Minocqua Bridge Tounament

Macy and I have been playing duplicate bridge on a regular basis with the Minocqua Bridge Club since last September.  This past weekend the club hosted its annual tournament.  It was the 75th anniversary of the tournament, the oldest sectional bridge tournament in North America.  Attendees were from all over the midwest.

The tournament had 9 sessions spread over 4 days.

Held at the Woodruff Community Center there was a good turnout for all the sessions.

We played against teams with fewer than 300 master points, we had 3.8 coming into the tournament.  We more than doubled our total and tied for 2nd place one of the sessions.  It was a lot of fun.

Tools of the trade, the bidding box.  You indicate your bid by pulling the appropriate card.  That way players at other tables don't hear the bidding...they'll be playing the same hands.

This is a Bridgemate, an electronic scoring device that connects wirelessly to a master pc.  At the end of the match the results are available immediately regardless of the number of tables.

A hand ready to be played.  The box facilitates passing the hand to another table.  The card underneath tells you where your team goes next.