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Special Unit Game

Saturday, November 28 at 12:15 pm

A post-holiday opportunity - enhanced Masterpoints! All games will award double regular club rating masterpoints®, and awards will be ¼ gold, ¾ black. Join us for one of two games: Open or 499er under the direction of Jennifer Kuhn. Both games will start on BBO at 12:15. Sign up for your appropriate game on BBO up to 2 hours before game time.

IIf you've never played in a Unit Game or one of Jennifer's games, please let her know your BBO name so you can be added to her roster (e-mail jennifer.c.kuhn@gmail.com or 415-613-0982). On BBO Virtual Games look for VACB273474 and the appropriate 499 or Open game.

Stardust Week Returns to Virtual Clubs

Join us for another Stardust Week and win gold points online!

Stardust Week will take over the Virtual Clubs on Bridge Base Online (BBO) during the week of November 23-29, Monday-Sunday. No registration is required. Simply play in your usual Virtual Club game on BBO.

What’s special about Stardust Week? You’ll earn double regular masterpoints® in the Virtual Clubs, and points will be 1/4 gold, 3/4 black!

Unit 498's Virtual Clubs on BBO

Bayshore Bridge Club/ Gabi Alliance

Director: Gabi Bowling

There will be a game on

Thanksgiving

Open Games

Monday at 10:40 am

Tuesday 10:40 am

Wednesday 10:40 am

Thursday 10:40 am

Friday 10:40 am

Saturday 8:30 am

499er Games

Wednesday 10:30 am

Friday 10:30 am

Sunday, Nov 29 Only

10:30 499er

10:40 Open

Game Results

Virtual Club Number:

VACB 103325

San Mateo Bridge Center

Director: Raad Bunni

Open Games

Tuesday at 12:05 pm

Friday at 12:05 pm

Game Results

Raad's Online Zoom Lessons:

Tuesdays and Fridays

10 am-11 am

www.sanmateobridgecenter.com

Virtual Club Number: VACB263616

Alliance (Jenny and Raad)

Peninsula Duplicate

Director: Jenny Kuhn

No Games Nov 25 and 26

Open Games

Wednesday at 1:05 pm

Wednesday at 6:30 pm

Thursday at 1:05 pm

Fast Pairs

Mondays at 5:30 pm

(robots allowed as partners)

Thursday at 3:55 pm

12 Boards in 60 minutes

$4.00

99er Games

Wednesday at 12:45 pm

Thursday at 12:45 pm

(Alliance PDBC and Coastside

Women's Club)

49er Games

Wednesday at 9:45 am

Thursday at 9:45 am

Game Results

Virtual Club Number: VACB273474

Alliance: (Jenny and Raad)

Easybridge Lessons

Jenny Kuhn

Wednesday and Thursday mornings at 9:00.

Zoom Lesson followed by playing hands online on BBO.

Email jkuhn@peninsuladbc.com if you are interested in Easybridge.

Chinese American 2

Director, Robert Ng

Monday Evening at 6:50 pm

Results

Virtual Club Number:

VACB 131292

How to Play Online and Support Your Local Club

Mentor/Mentee 2020 Games

Save the Dates!

These games will be held once a month on Thursdays at

7:00 PM. The dates are 8/20, 9/17, 10/15, 11/19 and 12/17.

Let us know if you would like to join us!!

Contact Sue Papilion at suepapilion@icloud.com or Janelle Van Rensselaer at janellevanr@janellevanr.com for more information.

Welcome New Members

Lee Bowman, Laurie Burmeister, Emily Hamilton, Janet Iltis,

Kyle Robinson, Luke Sonnet, Elizabeth Vivas

New Advancements/Achievements

2020

Junior Masters

Debora Bakhtiari, Anne Barton, Randall Baum, Joan Cole,

Barb Fallon, Gail Murayama, Stacie Wong

Club Masters

Melanie Mauldin and Nancy Zorfas

Sectional Masters

Lucy Ballard, Amy Christen, Xinpeng Huang

Regional Masters

Mike Dotterweich and Umesh Padval

NABC Masters

Kathryn Barnard and Robyn Lee

Advanced NABC Masters

Kit Morse and Susan Papilion

Life Master

Christina Kamra

Janelle Van Rensselaer

Bob Johnson

Bronze Life Master

Kal Aziz

Christina Kamra

Silver Life Masters

Janet Grove

James Van Ness

Ruby Life Master

Rosemarie Dean

Stephanie Singer

Jennifer Kuhn

Daniel Sonner

Diamond Life Master

Daniel Raider

For more Unit 498 news from District 21's monthly publication,

Diamond in the Ruff, click below for our San Mateo Column, written by Fran Gaura.

Diamond in the Ruff

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