| F2F session on May 2nd 2024 - Cancelled |
The 2024 United Kingdom local elections are due to take place on 2 May 2024. For that reason we will have to cancel our F2F Thursday bridge on May 2nd at the Memorial Hall. Bridge will resume as normal the following week. Our Monday sessions on BBO will not be affected.
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| EBU Master Points Promotions |
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| Various “Rules” of Bridge |
Rule of BOSTON. This is a little know acronym for leading. It stands for Bottom Of Something, Top Of Nothing.
Helpful (?) Partner Rule. A rule that says it’s permissible to injure a partner who overtakes your trick (as a choice) and then starts to think.
Queen Finding Rule. If you have a two-way finesse for a Queen, finesse the opponent you like the least.....or if you dislike them both play for the drop
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| Probability of Drop of |
With 2 cards missing go for the drop of the King (52%)
With 4 cards missing go for the drop of the Queen (52%), the cards may be 2-2 (41%) or she may be singleton (12%)
With 6 cards missing go for the drop of the Jack (54%), the cards may be 3-3 (35%) or he may be doubleton (18%) or singleton(2%)
With 3, 5 or 7 cards out do NOT expect to drop K, Q or J respectively
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| Famous Bridge Quotes |
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Alfred Sheinwold
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Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.
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Alfred Sheinwold
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Where's the hand you held during the auction?
- A comment made when dummy hit the table.
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Jan Janitschke
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The real test of a bridge player isn't in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he's in.
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Alfred Sheinwold
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Well, it was a close match until the first hand.
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Chico Max
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| Percentages of Card Division between two hidden hands |
Cards out:
2 cd: 1:1 52%; 2:0 48%
3 cd: 2:1 78%; 3:0 22%
4 cd: 2:2 41%; 3:1 50% 4:0 10%
5 cd: 3:2 68%; 4-1 28%; 5:0 4%
6 cd: 3:3 35%; 4:2 49%; 5:1 15%; 6:0 2%
7 cd: 4:3 62%; 5:2 30%; 6:1 7%; 7:0 0.5%
8 cd: 4:4 33%; 5:3 47% 6:2 17% 7:1 3% 8:0 0.2%
9 cd: 5:4 59%; 6:3 31%; 7:2 9%; 8:1 1%; 9:0 0.1%
Except for 2 cards the general rule is:
Even cards probably do not split evenly
Odd cards probably do split as evenly as possible
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| Odds against a player being dealt |
Playing 26 boards twice a week expect:
13 cards in one suit = 169,066,442 to 1 Once every 60 000 years! 
8 cards in one suit = 213 to 1 Once a month
7 cards in one suit = 28 to 1 Once a session
6 cards in one suit = 6 to 1 Four times a night
at least one singleton = 2 to 1 Once a two board round
at least one void = 19 to 1 Once a session
AKQJ10 in a suit = 500 to 1 Once every three months
four Aces = 378 to 1 Once every two months
a hand with no points = 278 to 1 Once a month
a Yarborough (no10) = 1827 to 1 Twice a year
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| EBU Competitions |
This poster shows the upcoming EBU events.
You can enter for any of the events online via My EBU.
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| Did you know? |
43.6 percent of all slam contracts fail.
62.7 percent of all bridge players are women.
97.8 percent of all bridge statistics, including these, are made up! 
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| EBU Membership - New Members' Guidance |
 What is NGS?
How to order your EBU diary?
EBU magazine?
What is "My EBU"?
You can find the answers of the above questions and many more in the:
New Members Booklet
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