Joyce Pearson News Today

Those of you with reasonable ability to recall bridge hands will have noticed that there are three or four hands that I trot out every year or so – I do that mainly because they are helpful in develop...

Sorry about the missing column last week – I’m going to blame it on the demands of the new grandson in the faint hope you will believe that .….. Every year the Bridge Club keeps a tally of the masterp...

Welcome to the first column in 2023 and I hope the year brings you all good health and happiness, and lots of great things happening at the bridge table! Some phrases you hear in your childhood stay w...

The annual Ernie Owen Individual Tournament, held each year to commemorate a great bridge player, partner and friend, was held on Thursday at the Bridge Club and the winner in the six-table game was ...

The fall tournament season gets under way today with the Open Championship taking place this morning and afternoon at the Bermuda Bridge Club – players are starting to return to the live games and hop...

Pounds of Care is working with Westside Wood Works to bring a community back to west Montgomery.

The world of competitive bridge has, as one would expect, experienced a quantum change since I first started playing the game in the early 1970s, and most of the changes have been for the better – per...

As I have written many times before, getting to play good bridge is a combination of a desire to learn combined with a lot of practice. As time goes on, plays that used to be difficult as declarer or...

Today’s hand is a quiz for you and you can be sure that at the table 95 per cent of advanced players will get it wrong and probably 75 per cent of the “better” players will join them! Well, you are no...

This week’s hand saw a variety of results at the table even though the opening bid at each table with the South hand was 1NT (15-17). See the hand in Figure 1. At a couple of tables the North hand go...