| Welcome to Maidstone Bridge Club |
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With 150 members, MBC is EBU affiliated and has been providing top class bridge and lessons for new members for over 60 years
The Club meets on Monday afternoons and Wednesday evenings for face-to-face bridge at the Maidstone Civil Service Club in Recreation Close Maidstone with computer scoring and pre-dealt hands
Table money is £3 for members (£3.50 visitors who are very welcome) and free tea, coffee and biscuits are available
Please note that card payments are the preferred payment method on both days
Car parking is available at the rear of the Club but be aware Monday afternoon can be congested so please follow any instructions given.
Parking on the grass is not permitted. There is no shortage of parking space on Wednesday evenings
Play starts at 1300 on Mondays and 1900 on Wednesdays; we normally play 24 or 27 boards with play finishing around 1615 or 2215
Please note we do not operate a host system but if you contact Linda for Mondays or Richard for Wednesdays they will try to pair you up
Linda Catt on 07748967416 Mondays or Richard Sissons on 07780681405 Wednesdays
For general bridge enquiries please email Pauline Davis pjdvs28@gmail.com or see our Facebook page
Scores are normally posted on this site about half an hour after play finishes
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| Last updated : 25th Oct 2025 14:08 GMT |
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| Wednesday 14th January EBU Winter Sim Results |
The results, along with commentary for the hands, from the first EBU SIM Pairs event of the year can be accessed by clicking this link.......
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| Last updated : 15th Jan 2026 17:41 GMT |
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| Hand Of The Week |
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Board 3, Monday 19th January
Pre-empting can be difficult to counter. An opponent opens at the three level taking all your bidding space away, and you are unsure whether to bid your suit, make a takeout bid (if you have one available), double for penalties (if available) or simply give up and pass. The art of pre-empting is to vary the strength so the opponents have little idea what you have, making their decisions even more difficult. Board 3 from Monday 19th January gave East just this problem. After hearing two passes, North opened 3H on his 12 point solid heart suit. What should East do?
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A takeout bid looks likely to hear partner bidding Clubs – then the difficult decisions are back on East. Where are the tricks coming from for a penalty double? That doesn’t seem sound. That leaves a choice of pass or 4D.
One of my partners always said “Bid where you live” in other words tell partner what you have, not leave him to make the wrong decision. Over a heart pre-empt you are likely to have some holding in Spades as North definitely won’t have, so with a 4D bid you have probably described your hand as best as possible under the difficult circumstances North put you under. It also complies with the maxim of not asking partner to do something you can do yourself – bid where you want to be. If partner held 6 spades he will bid them, as he has the flattest of hands he is delighted to make a blame free pass.
Note that North can make 3H, whilst East can make 4D, and the computer tells us 4S as well (but that looks very tricky!). South and West should stay silent on their unhelpful hands and hope their opponents overbid which five out of the nine pairs did. |
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| Last updated : 21st Jan 2026 08:53 GMT |
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