click on LINK to join session and log in.

We are a friendly duplicate Bridge Club welcoming new and visiting players, meeting every Thursday evening at Southgate Community Centre, Caie Walk, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2PJ.

Please arrive at 6:50 for 7 pm start.

We also play on Wednesday evening on realbridge starting at 7:30 pm

Our partner broker is Pamela Pope and she can be contacted on pamelapope7@gmail.com

Contacts: Helen Mason (Chairman) helencmason92@gmail.com & Patsi Barnes ppmbarnes@gmail.com

 From Wednesday the 22^nd of May, the Bury St Edmunds evening session on RealBridge will combine with the Cambridge Bridge Club

with a starting time of 7:30.

Both clubs have seen falling numbers for their session since the introduction of the EBU National League that runs at the same time.

Hopefully this joint collaboration will add several more tables making the evening a more enjoyable experience.

 All Bury players will continue to log on using the log on from the Bury website as usual. Although Cambridge will act as the ‘host’ club.

Bury will provide a ‘Director’ on a rota basis once the sessions have started to run.

The course will run over eight weeks in October and November and there will be two opportunities to attend each lesson, at two different venues -

Tuesday afternoons at Cavendish Hall Pavilion in Thurston and Friday afternoons in the Dance Studio at Nowton Court. Participants will be able to attend either session each week.

Dates will be as follows:

Tuesdays October 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 16, 26 at Cavendish Hall Pavilion Church Road, Thurston, IP31 3RU

Fridays October  4,11, (not 18th), 25, November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 at Nowton Court Dance Studio Bury St Edmunds IP29 5LU

This course is open to members and guests, of all local bridge clubs. The course will be most useful to members who have started to play in the last two or three years, but all are welcome. The cost will be £60 per person, just £7.50 per lesson

Enter by clicking here

For further info email Josh at  joshuadanielclarke@hotmail.com

Abbeygate Bridge Club with The Bury Friends group is holding another Bridge For Fun Event in support of St Nicholas Hospice Care, to be held at the Blackbourne Centre Elmswell, on Friday 18th October. For more information and the application form please click here 

On 29 June we held the first of a new ‘handicap duplicate’ session.  It was a big success and attracted 9 tables.  These sessions will continue on the last Thursday of each month for the foreseeable future   

The handicap system will be based on the NGS of each player giving each pair a + or – depending upon their ranking. Players on a low NGS will have the advantage over more highly rated players.  A handicap may benefit the less experienced player by giving him or her a better chance, but it also benefits the better player by producing more of a challenge.

All club members and newcomers welcome, the usual table money of £2.50 per person applies.  Bury Bridge Club play at 7pm at Southgate Community Centre. Please arrive from 6.30pm.  

Simply click on the above Link and you will be able to join.

Once on the home page you will need to fill in your name and your EBU membership number in the ID box and then join a table opposite your partner if they are already there, if not click on an empty space.

Three more points to make note of:

1. Use Chrome rather than Edge as your browser as RealBridge works better on Chrome
2. If you lose connection, refresh or leave and log back in again
3. If necessary you can control the volume of players by using the mic symbol to the right of a persons name

Some people have found circular blue and white icons appearing in front of their bidding cards if they are using Edge. They appear as image001.png and image002.png. It is caused by a feature of Edge called 'visual search'. This feature should be disabled when using RealBridge. To do that hover over the icon, (or the upper of the 2 icons) so that you can see the lower icon with 3 dots in it. Click on the 3 dots and a submenu will appear like this: image003.png, then do "hide for this site"  (If you want to disable this feature for all websites click "hide always")

The charge for each session is £2.00 and you will be billed by Joan our Treasurer who will send you an email every 2 months.

A comprehensive list of County events is to be found on the Suffolk (SCBA) website.   Left hand column, under Malcolm Pryor's picture, 'Competitions Calendar'.

An article on the Suffolk website gives insight about information you can access on EBU (English Bridge Union) website.  From news to competitions and checking up on your masterpoints its your way to keep in touch with all that's going on.  All you need to access your own details is your EBU number and, oh yes, decide on a password!