Hi, I guess you might want to know why I play duplicate Bridge!
well the answer is! This is my hobby. I play bridge because it is my substitute for my sporting days and competition in them has gone the way of the dinosaurs. However I love to follow them on TV or go to live sporting events when i am able to!

I play duplicate bridge on the weekends just about every week of the year.
Sometimes I play tournaments on some weekends., and I use my vacation to set up my bridge tournament activity.

This following week 4-13-09 thru 4-20-09 we have a tournament in Gatlinburg Tenn. It is one of our most popular tournaments of the year in the ACBL.

The ACBL standing for the organization that gives us master points for placing well in a tournament session(s).

The ACBL stands for American Contract Bridge League.

You receive a ACBL magazine monthly with a page showing your current Masterpoint ratings and or points gained oveer the last Month. There also is aw ebsite where you cango to see results of tournaments or your avccount information. Here is the website for the ACBL below : if you are interested click on it and visit the website for more info.
http://www.acbl.org

To explain duplicate bridge there are 2 directions people sit at the time. you have 1 pair (2 players) for each direction for each table involved in the session.
A pair is either North-South or East-West, signified bty the table no 1 thru the total no's of tables
playing in the session or event; as an example 1N-S or or 7 E-W. I can explain more specifically,
If you have any questions, please follow the blog and comment and leave your blog for comment for me and I will be glad to answer any and all questions
have a great day
Thanks,
In His Service
Jerry Lemieux
jerrlem@tampabay.rr.com
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Thanks,
In His Service
Jerry Lemieux
jerrlem@tampabay.rr.com

Hi,
I played in a bridge tournament this weekend. It featured pair games on Fri and Sat and A Knockout starting Fri afternoon going thru Sat Night. and then swiss Team games on Sunday.
A 48 bd play thru. We played 6 matches w/8 boards at each match.

My results

We were knocked out on Fri, so I played with one partner in a separate pair game for Sat Morning.

we didn't place. I played on Sat afternoon with another partner and we took 2nd pl overall in Flt B as a result we are going to play on Fri nights game as a regular partnership and maybe more when tournaments come up in the future.
Sunday we won 2 of the 6 matches and missed finishing in the flt B overall standings.

Even though we didn't do that well we had a good time.
My niche is duplicate bridge maybe you can share share your nichee and follow my blog for mor articles on games of other kind also. I would love to follow your blogs also
thanks
Jerry