The Director of every Duplicate session will act as a host and help to "pair up" players coming without a partner, and will play with anyone who cannot be fixed up in this way, subject to the guidelines below.

The host system is intended to provide partners for members and visitors who occasionally arrive without a partner:  it is not intended as an alternative to members finding a partner for themselves.  The Club may withdraw or suspend the right to use the host system.

• for anyone coming frequently without a partner, the guideline being not more than 12 times in a 12 month period, although leniency will be shown towards new members for all Supervised Play and Novice sessions
• as a result of complaints about a player's behaviour or any other reason which, in the opinion of the Club management, is causing a problem
• the session director has the right to decline acting as host if it is deemed to compromise the smooth running of a very busy session