Our annual Awards Party will be held on Tuesday 4/28. The club will provide wraps for lunch and if you can bring something to share, please let Peggy know.

At our party, we'll celebrate how much we have 'leveled up' since last year. It's a surprising amount of 'water under the bridge' since January of 2025. It may be hard to remember where we started last year, but trust me, I have the data.  For example, NKBC members have on average added 69 master points to their records! That's a lot to celebrate. 

Can you guess who is going to win the NKBC Rookie Of The Year?

Come and play and celebrate all of our winners.

Beginning May 7, NKBC will add a NEW Thursday game. HURRAY!

This game is different from all of our other games. It starts at 11:00 and is only $2 to play. We'll play 1st and 3rd Thursdays in May and June, and 1st and 4th Thursdays in July and August. If the game is well received, we'll add additional Thursdays.

Like other NKBC games, the Thursday game awards ACBL master points.

Unlike our other games, the Thursday game is not an open game. Instead, it is configured as a "4 Is Enough" game. That means that while anyone may play, there are restrictions on partnership composition. Specifically, A players may only partner with C players, B players may partner with other B or C players, and C players may partner with anyone. For this game, A players have more than 1000 master points, B players 500-1000 master points, and C players have fewer than 500 master points.

This game is intended for newer players. The "4 Is Enough" format eliminates high power pairs from the field, making it a more even competition. We'll play fewer boards and slow the game down to allow for discussion about the hands as they are played.

We expect these changes to produce a fun relaxed game that is ideal for mentoring newer players and allow less experienced pairs to compete on equal footing with their peers.

If you are interested in playing in this game, want to find a mentor, or be a mentor, please contact Cordell.