WAP's for 2025

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 27/04/2025 - 08:34
Promo for the 2025 Waikato Area Pairs

Club Winners

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 18/04/2025 - 11:32

2025 Winners of Club Events

Tuesdays - Monica Heard Handicap Trophy : Janice Wilton & Elaine Rayner (Left)

Fridays - Charles Holland - Goodwin Memorial Pairs : Cynthia Clayton & Richard Fletcher (Right)

1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament 1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament 1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament

Tuesdays - Monica Heard Handicap Trophy : Janice Wilton & Elaine Rayner (Left)

Friday Richmond - Anne Archbold Cup : Elaine Rayner & Ross Stewart (Centre)

Fridays - Charles Holland - Goodwin Memorial Pairs : Cynthia Clayton & Richard Fletcher (Right)

1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament 1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament 1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament

N.B. You may click on any image for a larger view

2025 Restricted Pairs Winners

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 09/04/2025 - 18:02

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Hamilton 2025 Restricted Pairs

Hamilton, 6th April the Club hosted the 2025 Restricted Pairs. Great improvement in numbers with a 100% increase over last year with 42 pairs. Bridge was not too bad either !! Open - Intermediate combinations (26prs) dominated the competition followed by Intermediate - Intermediate (11prs) with just enough Junior - Junior pairs to warrant a prize.
Field was mostly Waikato or Bay of Plenty players with a smattering from Auckland and 2 pairs from from New Plymouth who maybe got lost leaving town ?
Thanks all for coming and making a great day of bridge.....

The winners were -
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Hamilton Restricted 1st Place overall
2025 Hamilton Restricted Pairs - 1st Place
Blair Fisher and Megan Jolly
Hamilton / Hamilton
1st place Junior / Junior
2025 Intermediate - Intermediate Pairs - 1st Place
Trini Lin & Helen Rinaldi
Hamilton / Hamilton
Absent - Trini Lin
1st place Junior / Junior
2025 Junior - Junior Pairs - 1st Place
Don Weston & Debbie Weston
Hamilton / Hamilton

Photos of the runners of Hamilton Intermediate and Junior Pairs

Happening soon.....

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/04/2025 - 12:54

Hamilton Bridge Club coming events

 

Hamilton Events :
 Date  Event  Detail
Sunday 27th April WAPs - Te Aroha 10am start - $15 Entry
Tuesday 13th May
Note Date Change !!! 		Craig Investments Tournament Start 10am - 2 sessions
Sunday 18th May Soup and Bun I Start 12.30pm - Soup // 1.15pm for Bridge
Sunday 25th May WAPs - Cambridge 10am start - $15 Entry

Tuesday Day Programme Change

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/04/2025 - 11:57

Event date change by 1 week

Tuesday Day Individuals starts 1 Week earlier on 6 May
 
Craigs Investment Multigrade Pairs now 13 May
Due to a tournament date clash with Auckland and NZ Bridge not allowing clashes the Craigs Investment Multigrade Pairs is being delayed playing by a week.
This means the Tuesday Day Individuals now starts on 6 May and is interrupted by the Craigs Investment event a week later.
Please check whether this change has caused issues to you or your partner

Hamilton Bridge Match Committee

Intermediate and Juniors

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 16/03/2025 - 11:19

Hamilton Intermediates Hamilton Juniors

Hamilton 2025 Intermediate and Junior Pairs

Saturday, 15th was a great day of bridge at the Hamilton Intermediate and Junior Pairs. Great field for the Intermediate Pairs with 22 tables with players from north of Auckland, down to New Plymouth and across on the East Coast from Thames down to Te Puke. The juniors event wasn't as well represented with just 10 tables from Franklin to Tauranga but one very very keen player traveled all the way from Asburton ! Was also very nice to see the majority stayed for the prize giving having best dent in the clubs bar stock for a quite a period !

The Intermediate Pairs was the second round of 8 of the Waikato Bay Intermediate League with current standings after two rounds can be found here . The Junior Pairs was the first round of the Junior League with the next being at Cambridge on 29 March

Thank you all for making for a great day
Happy Bridge.......

The winners were -
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1st place Intermediates at Hamilton
2025 Hamilton Intermediate Pairs - 1st Place
Catherine Cameron & Trini Lin
Hamilton / Hamilton
Absent Trini Lin
1st place Juniors Hamilton
2024 Hamilton Junior Pairs - 1st Place
Iain Paterson & Larissa Eyre
Hamilton / Hamilton

Photos of the runners of Hamilton Intermediate and Junior Pairs

Hamilton 5A Swiss

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 25/02/2025 - 11:33

HAMILTON ONLINE 5A OPEN SWISS PAIRS

favourite chair , favourite brew , favourite sandwich , favourite game.....

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Join Hamilton Bridge for the 2025 Hamilton 5A Swiss and play at home!

Prizes also for best Restricted Open & Intermediate Pair

Running 3 sequential Wednesday nights starting 18th June

Entries Close Monday 16th June so enter NOW

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If you are interested then click this link for entries or this link for the tournament flyer

Joan

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 27/11/2024 - 06:16

The Hamilton Bridge Club acknowledges the passing of Long Time and Life Member Joan Egger and extends sympathy to her family and friends

click here

Joan sadly passed away on Tuesday evening after a returning illness.
Having joined the Bridge Club in 1990, Joan was until recently in the top two or three players in the Club when the numbers for sessions played were totaled up at years end - Joan enjoyed her bridge !

The Bridge Club also benefited from Joan's time at the Club as she held a number of
management roles in the Club over those years -
♥  President , ♥  Vice President , ♥  Committee Member , ♥  Scorer , ♥  Partner Steward , ♥  Dealer , ♥  Bar custodian

Then, in 2020 Joan joined a very select group of 16 other past and present members when the members of the Club voted her as a Life Member of the Hamilton Bridge Club - a very popular addition to the Club's Life Members.

In addition to the above "more formal positions" Joan has also been constantly involved in many other aspects of the organisation of the Hamilton Bridge Club such as working in the kitchen at tournaments over many years, billeting players from out of town attending our tournaments and generally assisting at tournaments, helping where ever she is needed.

Her last game of bridge came in early October with a deserved 5th placing in a session
of Friday morning bridge - Joan will be greatly missed.....

Hamilton Bridge

Meet Our Members – Joan Egger from the Bridge Club Newsletter - August 2019

More detail on Joan's Life Membership - Click here

2024 Hamilton Bridge Club AGM

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 19/11/2024 - 09:43

2025 AGM

Election of Officers 2024 - 2025
   
 President : Helen Rinaldi
 Vice President : Nigel Gresson
 Club Captain :
 Committee : Hugh Barton
  Dave Edson
  Merle Jonson
  Rosalind Millar
  Laura Sommerville
  Richard Wagstaff

 Resolutions :

  Proposals received from club members :

  Prior to the meeting - Nil

  From the floor - Nil

  Proposals received from the Hamilton Bridge Club :

  That the Total Subscription paid for Full Membership of HCBC be increased to $110 to recover part
  of the increase charge from NZ Bridge for the Affiliation Levy

  The Motion was passed by a show of hands
 
19 November 2024
Hamilton Bridge Club
 
A copy of the Club 2024 Annual Report presented to members attending on the day is available here

"Fashion in the Field" Hat Competition

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/11/2024 - 14:50

In the "Fashion in the Field" Hat Competition there were some outstanding entries making the judges' decision difficult. In the end these were some of the worthy winners:

Wacky style - Brent Rogers

Posh style - Doris Chapman

Organiser Judith Brooks, Posh style again & Natural Garden Hat style - Raewyn Grylls-Thomas

N.B. You may click on any image for a larger view

1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament 1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament 1st place at Hamilton Bridge's Congress Pairs Tournament
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