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News from North Fair Oaks
Mojo
ABTA Master Teacher
649 N Fair Oaks Ave #201
Pasadena CA 91103
(626) 247-4457
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June kicks off the club-level qualifying for the annual North American
Pairs tournament.
This is one of two "grass roots" tournaments held each year that
culminate in champions in each of four different experience flights.
(The other is the Grand National Teams.)
The first round of the tournament begins at clubs. Clubs can designate
games during June July and August to be NAP Qualifier games. The
masterpoint awards for these games are really big, and are 50% black /
50% red masterpoints.
Players who finish in the top 50% of their strat will be "qualified" to
advance to the district final. (The district final date has not yet been
announced.) The top players in each flight of the district final will be
invited to represent District 23 at the Spring NABC in Dallas, and
receive some reimbursement for travel expenses!
At the Pasadena Bridge Club, we'll be holding three week-long
opportunities to qualify for the District Final — one week each in June,
July, and August.
Our first opportunity is this coming week. All Open Pairs games the week
of June 15-20 will be NAP Qualifier games. The strats for each game will
be Open/3000/750 based on the highest masterpoint holder of the pair.
Card fees for these games will be $13 (or a punch plus $1).
If you're interested in competing in the North American Pairs, it's
worth reading the "Conditions of Contest" at this link
<https://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/NAP/CoC.pdf>. Sarah
Deschenes and I represented District 23 in Flight A of the event earlier
this year in St. Louis. It was a great time!
Classes This Week
Our classes are best in the context of a full course, but they also
stand alone very nicely. If you can't take a full course, you can always
drop in for a single class on any topic for $25.
Here are this week's individual classes:
* Wednesday 3:00 PM /Introduction to Defense /"Signals against notrump"
* Wednesday 7:00 PM /Two Over One Game Force /"The choice between game
and slam"
* Thursday 7:00 PM /Bridge Basics 2 - Competitive Bidding /"The
competitive auction"
The Saturday morning 9:30 workshop is on as usual, with another great
hand from Eddie Kantar's /Thinking Bridge/ series. (Attend the workshop
for free, even if you don't play in that morning's game!)
Coming up ...
Registration is now open for the next /Bridge Basics 1 - Introduction/
session. It will meet on Wednesday evenings starting July 15. Click here
to register for the session
<https://pasadena.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&i…>
with PCC Extension.
*Next week at the bridge club* all Open Pairs games will be Club
Championships. Lots of points, no extra charge!
Best regards
Mojo, Jane, Zachary, Lisa, Susan
