The March issue of BRIDGING THE COUNTIES is now available on our website. Why wait for your snail mail copy to arrive?
There is a correction noted in the current issue of Bridging the Counties relating to the location of the Grand National Teams event being held on March 31. The event is being held at St. Gregory's Armenian Church at 1131 North St in White Plains, not the Memorial Methodist Church as incorrectly published. Get the word out!
STaC Week was held from February 23-29, 2012. Check out the winners on our Tournament Results page.
March 11th is the date for the 5th Annual Mini-McKenney Brunch and Swiss Teams to be held at the Bridge Deck. Brunch is at Noon and game time is at 1PM, four, 6-board matches.
Cost is $14 per player. Come and congratulate our Mini-McKenney winners as they receive their recognition.
For more info, contact Wendy Sklar at 914-741-6934 or e-mail Wendy.
The WCBA wants to keep you more informed of the bridge happenings in our unit. You may already be receiving some e-mails of bridge events,
but we encourage you to sign up with our web administrator to keep abreast of current updates to our website and specific unit happenings
and events. Please send a brief e-mail to WCBA e-mail list with your name for inclusion on our list.
E-mail addresses will be kept strictly confidential, all mailings will be blind and you may opt out at any time.
LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! by visiting our Unit Facebook Page and clicking the like button
at the top of the page.
You'll get real time notifications of what's happening in our Unit, links to interesting bridge articles and sites and
the ability to interact with other Unit members to discuss hands, arrange partnerships, etc. Here are some interesting
demographics of our current facebook users:
88 members of which 51% are male and 43% are female and 6% are ?
56% are age 55+, 12.5% 45-54, 11.4% 35-44, 8% 25-34, 4.5% 18-24 and 2.3% 13-17.
Left to Right: Beverly Jansen, Rosemary Kindler, Sandy Scher
Congratulations to Beverly Jansen who was the leading masterpoint winner in the Jane Hill Future Masters Tournament
held in White Plains on November 4-5. Playing with different partners, she and Diona Koerner finished 2nd in the pair event Friday afternoon
and with Rosemary Kindler she finished 1st in the pairs on Saturday. All winners and masterpoint leaders for the weekend can be found on our
Tournament Results page.
THIS MONTH:
March 31: Grand National Teams (GNT), District 3 Finals, St. Gregory's Armenian Church, 1131 North St., White Plains
NEXT MONTH
Play at your local club
The School Bridge League, originally funded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett is working to promote the game to the next generation of players. Click here to check out this video which was filmed partly at The Bridge Deck and features our own Mike McNamara and Rich Laufer.
The WCBA is now on Facebook! Use the link at left to visit our page. Click the "Like" button to get real time alerts about upcoming events and view and post discussions, interesting hands, request partners for events, chat with other fans and more. Find us on facebook HERE
Played an interesting hand in a club or tournament recently? Send it over with a narrative and get it featured on our home page!
Starting in January, Marty Bergen's online lessons will be presented in a new audio visual format. There is a free demonstration lesson
available here
Larry Cohen has bidding practice hands available on his website to help you hone your bidding skills with your favorite partners here. Larry also has valuable tools for players of all levels and links to his popular cruises on his site. Enjoy!
Have you ever felt at the bridge table that you have been mistreated by your opponents, or, perish the thought, by your partner? Within our Unit we have a procedure for officially handling complaints concerning unethical behavior at the bridge table, be it suspicions of cheating or maltreatment of opponents and/or partner. If you have an issue that you would like to report, contact our unit Recorder via email. Visit our "Contact Us" page for a link to our Recorder.
If You made Life Master or achieved a new ACBL rank recently, we want to know more about you! Send a photo and a brief bio including favorite bridge partners, etc. by e-mail to Ed Zuckerberg or via snail mail to: Ed Zuckerberg, 2 Russell Pl, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.
|
