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Welcome to Stoke Mandeville Bridge Club
Stoke Mandeville Bridge Club (At Aston Clinton Park) prides itself on providing a friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

We play duplicate pairs every Monday.

Pre-dealt hands are used with hand records available

Bridgemates at the table for scoring.

Play starts at 7:30, so please arrive by 7:20

Free tea and coffee are provided.

We enter three teams in the Berks and Bucks County League of 8.

THE MATCHES ARE PLAYED ON LINE USING REALBRIDGE

GUESTS: Guests, Visitors and New Members are most welcome. If you need a partner please contact Mary Baker. As we do not operate a Host System, a few days notice is appreciated.

EBU: We are affiliated to the EBU and issue master points.

EBU

CAR PARKING: There is ample car parking at Aston Clinton Park.

Hand of the Week 25th March

What a pity we had only 9 tables for our online evening this week. Still, I think we can be encouraged that SMBC’s strength is as a traditional face-to-face club. Board 27 caught my eye today. One remarkable feature of this hand is that both sides made a doubled game. EW had the majority of points (22) but only one pair found the diamond game, which I am sure NS regretted doubling although it makes no difference to the MP score. On every other table, NS bid and made 4S and what a fascinating hand it was to play. Get the cross-ruff going and it’s a joy. 10 tricks are easy and 11 should always be made although I kicked myself for claiming early, not realizing that my 5th heart would become good for an 11th trick. One pair were doubled and got the NS top but my HotW award goes to the pair who conjured up a 12th trick, which the computer says can only be done from the North  hand. So well done, made by South(!), Quentin and Diana, with an honorary mention to the EW pair for 5DX (Danny and Richard)

FREE ONLINE INFORMAL TEAMS
BBO
 
Please note that we cannot run teams on Wednesday 3rd April. All organisers are otherwise engaged, either in a league match or with personal committments Watch the website for details about April 10th.
Log in to BBO by 7:10pm and wait in the Lobby

Please do not wander off into other areas as you may become invisible to the organiser.

Please check and accept the invitation to play as soon as possible. Multiple invitations may be issued if someone does not accept in time.

Play will usually start around 7:15pm, but may be earlier if everyone is ready.

Explaining bids

If you do not understand an opponent's bid, or want further explanation, simply click on the bid. They will receive a pop-up box, where they can explain what their bid means. This is not visible to their partner, only to you and your partner (so no additional information is passed between them).

If you are asked to explain your bid, please do so promptly using the pop-up box, not in the table chat (as the chat can be seen by all players).

Online play with BBO uses Self-alerting

Before you bid, if your bid is not a natural bid, enter the meaning of your bid in the message box, and click the alert button.

This is not visible to your partner (who should already know what your bid means), only the opponents.

Using Undos

During bidding, if you genuinely mis-click a bid, you can immediately request an undo, which should normally be granted by your opponents.

Undos are not normally allowed during card play, so be careful when playing.

Chris has started an automated email notification service for updates to this section - the service runs from 7am to 10:55pm - if you would like to subscribe, please email Chris

(If you want to notify members of your own similar event here, please email David Barker)

Results
BRIDGE ON LINE
Director: Steve Elms
Pairs
Director: Richard Plummer
Scorer: Bridgemate
Pairs
Director: Fiona Scriven
Scorer: Bridgemate
Calendar
1st Apr 2024
Pairs BH
Director: Steve Marshall
8th Apr 2024
Pairs
Director: David Barker
15th Apr 2024
Pairs
Director: Bill Astles
22nd Apr 2024
Pairs
Director: Fiona Scriven
29th Apr 2024
Pairs
EBU promotions for February 2024
EBU

Congratulations to the following who were promoted during February:

Robert Last
Master
On Line League
Berks and Bucks Contract Bridge Association 
 
On Line League for 23/24.
We have three teams again and it is on Realbridge.
 
A team - Mary Baker (captain)
B team - David Barker (captain)
C team - Carol Harris (captain)
 
All the matches for the A and C team have now been completed.
The B team has one more match to play.
We now wait for the final results to come in.
Thank you to all three captains for their hard work in organising the matches.
Thank you to all those that are playing in the teams.

To see the On Line League results tables click here
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