Release 2.19q
Bulletin

ALL MONDAY GAMES
HOLDEN SENIOR CENTER
NOON

 

Club # 272005
Sanctioned Games

DIRECTORS

Al Berg
Club Director

ACBL Local Director


Leslie Malkiewich
Club Director

Welcome to The Wachusett Bridge Club

EMAIL FOR ALL CLUB QUESTIONS:

7ntbridge@gmail.com

NEARBY REGIONAL EVENTS FOR NEWER PLAYERS
NEARBY REGIONAL EVENTS FOR NEWER PLAYERS
SPECIAL GAMES

Our March and April schedule has been tentatively filled out with planned special games. We'll hold an ACBL Charity game (extra masterpoints) in mid-April.

THE SWISS ARE COMING !! THE SWISS ARE COMING !!

Get your teams lined up early because today the CMBA Board voted to hold four additional Swiss Team events each year!  The first three on the schedule will be Saturday June 22, Saturday September 28, and Saturday October 19. Better yet, each of these games will be held at the Holden Senior Center !!

These games will be in addition to our normal schedule of monthly Unit pairs games, so there's still something on the schedule for everyone's taste. And sometime in the near future we may also hold another Pro-Am event as has been requested by many of you.

If you weren't able to join us for the last Swiss Team event, why not give it a try now? Those who played found it a new and fun way to meet new teammates as well as new opponents, and everyone earned at least some masterpoints during the event.

HAND OF THE WEEK MARCH 25
HAND OF THE WEEK MARCH 25

Most everyone arrived at 6 Notrump by North which is the place to be. But this hand is a good example of statistics in bridge, and how you can use them in order to help you plan the play.

First let’s note that the opponents hold six Clubs and seven Spades. An even number of opponents’ cards figure to split as evenly as possible without being exactly equal  more often than not – so  figure Clubs splitting 4-2. An odd number of opponents’ cards figure to split as evenly as possible more often than not – so figure 4-3 in Spades. All of this tells us not to be surprised when we can’t run both (or perhaps either)  black suit(s) off the top, and we shouldn’t plan on doing so.

Also note that you have finesse positions in both Clubs and Hearts. Just make a mental note that if your play ever depends upon EITHER of two finesses working, then the odds are 75-25 in your favor. The other thing for North to be careful of is that there are only two entries to dummy – the A Clubs and the K Diamonds.

With both black suits probably having been bid by N-S along the way, East’s best lead might be the 4 Diamonds. North can count eight sure tricks in the blacks, two in Diamonds, and the A Hearts. Uh oh – one short.

Win Trick 1 with the A Diamonds and immediately take a safety play in Clubs by playing toward the 9 losing to West’s K (yes, it’s also a finesse hoping to catch East with both the K and 10, but one which does little good even if successful due to your lack transportation between hand and dummy). Back comes a Diamond won with dummy’s K. Play your three rounds of Spades and then back to dummy for your now-good five Club tricks. At that point you have ten tricks and are in dummy. No choice now! Lead the J Hearts to the Q and hold your breath. It wins and then your A Hearts is your twelfth trick.

For those who simply played with the “maybe they’ll fall” philosophy, then maybe they will someday. But not on this hand. The better plan was to go with the combination finesse and safety play in Clubs early, and then fall back on the Heart finesse – a plan that should work 75 percent of the time if we were to look at all possible permutations of the E-W hands.

PLAYER OF THE QUARTER 1ST QUARTER 2024

Congratulations to John Lukach and to Dwight Wilbur who were winners of the 1st Quarter Player of the Quarter. John now goes on to our "Hall of Fame" for players who have won POQ at least three times. As such, our HOF players will no longer compete for Player of the Quarter.

CMBA GAMES

MONDAY 12:00 PM

WACHUSETT BRIDGE CLUB
(Non-LM)

Holden Senior Center
1130 Main Street
Holden

Al Berg: 7ntbridge@gmail.com


TUESDAY 9:00 AM
GRAFTON BRIDGE CLUB
Grafton Senior Center
30 Providence Road Route 122
Grafton
Denise Bahosh: dbahosh@yahoo.com


WEDNESDAY 12:30 PM

GARDNER BRIDGE CLUB
(@ WESTMINSTER)

Westminster Senior Center
69 West Main Street
Westminster
Shirley Wagner: swagner1942@gmail.com


THURSDAY 9:00 AM
GRAFTON BRIDGE CLUB
Grafton Senior Center
30 Providence Road Route 122
Grafton
Denise Bahosh: dbahosh@yahoo.com


FRIDAY 12:45 PM

WORCESTER BRIDGE CLUB
(@ AUBURN)
Auburn Senior Center
4 Goddard Drive
Auburn
Denise Bahosh: dbahosh@yahoo.com

 

MONTHLY w/ DATE TBA
CMBA UNIT GAME
(@ STERLING OR TBA)
Sterling Senior Center
36 Muddy Pond Road
Sterling
Check CMBA Website

2024 1st QUARTER

PLAYER OF THE QUARTER
AS OF MARCH 25

"A" STRAT
John Lukach  11.29
"B" STRAT
Dwight Wilbur  4.54
RECENT WINNERS
 

(INELIGIBLE 2nd QUARTER 2024_
D,Boulay, J. Dulin, M Vea


(INELIGIBLE 2nd QUARTER 2024_& 3rd QUARTER 2024
Dwight Wilbur

HALL OF FAME
(3+ WINS)
John Lukach

Results
NLM Pairs
Upgraded Club Championship
Club Championship
CMBA Swiss
NLM Pairs
NLM Pairs
ACBL Education Fund Game
NLM Pairs
NLM Pairs
ACBL Junior Fund Game
NLM Pairs
D25 STaC