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

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

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

Hamilton Congress 2024

Submitted by Dave on Mon, 28/10/2024 - 14:46

Corrections"

Congratulations to the Winners at Hamilton 2024


Swiss Pairs and Teams were the popular formats at the 2024 Hamilton Congress. 26 Teams took part in the 10A Open which is the largest number the Hamilton Club has seen for several years. From there the numbers were all down hill through the other 3 events to a disappointing number in the Restricted Open pairs. Maybe players were after the "A points" as players who regularly play at Hamilton are away in South America resulting a slightly easier path to the points ?

Thanks to all who played over the weekend and making it good for bridge....

The winners of the events at the Hamilton Congress - ( click any of the photos for a larger view )

1st place at Hamilton Congress - Hamilton Restricted
2024 Restricted Pairs - 1st Place
Gordon Zhong & Marcus Dudley
Auckland / Te Puke
2024 Shirley Waymouth Pairs - 1st Place
Ian Berrington & Graham Tuffnell
Akarana / Christchurch
Open / Open
1st place at Hamilton Congress - Hamilton Open Teams
2024 10A Open Teams - 1st Place
Graeme Tuffnell, Ian Berrington
Brian Mace, Malcolm Mayer
1st place at Hamilton Congress - Hamilton Consolation Swiss Pairs
2024 3A Swiss Pairs Pairs - 1st Place
Brett Glass & Gary Foidl
Huntly ( Hamilton ) / Waikato ( Hamilton )
Open / Open

Photos of the remaining non overall winners

A tale of two carpets

Submitted by Dave on Sat, 19/10/2024 - 06:39

Thanks to WEL Trust Thanks to Hamilton City Council

The Richmond Room at Hamilton Bridge with the new carpet

Hamilton Bridge Club - October 6 to 9th 2024

Thank you Richard for a job done well !
Due to a large amount of work by Richard Wagstaff the Bridge Club now has new carpet in both playing rooms.
Thanks to the ladies - Helen Rinaldi, Laura Sommerville, Cathy Nolen and Karen Harris who advised Richard and kept him on the "straight and narrow" on the most important requirements for the carpet - the type/style and then the colour and design for the new carpet.
Thanks to everyone including those unmentioned helpers who removed the old carpet for their hard work !!

As for the carpet - approx. 350sq/m in size and 47 years young being installed in 1978. The carpet has NOT been dumped - the best of it has been reused as carpet with the rest to be used around a property to allow a shelter belt to grow from scratch. Unfortunately the underlay didn't have a new use and will needed to be dumped

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Photos of the rest of the job

The Best.......

Submitted by Dave on Thu, 03/10/2024 - 08:29

Thursday Nights start time stays at 7pm

Megan & Leanne win the NZ Intermediate Teams at Congress

 
Megan and Leanne together with their playing partners Kim Thomas and Kevin Grundy ( from Whangarei ) won the NZ Intermediate Teams at 2024 Congress currently taking place at Mt Maungaunui. With 7 wins out of 8 it was a convincing 20 point win
 

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Leanne & Megan were unable to collect their prize at Congress
so Barry Jones dropped by Monday to do the honors
1st place 2024 NZ Intermediate Teams
Hamilton / Hamilton
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Another winner !

Mereana & partner Rob Armstrong won Congress Restricted Open Teams
 
Mereana and Rob ( Hastings ) together with their playing partners - Graham Stern and Alan Parkes ( Mt Maunganui ) won the Congress Restricted Open Teams heading home a field of 18 teams

 
Congratulations !!!

 
P.S.
Other Hamilton players success at Congress 2024

3rd Place : Congress Open Matchpoint Swiss Pairs - KAREN HARRIS / BOB HURLEY ( Palmerston North )
2rd Place : NZ Pairs Plate - JEFFREY CHANG - YUZHONG CHEN
2rd Place : Congress Pairs - JENNA GIBBONS - CHRISTINE GIBBONS ( Te Puke )

Continuing...
Qualifiers for the next round of NZ Open Teams - "Round of 16" - ( Out of 58 starting Teams )
4th place : NZ Open Teams Qualifying - FISHER Team ( Blair and Liz )
8th place : NZ Open Teams Qualifying - WILSON Team ( Karen Harris )
11th place : NZ Open Teams Qualifying - JONES Team ( Barry and Jenny )

NO Change to Thursday Night Start Time

Submitted by Dave on Sat, 21/09/2024 - 06:59

Thursday Nights start time stays at 7pm

Start time for Thursday Nights remains at 7pm till end 2024
 
No change to start time after daylight savings
 
The regular playing members of Thursday Night voted last week for the change in Start Time as documented in the programme book happening Daylight Savings on 29 September will not happen. This start time will continue at 7pm to the end of the 2024 bridge year

Hamilton Bridge Match Committee

and the Great Run of Results continues.....

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 18/09/2024 - 09:21

Well done for Matamata Intermediate Pairs -
Stan Rinaldi & Helen Rinaldi - 1st place

Megan Jolly & Leanne Curry - 3rd place and still in first place in the Waikato - Bays Intermediate League

Mary Girvin & Lois Jones (Waik/Hami) - =6th place

Don MacPherson & Irenee Stewart (Camb/Hami) / (Camb/Hami) - 8th place

Marilyn Webby & Ranjith Cooray - 13th place

List of current placemeakers in WBays Int League
 
 
 
 
List of current placemeakers in WBays Int League

 

Congratulations to all.....

36 pairs took part in the Matamata Pairs event on 15 September - the 7th of 8 rounds in the Waikato Bays League. Winners were Hamilton's Stan Rinaldi & Helen Rinaldi by a comfortable margin
 
In 3rd place Megan and Leanne consolidated their lead in the Waikato Bays Intermediate League with now a 9 points lead of the final round in Cambridge on 20 September. The junior league does not run a round in September with its 6 and final round being in October - Jiwan Dhaliwal and Bill Barwood still hold 3rd and 5th place in that league

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Stan Rinaldi & Helen Rinaldi
1st place Matamata Intermediate Pairs
Hamilton / Hamilton
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