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Director: Patricia Hones
Pairs League - Overall
Director: Stephen Brown
Pairs League - Division 1
Pairs League - Division 2
Seniors Pairs
Director: Patricia Hones
Calendar
14th Jul 2025
Seniors Pairs
Roke 11am
Director: Patricia Hones
17th Jul 2025
OBA Pairs League - starting positions
RealBridge 7pm
Director: Stephen Brown
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24th Jul 2025
OBA Thursday Teams
RealBridge 7pm
Director: Patricia Hones
11th Aug 2025
Seniors Pairs
Roke 11am
Director: Patricia Hones
16th Aug 2025
OBA Congress Swiss Pairs
Abingdon School 11.30am
Director: Rob Sassoon
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Burford Cafe Bridge
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County Green / Blue Point Events

Oxfordshire Congress             16-17 August 2025    Click for more information

Cheltenham Congress             23-24 August 2025   Click for more information

West of England Congress     11-12 October 2025   Click for programme & entries

Kent / Sussex Congress          25-26 October 2025   Click for more information

PREMIERSHIP LADDER

Each OBA competition counts toward this yearly ladder and give a player who has got the highest scores overall during 2024-2025

Click HERE to see the current standings. 

DATES FOR COMPETITIONS IN OXFORDSHIRE 2025-2026

ALL ON REALBRIDGE (except congress and events marked F2F)

Sat/Sun 16/17 Aug 2025  Congress (Abingdon F2F) 
 
Sun 31st Aug 2025    Friendly Pairs 
 
Thu 4th Sep 2025      Cafe Bridge, Burford
 
Tue 16th Sep 2025    Cafe Bridge, Henley, entries open 2June
 
Sun 14 Sep 2025  F2F    Harwell Cup  Wallingford
 
Sun 12 Oct 2025 F2F   Wallingford Swiss Pairs 
 
Sun 9 Nov 2025        Handicap pairs TBC
 
Sun 7 Dec 2025        Swiss Pairs Championship TBC
 
Sun 18 Jan 2026    Mixed Pairs Hybrid / Wallingford TBC
 

Sun   1 Feb 2026       \

Thu   5 Feb 2026       County Pairs Semis
Mon 16 Feb 2026      /
 
Sun 15th Feb 2026  Abingdon Swiss Pairs F2F
Sun 8 Mar 2026       9H County Pairs
Sun 15 Mar 2026     County Pairs Final
 
Sun 19th April 2026   Oxford Swiss Pairs
 
Regular monthly events
Regular monthly events

OBA offers three regular monthly events, F2F or online 

 

     SECOND MONDAY - F2F Seniors Pairs at Roke, 11am, 30-33 boards.   JUST TURN UP    2025/2026 LADDER

 

     THIRD THURSDAY - Pairs ladder on RealBridge, with promotion and relegation within two divisions, 7pm 21-22 boards.      CLICK TO JOIN AS A NEW ENTRANT    New pairs very welcome       LADDER

 

     FOURTH THURSDAY - Teams on RealBridge, 7pm, 24-25 boards     CLICK TO ENTER 10 DAYS BEFORE EVENT

Learn more
Learn More

LEARN MORE

 

You have graduated through lessons and friendly duplicates and are ready for something more competitive.  All our clubs provide regular competitive duplicates.  Choose the “Home” tab at the top of this page and click on either the “Map of Affiliated Clubs” or "Clubs & Duplicate nights" tab on the left to see a listing of all our clubs with details of their regular club sessions.  

 

You go to some of these sessions and want to improve your scores.  How can you go about this?

There are lots of ways, but here are a number of suggestions:

 

Read all the bridge articles you can in the newspapers and in English Bridge (The EBU’s quarterly magazine for members).  A number of bridge books are reviewed here - click on “Book Reviews” on the left hand menu.

 

Find someone with more bridge experience to help you, either by playing with you or by discussing your results.  Whilst at present we have no formal mentoring system in Oxfordshire I am sure that if you speak to your club chairperson they will be able to help you to find someone suitable.

Enter a Pro-Am event.  You will need to keep your eyes open for opportunities at several clubs.  At the time of writing The Menagerie (www.bridgewebs.com/menagerie/) runs one about every nine months and Wallingford (www.bridgewebs.com/wallingford/) about every three months

 

Play against better standard opposition and be ready to learn from them.  It would be rare to meet a bridge player who would not be happy to give you constructive advice, but hopefully not until you have asked for it!

 

Attend a seminar or course on a specific subject.  The following clubs offer seminars or courses from time to time:

 

ABBEY SMITH BC (at Little Horwood, Bucks) - see website www.bridgewebs.com/abbeysmith/ - or e-mail Abbey at abbeybridgelessons@hotmail.co.uk  

 

BRIDGE IN OXFORD - In addition to teaching a series of Andrew Robson's bridge courses, Jonathan Davis also offers occasional seminars on specific bidding and play topics as well as running regular weekly supervised play and learn sessions in Wolvercote (on Tuesday mornings) and in Charlbury (on Thursday afternoons, fortnightly from September 2019). Regulars include players of all standards and no partner is required. More details at https://arb-oxf.uk of via email arb.oxford@gmail.com.
BUCKNELLBRIDGE - Improving your game is tough. If it was easy, everyone would do it! Charlie Bucknell is one of the best private tutors in the game and is happy to create a session to focus on exactly what you want. He can also provide an in depth set of lessons that cover the most essential advanced techniques that show how the experts make the game look easy. For more information, visit his website  or get in touch (bucknellbridge@gmail.com, 07889284580)

 

OXFORD BRIDGE CLUB - see website www.bridgewebs.com/obc/.  Details of seminars can be found by clicking Seminars at Oxford Bridge Club and courses by clicking Courses at Oxford Bridge Club.

 

SUMMERTOWN BC - offer seminars (principally for their own members) - see website www.bridgewebs.com/summertown/.

 

WALLINGFORD BC - offer seminars on specific topics - see website www.bridgewebs.com/wallingford/.