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Club Managers A N EWSLETTER FOR Club Managers Dear Club Manager, ♦ It’s not too late to register your club for The Longest Day on June 21, 2013. More than 100 clubs have already registered to participate. You will be holding Spring Edition • May, 2013 games to raise funds that fuel the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. Click here https://thelongestday.alz.org/home/national/1 to get started. Once you register, you will receive emails through the Alzheimer’s Association website to guide you to success. NEWS ♥ ACBL is pleased to announce the hiring of Alexandra “Alex” Turner as our Director of Marketing and Communications. I hope you can attend the reception for Club Inside... Officials and Teachers at the Atlanta Summer NABC so you can meet Alex and welcome her to ACBL. Join us on Friday, Aug. 2 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For a complete Top 50 Clubs ..................2 listing of programs, schedules and contact information in Atlanta, visit our website at www.acbl.org and click on the Atlanta NABC logo on the right hand side of the page. Best Practices ................3 ♣ Remember, the amnesty program for lapsed members runs through June 30, 2013. Special Events ............ 4-5 Upon payment of membership dues or services, all masterpoints earned during the Recommended Discipline lapsed membership period will be credited to the member’s record at no additional Procedures in Clubs........6 charge. Updates from the Board Director of Club and Member Services in St. Louis ......................7 NAP – North American Pairs The NAP event has been a major ACBL pair championship since 1979 and was originally known as the Grand National Pairs. This grassroots event is staged in qualifying rounds at the club, unit and district levels. It culminates in a final held in conjunction with the Spring NABC, which will be held in Dallas, TX in March 2014. The contest is run as a flighted event: Flight A (Open), Flight B (fewer than 2000 masterpoints) and Flight C (Non-Life Master with fewer than 500 masterpoints). Flight eligibility is determined by the June 2013 masterpoint cycle, which was run on May 6, 2013. Any points earned after the June masterpoint cycle does not affect flight eligibility. Clubs can hold two NAP games per sanctioned session during AMERICAN CONTRACT each of the months of June, July and August. Masterpoint awards are sectional rated half BRIDGE LEAGUE red/half black. Fees are $4.00 per table. There is no registration required, just choose the 6575 Windchase Blvd. Horn Lake MS 38637-1523 game in ACBLscore, DBADD to include with your club’s month end report. www.acbl.org Click here (http://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/NAP20132014/Club_Information. pdf) for all the information you need to hold NAP games at your club. Follow us on American Contract Bridge League and @ACBLbridge Club Name, State/Province #Tables Club Name, State/Province #Tables 1. Laguna Woods DBC, California 14,337.5 26. The Bridge Spot, Massachusetts 7,069.0 2. The In-Between DBC, Florida 13,915.0 27. The Village Card Club Inc., Arkansas 7,034.0 3. Essex Bridge Center, New Jersey 13,183.0 28. Duke City Bridge Club, New Mexico 6,964.0 4. Honors, New York 13,087.5 29. AZ Bridgeworks, Arizona 6,901.0 5. The Hartes' Club, New York 12,971.5 30. Pompano Beach DBC, Florida 6,894.5 6. Jourdans Bridge Club, Florida 12,590.5 31. Vanderbilt BC of Nashville, Tennessee 6,873.5 7. Manhattan Bridge Club, New York 12,342.0 32. DOTYBRIDGE-Scottsdale, Arizona 6,814.5 8. Vero Beach Bridge Center, Florida 11,074.5 33. Glen Rock Bridge Center, New Jersey 6,684.0 9. Sagamore Bridge Club, New York 10,138.0 34. Hartford Bridge Club, Connecticut 6,667.0 10. Shakespeare's Elbow BC, Quebec 9,944.5 35. Hollywood Bridge Club, Florida 6,363.0 11. Fort Lauderdale Bridge Club, Florida 9,817.5 36. Hilton Head Island BC, South Carolina 6,313.5 12. The Bridge Deck, New York 9,748.5 37. R. A. DBC, Ontario 6,313.5 13. Boca Raton DBC, Florida 9,567.0 38. Twin City Bridge Center Inc., Minnesota 6,295.5 14. Adventures In Bridge, California 9,192.0 39. Win "The Bridge Club", Florida 6,254.0 15. Naples Bridge Center Inc., Florida 8,848.0 40. Bridge Centre of Niagara, Ontario 6,238.0 16. Long Beach Bridge Center, California 8,533.5 41. Bonita Bridge at Wiggins, Florida 6,137.0 17. Dana Harbor Bridge Center, California 8,152.0 42. The Bridge Connection, Michigan 6,044.5 18. Temple Sinai DBC, Florida 8,092.5 43. Bridge Club of Baltimore, Maryland 6,038.0 19. The Villages DBC, Florida 7,712.0 44. Cove Community BC, California 5,903.5 20. McGregor Point BC, Florida 7,613.5 45. Hazel's Bridge Club, Ontario 5,894.5 21. Bridge Academy of North Dallas, Texas 7,397.0 46. Omaha Bridge Studio, Nebraska 5,891.0 22. Indianapolis Bridge Center Inc., Indiana 7,379.0 47. Bridge Center of Austin, Texas 5,888.0 23. Beverly Hills Bridge Club, California 7,357.0 48. Saskatoon BC, Saskatchewan 5,867.0 24. Le Mirage Club de Bridge, Quebec 7,173.5 49. Bridge Center, California 5,865.0 25. Houston Bridge Studio, Texas 7,162.5 50. Toronto Bridge Club, Ontario 5,734.5 2012 Table Count for Online Clubs 1. Bridge Base Online 747,870.0 2. OKbridge Inc. 143,498.0 3. Swan Games Online BC 14,522.0 ♣2 In the 2013 Winter edition of the Club Managers newsletter we asked you to share your “Best Practices.” Here are a couple of ideas from Brian Potter of North Carolina and Tom Coyle of Ohio. Thanks for sharing! From Laurinburg, NC deals with follow-ups comparing reality with the lesson. These weekly sessions may have only one or two tables. Bridge at the Village is a very small open club. We Sometimes, a hand will have spent so much time in the meet once a week and usually have four to five tables. archives that I’ll be asked to comment on how modern A retirement community hosts us as a residents’ club/ methods would suggest treating the hand. Bidding may activity (no rent). Many of our players have difficulties have changed quite a lot, but best play (except on deals handling the cards because their hands do not work as where either restricted choice or theory of empty spaces well as they did 40 to 60 years ago. influences the analysis) rarely differs. Recommended best practice: We have pre-dealt computer Brian Potter, Club Manager and Director hands with hand records every week. We get zero Bridge at the Village, Laurinburg NC complaints about the computer-dealt hands. Until other commitments forced me to ask the players to make boards for shuffle and play, our players never knew From Dayton, OH another way to play duplicate bridge. Now, appreciation I run some special games at the Friday session I direct for pre-dealt boards is even higher. at MVBA Bridge Center in Dayton. Here are some you Half a dozen hand records are plenty, but the few folks might want to try. who want them really appreciate them. This vocal 1. Beat the Pros. minority hates shuffle and play because there is no hand Select a “pro” pair. Give a free play to the pair(s) who record for them. finish with a higher percentage game than the pros. This notion clearly will not fly everywhere, but I strongly Warning: This may be hazardous to the financial health of recommend considering it for new duplicate clubs the Director. Even pros can have a bad day. forming to serve retirement communities where many 2. “Beer Card” Game. players will be experienced rubber bridge players. For Offer a free play (maximum one per player per session) many of them, the “you do not have to shuffle” feature to any player who wins the 13th trick with the diamond 7 will not be a small consideration. (diamonds may not be trumps). Further stipulations: (1) Do not worry if many participants are purely social declarer who wins trick 13 with the beer card must have players with no desire to join the ACBL or play made his contract and (2) a defender who wins trick 13 tournaments. My club’s ACBL membership proportion is with the beer card must have defeated the contract. growing slowly but steadily. Several of the players who 3. Exacta Box Game. want those hand records have begun playing I/N games Based on horse racing. Give all players a betting slip at at nearby tournaments, and we hosted a sectional early the start of the game. Each player may then select/predict in our third year. It was a much-enjoyed and exciting the two pairs in the game who will finish first and second. money loser this year, but we’re doing it again next year. The retirement community management looked at the The order of the finish does not matter so long as the losses and said to themselves that they got more than 50 two selected pairs are first-second. Those with correct prospects to see the facility for less than $20 a person – selections receive free plays. This sounds easy, but in an amazing marketing bargain. practice it is much tougher than hitting the exacta in a eight- or 10-horse field at the track.
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