Suffolk Bridge

2011 Master Point Lists27-Jan-2012

Club Champions

Unfortunately none of the county's club champions was lucky in the EBU prize draw.

Prize Winners

Suffolk's full lists are available from the dedicated EBU page.

Suffolk Players Called Up16-Jan-2012

Jane Moore wins national trials

Congratulations to Suffolk's Jane Moore playing with Gillian Fawcett for winning the Lady Milne Trials. That selection competition forms the English Women's team in the home internationals. Jane and Gillian will represent England in Wales on 13th-15th April with Frances Liew, Belinda Bridgen, Nicole Cook and Christine Duckworth.

Full details of the trials are on the EBU site as are the Trials' results.

David Price selected for Europeans

David Price was part of the team who won the play-off to represent England at the European Championships in Dublin in June. David plays with Colin Simpson the rest of the team is Paul Hackett, Tony Waterlow, Gunnar Hallberg and John Holland.

Suffolk Mid-Anglia Pairs15-Jan-2012

The first event of the new year is the Suffolk IMP pairs (teams scoring). This was won in fine style by Neil Bresler and David Cooper.

See the full results including Master-Point awards and also the separate sessions, 1, 2 and 3.

Winter Table Talk31-Dec-2011

Table Talk now in shops clubs. At this time of year regular contacts may be away so distribution is a touch irregular but make sure you listen out for announcements in early 2012.

There are articles by:

• David Price
• Zeb Stocken
• Celia Jeal
• Claude Stokes
• Jeff Orton
• Chris Chambers
• John Heath
• Elaine Green
• Norman Less
• Paul Whetton
• Andrew Moore

…plus a cooking column, a crossword, news, results and photos

Make sure you get a copy – a Happy New Year to all readers.

Winter League22-Dec-2011

Yes, the Winter League is alive and well.

A small technical hitch and a lot of forgetting hampered the normal results service – apologies. You can now see an up-to-date state of the divisions (links also from the right and the 'results' pages etc.).

New bridge club at Eye20-Dec-2011

The Eye Bridge Club opened last week on 14th December, at The Moors Public House, Eye Community Centre. It meets every Wednesday afternoon at 2:00pm and plays duplicate bridge. It's currently not affiliated to the EBU so not awarding Master-points.

If you would like a game at Eye, please bring a partner. For details and directions contact Mike Barr, (01379 870853) or Kate Walshe (01379 870580). Refreshments are available.

See our club pages for details on all clubs (link from top 'clubs' box too).

Suffolk Championship Teams11-Dec-2011

From Round One seven teams played in the championship Round Two and the remaining six contested the plate.

Plate

Butler won handily, congratulations to Eva and Michael Butler, Gill and Roy Newton.

Championship Round Two

The top four teams go through to the knock-out semi-finals. As winners of the qualifier, Newman (Eric Newman & Mike Sherer, Rick Hanley & Bill Tweddell) have the right to choose their semi-final opponents.

See the full results with all team line-ups.

At the event someone accidentally took Andrew Moore's jacket, a "…fleece, dark blue with a 'Spray' logo". If anyone has it please contact Andrew Moore (details on committee page).

Suffolk Simultaneous Pairs1-Dec-2011

Held in the last week of November, 133 pairs from seven clubs took part. Clare featured prominently, providing first and third, sandwiching Stowmarket.

See the full results including Master-Point awards and club identification.

Tollemache – Suffolk Qualify!27-Nov-2011

Suffolk have again qualified for the Tollemache Cup Final in February 2012, the premier event in county bridge. After years in the wilderness, the county has qualified twice in the last three.

This year wasn't like 2009 when they won their group. After being overnight leaders on the projected scores, Suffolk saw themselves drop to third with two matches to complete. They improved their score in the last round just enough to nip back into the second qualifying position for the eight-team final.

The county were represented by David Price (Capt.), Peter Sutcliffe, Tommy Garvey, Jane Moore, Andrew Moore, Chris Chambers, Peter Gemmell, Rick Hanley and Jeff Orton.

Full results are on the EBU site.

Suffolk Club Teams-of-Eight20-Nov-2011

Colchester were run-away winners of the Abbeygate Shield, the county Club Teams-of-Eight. Unbeaten, they avenged their set-back in the Summer League (below), seeing off their rivals by more than a complete match.

Colchester will represent Suffolk at the Garden Cities in the new year. See the results and line-ups.

Summer League 20118-Nov-2011

Congratulations to Felixstowe who won Division Two and Ipswich and Kesgrave, narrow winners of Division One. The last match of the summer was the decider between Colchester and Ipswich with the latter needing to win. This they did, overturning a first-half deficit and scoring just enough points to take the division.

Novice Pairs6-Nov-2011

Lots of new faces at this year's Novice Pairs. Diane Whitley and Sheila Whittaker had a tremendous session to win the Intermediate section and the overall.

The event was played in three sections according to experience of duplicate bridge, scored separately.

Then the results were merged for an overall winner – no surprise that Diane and Sheila's score was unbeatable.

See the full results, read the write-up from the East Anglian Daily Times.