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MCLB CLUBS

July 1-2, 2019

NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS (NAP) GAME TODAY

!!!"" – ½ RED & ½ BLACK !!!"

DISTRICT 12 STaC WEEK WINNERS

CONGRATULATIONS TO MARK SUSAN KEELEY & BILL deFUNIAK

ST YOUR CALENDARS THEY PLACED 1 IN A-B-C FLIGHTS TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25. SOUTH BEND SECTIONAL THEIR 72.22 % GAME IN LONG BEACH AUGUST 2 & 3 EARNED THEM OPEN PAIR/TEAM 10:00 & 3:00 4.13 SILVER POINTS LIMITED (399ER) PAIRS AND 10:00 A.M. & 3:00 P.M. CONGRATULATIONS TO AUGUST 4 BETTY & DICK BREWE OPEN DUPLI-SWISS TEAM THEY PLACED 2ND IN A-B-C FLIGHTS LIMITED (399ER) SWISS TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25 10:00 A.M.

THEIR 67.78% GAME IN LONG BEACH LUNCH & UNIT 154 ANNUAL MEETING EARNED THEM BETWEEN SUNDAY SWISS SESSIONS 3.10 SILVER POINTS BRIDGE HUMOR BRIDGE BINGO WINNERS – JUNE 25 Bridge players know how to count to 13! Kathleen Gazzolo Nancy McGeady Work is for people who do not play bridge!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Passing – The solution to overbidding in bridge!

July 6 Betty Madigan PREEMPTING TIPS FROM EDDIE KANTAR

Do not open with a beneath-game holding two Aces or one Ace BELATED ANNIVERSARY WISHES & two Kings. You have too much defensive strength Claudia & Steve Raymond 54 years on June 26 Do not make a preemptive opening bid in a minor with a side 4-card major. ACBL NEW MEMBER ♠KQ54 ♥3 ♦2 ♣A1098765

Lee Malizia is a new ACBL member. As Dealer, pass. You have a 4-card major Rita Fink was responsible for signing Lee up and they will each receive two free plays. Do not preempt in one major holding four cards in the other….unless

your suit can play easily opposite a singleton.

Lee earned her first silver points as an ACBL member (a) ♠A1087654 ♥K5433 ♦2 ♣9

in the Monday STaC game. (b) ♠AKJ10932 ♥J1098 ♦2 ♣5

She and her partner Mary Ann Hart finished second in With (a) pass. Your long suit is not independent and Flight C with a 55.61% game and earned .66 masterpoints. preempting in spades may lose a heart fit.

With (b), open 4♠ at any vulnerability. Spades are so NEW PLAYER TO MICHIGAN CITY GAME Strong that it won’t matter if you miss a heart fit.

Ivye Benson brought a new player to the game: Position is important when preempting. First- and second-seat Hugh Metzger from South Bend, show traditional values; third-seat preempts are suspect

Ivye and Hugh both received a free play. because partner has already passed and the preemptive bidder is allowed to stretch to direct the . Fourth-seat preempts are the next thing to opening bids. With a weak hand in fourth seat, pass CORRECTION TO MCLB PHONE DIRECTORY the hand out.

The correct Area Code for Mary Ennes is “219” ♠3 ♥K54 ♦KJ108764 ♣J7

st nd rd th

Open 3♦ in 1 , 2 , or 3 seat; pass in 4 seat.

MCLB DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUBS

July 8-9, 2019

SOUTH BEND SUMMER SECTIONAL AUGUST 2 – 3 – 4 Kroc Corps Community Center, South Bend

August 2 & 3 - Open Pair/Team Games @ 10:00 & 3:00 p.m. Limited Stratified (399er) Pairs @ 10:00 & 3:00 p.m.

August 4 – Open Stratified Dupli-Swiss Teams @ 10:00 Limited Stratified (399er) Swiss Teams *** ***(No team member more than 399 MP’s)

The Unit 154 Annual Meeting will be held during lunch on Sunday, August 4

PLEASE READ the flyer on back of this newsletter for complete information & an explanation of Open pair/Team games & Dupli-Swiss teams.

Note: Limited Pairs & Limited Swiss must have 3 tables to proceed.

★★!!CONGRATULATIONS ★★ COUNTING YOUR CARDS

MARY ENNES & BILL deFUNIAK Please make sure you always count your cards face down before you look at your hand, 77.02 % GAME …and… WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR NAME Count your cards before you return them to the .

IN THE ACBL BRIDGE BULLETIN!

WHAT CALL WOULD YOU MAKE? BRIDGE BINGO WINNERS – JULY 1 (Answers by Bob Jones, Weekly Tribune contributor) Betty Madigan Carol Teshima North/South vulnerable, as South you hold HAPPY BIRTHDAY ♠KQ7 ♥K1076 ♦KJ72 ♣AK July 3 Mary Lou McFadden North East South West July 14 Kris Prohl 1♦ P

1♠ P ???

THANKS FOR SHARING @ LONG BEACH DBC

Rita Fink Sinful Graham Cracker Toffee Squares Answer: Bid 2NT showing 18-19 balanced. Partner won’t raise NT with five spades. He will make some bid to allow you to show 3-card RENEWING YOUR ACBL MEMBERSHIP spade support. Should he pass 2NT, you might miss an 8-card spade fit, but you will have stayed at the two-level. Effective April 1, 2019, the MCLB Duplicate Bridge Clubs started awarding $5 free plays to those players ------who renewed their membership. Both vulnerable, as South you hold

To date, the following players have received these free plays: ♠K863 ♥Q103 ♦QJ ♣KJ65

As dealer, what call would you make? Mariana Bruce Mary Ennes Barb Stroud Daryl Penfold Kathie Fritz Carol Bulger Answer: This is about as soft a 12-point hand as you’ll find. Stick to Viktoria Voller your guns and open all 12-point hands unless they are 4-3-3-3 in shape.

Open 1♣.

Please notify Marci Meyer when you renew your ACBL membership!

MCLB DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUBS

July 29-30, 2019

NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS (NAP) GAME TODAY

!!!""MASTERPOINTS – ½ RED & ½ BLACK !!!"

CONGRATULATIONS MICHIGAN CITY – LONG BEACH DONATION Susan Keeley & Bill deFuniak Charity Club Championship games 71.52% game were held at our clubs on July 8-9, and July 23 @ Long Beach a $100 donation is being given to the Michigan City Senior Center.

We are extremely grateful to play in such a MOVING UP IN THE RANKS beautiful facility every Monday!

Congratulations to

Bill Wendt

Bronze Life Master 750 Masterpoints BRIDGE IS A PARTNERSHIP GAME What are your partnership agreements for

Transfers over 1NT? BRIDGE BINGO WINNERS – JULY 22 Answer these questions and review your answers Sally Allen Mary Kay Kellstrom with your partner:

1) How many points do you promise when you transfer over

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 1NT?

Mags MacEntee July 29 2) How do you indicate a 5-card suit with invitational values Judy Black July 30 after the transfer? With game values? Mary Ann Hart August 2 3) How do you indicate a 6-card suit with invitational values Wayne Carpenter August 3 after the transfer? With game values?

4) What does a bid of the same suit, or another suit, mean HAPPY ANNIVERSARY after a transfer? Mags & Peter MacEntee July 29 Joanne & Don Grote July 29 5) What is your method for bidding a hand with five of one major and four of the other? Janet & Knoeffel Jones August 3

6) Do you transfer to the minors, and if so, what bid do you use? NABC – NORTH AMERICAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 7) What does 2NT mean over 1NT?

are currently being held in Las Vegas! 8) How does the 1NT bidder show a hand with four of the Tom O’Connell and Bill Wendt attended last weekend and suit you transferred to? Does he super-accept by earned 3.72 gold and red points. jumping to the three level with a maximum hand?

9) How do you handle transfers if there is interference? VISITORS TO LONG BEACH If your RHO doubles 1NT, are transfers still in effect? Kathryn Maccoll and David Boley If your RHO , do transfers no longer apply?

from Windsor, Ontario 10) Must the 1NT bidder always accept the transfer? visited the Long Beach game on July 23rd. Can opener only pass the transfer bid if opener’s We hope they will join us again on their RHO bids or doubles? next sojourn to Indiana. 11) Does partnership play Texas Transfers?

12) How do you ask for Aces after a Transfer?

SEE YOU AT THE 13) By transferring to a major and then jumping to 3NT, is responder asking opener to choose between game SOUTH BEND SECTIONAL in NT or in the major?

AUGUST 2-3-4

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