The Bridge Zone

The Bridge Zone – Episode 413

Judge Julie helps us to seed your club tournament today
You could help your Director on these things or perhaps get your billets to give their opinions
Don’t forget the Judge asks us to consider putting in rules at the table in Club newsletters so our players get more familiar with the rules as a regular feature

Mr Jinn joins us in the BZ segment as recording is a bit of a mess with the different time zones
The normal shout out to East Coast Bays – we must get up there to play very soon
Mr Jinn sets another music trivia quest for The Band now – let us know if you are familiar with it
The Gambler and Mr Jinn play at Hamilton’s Craigs Investment Partners Multigrade tourney – wonder what the outcome is going to look like
Did I see Jacko Rory’s name in the entries with Mr Jarvis? – Are we looking at a reset for him!!!

Mereana hits the Golden Gate of Ba Na Hills this week and we have a photo to prove it – this is the Bridge that is shown in the Beginner lessons as a great Bridge Hand
43 degrees in Vietnam – man it is hot here

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Included in today’s episode is the below because my commitments in Vietnam have us cutting short our talk time so added this for you
You must check it out
Combining chances and counting with one of my favourites, Gavin Wolpert
Plenty to listen to, just click and hear our discussions

See you at the tables
The BZ Crew

The Bridge Zone – Episode 412

Finally we finish with Judge Julies piece on penalty cards, weeks after starting – go back to Episode 409
Are you doomed during a game, do you need to avoid Mordor
Call the Director early and start thinking about what you may pick when you have ops penalty cards on the table
Calling all club newsletters – put the rules in it as a regular feature and the options from a opening lead out of turn won’t be so daunting

Mr Jinn joins us in the BZ segment as recording is a bit of a mess with the different time zones
East Coast Bays gets a couple of mentions
Mr Jinn becomes Mr Jinx as he puts the hoodoo on Clubs scoring programmes – we wonder what the bugs were?
Anyone heard of The Waterboys – they win over playing a session of Bridge for Mr Jinx
Waitomo Club and the supper bake offs

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Our thoughts will be voiced shortly
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Jacko Rory James hits the podium again though it is not on the middle step
The Gambler tips on the rule of 29 though we have to finish this one next week
The alert of a 2C opening – Mereana gives an example and Barry gives his opinion
The wee lass in Lower Hutt will join in the Graduates Certificate presentation night and our Chair Peter Newell will be celebrating with the class May 27th
Plenty to listen to, just click and hear our discussions

See you at the tables
The BZ Crew

The Bridge Zone – Episode 411

The Bailiff attempts to unravel a question put to us by the Jinn man
When is a game force bid abled to be passed surely, we can get some equity restored here
He asks for more information so it’s back to the source we go

Mr Jinn announces the results of the Jin Club tourneys
East Coast Bays gets another shout
Barry labels Waitomo club as the Waikato’s East Coast Bays Club
Mr Jinn is playing the mid-week tourney at Putaruru and visiting Waitomo as well
Alex Meyer podiums top with Lysandra Zheng- Lysandra second win of the week

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Our thoughts will be voiced shortly
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Jacko Rory James wins the online tourney last week with Lysandra Zheng
Congrats to the Westport lads Phil and Ray for their win
The Gambler tips on conventions after opponents open a NT, talks about poker faces and not giving away a partner stuff up @ the table
What is your favourite convention over an ops 1NT opening
Hamilton Swiss Pairs – online Wednesday night has 15.5 tables already – 3 weeks in June, put your registration in – we are looking for a great number of entries here
Mereana shares a news article about a wee lass in Lower Hutt – Alan Jennings, AJ has a graduation night looming, and you will never guess who his star pupil is

See you at the tables
The BZ Crew

The Bridge Zone – Episode 410

Judge Julie and The Bailiff will play in the finals at Congress representing Auckland Northland
Unintended bids get the once over from the Judge as a listener asks about Law 25A 1 and 25A 2
The last segment on penalty cards have been adjourned – we will catch that soon

Mr Jinn announces the results of the Jin Club tourneys
And yes, East Coast Bays is back in the news
The Regional play offs is covered by Mr Jinn

Are you free Mr Peacock?
We have our 1st review of a system card
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CD Regional Restricted Open 3A Swiss Pairs – someone got another A point
It’s a busy week of Bridge for everyone
Booked out tournaments, plenty to keep a eye out on
See you at the tables
The BZ Crew

The Bridge Zone – Episode 409

Judge Julie will rejoin us next week to finish off the penalty card case
And we have two stonker questions coming in from a listener about Law 25A 1 and 25A 2
Join our public gallery when Law 25 is addressed by the Judge

Mr Jinn announces the results of the Jin Club tourneys
No East Coast Bays this week
JIN members feature at Waikato Area Pairs
Wellington had 30 Intermediate and 15 Junior pairs at their Congress
We expand the discussion on how to improve your performance at the table
Mr Jinn stays on for the entire BZ session this week

Are you free Mr Peacock?
We open a new service to our listeners If you are one of the bunch that want to refresh or revamp your system,
Send us your system card and we will review on the show
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We are happy to glance over, so email them and we will get the iron out

And Jack James does it again, win number 11 is now down in ink and the record 9 week run is still on
We really must find Jack a Green Jacket and next week we share a new nick name for him
Jolly awesome Jack, he’s coming on the show soon folks

Some days are Diamond and some days are stone – a nice nod to a crew member is mentioned
Plus, Mike Ware – wins at Wellington Open Pairs with Martin Reid as well as the Open teams and yes the team name was Ware!!!
There are tips a plenty this week from The Gambler, something for everyone

See you at the tables
The BZ Crew