November/December 2016

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QCBC Clubhouse, 67 Ipswich Rd, Woolloongabba, QLD 4012 www.qcbc.org.au

Where has the year gone? It’s November already.

Kim and I and all of Kim’s family went on a cruise paid

for by Marion, her sadly deceased mother, as this was

her way of celebrating her 80th. We had a fabulous, but

of course emotional time, but it forced both Kim and me

to rest which we both very much needed.

Our last function for the year is the Club Christmas

Party on 10th December. Come along and enjoy the

day where we acknowledge our hard working

volunteers to the club.

The first event for the year or some might say the last event for the year is the New Years Eve

Teams. Cheryl Stone is convening this event so if you would like to play, see Cheryl or perhaps

give her a ring.

A big welcome to Val Holbrook who has joined the Board of the club. Val normally plays

Wednesdays and Thursdays and I know she will be an asset to the team.

I would like every member to play in one QCBC event next year – this would assist us in making

every event a success.

One of the major needs of the clubs is for Playing Directors - if you are interested in becoming a

director, please give me a ring or talk to Toni. The current directors are stretched very thin due to

some retirements and we will shortly be desperate for your help. We try to assist with costs in

training and in giving you opportunities to become a great director.

2016 has not been friendly to Kim and me, so we can only hope that 2017 will be better.

Please all have a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year! Ray Ellaway, QCBC Chairman

QCBC Newsletter

Nov 30 Club Teams C’ship 1/2

Dec 4 Redlands Graded Dec 7

Club Teams C’ship 2/2

Dec 9 Christmas pairs

Dec 10 Christmas Party

Dec 11 QBA Teams of Three

Dec 12 Summer Swiss Pairs

Dec 18 QBA Individual

Dec 31 QCBC New Years Eve

Teams

Nov 11 Remembrance Day

pairs

Nov 12 QCBC Club C’ship

Nov 13 QBA Senior Pairs

Nov 13 Sunshine Coast Novice

Pairs

Nov 13 Toowoomba Teams

Nov 22 Qld Wide Pairs

Nov 27 Toowong Graded

Teams

Julie Jeffries and David O’Gorman starred at the Noosa Bridge Week, the largest bridge

teaching event in Australia with more than 170 people attending. They were second in the Ivory

Pairs Championship and first in the Plate of the Sun Pairs

Coming Events

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Chairman’s Report 2016 Financially 2016 has been a very successful year for the club with an operating profit of $40,122 up from $19,985 in 2015. Additionally the loans from the QBA & ABF were paid out so overall debt has been reduced by $49,508. We are still reliant on income from the large

display sign at the front of the building but this is secure for at least another 5 years as Bishopps have exercised their option to extend the lease. Operating income increased by $28,231 while operating expenses increased by $8,095. Table fee income increased by $10,796 due to the full year effect of the table fee increase and the taking over of the Monday Social session previously operated by Denise Dodd. The increase in expenditure was largely due to increased property repairs & maintenance costs. The board intends to further reduce debt by paying out some member loans when surplus cash is available. As is the case in all clubs the success of the organisation depends on the hard work of volunteers and I would like to thank our session directors, board dealers, masterpoint secretary, teachers, help with play supervisors, sub-committee members and all the other members who assist the club in some way. We are in need of some additional directors due to recent retirements and members will be asked to express interest in receiving the relevant training. I must also thank the other board members for their hard work and support. Julie Jeffries stood down from the board after being a member since 2010 and will be replaced by Val Holbrook at the AGM. Thank you Julie for your contribution to the club as a board member and in your ongoing roles such as Masterpoint Secretary & Director. Finally there is our long serving Manager Toni Bardon who ensures that everything runs smoothly. Thank you Toni for your unwavering commitment to the club and the caring support you provide to the members. On behalf of the Board I offer my appreciation to all members for their support and I look forward to working with you again in 2017 for the betterment of the club.

Ray Ellaway.Chairman ( QCBC).

The Annual General Meeting went smoothly in

record-breaking time.

Jan Peach ran a Directors training session at

QCBC on October 29th. Unfortunately no budding

directors from QCBC attended. QCBC Directors

are desperately needed. Time to swing into action!

Sydney Spring Nationals: Congratulations to

Andy Hung who was part of the Spring Nationals

Open Team winners and to Pele Rankin and

Eileen Li who teamed up with two Western

Australians Alida Clark and Viv Wood to win the

Linda Stern Womens Teams.

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Sept 11 Noosa Spring

Teams

A Grade

2. R. Ward, T. Hutton, R.

Parker, N. Francis

Sept 11 Noosa Spring

Teams

A Grade

2. R. Ward, T. Hutton, R.

Parker, N. Francis

. Oct 2,3 Toowoomba Teams

A Grade

1 R. Ward, T. Hutton, T, Tully, R. Wallis

2. M. Perrin, N. Francis, T. Runting, P.

Bugler

B Grade

1 R. Fox, R, Clark, C, Stone, J, Bratko

2 M. Knox, B, Kent, D& P. Nilsson

C Grade

T. Henderson. P, Matthews, A. Scott, N.

McIver

Sept 25 Redland Graded

Pairs

A Grade

1. N. Francis, M. Perrin

2. P. Evans, A. Dawson

3. P. Collins, I. Afflick

B Grade

3. J& C. Taylor

C Grade

2. D. Dudman, J. Bennett

3. N. McIver, A. Scott

Jim & Cora Taylor

Sept 18 Sunshine Coast

Graded Matchpoint

Pairs

A Grade

1. R. Ward, T. Hutton

2. J& I. Luck

B Grade

1. J& C. Taylor

2. L. Ranke, J. Rhode

Oct 1 Toowoomba Pairs

A Grade

1 I. Luck, R. Parker

2 N. Francis, M. Perrin

C Grade

2 D. Treloar, MS Yang

Sept 18 Sanctuary Cove

Graded Pairs

A Grade

2. P. Wyer, M. Moren

B Grade

Most Improved over

initial seeding

A. Scott, N. McIver

Congress Successes

Tony Hutton & Richard Ward

Sept 3 QCBC Graded

Pairs

A Grade

1. T. Hutton, M. Carter

2. T. O’Dempsey, N.

McLaurin

3. W, Zhou, C. Qin

B Grade

1. N& B. Loxton

2. J& C. Taylor

Sept 11 Noosa Spring

Teams

A Grade

2. R. Ward, T. Hutton, R.

Parker, N. Francis

Oct 8,9 GNOT Finals

(Northern Suburbs)

1 QCBC 1 N, Francis, T. Hutton, P.

Rankin, P. Hooykaas, T. Tully, R. Wallis

2 Toowong 8 M. Perrin, T. Runting, N.

Moore, C. Francis, C. Martin, A.

Wanigaratne

3 QCBC 10 P. Bugler, J&P. Evans

T. Bardon

Alan Gibson directs

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Annette Scott

Oct 15, 16 QBA Open Pairs

1 E. Zeller, J. Wallis

2 R. Ward, T. Hutton

3 T. Treloar, Peter Evans

Masterpoint Promotions

August 2016

Robin Steinhardt Silver Life

Robyn Madden Club

September 2016

Annette Scott *State

Colin Peardon State

Ruth Hoffensetz **Local

Mary Ranke Local

Robert Day Graduate

Jamshid Vaziradeh Graduate

James Smith Graduate

Oct 22 Surfers Paradise Graded Teams

A Grade

1 B&A. Kempthorne, C. Howard, K. Wood

2. M. Radke, I. Halford, S&R. Parker

B Grade

3 A&V. Chotai, B. Williams, D. Rogers

C Grade

3 N. Mc Iver, A. Gross, R&C. Archibald

Oct 16 Gympie Swiss

Teams

A Grade

1 M. Stoneman, V.

Rowland, P. Bugler, T.

Runting

2 C. Palmer, C, Olsen,

P&V. Maddigan

Robin Steinhardt &

Annette Scott

Liz Zeller & Jim Wallis

Oct 30 QBA Open and Novice Teams

Open

1 A& B. Kempthorne, N. McLaurin, I. Afflick

2 P. Parker, J. Mills, P. Rankin, P. Hooykaas

3 T. Hutton, R. Ward, N. Francis, A. Pride

Novice Teams

3 A. Scott, R. Langdon, R. Stevens, J. Finigan

In honour of the birth of his grandchild,

Siegfried Konig treated the QBA Open

players to a scrumptious spread of oysters,

prawns, fruit, cheese etc and real

Champagne and excellent still wines

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BD: 19 A7 Dlr: S

K542 Vul: E-W

Q943

543

KT986 QJ43

JT3 AQ9

KT2 7

96 AQT82

52

876

AJ865

KJ7

N

T

N - - - - - 9

S - - - - - 7 15

E 3 - 1 4 2 9

W 3 - 1 4 2

This was our auction:

S W N E

P P P 1C

1D 1S 2D 4S

P P 5D X

P P P

At the favourable vulnerability I bid 5D which was doubled

automatically. On fairly normal play Peter managed to win

6 tricks for -1100. This lost us 11 imps, most of our 12 imp

losing margin in the match.

What was I thinking when I bid 5D? My main thought was that I was confident that we could

defeat 5S and our opponents might take the push at the vulnerability. 16000+ masterpoints

worth of experience told them that the 5 level belongs to the opponents and they were more

than satisfied to collect the penalty in 5DX.

Crime can be defined as breaking the law and it would be fair to say I broke the Law of Total

Tricks (LOTT). For those of you who don’t know, LOTT says that the number of total tricks

(which equals the number of tricks you can take in your best fit plus the number of tricks your

opponents can take in their best fit) equals the combined fits in those suits. So if we take this

board as an example, we both have 9 card fits in our best suits so there should be 18 total

tricks. This means if we can make 9 tricks they can make 9 tricks, if we can make 10 they can

make 8 and vice versa.

The LOTT fails a little on this hand in that there are only 16 total tricks. But if we look at the

possibilities it shows exactly why I shouldn’t have “saved”. If they can make 10 tricks (-620 to

us) then we can make 8 in diamonds (-500 when doubled). This saves us about 3-4 imps. If

they can make 11 tricks (-650) then we can make only 7 tricks (-800). This costs us about 4

imps. But if they can make only 9 tricks (+100) we can make 9 tricks (-300) which costs us

about 9 imps, the worst outcome of all. When I tabled dummy going for 1100 wasn’t going

through my mind, but I was thinking that there was a good possibility that I had taken the

phantom sacrifice.

So here we see that even with the favourable vulnerability there was little upside to bidding 5D.

My hand was too flat and there was too much potential for us to defeat 4S. Punishment was

swift and harsh.

Crime and Punishment by Tony Treloar

In the recent ANC, Peter Evans and I played Ron

Klinger and Avi Kanetkar in the 8th Round of the Open

Butler. This was the first board we played.

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Coming events

QCBC CLUB

CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday 12 December - 9.30am

start $20 per player

SPONSORED BY

QLD WIDE PAIRS

Tuesday AM & PM - 22 November - $10

per player

Club Teams Championship

Wednesdays 30 November & 7

December

$60 per team Cash prizes

Sponsored by

CHRISTMAS PAIRS - RED PT -

FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER - 10AM

QCBC CHRISTMAS PARTY -

Saturday 10 December

bridge & afternoon tea - $7 per player

SUMMER SWISS PAIRS - red pt

- Monday 12 December - 10.30am

NEW YEARS EVE TEAMS -

31 December - $60 per team

Dear Novice Players In conjunction with the Canberra Festival of Bridge (similar to the Gold Coast Congress) to be held in January 2017, Joan Butts is providing a FREE 10 week on-line Summer School designed to help Novice players prepare for competitions. The programme has already commenced but it is not too late to register & still get last week’s lesson.

Player development - Novice players interested in participating in a Summer School are invited to register for the program. You do not need to be attending the festival to participate in the on-line course. The course is tailored to two levels – teachers and novice players. To register, tick the appropriate box on the registration form - https://www.joanbuttsbridge.com/abfss-register?mc_cid=aeaef12f73&mc_eid=d2d30b88e9 . The program commenced on Wednesday put it is not too late to sign-up! Over 1,200 novice players are already on board this new initiative Nationally. Each week, you will receive an email from the ABF National Teaching Coordinator, Joan Butts, covering a different topic. This represents a wonderful opportunity for newer players to access free lessons from one of Australia’s best bridge teachers – using modern teaching techniques and materials. Novice (Gold point) competition - The Summer Festival Of Bridge will be held from 10-22 January in Canberra. There is a range of novice events for people to choose from:

National Super Novice Pairs on 11 January. (Under 20 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

National Rising Star Pairs on 11 January. (Under 50 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

National Novice Teams Championship from 11-13 January. (Under 100 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

National Super Novice Teams on 12-13 January. (Under 20 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

National Rising Stars Teams from 12-13 January. (Under 50 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

Novice Swiss Pairs Championship on 14-15 January. (Under 100 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

South-West Pacific Teams Championship from 16-19 January. This event includes a novice category. (Under 100 masterpoints as at 30/9/16)

Novice players have a dedicated Novice Liaison Officer, Laura Ginnan. If you have any queries you are encouraged to contact her at lauraginnan@hotmail.com or on 0411 694 248. Helen Blair novicecoordinator@qldbridge.com

Farewell to Fay Landy, a foundation member

of QCBC and Queensland’s first female

Grand Master. Read about her triumphs on

the ABF website.