Framlingham BC is a small friendly and relaxed Duplicate Bridge Club established in 1977.   The club is affiliated to the Suffolk Contract Bridge Association (SCBA) and to the English Bridge Union (EBU) and membership of the club automatically enrolls you as a member of the two higher parent organisations.  The annual club membership of £5.00 covers membership of the other two.  Please see 'Information' in the menu panel for further details times etc.

Monday afternoons.  This session is intended for experienced players but don't let the word 'experienced' put you off.   The average standard of Monday players is NGS 7or 8 and our two highest rated players are a modest NGS 10.  So long as you can play a solid no frills game you'll be winning trophies here in no time.

Wednesday afternoons This is a duplicate session with fewer (usually 18) boards played than on Monday afternoons.  EBU master points are not awarded because we take a more relaxed view of the laws of the game and there is a less competitive atmosphere in order to help and encourage less experienced players who wish to improve or to provide a gentle reintroduction to the game for those who may not have played for a while.  It's also there for members who seek no more than an social afternoon of bridge.  There is no obligation to move up to play on Mondays although we hope this will happen naturally as Wednesday players become more experienced.  Some Monday players also play on Wednesdays but do so in the relaxed ethos of the session.  We do not at present offer teaching at any level so you must be able to play at least a basic game in order to take part. Feel free to drop in on your own to watch a bit of play and get a feel for the club, existing club members have done just that before deciding to join us.

All visitors are welcome but you will need to come with a partner or please contact Richard Goble on 07765910637 or Glyn Button 01728 831647 and they will try to find you a partner via the Club's WhatsApp group because we almost always have a club member who is in need of one.

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Truly a game of two halves this afternoon as for the first time for a very long time indeed North/South went their way and East/West went it's way and the two were not reunited at the death to divide the spoils.  As far as the cards and the points went North/South were the spoiled uptown posh kids while the downtown East/West urchins spent their afternoon scrambling for the meagre scraps that Alex's capricious and downright discriminatory dealing machine had been pleased to throw their way.  N/S had an average of a whisker below 23 HCP per board and E/W were left with what was left, a huge gap in bridge terms.  Congratulations to Stuart and Stanley who emerged as the kings of HCP North/South gluttony and the look on their faces leaves no doubt they enjoyed the feast and couldn't give two hoots for the suffering they witnessed on either side of them all afternoon.

They might have found themselves scratching a bare living from half rations but by applying the dog-eat-dog law of the jungle these two familiar faces gobbled up more than their fair share of the little that was on offer for the East/West have nots leaving the other urchins in their fetid street to fight over whatever they left.  Search all you will and you'll detect not a flicker of guilt in those self satisfied faces who kept their place on top of the heap no matter that the deck had been rigged against them.

Truly a game of two halves this afternoon as for the first time for a very long time indeed North/South went their way and East/West went it's way and the two were not reunited at the death to divide ..........

They're 'back up where (they) belong where the eagles fly over mountain high' with a stunning near enough 72%.  A true team effort it was too with both of them in contract for four boards with a personal score of 91% for Carolyn and 90% for Shirley who could be accused of  not pulling her weight had she not scored 58% on defence to her partner's 55%.  Whoever that is standing just behind Shirley has just heard the scores announced and reacted with 'it can't be true!' - but it is, and not only that they keep doing it.

They're 'back up where (they) belong where the eagles fly over mountain high' with a stunning near enough 72%.  A true team effort it was too with both of them in contract for four boards with a perso ..........