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The competition programme for 2026 is now available under the competitions tab.

Folkestone bridge club welcomes players of all abilities from beginners to advanced players.
Chris Lohan.

It is with deep sadness that we bring news of the death of Chris Lohan.

Chris was our lead teacher and will be greatly missed.

Condolences go to her family who were by her side when she passed.

A full tribute and funeral details will be posted in due course.

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Welcome to Folkestone Duplicate Bridge Club Website

We play face-to-face on Mondays, and online on Thursdays.

Our Monday session starts at 2:00 p.m.at Folkestone Baptist ChurchPlease be there by 1:50 p.m. so that the session can be set up.Our Thursday evening sessions alternate monthly between BBO (even numbered months) and RealBridge (odd numbered months) Both Realbridge and BBO sessions start at 7pm.Table money will be £3 for face-to-face and Realbridge and $4 for BBO.

Visitors are welcome on Mondays (Table money £4) and guests of members are welcome online.

We welcome new members to the club including beginners.

You can find details of our BRIDGE CLASSES below.

 

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Bridge Classes and Gentle Duplicate

Our bridge teachers Teachers run the following classes.

 

Our EBTA  Associate Teacher, Shirley Goldwin, runs classes in her home in Mersham.

Please contact Shirley for further details on 01233 501871 or shirley.goldwin@gmail.com

 

Our EBTA Teacher, Mark Rixon, runs classes in his home in Dover.

Please contact Mark for further details on 07753 201859 or msrixon@sky.com

 

Gentle Duplicate for less experienced players runs alongside

the main movement on Monday afternoons. 

Anyone wishing to join in should contact us in advance.

 

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Do you need a partner?

The club operates a partner finding service.

If you are looking for a partner please email Ruth (ruthnmal@hotmail.com) or phone her on  07538 426180 at least 24 hours in advance, that is by 2.00 pm on Sunday for face-to-face or by 7.00 pm on Wednesday for our online games. The earlier you let Ruth know, the more likely it is that a partner will be found for you. You will be notified by Ruth either by noon on Monday or by 3.00 pm on Thursday with your partner's details. In the case of online on a Thursday, please ensure that you enter the competition on the website by 4.00 pm in the normal way.

Please note that the electronic partner finding system that we trialled  on this website is no longer available.

 

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Congratulations. 1000 wins.

Those of you familiar with the NGS (National Grading Scheme) run by the EBU will know that it calculates a current grade and a grade band for each EBU member, which is updated whenever new results for that player are received. 

The new results can be recieved by email after playing, and in that email you are informed how many times you have won an event since the system started.

In one of those recent emails Bill Gardner was informed that he had hit the milestone of 1000 wins.

Congratulations to him for this achievement.

We are currently trying to find out how many other players have had 1000 wins since the start of the system 14 years ago.

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Running our bridge club.

Making the boards.

Every week a large number of boards need to be made in order for our game to go ahead.

Boards are dealt for the main room, for gentle duplicate and for the practice table.

The hands for the boards are generated by computer software and a file from this software is used to deal the boards with a dealing mchine. 

Each plastic board is opened, the cards removed and placed in a hopper.

The dealing machine then reads the file and deals the correct cards to the correct hands. 

The file is then uploaded to the website so that the hands are visible once the results are published.

You can see the dealing machine in action above.

Many thanks to everyone both past and present who has given up their time to deal our boards.

Without this facility we would have to shuffle and deal every hand (which leads to non random hands) and it would not be possible to look at the hands on the website.

We are always looking for more helpers to run our club and you are interested in dealing boards we can give you some great training.

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Master Point Promotions

Congratulations on the latest Master Point promotions.

Paul Morgan  Local Master
John Letts Local Master

 

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Competition winners 2025
Competition winners 2025
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Results
BBO ON LINE PAIRS
Director: SHARON BAYNE
Scorer: SHARON BAYNE
CLUB PAIRS
Director: David Ellerby/Mark Rixon
Scorer: Andy White
REAL BRIDGE ON LINE PAIRS
Director: SHARON BAYNE
Scorer: SHARON BAYNE
Calendar
8th Jun 2026
Teams Championship Qualifier.
2.00PM
Director: SHIRLEY GOLDWIN
Scorer: Andy White
8th Jun 2026
GENTLE DUPLICATE
2.00PM
Director: CHRIS LOHAN
Scorer: ANDY WHITE
11th Jun 2026
BBO ON LINE PAIRS
7.00PM
Director: SHARON BAYNE
Scorer: SHARON BAYNE
15th Jun 2026
CLUB PAIRS (LOCAL CHARITY)
2.00PM
Director: David Ellerby/Mark Rixon
Scorer: Andy White