NEEDED: moving company or someone to rent truck to move tournament supplies Aug.30!
For the upcoming tournament on Aug.31 in Burnaby, we are looking for a truck driver or moving company to move our bridge tables and other supplies to and from the tournament site. If you know someone who would be willing to rent or provide a truck, or can recommend movers/moving company that we could contact, please phone or email any unit board member (you can email Stuart at dr.scarr@gmail.com). All suggestions are welcome!
We reimburse for all costs/expenses, and are happy to pay for the moving services. The main issue is someone to provide/rent/drive the truck (a 10' truck is sufficient) to pick up the supplies on Friday, Aug.30, from the west side of Vancouver and drop the supplies off at the Engineers Halls in Burnaby by 3pm. We will provide people who will load and unload the truck.
On the Monday, Sep.2, we need the truck to come to Eng. Hall by around 5:30pm, so we can load up the supplies, and deliver them back to our storage in Vancouver. Obviously the tournament can't run without the supplies, so it's important we find a way to get the supplies moved.

The Next MUG is Sunday, Aug.4, 1pm, at the JCC
The Monthly Unit Game will take place at the JCC on Sunday, Aug.4 at 1pm.
Please note that, for the time being, this game, and future MUGs, will be pairs.
The MUG is usually one of the strongest games of the month. Hope to see you there!

Check the VBC website, and ACBL Live, for results from recent games. For more historical information, go here.

Evergreen Sectional: Aug.31 to Sep.2, at Engineers Hall in Burnaby
The Evergreen Sectional is at the Engineers Hall in Burnaby: 4333 Ledger Ave. Here are the links to the ACBL Tournaments page and flyer.
If you are not an ACBL member, you can get a free temporary guest membership, by going here.

"Learn New Tricks Tournament" for players with under 1000 masterpoints, Sep.22 in Burnaby
This tournament is for non-life masters with 0-1000 masterpoints. The aim is to provide a comfortable environment to learn and play with players of varying experience but all who wish to improve their game, whether the aim is to simply enjoy playing with others or to eventually become a life master!

Julie Smith will be giving a brief lesson at 1 pm, after which the game will start.

Location: Burnaby Rugby Club, 3760 Sperling Avenue, Burnaby, BC. Free parking is available.
Time: Sunday September 22, 2024 at 1 pm
Card fees: $15
Hospitality: Snacks, coffee (Please bring your own mug/cup).
PreRegistration on Unit 430 website opening on September 1, 2024. Check back here for an update on Sep.1: https://www.vancouverbridge.com/

Partnerships or questions: Please email jlouchang@gmail.com

Welcome to SMILE - the new IMP League at VBC, Tuesday evenings!
SMILE stands for "Short Match Imp League Evenings" an ingenious and exciting new way to run team games. For more information about how it works, and how to register, click here. And here are the results.

Unit Board Adopts Policy on how Cheating affects Entitlement to Awards and Trophies
At the May, 2021 Unit Board Meeting, the following Policy was adopted:
Unit 430 Policy - Player Expelled or on Probation or Suspension
1. Definitions
1.1 For the purposes of this Policy, a player is deemed to be not in good standing if the player is, with respect to the ACBL or ACBL events,
(a) expelled from the ACBL,
(b) serving a term of suspension,
(c) serving indefinite probation,
(d) serving a term of probation the initial term of which was twenty-four or more months or serving a term of probation following a suspension, the initial term of which was in excess of ninety days.
2. Eligibility for Subsidy, Award or Trophy
2.1 A player who is not in good standing during any part of a calendar year is not eligible for any subsidy, award, trophy or other entitlement provided by Unit 430 for that calendar year (the “Period of Ineligibility”).
2.2 The Unit Board may, by a two-thirds majority vote, in its unfettered discretion, extend the Period of Ineligibility to include additional time before or after the Period of Ineligibility if the reason the player is not in good standing is related to, or connected with, a time before or after the expulsion, suspension or probation is in effect.
2.3 For example,
(a) if a player is not in good standing because of a finding of cheating that occurred before the expulsion, suspension or probation commenced, then the Unit Board may include the time in the Period of Ineligibility during which it was found that the cheating took place or, on the balance of probabilities, was likely to have taken place, and
(b) if a subsidy, award, trophy or other entitlement is provided in a calendar year or years that commences after the Period of Ineligibility expires, but relates to matters occurring during the Period of Ineligibility, then the Unit Board may include all or part of that following calendar year or years in the Period of Ineligibility.

Scores for the West Vancouver Senior Centre
Unit 430 is happy to help ACBL and non-ACBL clubs, by posting scores on our website. Please contact Tom (text 604-987-6001, or email at andersontg@shaw.ca), if you would like us to post your club scores here (or to let us know if there are other ways we can help support your game!)

If you are looking for more bridge games on the North Shore, here are the websites for some (non-ACBL) clubs offering duplicate(for ACBL clubs, go here):
Silver Harbour
Delbrook Community Centre
Park Gate Community Centre

A. West Vancouver Senior Community Centre Duplicate scores
Current session ends June 26th, and sign up for the July-August Session opens June 19th! Remember we now start all our games at 1:15, so please arrive by around 1pm.

July 10th Scores
July 3rd Scores
June 26th Scores Congratulations to the winners and Happy Canada Day :))
June 19th Scores Happy Summer Solstice and congratulations to Shirin Dhanani - Nicolae Manisali for your 71.43% game
June 12th Scores Congratulations Shahla Keshvarz and Shahnaz Sabet for your 71.83% game.
June 5th Scores Congratulations to Wendy and Winnie - a 70% game!

When we start a new session, everyone needs to be registered with a partner - or you need to contact Tom to see if there is any leeway (basically, if you are registered, and your regular registered partner cannot play, you can invite anyone you like and we will treat that person like your registered partner - we want to make sure you can play!) some people are looking for partners - if you want to be added to the list email Tom.

B. Resources and Bridge Info
For those who want to learn or brush up their skills using the bridgemates, here's the youtube video tutorial)
Mini-Lesson 8 hand out - Invitational Bids
Mini-Lesson 7 hand out - Cue Bidding for Slam
Mini-Lesson 6 hand out - Defending using the Rule of 40
Mini-Lesson 5 hand out - Upgrades and Downgrades.
Mini-Lesson 4 hand out - Defending based on Dummy Type.
Mini-Lesson 3 hand out - on the cuebid raise.
Mini-Lesson 2 hand out - on Balancing and the Law of Total Tricks.
Mini-Lesson 1 hand out - on competing for the 2 level and balancing.

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