Dounby Bridge Club meets on Tuesday and Friday evenings at 7:00 pm every week except for two weeks over the Christmas and New Year period.

We take our bridge seriously but not too seriously and aim always to be a friendly and welcoming Club. 

On Tuesdays, we play Duplicate Pairs Bridge.  On Fridays, we play Individual Rubber Bridge, which makes it easy to accommodate occasional single visitors and new members.  Players should arrive 10-15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Several of our members also play at Orkney Bridge Club in Kirkwall. Click on the card icons at the top left and top right of the page to open their website in a new window.

Results uploaded, report later.

With twelve folk present again, making for a comfortable three tables, the clear winner tonight was Hazel Foubister, her total of 5,440 largely gained on two excellent early tables: 2,200 with Gladys Marwick and 1,040 with Graham Lyon. Glad did indeed sustain a good standard across the evening to finish second with 4,840, and third was Margaret Kirkness on 4,430. For each of these and for fourth placed Pat Shearer (4,330) their scores were good enough to increase their ‘best ten’ aggregates for the season, Glad and Hazel each moving up a spot in the overall rankings.

Overall, Clinton Rendall still leads, with 54,060; Graham is second, on 53,760; and well back in third on 51,010 is Roger Davies.

Some very mixed hands for the seven pairs that competed at Duplicate Bridge this week. Some hands were tempting for players to bid beyond the right level and six hands that were doubled (and in one case redoubled) were all brought down.

Four Small Slams were bid - 6♠ and 6♠XX , 6♥ on board 17 and 6N on board 26. The 6♠ XX and 6♥ contracts were both defeated but the other two, both bid by DaveH & Sandy, made successfully. Unbid Grand Slams were made by all declarers on board 1 and unbid Small Slams were made by some declarers on boards 2, 12 and 26.

Top pair for the evening were Graham & SheilaL with 63.54%, followed by MargaretM & Nila with 58.33% and DaveH & Sandy with 57.29%.

DaveH & DaveW leading the year to date rankings with an average of 64.89%. Lying second are Graham & SheilaL with 61.14% and lying third are Roger & Dennis with 60.50%.

We will again be taking part in the Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs competition run by EcatsBridge. Last year the equivalent event run by them raised more than £71,000 for Children in Need. The details are given below:

Venue - Dounby Centre
Date - Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Time - 6:45 pm for a 7:00 start
Table fees - £2 for members and £3 for non members

If you wish to take part in this event, please use the Dounby booking system to enter your pair for the competition, as soon as possible. We need early bookings to ensure that we have enough equipment available and have printed out the necessary movement sheets.

There will be a raffle with tickets costing £1 a strip and there are five colours of ticket so please come armed with extra cash that evening. If anyone would like to donate a prize for the raffle that would be very welcome. Donated prizes can be handed to Roger or Margaret on any Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday evening prior to the event.

The dates for the end of the 2016 season for Duplicate Pairs and Individual Rubber Bridge are given below along with the dates for the start of the 2017 season.

End of 2016 season
Duplicate Pairs - Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Individual Rubber Bridge - Friday, 16 December 2016

Start of 2017 season
Duplicate Pairs - Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Individual Rubber Bridge - Friday, 13 January 2017 (with food)

The trophies for the 2016 season will be given out at the first session of the 2017 season for each competition respectively, not both on the same evening as previously.

The first Individual Rubber Bridge evening will include a finger buffet to which those attending are invited to bring along an item of food to contribute. It would be a bit much to have food on the Tuesday and the Friday and we have chosen to do it on the Friday as that is generally a more relaxed evening. Tuesday only players are, of course, more than welcome to come along on the Friday. Individual players are easy to accommodate on Fridays.