Welcome to Denver Bridge
November 19, 2024
Upcoming sectionals
A couple of things to know about the 2025 sectionals:
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- On Friday and Saturday, the second session will start at 3:00. This change is mandated by the ACBL for all 27-board sessions in order to allow sufficient time between sessions.
- Lunches will be available for purchase on all Fridays and Saturdays, for $5. Tickets will be sold on site.
Good for Gold – ACBL-sponsored disaster relief
The ACBL and the ACBL Charity Foundation are sponsoring Good for Gold, a disaster relief effort for recent hurricane events in North America. The way it works: You register, then play at least twice during each contest week. Your scores are averaged, and high scorers receive gold points. 100% of your registration fees go toward disaster relief.
For more information or to register, click here.
Next board meeting
The next board meeting will be held on Saturday, December 14, at 9:00 am, location TBD.
Board meetings are open to all members of Unit 361. Email the unit president to add an item to agenda.
November 7, 2024
Tournament report
The fall sectional took place last weekend. We had 247 tables total, a slight increase over 2023 (216 tables). If you haven’t looked at the results yet, click here.
Thanks to everyone who came out to play, and special thanks to those who helped with tournament setup or teardown.
And here’s a picture of Carol Gumpert, who, although no longer on the board, showed up early every morning to manage parking in the H lot. Thanks, Carol!
November 4, 2024
Bridge Buzz
Here’s the latest D17 Bridge Buzz.
October 28, 2024
Upcoming tournament
The fall sectional is coming up this weekend, November 1–3. There are a few things to know ahead of time.
Parking
Click here for a map to the parking areas that we are allowed to use, plus various bits of information that might be useful.
There are four ways to pay for parking:
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- Download the ParkMobile app. This has the advantage of allowing you to configure it ahead of time, so you don’t have to go look at your car to get the license plate number. I think (not sure) that the ParkMobile app also automatically detects which parking area you’re in.
- Use the parking kiosk. Alas, we have heard that these are hard to use, and some people have reported that their payment wasn’t recognized.
- Park in Lot H, and have $10 available. No change – exactly $10. You’ll get a piece of paper to put on your dash.
- Text. This is new, as far as we can tell. Text PARK to 77223. You’ll get a link to the ParkMobile website where you can enter your license plate number, credit card number, etc. Big advantage: You can also enter your email to get a receipt for your payment, so there shouldn’t be any issue with the DU Parking Authority.
Reset your clocks on Saturday night
Daylight Savings Time goes away on Saturday night. If you forget to reset your clocks, you’ll be showing up an hour early for the Sunday game.
Membership meeting
The annual membership meeting will be held at 2:15 on Saturday, just before the second session. The major event at this meeting is the election of board members for the 2025–2026 term. If you haven’t seen the slate yet, here it is.
 Judith Repp | Upon moving to Colorado 7 years ago and knowing only our two daughters here, what else would a person do but go to ACBL and find the nearest bridge club? The bridge community is a wonderful assortment of like-minded nerds that I treasure. I appreciate the opportunity Bridge affords to ‘instantly’ meet people in new environments. As a bridge-playing architect, I love to solve puzzles. Still a practicing architect with graduate degrees in architecture and structural engineering, I find the myriad challenges of bridge to be not unlike those encountered while designing buildings. On the east coast, I was an avid rower on the Schuylkill River (Boathouse Row) in Philadelphia. Rivers in Colorado are way too rocky for that, so my current 'sport' in Colorado is Bridge! My non-bridge-playing husband, Chick, and I live in Evergreen with my faithful hiking companion, a dachshund (TBone), and a very independent cat (McPhee). Our daughters both went to DU and are now in Denver and Evergreen along with our 3 young grandsons. y for that, so my current ‘sport’ in Colorado is Bridge! I hope to give back to the Unit that gave me such a warm welcome upon my arrival and continually provides me with alternating bouts of exhilaration, consternation and self-flagellation that is the game of Bridge. |
 Greg Kempf | After I retired, I started playing duplicate bridge in 2021, making me a relatively new member of the bridge community. I would classify myself as an advanced beginner, who is working to advance my expertise in the game. I very much enjoy the in-person games at both Denver Metro and Tech Center Bridge Clubs. I am of the opinion that recruitment of new players and the retention of developing players is essential to the ongoing success of Unit 361. I have many questions, and would offer suggestions, in regard to how the bridge community attracts and keeps the less experienced players interested in the game. I believe that a dynamic and supportive learning atmosphere is essential to the goal of developing these new players. I also want to become involved in expanding my knowledge in our local bridge club organizations and our regional organization in an effort to understand and address the issues of the larger bridge community. |
 Kathy McMahon | If elected this will be my 2nd term on the Unit 361 Board of Directors. During my tenure I have served as the IN representative. I felt that as an IN myself this was a perfect position for me. Our unit holds 3 IN tournaments per year and I have the privilege of chairing those events. There are 2 IN Sectionals in September and April. There is also an IN Regional held concurrently with the July Open Sectional. Our IN tournaments now include a bridge lesson over the lunch period. During my tenure I have tried to grow the IN bridge playing population at our clubs as well as at our tournaments. The board voted to increase the mentor program to include players with up to 500 Master Points. This resulted in more people participating in the mentor program. At the request of the INs we are currently trying to provide Swiss Team trainings for INs prior to each tournament in order to prepare them for team events at tournaments. I look forward to continuing to represent the INs on our Board. I also look forward to hearing from all of the INs regarding how we can assist you and recognize you in your bridge journey. I hope you will reelect me. |
 Rita Simas | I was recently elected to serve as the Unit 361 Board Treasurer, and I will be asking the Board to vote for me to continue in that role. I have been the Treasurer for a number of non-profit and HOA boards in the last 20 years. The Board has successfully navigated us thru the COVID and post-COVID periods, and we are looking at ways to enhance the Denver Bridge experience and thank our Unit 361 members on their continued support at our Unit 361 Bridge Tournament events. I arrived in Denver in 2007 from Los Angles as part of the Boeing and Lockheed merger of their Rocket programs. I have fallen in love with this city and state, and I have elected to retire here. I have finished remodeling my Sloan’s Lake home and look forward to returning to frequent visits to the tables and traveling across the USA to attend National, Regional, and the occasional Sectional tournament. In addition to playing bridge, I am an active volunteer in various non-profit activities. I collect colorful art and enjoy searching second-hand stores for unique, memorable objects de art and architecture. I share my home with two rescue cats named Sherlock and Cosmo. |
 Paul Perkowski | Like many, I started playing bridge in college. I had a wonderful teacher who had learned the game from his Grandmother. We played a very old fashioned system - even without Jacoby transfers! Any breach in etiquette was gently admonished with “That would be frowned upon in finer bridge clubs. Fortunately, this isn’t one of them.” Fast forward years later and I still love this game. I now have played or studied seemingly every bridge convention under the sun. Just ask if you’d like some advice. And I sincerely hope that our newer members find our club as welcoming as what I received when I started. I hope to continue to serve on the Board to be of service to our club and an ambassador of the “King of card games.” |
Table Talk 2024
The September issue of Table Talk is up on the website. If you didn’t receive it via email, you can click here to read it now.
Front Range Challenge
The 2024 Front Range Challenge was held on October 27, and Denver emerged victorious. You can see the results and the participants here. Congratulations to all of our Denver representatives.
Next board meeting
The next board meeting will be held on Saturday, November 16, at 9:00 am, at the Eloise May Library, Parker and Florida.
Board meetings are open to all members of Unit 361. Email the unit president to add an item to agenda.
October 12, 2024
March 2025 sectional
The flyer for the March 2025 sectional is now available. Click here to download.
September 3, 2024
January 2025 sectional
The flyer for the January 2025 sectional is now available. Click here to download.
Bimonthly Bridge Buzz
Does “bimonthly’ mean twice a month or every other month? In any case, the latest issue of Bridge Buzz, the D17 newsletter, has arrived. If you didn’t receive it in your email, you can see it here.
August 8, 2024
Regional 2025 news
The 2025 schedule is set. Click here for more information and for the flyer.
Pictures from Toronto
Jonathan Steinberg, Region 1 Director, has kindly sent his photos from the recent Toronto NABC. Click here to have a look.
Evergreen
Sam’s Game
Email ‘phishing’
Kibitzing regulations – a synopsis
If you need to review the regulations regarding kibitzing during a bridge game, there’s a quick look available here, with pointers to the complete ACBL regulations.