J Swap Matamata Open - a great day out

*stop press ... looks like I linked the hand record from session 1 to session 2 - so it doesn't make sense. Sorry about that - I knew I shouldn't have had that wine. I can't fix it from home but be assured you all played the right boards.

It was great to see many of the big guns from Auckland travel to Matamata for our 5A Tournament today. It turned out to be a great day to play bridge - pretty average weather and Matamata turned on a great lunch and hospitality to keep the 12 tables happy. Rona Driscoll our director kept the room humming with a 12 table mitchell in the morning followed by 2 x 6 table howells in the arvo playing the requisite 61 boards over the day.

Grant and Patrick

And indeed the big guns came to the fore after both sessions with Grant Jarvis and Patrick Carter winning with several percentage points to spare.

Second place at Matamata: Ken and Mike

Second place getters was our new newest Matamata member Ken Yule who teamed up with Mike Curry (I cropped out Mike's shorts as it was making feel far too cold).

Third Place: Ian and Karen

Third place were last year's winners Ian Clayton and Karen Harris who had a good afternoon:)

4th place

Liz and Blair came in 4th.

Best non open

Best non -open pair was Thea Waayenburg and Malcolm Kirkby from Matamata/Te Aroha - a great performance for a Junior pairing.

The best of the Matamata pairs were Anna Kalma and mum Hermanna Hemmes who also won the morning session prize.