Announcing special club appreciation pairs games in the month of October:

Sunday, October 23rd-Saturday, October 29th. 

100% sectional rated black points will be awarded for winners in the game. 

All games start regularly at 1pm, please come and join us.

Medhat (Thornhill BC) and Gary (Toronto Contract BC)

Respect for Others

Our club have many players from all around and they are players with various type of medical conditions that may not be apparent to other players, such as problems with scents and problems with high pitch sounds.  

We would like all the players have an enjoyable time at our games, so please respect other players and avoid things such as card snapping and wearing strong perfume.

We appreciate your support.  Thank you

- GARY

BRIDGE on Sundays

As of October 23, 2016, the fee will be flat rate $3.00. Your fee includes coffee and snacks.

Nathan/Medhat

BRIDGE on Mondays

As of Sept. 5th, Monday Evenings Games PAY ONLY $2 "till further notice".

Medhat

Opening 1NT with a singleton: It’s officially legal

The ACBL Board of Directors removed a legal gray area surrounding semi-balanced notrump openers when it approved a change to the definition of a notrump opening in the General Convention Chart. The change allows players to open 1NT with hands that include a singleton ace, king or queen, as long as they do not also contain a doubleton.

Here is the new definition, effective Aug. 1:

“A notrump opening or overcall is natural if, by agreement, it contains no void, at most one singleton which must be the A, K or Q and no more than two doubletons. If the hand contains a singleton, it may have no doubleton.”

This includes hand patterns such as 5-4-3-1, 6-3-3-1 and 4-4-4-1, in addition to those that were previously allowed, such as 4-3-3-3, 5-3-3-2 and 5-4-2-2.

The new definition prohibits opening notrump with more shapely hands, such as 5-5-2-1, 6-4-2-1 or 7-2-2-2. “All of this has to do with your agreements,” Weinstein noted. “That doesn’t prohibit an out-and-out psych, but you can’t keep doing that or it becomes an agreement, and an illegal one at that.”

The change does not impact the one allowable exception of a partnership agreement where 1NT is treated as a 100% forcing opening bid (and not considered “natural” with any distribution). The use of such an unbalanced, non-natural 1NT opening must be alerted.

To give everyone more savings on the $3.50 game entry fees on Saturday games, we are continuing our half year and a full year membership pass again for 2016.

• Benefits (Over 50% saving)
  • Free play for all regular open pair games
  • Discount for all special games, $2.00 top up for the monthly Swiss Team Game.
• Cost
  • $75,00 - Annual member pass from Jan 2016 - Dec 2016, 
  • $45.00 - Semi-annual pass from Jan 2016 - Jun 2016.