Announcements

ACBL will now award a 50 percent bonus on masterpoints earned at in-person club games. This applies to Swiss team games and the monthly unit game as well as the regular games on Tuesday and Thursday. Join us at the club!

For now, I think we will keep it as one group. Yes, we have a range of experiences. We can make that a positive.

John and David and I have some great hands for the next session. You can expect that we will be spending more time on bidding and playing the hands and then putting them up for discussion with, of course, a few little side tidbits thrown in just to keep it interesting.

Here is a hand from last issue of Bridge Bulletin that we will start with:

You hold J5=JT7=AKJ3=KJ95.  No One is Vulnerable. MP.

It’s Your Call

Bring your “answer” to the next session. We will see how we all do versus the experts.

Saturday, April 8th, 9:30.

Don

Swiss team game upcoming Saturday, April 1 assuming we get enough teams. Sign up now to ensure there’s a game.

Join us at 9:30 March 18 for our monthly unit game.

Come early for a healthy breakfast!

Next Saturday (March 11) will be the first session of Supervised Play/Real-Time-Bridge. 9:30AM and will last three hours. The fee is $10 per person. Advanced signup is not required.

This is geared towards newer players and others who feel they might benefit from the discussions. We will all play the same boards and then discuss bidding, opening lead, play of the hand and the defense.

We are planning on offering this session on the second Saturday of each month as long as there is sufficient interest.

If you have any questions, please contact Don Marsh. Also, if you know of anyone who is interested in learning about the game, this is a great opportunity for them, so feel free to ask them to attend.

See you Saturday!

After 18 years, the District 20 Trumpet will no longer be published, doomed by its cost of production in a time when District 20 finances remain under pressure from the changes the pandemic brought to in-person bridge.

In the Trumpet’s place, District 20 will publish an email newsletter monthly, the D20 Declarer. It’s intention is to provide more timely news about D20 in a much less expensive format.

The Trumpet’s farewell issue is a tribute to long-time staffers who made the publication possible for all these years.