Witney Bridge Club as an EBU affiliated club adheres to the EBU rules. This ensures that decisions and standards of play and etiquette are in line with other clubs. The following reminders may be of help.

• At least one partner of every pair should fill in a Score Card.
• Convention cards should be available to the opposition.
• Stayman and Tranfers after 2NT is Alertable not Announced.
• Players should not have a card ready to play (ie perhaps lifting it a bit out of the hand) before it is their turn - this can give away information.
• Dummy should not touch a card/play a card until asked to (lots of us do this but it is wrong), nor say anything during play except to correct partner on direction of trick card - ie won/lost wrong way round (but see below as to timing) 'having none' - and 'table' or 'your hand' - is this last legal?
• A jump bid should be preceded by STOP and the next player must wait
  a short while before calling thereafter.
• A player who has alerted partner’s bid remains silent unless specifically asked for an explanation. This should take a similar form to "What do you understand about your partner's bid".
•  During the auction a player may only ask for a review of the bidding or an explanation of an opponent’s bid (from the person opposite the person who made the bid) when it is their turn to call, and only if the player is considering making a bid as opposed to passing. When a review is asked for, only the opponents of the person asking for a review should speak.
• Each player is only entitled to remove his/her own specific hand/curtain card from the board.
• Only North is entitled to remove the traveller from the board and is responsible for entering the score in the traveller, East/West have a responsibility to check the entry - this is always advisable.
•  Bidding cards of all hands should not be replaced until the opening lead has been made then all bidding cards should be replaced not left out.
•  Once all cards have been turned over they cannot be seen again unless a revoke is discovered later when the Director should be called.
• Anyone may now ask their partner "having none?"
• If a trick is pointing the wrong way neither Dummy nor Defender may mention this once the next lead has been made.
• The opening lead should be played before that player's score card is filled in.