SPECIAL GAMES
June 30th, 5:30 PM
Unit Membership Game & Dinner
Free Dinner: Fung Lum
5:30PM
Free Game approx 6:45PM:
Campbell Community Center
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Prez Sez 1
Conscience
Court 1
Oakwood
Relocation 1
Top Ten 1
May Results 2
Masthead 3
Idioter’s
Corner 3
Becker 4
Game Times 4
Prez Sez by Dan Turkus
As of this
writing, prior to your reading this, we have 73 pairs signed up for the Unit
dinner on Sunday, June 30. Dinner starts promptly at 5:30 PM at Fung
Lum. You must sign up no later than the 20th! Yup, that's over 36
tables so far, should be a pile of points to the winners. If you don't
come in first, we'll refund your entry fee and won't charge you for dinner
either!
Also, the
night of the Unit Dinner, the election results will be announced. Thank
you to all of the candidates that are running. One player from a club to
the north remarked on the number of people we had running, and said that they
had to beg people to get on their Board. Thank you all for making it another
great year for our Unit, and all of you on the Board that have gone that extra
mile.
Sunday,
August 4, at 1 PM, Faye Parsons is going to start another Easybridge class, so
whom do you know that would love to learn our game? Maybe you want to get
someone out of the house for a few hours on Sunday afternoon. The first few
lessons are free! This is a great deal (Ed: and a great pun) for all
those card players you know.
Palo Alto
Bridge Club has issued us a challenge. They want to have a Swiss or KO
event: Palo Alto versus San Jose. We are currently working out the rules of the
competition. This should be fun with lots of different
brackets. More details will follow in the next Di-Rek’tor.
Our
library has really grown lately. Not only do we have a great selection of
novels, love stories, cookbooks, we now have a rather large selection of bridge
books. If you take a bridge book please bring it back, after you read
it. I'm thinking of putting dates on the other (non-bridge) books, and if
after a month they're still there, I'll see if another club would like to do a
pound for pound exchange.
Our next
Unit game, after Fung Lum, will be on July 28th, starting at noon and will be a
potluck, followed by Stratified Pairs. So be looking for a sign up sheet
for that game in July.
Did you
hear that Ray Yuenger just hit the half-century mark? Move over Jack Lord,
here comes Ray to "Bridge, five-O". Just another half decade and you,
Ray, can play in the Seniors.
For those who
like the NAOP (North American Open Pairs), qualifying at our club will occur on
October 20th. There will be more on this later in the year.
That's it
for now, so I'll see ya at the tables!
Conscience Court by Bill
Langlois
I recently drew Larry Wagner in the Wednesday night partnership pool. With one board to go, it felt like we were winning the event. No one was vulnerable and I picked up ♠xxx ♥Axx ♦Qxxx ♣xxx. Larry opened 1♦ in third seat and RHO overcalled 2♣. I scraped up a 2♦ bid, LHO passed, and Larry cue bid 3♣. I intended to sign off at 3♦, but my subconscious told me to give him a signoff that he couldn’t countermand. Before I knew what was happening RHO made an opening lead. I looked down at my bidding cards to find that I’d passed the cue bid.
Facing a 2-3 fit, some partners would have detailed my ancestry, morals,
and ultimate destination, but Larry just played the 3♣ contact.
As it turned out, he played it quite well, scrambling eight tricks to tie all
the pairs going down one in 3♦ or 2NT. Better: some pairs tried 3NT and it wasn’t pretty. We scored 11 out of
the 16 possible match points, and the second place pair was impressed by my
bidding judgment.
A bidding disaster won’t often lead to a 69% board, but even so it pays
to be stoical. Points salvaged off the bottom count just as much as those won
by converting a good result to a top. For example, getting out of a silly
contract for down three might pick up a point against another pair’s -180.
Berating partner and slopping cards to "get on to the next board" is
unlikely to achieve anything.
Oakwood Relocation by
Bill Traver
The Oakwood
Bridge club is relocating for approximately six months while the Oakwood
apartment building is being remodeled.
The Oakwood
club is moving to Fairbrae swim club at 696 Sheraton on the corner of Sheraton
and Hollenbeck in Sunnyvale. Fairbrae's club house is an excellent facility.
Our first game there will be on July 10th.
The Oakwood
club has been going for more than 25 years. Oakwood is tied with two other
clubs as the 2nd largest club in our unit. We welcome all of you and especially
newer players to enjoy bridge with our friendly members.
Top Ten Games
1.
72.08%*
Raymond Yuenger-Leon W. Lee, 5/5 PM
2.
68.75%
Tom Coleman-Richard Jacobs, 5/16 Eve
3.
68.03%
Frank Napolitan-Ursula Gueldner, 5/16 Eve
4.
66.58%
Judy Fisher-Larry Wagner, 5/15 Eve
5.
66.50%
Eric Yang-Peter Kao, 5/19 PM
6.
66.49%
Norman Wang-James Wu, 5/27 AM
7.
65.63%
Gary Yang-David Chang, 5/15 AM
8.
65.38%
Jeffrey Hu-Kou-Ping Cheng, 5/7 Eve
9.
65.06%
Dan Turkus-Kit Humphrey, 5/6 AM
10.
65.03%
Tina Pearson-Glenda Ciochon, 5/13 AM
11.
64.88%
Maureen Ellenberg-Ruth Sporer, 5/10 AM
*
one of the players was ineligible to participate in a limited master point
game.
