| Future Seminar Dates |
 Due to changing venue I will have to rearrange the October seminars to November. I will now be able to sort out a regular date for seminars at Drayton Parslow Sports and Social Club, which will be ideal for these events. Apologies to those who have kept October 11th Free. The new seminar dates will be Mondays or Wednesdays.
November
Dates to be confirmed.
The topic for November seminars will be "Balancing your way out of trouble!"
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| BRAND NEW GENTLE EVENINGS STARTING WEDNESDAY 28th SEPTEMBER |
 These will cater for anyone who has not ventured to a bridge club. It will be nice, friendly, relaxed and as an in between step from social bridge. Don't worry I will treat you all gently! For those wishing to eventually play at a bridge club it will be a good stepping stone, but for those who wish to play socially you can happily stay in this environment. I will "encourage" you to play as a pair (I can pair you up if you are on your own) and then you can play against others as it's a nice way to meet other bridge players.
These will be held at the brand new venue - Drayton Parslow Sports and Social Club, postcode MK17 0JB. It's a great room, lots of parking and a bar!!
If you are interested please email abbeybridgelessons@hotmail.co.uk or telephone 07891 586 410.
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| Stowe Charity Bridge Event |
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Congratulations to the winners of the first BACAB Stowe Charity Event.
Winners of the Stowe Charity Bridge Event are pictured above.
Duplicate Section
Winners Gill Allmark and Gordon Critchley
Second Gina Crouch and Myra Tipping
Third Peter and Margaret Holman
Chicago Section
Winners Ellee Bletsoe and Rita Brown
Runner up Lesley Key and Sue Rumford
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| Abbey Smith! |
 I was taught Bridge by my Dad when I was 12 years old and have been playing ever since. I was fortunate to get the opportunity to enter junior trials when I was 16 and managed to be selected for the British Junior Squad and the English Under 20s team. In 1995 it was a privilege to be asked to partner Sandra Landy in the Beijing World Championships. At the time I was the youngest player to represent their country at non-junior level for any Nation. The highlight of my international experience was being a member of the British Ladies Team which won the European Championships in Malta in 1999.
More recently my priorities have changed as I am married with 3 young daughters. However, I have started teaching bridge and love it!
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| Seminars are back! |
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A while ago the club held some seminars. Many members have requested their return! Seminars will be held the SECOND TUESDAY of every month, starting Tuesday 13th October. The series of seminars before Christmas will be focusing on card play, How to become a better card player? This will benefit players of ALL experience! These seminars will be held at Mursley Village Hall from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. There is brand new screen and can be seen easily! If you are interested then please email abbeybridgelessons@hotmail.co.uk
The first subject will be "Learning to Count" - this may sound too simple, but I believe EVERYONE will benefit from this subject and may help you see into the minds of "expert players"! 
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| Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research Simultaneous Pairs |
The nationwide results are on the ecats website www.ecats.com. You will find the results under Simultaneous Pairs 10th March 2016. If you are E/W you will have to click on the small N/S to get to the E/W pairs. Any problems just email me. The club will be sending off a minimum of £3.20 per person....and hopefully more!
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| Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs |
 Thank you to all those who came to the Children in Need evening tonight. If you would like to see your result nationally then go to ecatsbridge.com, then click on simultaneous pairs and then results. There is a section for clubs, find Abbey Smith Bridge Club.....much easier because it's alphabetical. If you are E/W you will need to click on the N/S at the top to get to the E/W results. Any problems do email abbeybridgelessons@hotmail.co.uk
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| Bridgemates |
Hope all members are now enjoying the use of the bridgemates. It's certainly making scoring easier  . Hopefully all members are finding them easy to use. The addition of knowing opening leads is great, particularly for me for lessons I would like to say a quick thank you to both Martin Lee and Ian Mitchell in getting the club started up with them.
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| Lessons |
Anyone wishing to improve their bridge through private individual, pair or group lessons, please contact me on abbeybridgelessons@hotmail.co.uk or 07891 586 410
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