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SUFFOLK EVENTS

Click on SUFFOLK BRIDGE to find out about future events and the results of county competitions.

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PLAY IT AGAIN FEATURE

Don't you just wish sometimes that you could play a hand again?

Well, you can...thanks to the wonders of Bridgewebs.

The 'Play It Again' feature is not that well known, but easy to use.

Just go to Results, click on any pairing and you will see below the hand 'Play It Again' (arrowed)

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The Anne Nunn Trophy

…..will take place on Thursday 27 April at Southgate.   Members of Abbeygate Bridge Club as well as Bury Bridge Club are eligible to play.  
Small eats and a glass of wine will be served at 6.30 before the normal 7.00 start. Table money will stay at £2.50

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Real Bridge every Wednesday

smileysmiley click on LINK to play RealBridge on Wednesday  evening from 6.30 to 6.55pm for a 7pm start.

Some people have found circular blue & white icons appearing in front of their bidding cards if they are using Edge - they appear as    image001.png    and    image002.png  

It is caused by a feature of Edge called "Visual Search".  This feature should be disabled for the RealBridge site.  To do that, hover over the icon (or the upper of the two icons), so that you can see the lower icon with three dots in it.  Click on the three dots, and a submenu will appear, like this:    image003.png

Then do "hide for this site" (if you want to disable this feature for all websites you can instead do "hide always")

 

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Championship Pairs Final

SUFFOLK CHAMPIONSHIP PAIRS QUALIFIERS

50 pairs have qualified in their Club Heats for the Suffolk Championship Pairs final which takes place at Elmswell community centre on 16 April (11am start, £10/head entry fee). The qualifiers can be seen HERE.  Entry form is on the Suffolk Bridge website. 

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Sim Pairs for Earthquake Relief Fund - 20th April at Southgate

We will participate in one of several Sim Pairs being run by ECats Bridge to aid the Turkish/Syria Earthquake relief fund.

Table money will be the normal amount with donations as well.  You can either donate on the day with cash or a cheque (what's one of those?) or on line to:

Bury Bridge Club - Sort Code 30-91-92. Account no 66896460  Please use 'Earthquake' as your reference

Should you be unable to attend in person and still feel you'd like to donate please do so.

 

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Bridge for Fun

A fun afternoon, with tea, will be held on Friday 21 April at 2pm at Elmswell in aid of St Nicholas Hospice.  £15 per head.  You can play either Chicago or Duplicate.  
full details on the Abbeygate website.  
This event is now fully booked but it’s nice to know that it’s back after a bit of a break over Covid. 

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Clare Swiss Pairs - 30 April

Clare Bridge Club 25th Annual Swiss Pairs
to be held at
Lavenham Village Hall
on
Sunday 30th April 2023 at 11am
Coffee from 10.15am. Please be seated by 10.45am
Blue pointed event
Entry fee: £17.50. per player (including a delicious sandwich lunch) Cash prizes: EBU Master points. Systems: EBU Licence Level 4

further details on the Clare website 

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Supervised play for improvers

In January 2023 our club introduced a supervised play session that runs alongside the normal club duplicate on Thursday nights.

Supervised play is open to all players who have advanced from ‘beginners’ to ‘improvers.’ The session will be run by an experienced player or qualified EBU teacher.

Hands will be pre dealt with help and guidance on bidding and hand – play, so this will suit a player with some experience or has completed a beginner class.

Starting at 7pm the class will usually finish 9 – 9-30 pm

For more details contact:

Tim Evans (07785 973803) tim@suffolkclocks.co.uk

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On line Bridge on Wednesdays.

Since January 4th 2023 we have permanently switched from BBO to RealBridge 

The charge for this is £2 per session   You will be billed, by Joan our Treasurer, who will send you an email every two months. 

see more information below….

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REALBRIDGE

REALBRIDGE.

A link will be shown on our website, simply click on that and you will be able to join

Once on the home page you will need to fill in your name and EBU membership number in the ID box and then join a table, opposite your partner, if they are already there. If they are not there just click on an empty space. It’s as easy as that!

Three more points to take note of:-

  1. Use Chrome rather than Edge as your browser – RealBridge works much better on Chrome
  2. If you lose connection – Refresh or log back in again
  3. If necessary you can control the volume when playing by clicking on the mic symbol to the right of a person’s name.

If you need a partner please contact Joan 01284 787286 and she will send an email round to members.

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WELCOME TO BURY ST EDMUNDS BRIDGE CLUB

Joan: partner broker

Formed in 1981 we are a friendly duplicate Bridge Club welcoming new and visiting players and meet every Thursday evening for F2F play.  Play starts at 7pm.

We have around 50 members and use a well-lit room.  We have tea, coffee, and drinks and biscuits available all evening.

We also currently play on Line on the BBO programme at 7pm on Wednesdays. 

Our partner broker is Joan Watson and she can be contacted on j.watson120@btinternet.com

We join nationwide Simultaneous Pairs events a few times a year.

Our address is Southgate Community Centre, Caie Walk, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2PJ.  Tel no 01284 703705

There is another Bridge club in Bury - Abbeygate Club who play duplicate on Mondays (on line on the RealBridge programme) and Tuesdays F2F at Nowton Court.  Many of our members belong to both clubs.

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Bury Swiss Pairs
  • 2nd Place 2023
  • 3rd Place 2023
  • Ascenders 2023
  • Winners 2023

 

We had a great turn out of 18 tables at Elmswell for our Swiss Pairs on January 29th. It seems people really like playing F2F again.  Well done to the winners Andre Gray and David Willson. In second are Barry and Bob and third are Catherine and Paul. Ascenders went to Rosa and Rob!

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County Events

A comprehensive list of County events is to be found on the Suffolk (SCBA) website.   Left hand column, under Malcolm Pryor's picture, 'Competitions Calendar'.

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COUNTY EVENTS SUCCESSES

The Autumn Festival on September 11 at Elmswell, was very well attended and Bury provided winners in two of the five categories   

Caro Hunt and John Heath won the Veteran Pairs Prize and 

Pamela Pope and Patsi Barnes won the Ladies Pairs 

Pam was again successful, this time with Sekhar Pillai, in the Swiss Pairs 9-high element of the Suffolk Congress (ex-Felixstowe) on Sunday 2 October at Elmswell.

in the Thornaway Cup at Elmswell on 5 March one of our Bury teams came second.   Well done to Jo Harpur, Tim Evans, Chris Park and Denis Valtisiaris

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KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH THE EBU

An article on the Suffolk website gives insight about information you can access on EBU (English Bridge Union) website.  From news to competitions and checking up on your masterpoints its your way to keep in touch with all that's going on.  All you need to access your own details is your EBU number and, oh yes, decide on a password!

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RECENT WINNERS

29 Mar on RealBridge

Joan Watson & Patsi Barnes

30 Mar F2F at Southgate

Phil Mathews & Peter Tarrant

 

 

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Calendar
Wed 5th April 2023
online RealBridge
7pm
Director: Tim
Scorer: Mike
Thu 6th April 2023
Southgate
7PM
Scorer: Paul
Wed 12th April 2023
online RealBridge
7pm
Director: Joan
Scorer: Mike
Thu 13th April 2023
Southgate
7PM
Scorer: Paul
Wed 19th April 2023
online RealBridge
7pm
Director: Tim
Scorer: Mike
Thu 20th April 2023
Southgate
7PM
Scorer: Paul
Wed 26th April 2023
online RealBridge
7pm
Scorer: Mike
Thu 27th April 2023
Southgate
7PM
Scorer: Paul
Wed 3rd May 2023
online RealBridge
7pm
Scorer: Mike
Thu 4th May 2023
Southgate
7PM
Scorer: Paul
Results
Southgate
Director: Mike
Scorer: Peter
online RealBridge
Director: Joan
Scorer: Mike
Southgate
Director: Tim
Scorer: Peter
online RealBridge
Director: Tim
Scorer: Mike
Southgate
Director: Tim
Scorer: Paul
online RealBridge
Director: Joan
Scorer: Mike
Southgate
Director: Tim
Scorer: Paul
online RealBridge
Director: Joan
Scorer: Mike
Southgate
Director: Mike
Scorer: Peter
Southgate
Director: Tim
Scorer: Peter