click on LINK to join session and log in.

We are a friendly duplicate Bridge Club welcoming new and visiting players, meeting every Thursday evening at Southgate Community Centre, Caie Walk, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2PJ.

Please arrive at 6:50 for 7 pm start.

We also play on Wednesday evening on realbridge starting at 7:30 pm

Our partner broker is Pamela Pope and she can be contacted on pamelapope7@gmail.com

Contacts: Helen Mason (Chairman) helencmason92@gmail.com & Patsi Barnes ppmbarnes@gmail.com

Suffolk Bridge in association with Victor Lesk is holding an inaugural Cafe Bridge event in aid of St Nicholas Hospice Care charity on Thursday 19th September in Bury St Edmunds Town Centre. The event will run between 10.15 and 15.45 and will be held across the following venues: 

The Angel Hotel, Bay Tree Cafe, Procopio's Pantry, Mowgli Street Food, The Lounge and Garden, Gastronome, Abbeygate Cinema and The Apex.

This will be a fun day playing relaxed Bridge in cafes and restaurants in the town moving between them after each round with a light lunch included in the entrance fee of £30.00.

Please click Cafe Bridge for more information on the Suffolk website or Entry Form to enter directly.

A weekend of Bridge taking place on 5th/6th October 2024

THIS IS A GREEN POINTED EVENT

At  11am-7pm Blackbourne Centre, Elmswell IP30 9UH

Saturday: Pairs competition:   Two  x   24-board sessions

Sunday:   Swiss Teams of 4:   Seven x  7-board rounds

£25.00 per person per day

Please bring your own lunch

To enter please click here

Any queries please contact Jo Harpur 07946 523285

 From Wednesday the 22^nd of May, the Bury St Edmunds evening session on RealBridge will combine with the Cambridge Bridge Club

with a starting time of 7:30.

Both clubs have seen falling numbers for their session since the introduction of the EBU National League that runs at the same time.

Hopefully this joint collaboration will add several more tables making the evening a more enjoyable experience.

 All Bury players will continue to log on using the log on from the Bury website as usual. Although Cambridge will act as the ‘host’ club.

Bury will provide a ‘Director’ on a rota basis once the sessions have started to run.

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:

Abbeygate Bridge Club with The Bury Friends group is holding another Bridge For Fun Event in support of St Nicholas Hospice Care, to be held at the Blackbourne Centre Elmswell, on Friday 18th October. For more information and the application form please click here 

On 29 June we held the first of a new ‘handicap duplicate’ session.  It was a big success and attracted 9 tables.  These sessions will continue on the last Thursday of each month for the foreseeable future   

The handicap system will be based on the NGS of each player giving each pair a + or – depending upon their ranking. Players on a low NGS will have the advantage over more highly rated players.  A handicap may benefit the less experienced player by giving him or her a better chance, but it also benefits the better player by producing more of a challenge.

All club members and newcomers welcome, the usual table money of £2.50 per person applies.  Bury Bridge Club play at 7pm at Southgate Community Centre. Please arrive from 6.30pm.  

Simply click on the above Link and you will be able to join.

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

Three more points to make note of:

1. Use Chrome rather than Edge as your browser as RealBridge works better on Chrome
2. If you lose connection, refresh or leave and log back in again
3. If necessary you can control the volume of players by using the mic symbol to the right of a persons name

Some people have found circular blue and 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 when using RealBridge. To do that hover over the icon, (or the upper of the 2 icons) so that you can see the lower icon with 3 dots in it. Click on the 3 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 click "hide always")

The charge for each session is £2.00 and you will be billed by Joan our Treasurer who will send you an email every 2 months.

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'.

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!