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  100 podcasts coming up

  Will we get a song out of Kate Terry again?

  What a special milestone, thank you Bridge Zone followers

  And a huge High Five to NZ Bridge, you rock

         We finish our chat with Judge Julie

         Barry is up to play with our friend Nigella

         Can we crash BBO…watching the fun

         Auckland Social Distance Teams – the June event started this week

         Catch up with the results on their website

         Barry shouts out to the Take Out Double again

         He answers a question for me, banging the same ole drum

         Judge Julie underlines and shouts --- LEAD YOUR PARTNERS’ SUIT

         I interview a person I have known my entire short Bridge life

         They share some tidbits of their very lengthy Bridge world, thoughts and experiences

         Been through some super highs and super lows, we talk about partnerships , age, gender – does it matter?

         We have a fair bit of material to air and will share this over the next few weeks

         You can make you own mind up, its all interesting

         June and July

         Tournaments may be coming to Hamilton Bridge Club

         Listen all about it

       Have a great week

Want a call – drop us an email – bridgezoneshow@gmail.com and we will contact you…….     It’s that simple !

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Proudly supported by NZ Bridge – taking Bridge to the airwaves

  North Island Pairs


  NZB and Hamilton are considering continuing with the event

  Dependant upon the COVID restrictions this may go ahead

  What are your thoughts?

  Would you play if you could?

  Barry and I talk about numbers, distancing, and very important…..lunch

NZ Bridge & the Australian Bridge Federation have approached WBF about the two majors tournaments set down for 2021

  The Worlds and the Mens, Womens and Senior events

  IT may cause quite a stir and we are finding that were have support Internationally

  Read all about it on the NZB website

Poor Judge Julie has to put up with both Barry and Mereana

   We talk gloating or not, holding space for your partner who is offline when registering on BBO

  The Mixed Teams had a match up on Sunday

  When the scores are known, how far will you go?

  Barry ignores his own advice and wusses out

  You heard it here on the Bridge Zone

  Who’s a wuss……..and a winner 2nd

Cynthia Clayton's quizzes have a good following

  I wonder if she is going to provide counseling services ?


Have a great week everyone

Want a call – drop us an email – bridgezoneshow@gmail.com and we will contact you…….     It’s that simple !

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Proudly supported by NZ Bridge – taking Bridge to the airwaves

  Confessions hit the Bridge Zone

  Is any punishment dished out?

  Can it be that bad?

  Father Barry gives his opinion yet sits on the fence and awaits Judge Julie's call

  When we get back to the tables – are you going to revert back to face to face alerting

  BBO may become the norm – what are our thoughts?

  Directors Exams – Judge Julie confirms the next Club Directors Exam info

  When does PASS have to be alerted

  Is 7 minutes a long time?

  Can you last to concentrate for 1 entire hand

  One of the most important things to do is

  Bridge Clubs – we talk about potential return dates

  And a club completes a member survey

Want a call – drop us an email – bridgezoneshow@gmail.com and we will contact you…….     It’s that simple !

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Self Alerting on BBO

  its really hard to remember who is meant to do it when Opps ask the table a question

  Self alerting is - you make a bid you complete the alert

COVID 19 Level 3

         Bubble bubble boil and trouble ,

         Stay in your old bubble or blow another small one to float around in

         Wonder when the Bridge Clubs will be reopening

         We debate the possibility of that day coming

         Discussion points

         Passive verses Aggressive leads

         Singleton Leads

         Doubles - who is Theodore? and why we talk about him

         Here's a clue...

         Judge Julie continues spreading the word on the experience of BBO

         Stay in your old bubble or blow another small one to float around in

         Particularly when you bid outside your system

         She talks Psychs, lying and traffic build up

         Barry lights up - his pine tree left overs went up in smoke

         He is very lucky the Fire Brigade didn't visit

         The all important Table 1

         Been there, got the tee shirt

         Does just making it there count............

         VANILLA - would you agree BBO is vanilla?

         Remember to email us about joining the BAMSA Bridge research project

         Send in your contact details

         Let's continue to support the Keep Bridge Alive Campaign

       Happy Days team

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Hello All

We are now four weeks into our self-isolations within our respective bubbles. The Bridge Club committee trusts that all members and their bubbles are safe and well. At our online meeting yesterday, we discussed possible ways forward to enable some form of regular bridge to be played safely at the club when more social options become available. To this end, we are keeping in touch with NZBridge and will follow their recommendations based on Ministry of Health advice. This means the Club will remain closed for the period of Level 3 when we will again report back to members.

There are many opportunities to play Bridge online – BBO have kiwi sessions each afternoon and night and WaikatoBays are arranging sessions for Waikato and Bay of Plenty members to join together for an afternoon or evening of Bridge. Check the WaikatoBays website for more details and instructions if you have not yet played on line. It is like most things - very easy once you know how.

Ella

On Line Bridge – BBO

As many of you likely know there are numerous games of NZ organised bridge taking place on BBO ranging from pseudo tournaments run by Auckland Bridge to smaller sessions hosted by other clubs to private games. Waikato-Bays (our regional bridge group) has taken a lead here in the Waikato organising and running what have become daily bridge sessions using BBO.

Many of these sessions are aimed at junior and intermediate players in the region so don’t be put off thinking you will be playing against open players - dependent on numbers, more qualified players requests may be declined.

Should you be interested, there are detailed instructions on the
Waikato Bays site - https://www.waikatobays.bridge-club.org/node/1099 on how to register and access these sessions/tournaments. To be able to play in these events you need two things – a partner and you need to pre-register with Waikato Bays - details can be found on the Waikato Bays site on how to accomplish both of these tasks.
If you would like to know more about BBO and playing online these are both good resources to start with -

NZ Bridge - http://www.nzbridge.co.nz/latest-updates,listing,6073,instructions-for-bbo.html

Ashburton Bridge Club - https://sites.google.com/site/ashburtonbridgeclub/home/bbo

Payment of Club Subscriptions

Our subs were due on the last day of February but as at the end of March about 22% , some 60 odd members, have still to pay!

We know that times are not easy at present with no bridge and in some cases probably worse things are happening but the Club is also suffering. We still have our fixed overheads to pay along with commitments made in the days before the word Covid-19 existed and none of us had heard “lockdown” being used

So please, can you pay your outstanding subs as soon as possible

Apologies to those who have paid since the end of March but without access to the club building we may be a little out of date

Thank you