Congratulations to all our Novice players who entered the recent Australia-Wide competition. Further to our article below, the national results are now finalised, and our club's scores are attached. 

Special mention goes to Gary and Denise Marr who placed 1st locally and 8th nationally with a score of 68.5. Well done!

On Thursday 29 May 2025, GLBC took part in the annual Australia-Wide Novice Pairs Competition — a national bridge event run by Australian Bridge Magazine for novice bridge players (holding fewer than 100 masterpoints).

Unfortunately, due to a technical error, the final round of this year's GNOT qualifier had to go 'old school' with pen and paper. The final outcome is below. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to our director Sylvia for staying back to complete the results by hand. Thanks also to the substitutes who enabled the last round to go ahead following a very harrowing week for some of our members and the prior commitments of others.

Round 3 of our GNOT is confirmed for Wednesday 28 May 2025. 

Due to multiple clashes with the previously advised date of 11 June 2025, the date of the 3rd round of this year's GNOTs reverts to the date reserved in the calendar for a GNOT round, i.e. 28-May-25.

For further information, contact Sylvia on Sunday ph: 0431 066 388.

On Sunday 18 May 2025, Great Lakes Bridge Club (GLBC) hosted this year's regional final of the NSW Country Teams. Following a full day's hard-fought competition, GLBC-2 had a clear win with Port-2's team placing second, both with 5 wins out of 8 matches. Pictured from left are: GLBC's Fran and Wayne Carroll, Pauline Erby and Gil Clarke; Port Macquarie-Hastings' Chris Sinclair, (Bronwyn Boehm, local sub) Yvonne Breakwell and Denise Strain. 

Full results.  

Congratulations to our recently promoted members Christine Giles (Bronze Local Master) and Wendy Quinn (Graduate Master).

For information about ABF ranks, click here. Also, check out our club’s top 50 most improved players (as of 30 April 2025). 

This week we celebrated with one of our recent novices, Les Palmer, to wish him a very happy 95th birthday. Les started lessons only a few years ago and has been an eager player since. But a possibly bigger claim to fame, Les grows good gramma (the pumpkin, not a grandmother or bad scribing). One of our members recounts the day Les delivered a beauty to her on his 1000cc Yamaha motorcycle, which he also rides to bridge. 

Following the highly successful series of free lessons, we're excited to welcome ten new members to our club: Brenden and Trish Lowe, Bronwyn Williams, Louis Muccillo, Fiona Lewis, Robyn McNamara, Kaye Wallace, Jenny Kneale, Janet Thatcher and Mick Patroni. Congratulations and thanks to Sylvia for all her hard work!

Also, congratulations go to our recently promoted members: Eddie Hancock (Silver Local Master), Wendy Edwards (Bronze Local Master), Warren Riley (Local Master) and Bo Davidson and Louise Cuthbert (Club Masters).

Our committee is considering the re-introduction of 'Dinner and Bridge' on a Friday night. In the past, this was a casual and entertaining way for our members to get together socially. On the first Friday of each month, they let their hair down and enjoyed dinner (often pizza), wine and bridge in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere.

Please note that all GLBC afternoon sessions change to a 12:30pm start from the beginning of May 2025. Therefore, the Saturday 3-May-25 HiLo game will be the first session to experience the changed Winter schedule of a 12:30pm start. 

All morning games remain unchanged throughout the year i.e. 9am start. 

As usual, so that the movement may be organised and the session begins as scheduled, our directors require players to arrive 15 minutes early (12:15pm or 8:45am).