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You are Visitor Number  3677067 Go to the bottom of the page       I've played bridge over half my life...    The lesser half I wasted.--roy    Roy Wilson -- Contact:                    unit559webmaster@gmail.com 626 340-9575 Club Managers and Directors Support (Or are you a player with a question?) Do you need help with a ruling, scoring or an administrative question? The ACBL has a toll-free number available from 8:00 AM until midnight. 855 275-7629      Need help with the Common Game?   941 404-6600 ACBL - Duplicate Decisions Arcadia Bridge Center San Marino Bridge Club District 23 Bridge News Map of District 23 Clubs Pat Abbey Bridge Club La Fetra Bridge Club ACBL Headquarters Telephone and Email Directory Tips, Articles & Announcements - ACBL BridgeFeed American Contract Bridge League email:  Marie  email:  Roy   email: Mary   email:  Art   Friendship Chairman:    Rosemary Schroeder 626 449-6346 714 349-5535 - Cell Unit Game Director:    Marie Nimmrich 626 448-3304 626 552-2344 - Cell Unit President:    Jan Wickersham 626 487-4014 San Marino Bridge Club:   Marie Nimmrich 626 448-3304 626 552-2344 - Cell Arcadia Bridge Center: Art and Diane Gulbrandsen 626 445-3797 626 357-1590 - home Unit 559 Webmaster: Roy Wilson 626 340-9575 . BBO Virtual Club:   Mojo - Morris Jones 626 247-4457 . San Marino BC Game Results     Arcadia BC Game   Results The Common Game   STaC Game Results   District Club Game Results B U L L E T I N   B O A R D Information for Unit 559 Clubs Arcadia Bridge Center               San Marino Bridge Club               Mojo's BBO Results District 23 Bridge News You will learn more bridge from losing to good players than you will from winning against poor players. Top 30 Update Today's the day... Every three months I update both our list of the top 30 players in our unit, and the masterpoints and ranks of all of our players.  If you find an error, please send me an email, and I will correct it. NOTE:   Web browsers use a method of "caching" where the app stores information on your computer when you visit a website, and then, when you visit again, instead of retrieving the information from the distant website, it gets what it stored on your computer, the last time you logged.   It's faster, but may not be up-to-date. If you are looking at the rank changes, and there's an old date on the page, simply hit the F5 key at the top of your keyboard... That will force your computer to refresh the data.   (Do it any time you wish... it won't hurt anything.) New Website All of us have at least one good bridge tale or story, or maybe even a good bridge joke, right?  Well, I've created a website just for such foolishness.  Right now, I have some of my favorites, but I would like to add yours, too. Take a look, and if you would like to contribute, let me know!     www.BridgeTales.club Mojo's News Letter Every week, Mojo sends out a news letter with lots of good information for us.   I've decided it's too much text for this part of the website, but I do want to update it on a weekly basis, so from now on, you will be able to find it with the link down in the lower right of this panel.   Mojo' News Letter Lots of plans and news for the Pasadena Pomona Downey virtual bridge club. Look at that! We had 31 visitors for my Saturday morning 9:30 mini lesson. :) It was followed by seven tables of players for the 0-500 game. These will continue indefinitely. I'm pursuing a series on defender play topics for the next several weeks. This coming Saturday, July 11, will be on opening leads against trump contracts. (It may extend to next week. We'll see.) Anyone anywhere is welcome to join in. I'll send a Zoom invite to this list on Friday. Feel free to pass it on to friends or family! Traditionally I've offered beginning bridge courses through Pasadena City College's Extension program, and they're continuing their program this fall with online courses only. I'm planning to put three courses on the schedule: Introduction to Bridge, Bridge - Popular Conventions, and Bridge - Competitive Bidding. Each course will be six weeks (six classes), and offered on Tuesday evenings at 7:15 p.m. for 90 minutes each session. I think this will work! I don't exactly have a lesson plan for teaching beginning bridge online yet, but I have a few weeks to figure it out. It's that very first lesson that's my biggest challenge. In conjunction with the beginning bridge courses, I'm going to begin offering a 0-20 Rookie bridge game on Wednesday evenings at 7:15. I'm going to promote this new game to my student list, and it may or may not be for ACBL masterpoints. I'll keep the rookie game to 12 or maybe even 8 boards, and It will be followed by a Zoom meeting to discuss things that came up during the game. To make this work, I'm going to need to have on hand standby players to fill partial tables, both for the rookie bridge game and my Tuesday night classes that will start up in August. If you have an interest in helping out the rookies, please let me know. I'll be starting a separate email list to manage reservations for the Wednesday rookie game and Tuesday evening classes. I going to try to get this started this week. Let's see how it goes! Since the "friend list purge" two weeks ago, Dave White has had a challenge getting together the three District 23 limited games. He seems to be back on track fairly well, and is planning to continue at least the Sunday 3:15 game for 499ers. Keep in touch with Dave, or check the District 23 web site for updates on those games: https://www.bridgewebs.com/acbl23/ [www.bridgewebs.com] Congratulations to all the PPDVBC members who achieved new ACBL ranks this month! The full list of rank changes for the district can be found in the monthly Southern California Bridge News: https://www.bridgewebs.com/acbl23/CurrentNews.pdf [www.bridgewebs.com]   Close   Pasadena-San Gabriel Unit 559 Our unit is one of nine in District 23 and we are sanctioned by the American Contract Bridge League.   We have an elected board of 12 members that meets monthly and is responsible for unit games and the annual John Waken sectional.  There are two clubs in our unit - The San Marino Bridge Club and the Arcadia Bridge Center. Unit Games Our unit games, normally held on the first Sunday of each month, have been canceled until we are able to resume them.  As yet, we do not know when this will be, but we will announce the date when we know. The John Waken annual sectional has been canceled for this year. Our Virtual Club For lots more information about the Pasadena Pomona Downey virtual bridge club, visit the website at bridgemojo.com PPDVBC How to Find Our Club on the BBO Website When you log on, you are at the Home screen.  Click on Competitive and then click on All Tournaments.   There's a Search Box at the top, on the right... Simply type in a few letters or numbers that will help identify what you are looking for:   23 is sufficient for District 23, and 556 is enough for Unit 556.  You can type in Pasa for our virtual club. Schedule for BBO Virtual Club Games               TCG = The Common Game               BBO Schedule   Our Virtual Club   Monday 0-1000 Pairs   7:15 PM   Tuesday Open Pairs   11:00 AM   TCG   Wednesday Open Pairs   11:00 AM   TCG   Saturday 0-500 Pairs   10:00 AM   Open Pairs 12:30 PM   Sunday Open Pairs   12:30 PM John Waken Tournament John Waken Results Sectional Map Table Assignment Policy Flight Assignment Policy San Marino Club Map Unit Game Dates Unit Game Winners Scholarship Foundation Unit Board Members Unit Board Reports Unit Board Policies

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