Congratulations go to one of our favourite couples, Jan and Bob Gribble for placing first in our recent Swiss Pairs event. Throughout the 2-week event, they played consistently and held firm with 5 wins and one loss. Well done!

Sadly, Great Lakes Bridge Club lost one of our leading lights last week when Dick Barry passed away. 

Congratulations to Shirley Craig and Toni Alexander (pictured), local winners of 2025's nation-wide restricted pairs competition held in October. Shirley and Toni were ranked 122nd nationally. 

Accolades also go to Maretta Callow and Carmel Pike who placed first in our club nationally (106th) following board-by-board adjustments across the entire field. Check out our club's full results here.

For further information on how this event is scored, see the clubhouse noticeboard.

It was the first Tuesday in November so it was races not rounds at bridge. Players were told to 'giddy-up with no hesitating' as we didn't want the stewards called.

Thanks go to John Van Doorn and Michael Rossell for organising the sweeps and being very discerning judges of our fashion in the bridge room. Despite the hard field, Gail and Warren won by a country mile!

This week we celebrated Pat Maunsell's 90th with a delicious cake and some speeches. We wish you many more Pat!

Following a recent trial, Bridge NSW is hosting free online supervised sessions for beginners at 4pm-5:30pm each Sunday from 2 November to 7 December 2025. These supervised sessions are designed to help beginners transition to club games, and are suitable for:

At a recent meeting, our committee decided that members should have online access to the Minutes of GLBC Committee monthly and other formal club meetings. As such, the relevant documents will be linked within an article like this each month and shown for approximately one week.

Earlier this week the 'newbies' of 2025 banded together to acknowledge and thank their teachers - Sylvia Goodwin and Shirley Craig - for providing an outstanding introduction to the wonderful world of bridge. These ladies' practical, nurturing approach and extensive 7-month series of beginner and extension lessons really enabled learners to continually develop the basic skills and confidence needed to take their places at the 'real' bridge tables. 

Congratulations to Pauline Erby and Gil Clarke who won this year's Club Pairs event (60%).

 It was a close call with second place going to Lori Adams & Barabara Williams (59%) and a particularly good third place by two of our up-and-coming Restricted players, Jenny Van Nierop & Wendy Edwards (58%).

Well done all! 

(Overall results can be seen in Results tab above).

Demand for our 2026 Congress is strong - the Swiss Pairs Event on Saturday 28 February 2026 is showing full & the Swiss Teams Event on 1 March 2026 is almost full. However, many entries are incomplete or pending. So that the demand and waiting list can be answered, we ask players to complete their entries via MyABF soon.

We look forward to another excellent congress - last year's set a high bar, judging by this year's popularity. More updates will be provided closer to the Congress weekend.