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Wednesday night Swiss Pairs

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/02/2018 - 08:47

The "Summer Swiss Pairs" commence on 28 February - entry is required by Friday 23rd February

Please enter via the Club's website under the Events tab

Bridge is back................

Submitted by Dave on Thu, 25/01/2018 - 08:04

Welcome to 2018

Hamilton does well in year's first tournament in the Waikato Bays region

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 16/01/2018 - 06:35

Hamilton was very well represented in the top placings at the weekend's "Thames Festival of Bridge". Top of these was the Barry Jones team who won the John Eldridge Teams - Congratulations!

John Eldridge Teams

  • 1st - Jones team ( Barry Jones - Jenny Millington & Sam Simpson - Jo Simpson )
  • 3rd= - Harris team ( Karen Harris - Jenny Carr & Sandra Calvert - Colin Carryer )
  • 3rd= - Chen team ( Yuzhong Chen - William Liu & June Lei - John Wang )

and in the Teams qualifying great results to.....

  • 5th - Fisher team ( Liz Fisher - Blair Fisher & Malcolm - Michael Curry )
  • 6th - Roggeveen team ( Jena Robinson - Edward Roggeveen & Kevin Whyte - Clare Coles )

Barclay Swiss Pairs

  • 2nd - Yuzhong Chen & William Liu ( only 0.12 points away from 1st place - what a tough start to the year.... )
  • 4th - Liz Fisher & Blair Fisher
  • 5th - Helen Healy & Tim Healy

Read more in this excellent article by NZ Bridge's Richard Solomon & for all the other results from the weekend click here

Introducing Donna

Submitted by Dave on Mon, 15/01/2018 - 05:46


The Bridge Club has a new secretary - Donna ??? who starts at the Club in the third week of January. Donna who's a bridge player herself will be fitting bridge around her secretarial duties......

Reading Blogs.......

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 14/01/2018 - 10:47

Did you know that some of the blogs on the web site have more content that what is shown ?

This happens because front page space is precious and as different devices ( tablets, notebooks, desktops.... ) show differing amounts of the screen its difficult to decide how much of a story to display. So stories are often truncated on the screen

So if Read more is present click "Read more" and the complete story will be displayed. Happy reading......

2017 AGM

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/11/2017 - 15:52

The Club's AGM is to be held on Sunday 26 November at 2pm

The AGM starts the afternoon off and will be followed by a session of "fun" bridge. Christmas Dinner concludes the evening - all this for a really low price of $10 !

Members have the chance to talk about issues at the AGM. These can be raised by writing to the Club via the secretary before Sunday 19 November. The AGM is also where the election of officers for the Club takes place. Nominations for these need to be submitted on the forms found on the notice board at the Club by the same date

Most importantly, at the AGM we hand out to our members who have excelled at Bridge this past year the trophies for the winners of various events. To help this along could the 2016 Trophy winners please return trophies to the Club as soon as possible for cleaning

2018 Programme Book - Telephone Numbers

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/11/2017 - 22:00

The programme book for 2018 is in the production phase - the names / phone numbers lists are on the directors desk for checking. There are probably more incorrect numbers than in the past due to a computer issue where the two databases containing phone numbers became un-synchronised meaning we need to correct / re-confirm numbers - sorry about this.
It would be appreciated if this check can be completed by Sunday November 19th to minimise errors in the new programme book

Table Money Increase

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/11/2017 - 15:39

The Committee of the Hamilton Bridge Club finds it necessary to increase the table money from December. This has been forced upon us by the increasing maintenance requirements of a 60 year old building ( our Club-rooms ) which has in the past needed and has had little maintenance, resulting in low running costs

2017 Bridge Rule Updates

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 03/11/2017 - 12:33

August brought changes to the Laws of Bridge which will directly affect us as players.....

Thanks to the Tauranga Bridge Club here is a short summary of the 2017 Law changes pertaining to players

Here are key points for some of the changes -

Law 7: Board location - This law has been amended slightly to reinforce the fact that boards must remain in the centre of the table correctly orientated during play.

Law 9: Dummy - Dummy may now attempt to prevent an irregularity by any player. Dummy must not, however, ask a Defender if they have revoked or draw attention to an irregularity which has occurred, until play concludes, except for correction of a mistaken explanation by partner (Declarer).

Babich Wines NZ Wide Pairs - updated

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 27/10/2017 - 22:23

The final numbers are in - we cracked the 1000 pairs for the first time with 1018 pairs from 59 clubs taking part on November 3rd. Top Pair from our club were Gary Foidl and Brett Glass playing at Huntly finishing in 6th place with 67.6%. Read more details about the event here

A complete list of those taking part is available here by scrolling down the list to find the 2017 Babich Overall Results

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