It’s not too early to get out your calendar and start setting up dates for the several special events coming up in the next three months. Roger Boyar has announced that the LaFetra Bridge club will host qualifying games for the North American Pairs on the first and second Tuesdays in June, July, and August. The games will be held June 4th and 11th,July 3rd and 10th, and August 7th and 14th at 9:00 A.M. (Ed. Note: These dates are completely bogus; there was a foul-up somehwere along the line. Contact Roger directly, or see our Special Events page, for the correct dates. ) The games will be stratified- C (non-LM,0-500 MP), B (0-2000), and A(unlimited). The July unit game will be moved to the third Sunday (July 15th) to avoid conflict with Bridge Week, so you can go ahead and start booking games for the big regional and still attend our unit shindig. Our annual charity game will be held August 12th. Once again there will be silent auctions for a chance to play with a top-notch expert player in the club games during the weeks preceeding the event. Several fine players donated their services last year and we hope to have as good a lineup this time. So start filling your piggy banks so that you can put in a high bid.
Top game of the month was a nice 69% effort by Genise Hasan and Joe Unis. Other winners topping 60% were Penny Barbieri, Helen Wang, Walt Otto, Rick Whitham, Linda Ananea, Tom Lill, Vic Sartor, Dave Ruoff, Edwin Kelly, Donald Naf, Marjorie Preston, and Clara Satterfield. Other winners included Roger Boyar, John Tyner, James Rhodes, Georgiana Bierman, Paule Ford, Ken Bloomfield, Ken Lowenthal, Lary Alba, Herb Stampfl, and Richard Patterson.
Our two hands of the month range from the depths of futility to the heights of ambition. First, we have a nominee for one of the worst hands of all time. Tom Lill picked up this beauty in the Thursday night game:
Our second hand is much more fun. LHO opens 1♣ and you, vuln. vs. non-vuln., are staring at: