One of the topics that came up in a pre-game chat with longtime Bridge Center of Niagara mainstay and current ACBL District 2 chairman Wybren "Webe" Hoogland at the Niagara Winter Sectional in St. Catharines was the sorry state of bridge in Buffalo. Just one fulltime sanctioned club, the Buffalo Bridge Center, and the only open games there, the ones on Wednesdays and Fridays, attract barely enough players to fill three tables. By comparison, the Friday games in Niagara-on-the-Lake usually have six or seven tables and the ones in St. Catharines routinely have nine.
At the Bridge Center's annual meeting and game a couple weeks ago, the issue of low attendance came up, partly because of another issue: low revenue. Promises were made to try to attract some of the newer players to those games. Voila! There was a fourth table last Friday. Could it be that it's beginning to work?
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