org/schedule.php?sanction=2303501> Here are the STaC games locally: Pasadena Bridge Club * *Wednesday 11:00 AM Open Pairs* * *Thursday 12:00 PM 0-750 Pairs* * *Saturday 1:00 PM 0-500 Pairs* Card fees for the STaC games (only) will be $11 to partially cover the extra ACBL sanction fee. For reservations use the form here: https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/contact/game_reservation Arcadia Bridge Center * *Sunday 12:30 PM Open Pairs* This is the twice-monthly Pasadena Unit Game, meeting this Sunday at the Bridge Center, 333 N Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia, CA. /Reservations are required/, and space is limited! For reservations, call Miriam Harrington, (626) 232-0558, or write miratpf(a)aol.com. How STaCs work This tournament includes clubs throughout Southern California, which includes District 23 (Los Angeles County) and District 22 (the rest of Southern California). In each session of the day (morning, afternoon, evening), the clubs offering games receive sets of hands from the Director in Charge. They're randomly dealt hands, but /all participating clubs play the same/ /hands/. At the end of each session, the club directors send their game results to the director in charge, who combines them with other clubs playing the same hands at the same time. With all the results sorted and ranked, players have the opportunity to win large silver point awards based on the table count of all clubs playing in a particular session! Did you know ... ... you can drop in for a single class of any course? You can enjoy two hours of learning an interesting bridge topic, with no commitment, for $25. We currently have classes in progress on Competitive Bidding, Defense, and Improving Your Judgment - Doubles. If you'd love to join a class, and would like to know this week's topic, drop me a note! See all of our great bridge courses in progress and coming up on the web site here: https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/available_courses Best regards, Mojo, Jane, Zach

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Saturday afternoon 299ers and clock change

by Morris Jones

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Snow and bridge last week

by Morris Jones

Pasadena Bridge Club Logo <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> News from N Fair Oaks Mojo Pasadena Bridge Club <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> BridgeMojo <https://bridgemojo.com> Courses <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/available_courses> ABTA Master Teacher 649 N Fair Oaks Ave #201 Pasadena CA 91103 (626) 247-4457 pasadenabridgeclub.com <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> I knew if we had snow on Mt. Wilson there would be an opportunity for great views from the bridge club. Last week we were all taking pictures out the window! Here's a view from my Thursday morning Bridge Basics 1 class. Snowy Mt Wilson at bridge club And by the way, I have over five tables each in /Bridge Basics 2 - Competitive Bidding/ on Wednesday evenings, and /Bridge Basics 1 - Introduction/ on Thursday mornings! Goodwill Member of 2023 That would be my face smiling from the middle of page 22 of the March ACBL /Bridge Bulletin/. Chip Dombrosky did a marvelous write up. Everything in the article sounded familiar, but it was hard to realize that it was about me! Defense course! Defense starts this Thursday evening, 7-9 PM. It will run for eight Thursday evenings. This is one of the most powerful courses in the catalog, and can seriously change how you look at a bridge hand. The classes in this course also stand alone very well. If you see a specific topic you'd like to explore, or only have availability for a few classes, you might consider dropping in for the one session at a time. Here's the lesson plan and more information: https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/course/defense Single classes are $25, and the full set of eight is $130 which includes the text book. Thursday Noon Supervised Play Thursdays at Noon will be a supervised play session for all of my new students, and a great time for new players (who prefer not to go out in the evenings) to get together and practice. As the game grows, we'll make this into a regular novice duplicate game. Thursday Noon FTW! Tuesday evening novice pairs We have players coming out to play on Tuesday evenings! If you're not there you're missing out on the fun. I've found that a 12-board game is very popular, and finishes by 9:00 with no problem. Lots of partners available if you don't have one! Pasadena Unit Game March 12 The Pasadena San Gabriel Bridge Unit 559 has opted to hold its annual meeting, lunch, and bridge game at the Pasadena Bridge Club. Lunch (pizza from Blaze!) will be at 12:00 and game time will be 12:30. Reservations required please! STaC week coming March 20 That's a Sectional Tournament at Clubs. We'll be offering *Silver Points* at games during the week of March 20 through March 26. We'll definitely have Silver Point games on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. (Open Pairs) and Saturday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. (0-300). If there's a time when you'd like to see an additional game offered that week, let me know! Maybe we can add a game to the calendar. Did you know ... ... there's an *ice machine* in the break room? It's under the counter to the left of the sink. There's always plenty of ice to go with tea from the iced tea service, or a soda from the soda 'fridge. I've also just added a *Primo water dispenser*, serving fresh chilled and hot water. This will be a great replacement for the small bottles of water that were in the 'fridge. I'll be swapping out the "sweet tea" for lemonade soon. Arnold Palmers for everyone! :) Is there a soda you'd rather see in the 'fridge than what we have? I already know there are lots of Diet Coke fans out there. Let me know about others. Best regards, Mojo, Jane, Zach

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