Location:           Venue on the Lake - Maitland Civic Center

641 S. Maitland Ave., Maitland FL 32751

Phone:               321-460-2083 (Club Number)

                           407-435-5123 (Glen Martin)

                           407-808-7900 (Perry Poole) 

E-mail:               northorlandobridge@gmail.com 

We are very pleased to announce that we are reopening for Face-to-Face bridge games (Open, 0-299, and FunBridge) on

both Mondays and Fridays starting May 3RD.   

Starting May 24th we begin pooling with the Southeast Bridge Club Consortium (SEBCC based in Knoxville, TN) to bring you expanded online opportunities (see details below).    

Here are four ways to support our club

Play in our Face to Face games or in our virtual club games on BBO

Order online Bridge lessons - see "Replays" button at left. 

When shopping on Amazon simply use the following link:
https://smile.amazon.com/ch/82-3296515

Make a Donation to our club - please use our special PayPal link.

Thank you!

NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY ONLINE
We are pleased to announce the North Orlando Bridge Center is pooling with the Southeast Bridge Club Consortium (SEBCC based in Knoxville, TN) to bring you expanded online opportunities.  When you are not playing Face to Face in our Bridge Center, please consider playing with SEBCC – this will directly bring revenue to help our North Orlando Bridge Club.  We encourage you to play in these SEBCC online virtual bridge club games. 

All of you that have played in our online games (and many of you that may not have yet) will be added to the membership of the SOUTHEAST Bridge Club Consortium.  You will be able to play in these games any day or time that you like.   
 You register for these games the same way you registered for our North Orlando games but, in case the games do not appear when you go to Competitive=> “ACBL Virtual Clubs”, go to “All Tournaments” and search on “Southeast” or “vacb248732”.   Because of these changes, we are now able to offer games three times each day: 9:30 AM, 1:00 PM, and 7:00 PM. Every session has both Limited and Open games available (Open games are awarded extra Masterpoints when there are also Limited games at the same time). The offerings are lengthy.  The best way to understand all the new offerings is to check out the SEBCC schedule by clicking here. 
And, after you play, you can find results by clicking here.

Any questions call or email Glen or Perry and we will help.

FACE-TO-FACE  REOPENING INFORMATION

We are very pleased to announce that we have reopened for Face-to-Face bridge at the Civic Center (Venue on the Lake) but only on Mondays and Fridays for now.  

We continue to offer virtual club OPEN games on BBO on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 12:25 pm and Saturdays at 10:05 am.  

Face-to-Face Game times on Mondays and Fridays: Open and 0-299 at 12:00 Noon, Fees $7.00 for NOBC members and $9.00 for guests.  Fun Bridge free lesson starts at 12:00 with supervised game at 12:15. Fees $5.00 for NOBC members and $7.00 for guests.

To ensure the safety of all, we ask the following:

• All participants must submit to a Temperature check at the door.  Per CDC guidelines, 100.4 degrees will be the maximum temperature allowed.
• All participants must complete and sign a Liability Waiver form (copies will be available at the club, but you can speed up registration by printing it out and completing it before you come - click here to download the form).
• We encourage participants to be vaccinated (but being vaccinated is not a requirement). 
• Hand sanitizers will be available, and players will be asked to utilize them.
• No food will be served by the club, but you may bring in your own not to be shared. Coffee and Tea will be provided and the soda machine will be available along with cups to get water.

Additional Anti-Covid Measures:

• We ask that everyone buy Advance Purchase cards before the game with checks or correct change.  (This way, when the game has started, the director will only need to pick up 4 advance purchase cards from each table and not need to make change.)   
• We ask that first one at the table sanitize their table and the Bridgemate using sanitizing wipes provided.  
• We ask that only North (or South) handle the Bridgemate and enter the ACBL numbers at the start of the game.
• We will not provide paper hand records (these are available online and from the Common game) but scoring summaries may be requested from the director at the end of the game.  
• The Civic Center will arrange the tables to leave plenty of space between them.

In addition, we are happy to report that:

• Based on our survey, nearly all our club members have been vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus. 
• The Civic Center has remodeled and upgraded the bathrooms with touchless faucets and automatically flushing toilets and urinals. And hot (or warm) water is now available in the bathrooms.   
• The Civic Center has also ensured that the Air Conditioning system is filtering the air to a high degree.   

We look forward to seeing everyone very soon!  We are confident that we are taking all reasonable steps to ensure the safety of the players, but we ask that everyone realize you still come and play “at your own risk”.  CDC Recommendations also change from week to week so we ask that you be understanding and patient with us as things progress.

If you have any questions or concerns we would like to hear from you, please send an e-mail to northorlandobridge@gmail.com.