Bridge Club offers free lessons on Fridays

The Leisure World Duplicate Bridge Club is offering free lessons to experienced bridge players on Friday mornings in Clubhouse 1 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. beginning Feb. 3. Larry Slutsky and Rob Preece will teach the lessons.

The focus of the classes will be defense and will feature a lot of supervised play.

For more information and/ or to sign up for the lessons, contact Larry Slutsky by phone at 562-253-7119 or by email at larryslutsky@gmail.com; or Linda Nye by phone at 562-4536678 or by email at yeulingnye@yahoo.com.

North/South winners in the 5½-table game on Jan. 12 were Larry Slutsky and Shmuel Fisher with a 62.1% game. East/ West winners were Ellen Kice and Linda Stein with a 61.69% game.

In the ten-table game on Jan. 13, North/South winners were Larry Topper and Lynn Danielson with a 59.49% game; second were Carol Murakoshi and LaVonne McQuilkin with a 59.26% game; third were Bill Brooks and April Berg with a 57.41% game. East/West winners were Kathy Jervik and Sherry Geller-Vogeli with a 58.8% game; second were Miranda and Tony Reddy with a 57.41% game; third were Frances Gross and Sue Fardette with a 57.18% game.

With a 68.43% game Bud Parish and Jeanette Estill were the East/West winners in the ten-table game on Jan. 16. Second were Shmuel Fisher and Thad Mikols with a 60.85% game and third were Miranda and Tony Reddy with a 53.69% game. North/South winners were Larry Slutsky and Fred Reker with a 68.2% game; second were Sibyl Smith and Diane Schmitz with a 61.2% game and third were Linda Nye and Alan Olschwang with a 57.93% game.

Games are played on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons in Clubhouse 1 beginning at 12:30 p.m. Players are asked to arrive no later than 12:15 p.m. to confirm their reservations. Reservations can be made at any game using the sign-up sheets and/or by contacting Linda Nye at 562-453-6678 or emailing yuelingnye@yahoo.com no later than 10 a.m. on game day.

—Gene Yaffee