BridgeMojo is ACBL accredited bridge teacher Morris "Mojo" Jones, offering games and bridge classes for the greater Pasadena area and San Gabriel Valley.
Join us for our weekly Monday evening duplicate bridge game for non-Life Masters. This is a sanctioned ACBL bridge game for new bridge players with aspirations of enjoying the pleasures of modern bridge anywhere in the world.
Mojo offers classes through PCC Extension for brand new and continuing bridge players, offering Audrey Grant's acclaimed Better Bridge curriculum.
Charity Bridge Game to benefit Alzheimer's Association
Two sections! 99er pairs and Open Stratified (500/1500/Open)
San Marino Masonic Lodge No. 408
3130 Huntington Drive
San Marino CA 91108
Card fees $15/player
Reservations please! By email or telephone (626) 755-5415
Click here for map and directions
This is a full-length bridge game. Open pairs will play 26-27 boards, 99er pairs will play 21-22.
I have two summer classes that focus on everything but bidding! Join us for four weeks on declarer play, and four weeks on defense.
Join Mojo for four Thursday evenings at the beautiful Oneonta Congregational Church in South Pasadena for four classes focused on improving your play of the hand as declarer. Learn and practice techniques used by expert players to plan the play and win more tricks when declaring.
Topics include:
Lynn Sager and Adam Barron picked up almost two silver points for their 65% game in the May 7 BridgeMojo STaC game. Close behind were Rosemary Schroeder with Hilary Clark, and Dona Clark with Carolyn Buzin.
From the posted results, it appears that there were two clubs playing 749er games on Monday evening, BridgeMojo and the Bridge Gallery in Northern California. The table count was 16.5 total tables.
The full Monday evening STaC results can be found at this link.
The next Unit Game with lunch is Sunday, May 6, 1:00 p.m.
May 1, 2018
April featured not four but five Monday evenings to play bridge in San Marino. Here are a few happy statistics:
| Masterpoints monthly winner: | 1.98: Denise Wreede and Karmen Armoudjian |
| Runners up: | 1.80: Dennis Burke and Barry McKinley |
| Total masterpoints awarded: | 35.48 |
| Players winning masterpoints: | 57 |
| Total number of different players: | 75 |
Bonnie and Angela take on the robot pair.
Photo by Roy Wilson, April 2018
Roy's article on the Unit web site here
Last week was our first trial-run for having a pair of BBO (BridgeBase Online) robots fill a half-table at the BridgeMojo game.
What's wrong with having a sit-out?
Normally when the game has a half-table, on every round there's a pair who can't play. That pair has a 15-minute break. For the BridgeMojo game, that means seven pairs in the game will play twelve boards, and the rest will play fourteen.
To compensate for the difference, the total matchpoint score for those pairs is factored before comparing it with the other pairs in the game. Their final score is multiplied by 14/12 (7/6, 1.166). (Remember your fractions?) That brings every player up to a common baseline score.
Mailing label for an ACBL Bridge Bulletin
When I applied for the sanction for my bridge club, one of the questions on the application form asks for a seven-character code for your club to appear on masterpoint reports.
For my club, it had to be BRGMOJO, of course.
So when I got to see it in print for the first time (yay, Jane!) it was a bit of a thrill. :)
My desk with boards, cards, and the Playbridge Dealer4 machine.
Morris Jones
March 11, 2018
When I was deciding how to equip my bridge club, I took my cues from the ACBL North American Bridge Championships. As the pinnacle of tournament play, and heavy-duty supply usage, I had a strong bias toward their selections.
I purchased "Neo Classic" bidding boxes. (They take more space than the folding boxes, but are more durable.) I bought "Imperial-Plus" duplicate boards to use in a Dealer4 dealing machine, Cosco tables (the MECO tables are good too but have minor problems).
Our first "special event" at the BridgeMojo club will be a STaC (Sectional Tournament at Clubs) game on Monday, March 19.
The game will start at our regular time of 7:15 p.m., but we will play a bit longer: 21 boards instead of 14, finishing a bit before 10:00 p.m. We won't hold a postmortem that evening, so it's about the same ending time for those who like to stick around after playing.
So what is this event and why that evening?
To become a Life Master, you must have been awarded at least 75 silver points. Silver points are only awarded at sectional tournaments. (There's another way to look at this requirement: It's the ACBL's way of keeping attendance up at sectionals!)
Morris Jones
Feb. 11, 2018
At the Feb. 5 BridgeMojo postmortem I gave an overview of the standard Convention Card. The object was to show the various regions of the card and how it was laid out:
Each of the major areas are divided with titles that explain themselves fairly well, for example:
The competitive bidding section on the left isn't quite as organized as the constructive section, but then competitive bidding is messy too. :)
Twelve tables in play at the BridgeMojo game
Morris Jones
25-Jan-2018
When I first noticed bridge, of course the game was fascinating. The detail and the multi-level depth of the game continue to enthrall.
When I first started playing duplicate bridge and visiting tournaments, I found another fascination in the organization of the game itself — the movements of boards and players, the many ways of scoring that would shift the play strategy.
Early on I realized that I could play team games at home with nothing more than two or three tables of players, some score cards, and a few duplicate boards. My first directing was done at my house or others' houses exactly that way.
