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More colored points earning opportunities are available at the Palo Alto Bridge Center with two upcoming sectionals: silver this weekend at Silicon Valley Unit’s November 7-8 sectional, and Royal colors (gold/silver/red/black) at club games during the week November 16-21.
Upcoming events for you at Palo Alto Bridge Center:
“Special Events” and Learning Events in November/December:
Regular Events:
Attached is a 1-pager current list of planned events – more will be added through the year. |
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Need those glitter masterpoints for your next rank? District 21’s Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) week offers you the opportunity to win Royal (Gold/Silver/Red/Black) colored points in the comfort of Palo Alto Bridge Center in most of our club games in the week of November 16 – 21. STaC ‘overall’ masterpoint awards for each section (Open/750/499er) are especially large. SignUp |
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Raves For Mentor Program’s Four-Over-One (4/1) Mentor’s Table It was great! The mentors were wonderful. – Suzanne What I especially appreciated was being able to play actual hands and receive guidance as situations came up. It’s one thing to learn conventions and concepts in a class, but it’s another to have an experienced mentor help you apply them while you’re actually playing.– Kelly Learn about 4/1 and how to apply for the remaining sessions in 2026
Apply as an individual or with a partner and up your game! Questions? Contact our Mentor Program Coordinators Sandy Lee Chen and Bill Chow, mentorprogram503@gmail.com. |
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Many of us have benefited from Debbie Rosenberg’s post-mortemsessions, which is free for players who play at the club game. Her next one will be for the Tuesday club game on November 17. Sign up to play for the club game: SignUp |
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Newer Players: Come and join many other newcomer players at our new relaxed and friendly Newcomer EZ 0-49 games on Mondays. This game is a great way to improve your bridge and gain duplicate bridge experience in a welcoming environment! We can help you find a partner. Please encourage your friends or family who could be interested in duplicate and need a little cajoling into the Bridge Center. |
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There will be a short pre-game lecture at 11:00AM by Chris Chung and the duplicate game with 12-14 boards starts at 11:15AM to about 1:15PM. Helpers will be available to answer limited questions during the bidding. SignUp For Limited section games, our games are on Tuesdays at 10:45AM, Wednesday evenings at 6:45PM, Thursdays at 11:30AM and Fridays at 10:45AM. SignUp |
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Palo Alto Bridge offers monthly Swiss team games for you to gain team game experience in a relaxed atmosphere. Next team club game is on Monday, November 9 at 11:30AM, where the boards are already shuffled and dealt with hand records. This is a great opportunity to practice for the upcoming sectionals this fall. If you need a partner, or help to be matched with another pair, let us know. Swiss Team games SignUp |
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At last month’s game on October 12 – congrats to the winning team: Jack Verson – Marolyn Imaoka – Atam Lalchandani – Lori Spaeth. Honorable mention of the top strat C team: Kevin O’Leary – Mary Steele – William Bakun – Bob Reed. |
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If you missed Michael Berkowitz’s Celebrity seminars on counting – |
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68 players – we had a great turnout for our recent Pro-Am Pairs game on October 15 at Palo Alto Bridge Center. Thank-you especially to our 34 Pro players for coming to play and help our less experienced players improve their game. We also thank PBEF for funding this educational event. Thank-you to our organizer volunteers for planning a great event: Denise Pitsch and H Paul Davis. Check out more photos on our Facebook page! |
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Thank you all for coming to play and support our recent 4-day sectional in October 22-25, and hopefully playing some excellent bridge! The income from our tournaments is vital for our Unit’s financial wellbeing. |
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We are especially appreciative of the many volunteers who helped us run this so smoothly. A HUGE thank-you to our Tournament Chair, Marc Cervellino, with a lot of help from his team: Dana Shelley, Phil Abrahamson, Stephanie Youngquist, Debra Willrett, Pamela Resser, Liz Koh, Sólveig Kjartansdóttir, Randy Ryals, ilya Sherman, Michael Callahan, Ken Rosenfeld, Denise Pitsch, H. Paul Davis, Dave Joffe, Julie Burkhart, John Sykes. |
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92 players came to play at our scary fun annual Halloween Spooktacular on October 30. Thank you to so many of you for coming out in your spectacular costumes! Prizes were awarded for the best costumes. Huge thank-you to Stephanie Youngquist for organizing this special event, including her wonderful decorations of the Bridge Center with help from her volunteers: Debbie Carey, Marc Cervellino, Kathy Ormseth, Kyoko Ogawa, Lucy Ballard, Liz Koh, Jaleh Arbian, David Merenbach, Debra Willrett. Check out our Facebook page for more scary costume photos! |
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We are sad to share that long-time Unit member, David Torin, passed away last month. |
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