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The Best Chance.
It is nice to bid a pushy slam, with one proviso. You do need to make it or else concede a bundle of imps! So, here’s your opportunity....
Mar 4, 20252 min read


Changing Times?
Back when I learnt the game, if you had 16 or more high card points and a 5-card or longer suit, you doubled the opponent’s 1 of a suit...
Mar 3, 20255 min read


Hard to make and hard to beat!
In one 9 board Swiss Pairs match at a tournament last Saturday, there were four slam deals in five successive boards. That sounds...
Mar 2, 20253 min read


Throw a loser...and be a winner!
For Junior, Intermediate and Novice players…and others. It’s Fri Yay! Day. Today’s deal provides an example of a technique in playing a...
Feb 27, 20253 min read


More or Less!
Today’s is a strange article. In it comes a most unusual admission. Those who know me well, and that includes my non-playing wife, would...
Feb 26, 20254 min read


The Successful Line.
We would all like to find it, especially on troublesome deals like today’s one. This deal produced many casualties in the qualifying...
Feb 25, 20253 min read




A Deal about…..
Does it only happen to you? Everyone else gets a friendly lead but against you, they find the killer lead! Really? What then do you make...
Feb 24, 20253 min read




South Island success in South Island Teams.
Jeff Miller and Graeme Stout It was rather appropriate that victory in last weekend’s South Island On-Line Pairs should go to a...
Feb 23, 20253 min read


South Island Pairs - Online
Link to results Real Bridge Kibitzing Link with a 30 min delay. https://kibitz.realbridge.online/ Play starts on both days at 9.30am .
Feb 20, 20251 min read


Double and plus!
When we make a penalty double, we always aim to record a plus score. Sometimes, the plus may not be huge but any plus is so much better...
Feb 20, 20253 min read


South Island Pairs - Online
Real Bridge Kibitzing Link with a 30 min delay. https://kibitz.realbridge.online/ Play starts on both days at 9.30am .
Feb 20, 20251 min read


“You will have something, partner. Won’t you!”
That cry may have been made by some South players who held the hand below. They pick up as good a hand as they have held all night, all...
Feb 19, 20253 min read


The tale of two singleton black 7’s!
At two of the four tables in the recent Mixed Trial, East- West made their contract of 5D, once doubled and once with an overtrick....
Feb 18, 20254 min read




Sad ending to Mixed Trial.
Michael Ware, Jan Cormack, Pamela Livingston and Leon Meier. The New Zealand Mixed Trial ended two sessions early yesterday in...
Feb 17, 20253 min read


NZ Mixed Teams confirmed for international duty in 2025
APBF –Hefei China May 2025 Ian Berrington & Fuxia Wen Graeme Tuffnell & Jan Alabaster Blair & Liz Fisher World Teams Championships -...
Feb 16, 20251 min read


The Mixed Pairs Trial.
Fuxia Wen and Ian Berrington, Mixed Teams finalists. Monday sees the final day of the National Mixed Trial to determine which of 8 teams...
Feb 16, 20253 min read


Mixed Team Trials
Mixed Team Trials 14 - 17 February Trials to select Mixed Teams for this year's International Events commenced today in Auckland. There...
Feb 13, 20251 min read
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