The club plays in The Venue, Main street, Ratoath, Co. Meath every Thursday at 7:00pm sharp. Convenient to Ashbourne, Dunboyne, Dunshaughlin, Kilbride, Skreen. Parking is on street as availability allows. Visitors are very welcome. The playing fee is five Euro and the club is open Sep. to May. Membership is twenty five Euro and the club secretary is Eileen Gray.
New Members welcome!
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| First Honorary Member for the Club .. |
 Congratulations to Peg White who is Ratoath Bridge Club's first Honorary Member
following the new Committee decision to make everyone over the age of 90 Honorary Members!!
Well done Peg from everyone in the Club!
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| Some competition news from the C.B.A.I. |
The National Mixed Championships are to be staged in Templeogue Bridge Centre on 22nd & 23rd October with the pairs for the Spiro Cup on Saturday and the teams for the Coen Trophy on Sunday.
Master Pairs
This three session Swiss Pairs event will take place in Templeogue Bridge Centre on 10/11 December under the guidance of Fearghal O’Boyle and it will be the usual success in numbers and quality - just the way to get a substantial fix of bridge before the Christmas season!!
Entries for all three events to info@cbai.ie, paul@cbai.ie or by telephone to 01-4929666
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| Dos and Don'ts to help avoid incidents which may spoil a game |
- Look at your hand and sort it into suits. Don’t shift it from one hand to the other or shift suits around after sorting. Keep it fanned and don’t shut it up or put it down on the table.
- Pause a moment before making any call (which includes a Pass). If the opponent on your right has opened with more than one of any denomination or has made a jump bid, do not make any bid until 10 seconds have elapsed.
- Remember if you pause for an unduly long time in normal circumstances, you may silence your partner if you then pass.
- Don’t bid after partner has made a pause before passing which was of significant length, unless the bid you make is clearly permissible on your own hand without anything but the minimum your opponents’ bidding would suggest may be in your partner’s hand. The onus will be on you to show that partner’s pause could not influence your bid.
- Bid and play without emphasis. Don’t vary the tone of your bidding – it should always be flat and unemphatic.
- Don’t make faces, or twist about, or sigh, or otherwise indicate difficulty or distress either because of partner’s or opponents’ bids or plays. Remain always impassive.
- Don’t look at your partner during bidding or play.
- Remember to alert your opponents to any bid which is conventional below the level of 3NT.
- (a) When Dummy, don’t play any card, however obvious, until asked by partner.
(b) When Dummy, don’t look at opponent’s or partner’s hands.
- Don’t take the cards from the board when they have been returned to it after play. Penalties will be incurred if cards are misboarded.
- Be courteous to opponents and to your partner.
GENERAL
Failure to comply with the proprieties is evidence of having taken an unfair advantage.
You are bound to show positively that no improper action of yours, however inadvertent, has operated to your opponents’ disadvantage.
Directors are entitled to inflict discretionary penalties whether by fines or otherwise where an unfair advantage has been obtained.
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