News from N Fair Oaks

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. There are many games at clubs in Los Angeles County. District-wide results will be published at this link.

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@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