C & C Corner
28 August 2008

Greetings from "The Best L’il 999er Game in Texas!"

We just completed a series of mini-lessons on Reading the Cards - hope you all found it worthwhile! Here’s the plan for our next series of mini-lessons:

• When to Open...Special Rules for Opening Light. This is a popular one-shot stand-alone summary. We’ll do this one on Thursday, 4 September.
• No Mini-lesson on Thursday, 11 September. This will be the ACBL-wide Instant Matchpoint Game, open to everyone, game time 7:30 pm. There will be prepared hands with hand records and analysis by experts. Furthermore, a Section Top will earn you one Gold point. The fee for this special game is $8.25. (Note: The regular 199er game will still meet on this night at 7:15.)

Following our return to normalcy on 18 September, we’ll turn our attention back to defense:

• Discarding on Defense. We’ll summarize some general rules for discarding on defense, then look at some specific examples.
• Advanced Signals and Leads. We’ll look at some of the specialized agreements for defensive signals and leads, including Lavinthal and Odd-Even discards.
• Hand of the Month. As usual, we’ll wrap all this up with a really interesting hand of the month.

The Board continues to bring us lots of exciting Special events. On Saturday, 6 September, we’ll have the "Luck o’ The Draw Pro-Am" Pairs Game. Come early, pay your fee, and enjoy a nice potluck lunch. At game time the Director will arrange the entries by masterpoint holding from top to bottom, then draw to pair up the Pros with the Ams. This will be a great way to have fun playing bridge and make new friends at the same time. Come on out!

Saturday, 11 October, will be the Club Appreciation Swiss Team game. Lunch at noon (meat provided by the Club; brings side dishes and desserts), game at 1:00. The awards will be 5% Gold points!

Su Doe will be offering Director Training beginning in September. This is a great way to learn the Laws of Duplicate Bridge. In addition, if you take (and pass!) the ACBL Director’s Exam, you’ll be certified as a Club Director and can direct games at ADBC or any other bridge club. So far, we already have nine folks signed up! If you are interested, contact Cary Jennings.

And don’t forget that the Club is restarting the Friday TGIF game, starting 5 September. Every Friday evening, you can get a hot meal and a bridge game for only $7 - a bargain! Dinner at 7 PM; game at 7:30.

Thanks you for your continued support of the Thursday evening 999er game. Please continue to come, play, and enjoy - and tell your friends about it, too!

See you on Thursday!

Caron & Chuck

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