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February 17, 2005

TUESDAY AFTERNOON--Candy Griffey is now directing this Open game. She's adding two innovations. At 1:20 all play Deck-of-Cards Bingo with the winner getting a free play. She is also starting a Jackpot. For each game that has at least seven tables the club will donate $10 to the Jackpot fund. The pot will be won by any pair that achieves one of these games: Strata A (highest player has 1,000+ masterpoints)--a 70% game, Strata B (300 - 999)--65%, Strata C (0-299)--60%. If no one wins, the money will roll over to the next week up to a maximum of $100. Any of you can win, no matter what your level of bridge. Good ideas, Candy.

SPECIAL GAMES--Here is your chance to earn extra masterpoints.

    Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, February 22 & 24--Club Championship games, Stratified.

    Sunday, February 27, 11:00 AM--Grand National Team Qualifying. Get a team of four and join in. We will have 0-500 and Open sections.

    Thursday, March 3, 1:30 PM will be a Special Game with 0-299 and Open sections.

    Wednesday, March 16, 9:30 AM--Club Championship.

    Thursday, March 17, St. Patrick's Day luncheon and Club Tournament with 0-299 and Open sections.

WEB LINKS--Here are some bridge links you'll find both helpful and enjoyable. Thanks to John Sterling for suggesting their inclusion.

    ACBL--www.acbl.org. The League also sponsors a commercial site: acbl.com. Explore both of them.

    ACBL District 109--http://www.chetnet.com/ACBLDistrict9/ is its site. The ACBL is subdivided into Districts. All of Florida, and the U. S. Territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, comprise District 9, which is further divided into Units. Daytona Beach is part of Unit 128. You'll find a lot of good information by roaming through the District 9 site.

    Unit 128--http://www.floridaunit128.org/ is the link to our Unit. You can go there direct or through the District 9 site. Here you will find a list of upcoming area tournaments and past results. Look at the results for our January Sectional--our members excelled!

    Daytona Metropolitan Bridge Club--http://daytonabridge.org will take you to our site. Notice that some web addresses incorporate 'www' and some do not.

    DMBC Game Results--http://www.bridgescore.com/daytona/ is where our game directors post the results of each game as soon as the scoring is complete. You can go direct to it, or through our club web site. You'll find two entries for each event, 'Game' and 'Boards'. 'Game' will give you the field recap; 'Boards' shows you how each pair did on each board.

JANUARY STARS--first, second, third respectively; top game.

    Monday afternoon--Sally Romkey & Maryann Corley (tie 1-2), Vivian Davis & Gary Siamon (tied 3rd); Sally Romkey & Maryann Corley 70.63%.

    Tuesday morning--Bill & Misuzu McManus (tie 1-2), Sidney Sandifer & Lance Whitehead (tie 3rd); Bill & Misuzu McManus 69.51%.

    Wednesday morning--Judith Andrews, Connie Treloar, Mary Ann Claysmith; Mary Wirtz & Judith Andrews 68.69%.

    Thursday morning--Murray Goldberg, James Dunlop & Judy Morin (tie 2-3); Linda Derwick & Judy Hinds 70.00%.

    Friday afternoon--Lonna & Richard Lemmon (tie 1-2), Lynn Brown; Dick Hall & Larry Hudgens 64.61%.

    Open games--Bruce Ohmann, Gail Rust, Felix Shiffman; Wayne Whalen & Evelyn Davis 68.75%.

Congratulations to all!

EASYBRIDGE 1 IS BACK--Each January we start a new group of wonderful Easybridgers, and we have another crowd this year. Many will receive this newsletter and we welcome them all. Betty Bayard and Peg Lupo are the Presenters.

Have a super good day.

Max Bayard