Siouxland Duplicate Bridge Club
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  • Holiday party set for Thursday December 18!. A sign up sheet is out at the Club to help with head counts.
  • Thanksgiving takes the first bite and Christmas takes the second This year Christmas AND New Year's Day fall on Thursdays. sad
  • Recent Updates The box just below this one on the home page shows where new content may be found.  Some is actually new, while some reflects edits made for clarification or in response to comments correcting mistakes. Major rewrites are designated with  "(edited)"
  • Partner up!  The first Sectional 'close enough' is Urbandale, the second weekend in January.  A flyer is attached to the entry in the planning calendar on the Calendar tab.  
  • News Page " Duplicate thus becomes about as sociable as an off-tackle smash and as sporting as a zip-gun fight...." Find a link on the News page to the full Sports Illustrated article about Duplicate Bridge from October 1961. Found in the SI Vault.
  • The 2026 Summer Nationals will be in Minneapolis!! The closest National tournament in 25 years.  
Recent Updates
Testing and Hold
Dec 6, 2025 18:14 CST
Home Page
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Old Posers
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Bridge Basics
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Interesting Hands
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Welcome to Siouxland Duplicate Bridge Club
Page 1 -- Breaking News

Except on CCN and FOX, everything can't be PAGE ONE BREAKING NEWS and contained on the home page.   Check out the News Page for time sensitive articles of general interest.  Really peruse everything in all the tabs, but you can start with the News Page.

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Promoting Local Team Games Part I
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One of my overall objectives is to promote bridge through our club.  When starting to promote anything the key is to start "local" where people know you and you know people.  But what in the current bridge world defines "local"?  Our ACBL Unit 235 has three clubs. ..........

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Promoting Team Games Part II
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Continuing the thought of local team play.  Team play is different. ..........

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Web Site Overview
Web Site Overview

Welcome to a website for the Siouxland Duplicate Bridge Club.  (Non duplicate players may find items of interest as well.)  Content will be added on a continuing basis, check back often. The left side panel has a top level Table of Contents. Use this to locate material of interest to you. Results from our club games,  reported to ACBL Live, are posted automatically. These results also serve to update the Competitions Section. 

Logging in while viewing the site is optional. being logged in is necessary to use several features.  One must be logged in to do any of the following:

  • Leave a comment or give a "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs down" regarding material on the site. 
  • View the membership data pages. 
  • Use the "Find a Partner" feature.  
  • Update a member account record.
  • Post or answer a LTP request.

Anyone with specific content or ideas to share please email Glenn Metcalf.  Also you might notice the tab, "Who we are--Member Bios". Please consider writing a short biographical squib. Then sending in an email to me.  Please consider including  a picture too. I will associate the picture with your text.

The Siouxland Duplicate Bridge Club is located in Sioux City, Iowa and has members from all over the Tri State area including North Sioux City, and Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, South Sioux City, Nebraska, Sergeant Bluff, Moville, Orange City and other locations.  Duplicate bridge games are sectioned by the ACBL.

 

Partner? Where art thou?
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Bridgewebs has two separate partnership seeking systems. Both require a member sign in to the site before using the service. "Find a Partner" is a built in Bridgewebs feature. ..........

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Yes, there is an App, BUT

The iStore and Android Store have a Bridgewebs App, but it is very under powered as compared to the full website.. It presents some of the news pieces in random order.  And it provides a list of upcomjng games.  Finally, it does allow looking at the results of recent games. The results are the most useful showing rankings, a private scrore card with the results on each board, and a traveler for each board. It does not provide any hand analyisis. Simply put, it is an extract of what is available on the web site. If you try the App the first step is to select the siouxland club.. The icon to do this is on the far right.

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Poser XI Quiz Time True of False

This week we have True or False Quiz on the question of Unauthorized  Information pursuant to Law 16.  There are a number of misconceptions about UI. Here are a few of them.  This list is NOT exclusive.

True or False? Unauthorized Information is only a factor when something happens during the auction like a long pause for thought followed by a Pass.

T or F ❌ False. UI can arise both in the auction (as described) and the play such as when an unestablished revoke creates a penalty card. Hide Answer

True or False? When a player has UI their sole obligation is to act ethically and determine what they would do without the information.

T or F ❌ False. When you have UI which suggests a bid or play you must select a different action if one exists which some players of your experience level might consider and some might select. Hide Answer

True or False? The use of Unauthorized Information will be penalized by the director.

T or F ❌ False. The use of UI will result in an adjusted score (Law 16B(3)) pursuant to Law 12. Law 12C(1)(c) excludes the outcome suggested by the UI from consideration. However a procedural penalty is still possible in addition. Hide Answer

True or False? A penalty card is initially authorized information for both pairs, but after it is played or returned to the hand, it becomes unauthorized information for the offender's partner.

T or F

True or False? A card which has been played and returned to the hand without becoming a penalty card, may still be considered UI for the offending side.

T or F

Last updated : Dec 6, 2025 17:15 CST
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More about the Competitions

UPDATE 10/15/25   I think the competitions are interesting however, I have no idea if anyone is looking at them.  Gross Master Points earned, is probably the most indicative of current success.  Average percentage games as an Individual or Partnered will be somewhat distorted in favor of one or two high games and inconsistent participation.  I am looking for ways to make this more interesting.  I am open to suggestions.  Yes, of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need good advice.  So I have taken the Master Point and Individual Percentage challenges and re-set them to start fresh for the Fourth Quarter.  This made sense to me as our games and membership mix changes with the loss of the Snow birds. Where are the Competition Results??  You need to click on the menu item on the left side of the home page.   If you have other suggestions, please Email me (Glenn).

Last updated : Oct 15, 2025 18:38 CDT
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Calendar
December 8, 2025
Open
Center Club Room 12:00PM
December 10, 2025
Novice / 299
Center Club Room 9:00AM
Director: Leon Koster
December 11, 2025
Open
Center Club Room 12:00PM
December 15, 2025
Open
Center Club Room 12:00PM
Results
Open
Director: Jean Darnell
Scorer: Karen Bourne
Novice / 299
Director: Leon Koster
Open
Director: Jean Darnell
Scorer: Karen Bourne
Open
Director: Jean Darnell
Scorer: Karen Bourne