| A message from the Treasurer |
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Thank you to all members for embracing our new BriAnMAS payment system over the past few months. I hope you will agree that it is working pretty well, although there have been a couple of little glitches. To ensure that your personal account is always credited with your payments, please ensure that they are made to Tudor Bridge Club’s main account and that they always include your correct unique reference. Full instructions are on the Player Account Statements page.
We are still celebrating our 40th birthday year and there may be one more little surprise coming up for you in the coming months. Watch this space . . .
Michelle
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| Announcing and Alerting on BBO |
As you know, on BBO, players alert their own bids. This is called "self-alerting" and it is opposite to the approach we use at the bridge club. Similarly, we announce our own bids too. If you have any doubt as to whether one of your bids should be alerted or announcedthen it is wise to alert/announce.
Furthermore, we don't use the 'Table' chat line to explain/alert the bid. Instead, we alert our own bids, just before we make the bid, using the Alert line in the virtual bidding box. This is key, as it ensures that you are not inadvertently telling your Partner what your bid means.
By the same token, if the opposition make a bid which you want explained, just click on the bid on the table and they will be asked to explain it. In both these scenarios the Partner of the player alerting/announcing can't see the explanation.
If you have alerted/announced a bid and the opposition click on the bid again they are asking for a more fulsome explanation. So, for example, if you are in a bidding sequence which you have alerted as Blackwood the opposition may click on the responses to request a more specific description, i.e. exactly how many aces are being shown. Similarly, if you have alerted a bid and the opposition click on the 'Explain' button, please don't give them the same explanation again, give more details.
For more information on alerting/announcing you may find this YouTube clip useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5d7dBV1pmk&feature=youtu.be
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