Welcome to Bridge for 2023

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 04/01/2023 - 05:04

Welcome to 2023
Bridge for 2023
 

Welcome to 2023 and a new year of bridge at the Hamilton Club. One hopes you were able to take advantage of what has been a great period of settled summer weather and now you are ready for the challenges of bridge. Even Covid seems to have taken a holiday of sorts. Long may it continue !

Summer Bridge - this starts again on Tuesday 10th January and continues for the following 3 weeks to the end of the month - should you need all the Summer Bridge dates then click this link here . Once summer bridge concludes the regular bridge programme will commence.....

Table Money - unfortunately the New Year brings a cost increase for all of us players with Table Money increasing to $5. The Club like everyone else has suffered with increased expenses and along with a reduction in the number of members playing we need to minimise as much as possible our losses. Mereana, our President, will be expanding on this subject here in the near future. To help your Club the best thing you can do is for you to play and to encourage your friends to also play.

2023 Programme Book - This is close to being complete but the Club is waiting for approval from external parties and for our printers to return from their Xmas break to progress

Lessons - The other thing you can do to help the Club with is the forthcoming Bridge Lessons - the Club each year needs new members to make up for the natural turnover of members so if you have friends, family, neighbours, workmates who could be interested in bridge then send them a copy of the link below

https://www.hamilton.bridge-club.org/lessons

Happy Bridge

Lessons 2023

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 21/12/2022 - 07:14


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 one minute on bridge lessons......
 
  The Hamilton Club will be running lessons on "How to Play Bridge" this year - 2023
 These lessons are currently planned to start in late February or early March with the choice of an afternoon or evening lesson time.

The Club - which is all of us - really needs the lessons to be successful so we can keep the Club running as it does now !
In a typical year our membership falls by around 10%, so without lessons and the resulting new members our current membership of approx. 240 is going to in time become a smaller with increasing "subs". Covid is not helping maintain the membership with those with medical conditions no longer playing, members playing at night dramatically down and the splitting of membership between on-line and face to face bridge when the Club gets little benefit from the membership

So that the Club will survive for a long time into the future our membership needs to grow so encourage your family, friends, work colleagues etc. to come along to the next set of lessons session
So if you or someone you know are considering the lessons we would love you to come along and learn the "great game" then click this link to take you to the page with further info and where you can register either yourself or your friends

2022 Hamilton Bridge Club AGM

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 22/11/2022 - 12:04




   

 Election Results 2022 - 2023

 
  President :   Mereana Cullen
 

  Vice President :   Richard Wagstaff
 

  Club Captain :   No Appointment
 
  Committee :

    Cherie Barton
    Hugh Barton
    Michael Davies
    Dave Edson
    Chris Goulding
    Laura Sommerville

 

 Resolutions :

  Proposals received from club members :  

  Prior to the meeting - Nil

  From the floor -
  The Club should investigate an online system for finding Bridge Partners for members   
  Referred to the committee for investigation

  Proposals received from the Hamilton Bridge Club :
  The Dates for the financial year are changed as per the resolution put to the members
  The Motion was passed with the result the financial year is 1 September to 31 August
 

Julie Thorburn
Secretary
 
The annual report presented to members attending on the day is available here

Melbourne Cup

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 28/10/2022 - 12:45

Hello everyone!

 

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Just to remind you of our special MELBOURNE CUP DAY
Tuesday, November 1st at 12.15 - Cost is $6.00 from your Compass account

 

How about asking a friend who has not been to bridge lately, to play with you that day ?
Just to encourage them to play at the club again.

 

Wear your best hat for the competition - great prizes !

 

Bring cash for the Sweep-stake !
( The Club can't legally use money from your Compa$$ account for a "flutter" )

 
The days format is as follows -

Time
♠ 12.15pm Pay for your drawn horse
♠ 1.00 - 4.00pm Play bridge
♠ 4.00pm Afternoon tea and Best hat judging
♠ 4.30pm View the Melbourne Cup race on TV
♠ 5.00pm COLLECT YOUR WINNINGS !
♥ Prior to... Please enter on notice board by 31 Oct
♥ Look forward to seeing you there Wearing your name tag please!!

Cheers

 Laura
 Club Captain

Wednesday Night Bridge to Stop Face to Face

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 21/10/2022 - 12:24


Stop for Wednesday night bridge

  Wednesday night Bridge finishes......
 

Due to the very poor turnout for the spring pairs (2 1/2 tables) the decision has been made to run Wednesday night bridge online only until the end of the programme year. We understand that playing online is not everyone's preference, but the club cannot run a viable evening with 2 1/2 tables.
 

Details of the two events that will be run on RealBridge are below.
Let's make this a viable option for the club, but this can only be achieved with your support.
 

 Ella
 Match Committee
 
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Leaving Bridge... What now?

Submitted by Dave on Sat, 30/07/2022 - 17:20

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When you have made the decision on the date to leave bridge we ask you to please tell the Club of your pending departure

This advance notice lets us plan your removal from the Clubs Systems – both Compass & Compa$$ and return any surplus funds we hold on your behalf to you. Also, it will let us advise NZ Bridge of your departure thus saving us of some or all of $23 levy we pay annually for all members.

Unfortunately not all members advise the Club when they leave which means the Club continues to pay levies to NZ Bridge until we find out you've left! Also we keep sending you invoices for your annual subscription along with adding your details in the programme book

So could we try for a tidy cut when you decide to part ways with Hamilton Bridge by you contacting the secretary at the numbers / email in the programme book

Thanks

2022 Waikato InterClubs

Submitted by Dave on Mon, 20/06/2022 - 11:45

Waikato 2022 Interclub Teams

The results for Sunday's play are below. Congratulations to Hamilton as the overall winners with Te Aroha as runners-up. Congratulations also to the top two teams in each individual grade who will represent their clubs in the finals against the Bay of Plenty clubs to be held in Cambridge in August.

Grade winners/runners-up are:

Open - Matamata and Te Aroha

Intermediate - Te Aroha and Thames

Junior - Waikato and Hamilton

We trust everyone had an enjoyable day. The results took a bit longer this year as we had to process the intermediate results to be able to integrate them with the overall results.

 

Interclub 2022 winners

 
( click Read More below to see the complete results)

Compass Virtual

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 17/05/2022 - 08:59



Overall places - Compass Virtual

As Face to Face Bridge returns to be the normal format for Club bridge all those converts of RealBridge are now facing a lack of play in their favorite format. Good news that Bob Fearn, the developer of the Compass scoring program has now incorporated RealBridge and Compa$$ together to bring you CompassVirtual Bridge. So you can have the best of both with Face to Face at the Clubs and RealBridge at home - click on the image above or this link to find out a little more on Bob's modifications to RealBridge and see it it suits your future bridge plans.....

Inter-Provincial Trials

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 13/05/2022 - 17:36

Bridge inter-provinical trials

Last weekend players from around the Waikato Bays Region took part in the trials to select our representatives for the New Zealand Inter-Provincials ( IP's ) for 2022. These are competed for in 4 flights - Open, Intermediate, Senior and Women with the actual IP's taking place on-line in November.
After 2 days competition the Hamilton Club is well represented in the overall team selected to represent the Waikato Bays Region later in the year -

Open: Barry Jones and Jenny Millington

Women: Jenna Gibbons and partner, Karen Harris and Cherie Barton

Senior: Ella Gray and Michael Neels

Well done all and good luck for the finals......

Welcome Back

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 04/05/2022 - 18:29


No more Sunday Bridge with Phil

 
 Welcome Back Promotion......
 

I guess it’s fair to say that all Clubs across the motu are finding it difficult to rebuild and return to normal services. The whack of Covid has put not only our game but the entire basis of our normal daily grind into chaos as we try to find our true North again
We read NZ Bridge’s guidelines and are attempting to kick start Hamilton Bridge Club back into life and the very basis of this genesis comes back to... the members
 
 
The core of our programme simply needs you playing
As the Committee strives to get bums on seats, we just need a few things from you:
   Play bridge
   Become financial
   Tell a fellow bridge player to come back to play
Quite a simple but immensely effective plan

There’s even a little bonus gift/competition on offer to returning players – no cost to you, it’s just a little thanks as a coming back gesture from the Club so check out the link for the T & C’s.     Click here for the details

 Mereana
 Hamilton Club President

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