October is the ACBL’s annual Jane Johnson Club Appreciation Month. Club Appreciation Pair Games are special games run during the month of October at clubs. They offer masterpoint awards calculated at 82% sectional-rated black (29% more than Club Championships and special fund games). Club Appreciation Team Games are special games run during the month of October at clubs and offer masterpoint awards calculated at 82% of sectional-rated black, but overall awards are 5% gold (not to exceed .25 gold points). The games run during this month recognize the contributions of Jane Johnson, longtime manager of ACBL’s Club Membership Department, to the ACBL.

We’ve scheduled nine Club Appreciation Pair Games and six Club Appreciation Team Games. The ACBL does not charge clubs extra table fees for Club Appreciation games, so we don’t charge you extra (unlike some clubs). Entry fees are the same as regular games ($9 per player for Monday–Saturday daytime games; $8 per player for evening games and Sunday afternoon games).

Swiss team games are a fun break from matchpoint scoring. Many think team games are more like “real bridge.” Team games have the nice feature that almost everybody earns masterpoints (if you don’t place in your stratum, you get masterpoints for every match you win). For more about team games, see this page on the ACBL web site. We run Swiss team games with predealt hands and electronic scoring, so we’re able to play 24 boards in about 3¼ hours—about the same time as a pairs game—and you get hand records at the end, and you can view complete results on the web after the game.

Welcome to the Westwood Bridge Club, where it’s our mission to provide you with a friendly and fun place to play duplicate bridge.

For our complete schedule and directions to the club, please click Information.