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Pasadena Bridge Club 649 N. Fair Oaks Ave #201 Upstairs above the pizza shop Mojo Jones 626 247-4457 Zach Vedro 626 215-5080 Full Schedule Open Games Mon-Sat 11:00 AM M-F 1:00 PM Saturday Regency Bridge Club   201 E. Colorado St, Glendale Adam Barron    323 318-4308 Thursday   12:30 Social Duplicate Game   Arcadia Community Center Marie Nimmrich        626 448-3304 Wednesday 9:30 - 50¢ Friday 1:00 - 50¢ Mojo Jones   626 247-4457 Unit Game Director 1st & 3rd Sunday 12:30 Pasadena Bridge CLub Bridge Lessons Mojo   626 247-4457     Unit Game - Jun 1 Unit Game - Jun 15 Unit Game - Jul 6 ACBL Tournaments Schedule RSVP Pasadena BC Check my ACBL Masterpoints Pasadena Bridge Club     Pasadena Club Results Glendale Regency     Regency Results La Fetra Club     La Fetra Results District STaC Results     Mojo's BBO Results ACBL Tournaments     ACBL Live Results Dr John Waken Sectional     Arcadia Community Center Results Unit Game Results     Old Unit Game Results Regionals This Year Our unit games are held twice a month, usually on the first and third Sundays, and both games are held at the Pasadena Bridge Club. - Game time is 12:30 Be sure to call Miriam Harrington for a reservation:                             626 232-0558 For New and Lower Ranked Players Roy Wilson 626 340-9575 -- unit559Webmaster@gmail.com If you use Text Messaging...TEXT ME!   Roy           You will learn more by losing to good players than you will by winning against poor players Stray Words of Wisdom A Glimpse at Precision Are you curious?  Here's a brief description of ExP, the extended version of the system... The strong bid is 1!c with 17+ HCP The negatve response is 1!d - any other call is 8+ points Most opening bids are 11-16 points Both 2!c and 2!d bids are natural with 5+ suits and 11-16 HCP Opening 2NT is 5-5 in the majors with unlimiited points Opening 3NT is 5-5 in the minors with unlimiited points After a positive response to the strong 1!c opening there are three primary low-level Asking Bids. CAB - Control Asking Bid    An ace is 2 controls and a king is 1 TAB - Trump Asking Bid      Quality/Length of the trump suit SAB - Support Asking Bid   Poor/Moderate/Good & Controls Some agreements are optional: A simple raise to an opening major suit is Game Forcing After a major opening a response of 3NT is a modified Blackwood A bid of 3!c or 3!d is natural and 5-5 with the same color major A bid of 4!c or 4!d is natural and 5-5 with the opposite color major This system also has the option to not use Roman Keycard Blackwood... Too many problems with that agreement!  Instead a Blackwood agreement called Major Suit Keycard, or MSK, is the ace asking bid. Roy Wilson Our Next Unit Game Unit Game Flyer Special Events This Month The Pasadena club will have Club Championship games during the week of June 23-28.  The masterpoint awards will be higher, but the card fees stay the same. For the next three months the club will have North American Pairs Qualifying games. Those who qualify will be eligible to play in the District Final, with the chance to represent our district at the national level.  These games are flighted. Every year the ACBL sanctions a game that benefits the charity for Alzheimer's research.  This year the game will be Saturday, June 21, for both the Novice game and Open Pairs. Way back in 1960... Howard Schenken had a strong club system before C.C.Wei gave us Precision. (Note the pair number... 9B ... Table 9 in section B. Those were the days when we always had two sections at our club games.) EDGAR and Three I can no longer play bridge because of three people at the ACBL headquarters. Three staff members reviewed some hands that I played on-line about five or six years ago, and they decided that I must have cheated, but after they notified me, they would not discuss the hands with me nor tell me anything else.  They apparently only considered EDGAR, the software used to find and investigate unusual hands, but one of them did tell me that EDGAR often has false positives when the hand is played by Precision players.  They would not tell me how many hands were involved nor did they ever ask for any explanations.  Friends, I had already been convicted without any chance to refute the decision. But they never asked for any explanations Instead, they dismissed me by telling me that I could pay $900 to apply for a hearing and that I would need at least one advocate at $1000 a day, but two advocates were recommended.  Also, I would have to fly to their headquarters and present "evidence" to the three people who have already made up their minds. Nope.     Not gonna do it.     (Can you remember why you made a particular bid or lead five years ago?) I don't know how much longer I will maintain this website, but shutdown is not eminent.   Close   Unit Historian:    Do you have an old photo or other memorbilia from our past that you can share with us?  Please contact Mike and let him make a copy. Mike Marcucci 818 903-2471 nstarmgm@att.net Pasadena-San Gabriel Unit 559 Unit Board Announcements Our unit is one of nine in District 23 and we are sanctioned by the American Contract Bridge League. We have an elected board of 12 members that meets monthly and is responsible for unit games, our Holiday party and the annual John Waken sectional. Unit Board Members     Unit 559     Bylaws Zero Tolerance Standing Rules Unit Board Policies Unit Membership Roster How to Find Our Virtual Club on the BBO Website Our unit members can play in a virtual club game set up by Mojo and Paula... When you log on, you are at the Home screen.  Click on Competitive and then click on All Tournaments. There's a Search Box at the top, on the right.  Simply type in a few letters or numbers that will help identify what you are looking for:  23 is sufficient for District 23, and 559 is enough for Unit 559. You can use either the abbreviated Pasa or 559 for our virtual club. Use this link if you would like to see the convention card used by the BBO robots. BBO Robot's Card WEB PAGES AND WEB SITES     BBO Login Our Virtual Club bridgemojo.com Our Friends on BBO       1 2 3 4 a      Memorial to Lost Friends    Gallery of Players    A Scrapbook of Photos Bridge Cartoons b   Tips From Our Top Players Interesting Bridge Articles Double Dummy Problems Problems and Solutions c   Card Play Technique Stuff Everybody Knows Bridge Utilities Standard Bidding d   Ask the Coach: -  JJ Members Page History of Our Unit Karen Walker's Bridge Library:   e   Ace of Clubs - Mini-McKenney ACBL Convention Chart Information Links Maps f    Frank Stewart's Daily Hand Bridge Stories and Tales D22 - Daily Bulletins D23 - Daily Bulletins ACBL District and Unit Websites       1 2 3 4 A    The ACBL Alert Chart Conventions Chart Duplicate Decisions The Laws of Duplicate Bridge B    The Montreal Relay The Big Club The 2/1 System Extended Precision C    Keycard Asking Problem Bids Bridge Tales Losing Trick Count D    Bridge Probabilities 52 Bridge Tips - Kantar Pavlicek's Bridge Tools Ed's Newsletter     Looking for a certified bridge teacher?       Morris Jones     mojo@mojobridge.com   Claudia Elmes     elmesclaudia@gmail.com   Zach Vedro     zvedro@hotmail.com   Lisa Walker     lisawalkerlac@gmail.com   Roy Wilson Precision System   unit559webmaster@gmail.com   American Bridge Teachers Association   ABTA   Unit 559 Membership Report Ranks are updated quarterly after the 7th of the month. Top 30 Players - Unit 559 Rank Requirements Unit 559 Active Members Click the rank below for a list Master Points     Rookie - 36 0-5 No color points needed Junior Master - 45 5-20 No color points needed Club Master - 61 20-50+ No color points needed Sectional Master - 58 50+ 5+ silver points Regional Master - 41 100+ 15+ silver points and 5+ gold points NABC Master - 15 200+ 25+ silver and 20+ red/gold/platinum (5 must be gold or platinum) Advanced NABC Master - 8 300+ 50+ silver and 50+ red/gold/platinum (25 must be gold or platinum) Life Master - 16 500+ 75+ silver and 100+ red/gold/platinum (50 must be gold or platinum) Bronze Life Master - 61 750+ Life Master with at least 750 points Silver Life Master - 13 1000+ Life Master with at least 1000 points (200+ must be silver/red/gold/platinum) Ruby Life Master - 13 1500+ Life Master with at least 1500 points (300+ must be silver/red/gold/platinum) Gold Life Master - 19 2500+ Life Master with at least 2500 points (500+ must be silver/red/gold/platinum) Sapphire Life Master - 10 3500+ Life Master with at least 3500 points 700+ silver/red/gold/platinum (350+ must be gold or platinum) Diamond Life Master - 7 5000+ Life Master with at least 5000 points 1000+ silver/red/gold/platinum (500+ must be gold or platinum) Emerald Life Master - 2 7500+ Life Master with at least 7500 points 1500+ silver/red/gold/platinum (750+ must be gold or platinum) Platinum Life Master - 2 10,000+ Life Master with at least 10,000 points 2000+ silver/red/gold/platinum (1000+ must be gold or platinum) Grand Life Master - 2 10,000+ Life Master with at least 10,000 points 2000+ silver/red/gold/platinum (1000+ must be gold or platinum) Must have a victory in an eligble event June Total Membership  341 Go to the top of the page June, 2025 Status Change for our Members updated each month in the first week New Member Milo Sketeris   Monrovia Transferred In Amy Muscoplat   Arcadia Transferred Out Jack Rainsberry   Alta Loma Jack Cameron Ross Jr   Alta Loma Lucy Zhang   Brooklyn NY Advanced in Rank - 4   Roberta Preskill  Junior Master   Robert Hunt  Club Master   Tracee Dezzutti  NABC Master   Lisa Walker  Silver Life Master                   Since June 16, 2016 -- You are Visitor Number   894206 This website was established in 1999 by Roy Wilson Linux version 1.0.0 was introduced March 14, 1994 The First Web Site was established at CERN in 1992 by Tim Berners-Lee. 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