Mondays and Thursdays at 7:00pm
Monday Relaxed Pairs: online on BBO or face-to-face at Kesgrave Community Centre, Ipswich, both sessions start at 7:00pm. The same boards are played and all participants receive follow-up notes on the deals, distributed by email, usually within two days.
Thursday Club Pairs: also on BBO or face-to-face in the Ropes Hall, Kesgrave Community Centre, Ipswich. Both sessions start at 7:00pm and although the results are separate, all participants play the same deals.
Visitors: always welcome, for any session we run. Before your first session you must register with us; see the Visitor Information Form. Online players for Monday or Thursday can use the respective links from the Online Bridge Club box, right.
At Kesgrave we run a cashless system for collecting table money and players are billed for sessions played at the end of each month.
Any questions, about any format, please let us know, we're here to help.
Autumn Charity Week
Is this week and will support Families in Need (FIND) Ipswich; details below.
Table-monies from all four sessions with will be donated. As in previous charity weeks we will merge the online and face-to-face sessions for submission to the EBU (and therefore Master Points as well as Thursday NGS). Club competitions will still take results from the separate sessions.
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| Deal of the Week |
Missed any? All past articles have their own page (also menu-item, left).
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This week's copy expected shortly…
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| Play & Learn 2027 |
Play & Learn Event at Ipswich & Kesgrave
The third edition of this popular event: two periods of play interspersed with commentary by Chris Green and including a refreshment break.
Sunday February 28th, 2027, 11am to 5pm
16 boards of Face-to-Face Bridge at Ropes Hall, Kesgrave. Eight Boards in the morning and eight more in the afternoon with a break between. Each round of four boards followed by a recap led by our bridge teacher Chris Green.
Beginners or Improvers – this is for you. Don’t worry if you haven’t got a partner – we will find one for you. Cost is just £10/person including a great selection of teas, coffees, biscuits and cakes. (Please note that this year we will not be providing hot food.)
Enter via this form [also in 'Play & Learn' menu-item]; share this flyer [PDF] with your friends.
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| Autumn Charity Week – FIND |
Table money from the four sessions in week beginning Monday 9th November will be donated to Families in Need (FIND) Ipswich.
They are a Suffolk charity which supports everyone, regardless of faith or circumstance. In their own words,
For over 30 years, Families in Need (FIND) Ipswich has offered a lifeline to people in Ipswich and the surrounding areas who are experiencing poverty and despair.
We provide free food parcels and personal care items to help people get through a crisis, as well as furniture, bedding and other household items where the person or family has none.
An army of over 80 volunteers regularly give their time freely to check and sort the donated food, collect items from local stores, make up the food parcels and deliver them.
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| BBO Membership Changes |
BBO Membership
Many of you who play online will have received notification from BBO or the EBU about the imminent introduction of the platform's new membership structure. This is mainly aimed at those playing social bridge, currently free and unlimited.
The new arrangement has no impact on paid-for club games such as we offer on Mondays and Thursdays.
BBO currently receive 30 cents of each BB$ paid as table-money and access remains unrestricted, requiring only a login. That is now known as 'Basic Membership' and you can read the letter of how BBO says it will work.
The most significant impact is in match play. The new scheme requires a Premium Members to create the match. It seems that the introductory offer granting free Premium status is quite liberal but is of a year at most and may become more of a problem in future. However, there is no need for players, invited to a created match, to be anything other than a Basic Member of BBO, simply by possessing a login as now.
It is possible to book a table for social bridge (or two for a team match) on RealBridge: see this from the EBU.
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