We are delighted to welcome  members back to f2f events. We have guidelines to assist in returning GUIDELINES  We require all players  to  have had both Covid vaccinations (subject to individual medical situations). We have a modern effective ventilation system so we would encourage everyone to dress appropriately. There are currently four sessions each week in the club on Tuesday and Thursday evenings with play starting at 7.05pm (booking recommended)  and on Monday and Friday afternoons at 1.45pm (no booking required) . In addition Stepping Stones is now on the first and third Friday evenings for less experienced players and a Social Intermediate session on the second Friday evening  (no booking needed).  Please do not bring cash to pay for f2f sessions, we will invoice members bi monthly for all sessions played £1.50 members, £2.50 non members. Please remember that no premises can guarantee to be Covid free so members have to take their own individual decisions and above all please keep everyone's safety in mind when returning to the club.

We recognise that not all members will be ready to play f2f bridge just yet. So, each week, we have two on line Duplicate Pairs earning master points. We run a 20 board Duplicate Pairs on BBO  on Monday evening starting at 7.15pm. We have Thursday evening Duplicate  Pairs on Real Bridge at 7.15pm. Finally, we have a guided play session at 10am on Wednesday morning on Real Bridge (no master points). All events will cost £1.50 per player for members and £2.50 for all other players. Detailed instructions on how to play in each event can be downloaded from the links below. Members will be invoiced bi-monthly in arrears for each game played and it would be appreciated if members could use their EBU number only as a reference.

How to play in BBO club room

How to play on Real Bridge

Note direct links to the Real Bridge sessions will be posted on the calendar entry at least 24 hours before the event to simplify login.

We will also maintain our well established individual club area under Bridgeclublive (BCL) which you can access by following this link.

 BCL home page

BCL is essentially a private on line club. You need to be a full member of bridgeclublive to play in their various tournaments. The cost is £12 inc VAT per month (there are various other options too) but there are no extra fees outside this. If you have not already registered please register via this BCL registration form  which should offer free membership for 50 days to existing Olicana bridge Club members (as they are also EBU members).

If you are new to on line bridge it is recommended you start in the Social Bridge section to familiarise yourself with on line bridge before moving on to match pointed Pairs and teams of four). BCL has lots of help to get you started see HELP to get started. You may want to try out social bridge with four Olicana members. You can also set up a private table in the Social Room see Private Table  

To see a step by step guide on playing in the Dropindropout daily  tourney watch this video DIDOVIDEO

The well known teacher and international bridge player Andrew Robson has four channels each 6 times per week entitled  beginner, improver, intermediate and advanced. Each costs £7.99 per month plus VAT (so just under £10). If interested, please click BRIDGECAST to subscribe to the channel of your choice or multiple channels as appropriate.  Andrew Robson also has lots of books, flippers etc available BOOKS

There are a wide range of resources to help improve your bridge, many are subscription only . These include

Bernard Magee is a popular bridge teacher  and you can access his videos via BERNARD

Jack Stocken is a Yorkshire bridge teacher and you can access his live streams via JACK

Milan Macura (Czech) and Pete Hollands (Australian) have lots of free videos on their You Tube channels.