KIBITZER                 

  LOUISIANA BRIDGE ASSOCIATION                       Sandra L. Guthans, Editor

 

June 2005 President’s Message

 

The LBA Board, always working for its members, has some major improvements in progress to keep OUR club in top condition.

 

Diffusers for the air vents are underway to help with the room temperature, but do bring a sweater if you are too cold when 73 degrees feels like 63 degrees because of outside weather conditions.

 

Please chit-chat after boards have been played, not before or during. Everyone likes to move when the round is called.  Any additional suggestions to keep the game moving are welcomed. Please use the suggestion box for any ideas you have to help our players enjoy our club and games.

 

MESSY, MESSY, for goodness sake and good manners sake, PUT ALL YOUR DISCARDS IN THE WASTE BASKETS. There are many waste baskets all around the playing area and in the kitchen, USE THEM. Any volunteers for a police committee?

 

The good news is that over 25 under 299 MP players have been asked to play by a Mentor. Three cheers for all our Mentors.

-Jennie Flynn Sauviac

 

 

 

 

 

PLAYER OF THE MONTH

 

His pleasant attitude, and devotion to the LBA has endeared him to all of us. He has served on the Board of Directors many times. He was President for four terms, and Vice President twice, He served on many committees, and co-chaired many tournaments. He even continues to volunteer for many needed  projects when not on the board.  He joined our Mentor program and invites 299ers to play. Ed Baldinger is a true asset to our club.

 

 

SPECIAL CLUB EVENTS!

June 3 Worldwide Game     7:15 pm

June 4 Worldwide Game     Noon

June18 NAOP Club Qualifying Game Noon ($6 fee)

June 20-26 STAC Week

June 28 NAOP Club Qualifying Game 10:30 am ($6 fee)

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Upcoming Tournaments

 

June 3-5       –             Mobile Sectional

June 6-12     --           Jackson Regional

June 30-July 3 -- Firecracker Sectional

                                      Metairie

 

 

 

 

TOURNEY SUCCESS

 

Derby Day Sectional

 

Thursday Afternoon, Open Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A &B

Susan Landry - Elaine Prager

1^st& 2^nd Place, Flight C

Margaret Watson & Juanita Heidingsfelder

 

Thursday Afternoon, 299er Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A &B

Cynthia Farber - Bertha Kern

1^std Place, Flight C

Irwin Messonnier - Carl Kemmerly

 

Thursday Evening, Open Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A, B & C

Victor Brown - Heinz Jaffe

 

Thursday Evening, 299er Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A, B & C

Bruce Evans - Raymon Jones

 

Friday Afternoon, AX  Pairs

1^st Place, Flight A

John Brumfield - B. B. Gordon

1^st Place, Flight X

Lillian Breen - C Layton Merritt, Jr.

 

Friday Afternoon, BCD Pairs

1^st Place, Flights B & C

Sid Leblanc - Robert Wooderson

1^st Place, Flight D

Maurice Geisel -  Robert Nicaud

 

Friday Afternoon, 299er Pairs

1^st Place, Flight A

Dorothy Le Blanc - Julie Carnahan

1^st Place, Flight B

Iona Steele - Mildred Dusenbury

 

Friday Evening, Open Pairs

1^st Place, Flight A

James Bush - John Onstott

1^st Place, Flight B

Anne Plauche - Ronald Berenger

1^st Place, Flight C

Suzanne Janoe -John Lowenstein

 

Friday Evening, 299er Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A &B

Bernie Weiss - Victor Law

 

Saturday Morning, 299er Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A &B

Mathilde Wiewiorowski - Tadeusz Wiewiorowski

1^st Place, Flight C

Leanne Lotridge - Mary Ann Chesson

 

Saturday Morning, Side Game

1^st Place, Flight A

Nancy Gates - Bella Goldman

 

Saturday Open Pairs

1^st Place, Flight B

Richard Higgins - Terry Band

1^st Place, Flight C

Carolyn Robertson - Sandra Lawhon

 

Saturday Afternoon, 299er Pairs

1^st Place, Flights A &B

Musette Buckley - Esther Rosenberg

1^st Place, Flight C

Carolyn York - Sue Smith

 

Sunday Swiss

1^st Place, Flight A

Chris Moll - Louis Fiorella  -James Bush - Iype Koshy - John Onstott

1^st Place, Flight AX

Richard Higgins -Nancy Neuharth - Terry Band -Sue Maly

1^st Place, Flight B

Richard Brammell - Ellie Brammell - Beverly Karl - Robert Berthelot

 

 

1^st Place, Flight C

Cristi Nelson - Ellen Pittman - Beverly Photisuvan - Sheena Dooley

1^st Place, Flight D

Patrick Beard - Eddie Beard, Sandra Guthans - Raymond Miller

 

 

 

 

RULING THE GAME

Miscellany

By Jennie Flynn Sauviac

 

• Game results will be on line at the LBA web site (http://www.la-bridge.com/) at completion of game. The correction period expires 24 hrs. after the official score has been made available for inspection.

 

• A board may not be re-dealt because no player has bid.

 

• Your partner leads down; if you have a question about the bidding, you should ask now, or you may ask before you play to the 1st. trick. You can ask what the contract is anytime, but not the bidding.  You can ask if the contract is doubled, not who doubled.

 

• Avoid a severe penalty. Be alert and don't let your partner revoke.

 

• If either the insufficient bid or the lowest sufficient bid in the same denomination may have been a convention, the offender's partner must pass for the rest of the auction 

        

• Dummy is ultimately responsible for spreading his hand in a proper manner. There is no penalty for a failure to follow suit from a faced hand. This applies to dummy but the director should award an adjusted score since the non-offending side is disadvantaged.

 

• Calls and plays should be made without special emphasis, mannerism or inflection, and without undue hesitation or haste. To do so is an infraction of the Laws. When a player has available to him improper information from his partner's remark, question, explanation, gesture, mannerism, special emphasis, inflection, haste or hesitation, he should carefully avoid taking any advantage that might accrue to his side.

 

• Lead down and avoid penalties.

 

• Always call the director when ANY infraction occurs.

 

 

HELLO TO ALL

 

I am honored to have been asked to take over editing the Kibitzer from Darryl Fisher.  Who knew that when I subbed for Darryl while he was in Hawaii, this would turn into a permanent gig!  This time around I will be ably assisted by my husband Raymond Miller in pulling the Kibitzer together.  If you have an article for the Kibitzer, you may e-mail me at sguthans@aol.com.  If you are not Internet savvy, you can still put Kibitzer materials in the envelope posted on the bulletin board in the hall.  You can also reach me by phone at (504) 283-3393 (H) or (504) 821-4121 ext. 133 (W).  The newsletter can only be what you want it to be if you contribute. 

Probably the hardest thing we do is finding all the 70% games and all the tournament winners.  If I omit you, please let me know, so we can get it right the next month.