Siouxland Duplicate Bridge Club
Bulletin
  • 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. From the SI Vault.
  • 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)"
  • Council Bluffs Novice Regional and Open Sectional started Wednesday morning 10/22.   A Sioux City pair struck  Gold in the first event. More Gold on Thursday!  Check out the News Page.
  • Competition Reports Redone (partially) See the note on Competitions on this page and then look at the two designated "4th Quarter."
  • Partner up! Unless you are really up for a road trip nothing close coming up. 
  • A new Google style calendar has been added To "Who We Are" -- Siouxland DBC an Introduction.  It also appears as a separate page in the Calendar Tab.  It has some non event items, like up coming near by Sectionals and  Regionals.  
  • The 2026 Summer Nationals will be in Minneapolis!! The closest National tournament in 25 years.  
Recent Updates
Testing and Hold
Nov 9, 2025 21:33 CST
Obscure or Surprising Laws
Nov 9, 2025 06:20 CST
Old Posers
Nov 8, 2025 22:23 CST
Home Page
Nov 8, 2025 22:20 CST
Bulletin
Nov 8, 2025 09:47 CST
Release 2.19r
0 0 0 0 0 0
Pages viewed in 2025
Welcome to Siouxland Duplicate Bridge Club
In less than 30 words, Why We Play Bridge.

Bridge is a game of honor. We compete not just for points or prizes, but for the deep satisfaction of doing something well, fairly and in partnership.

Bronia Jenkins -- Executive Director, American Contract Bridge League

Comment
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?
..... see less

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. ..........

..... see more
Contributions and Comments
..... see less

Contributions of new content are not just requested but required if this site is to be a successful interaction between members.  What I have populated the site with is intended as a start.  Ideally ..........

..... see more
Comment
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.

Comment
Poser VII

This weeks Poser explores bids out of rotation the example comes from Duplicate Decisions by the ACBL. The "normal" situation is a player who bids out of rotation must either repeat the bid if previous players all pass or when it is their turn to call, make a comparable bid. (Fairure to make a comparable bid will bar partner and lead penalties may attach.)  However this Poser explores an alternative occurance... South is dealer. East opens out of rotation with 1♣. South bids 1♠ and West calls the director after noticing the opening bid out of turn.  What happens next? 


Show Answer
 

The Director must ascertain (away from the table) if South thought that they were calling over 1♣, in which case they accepted the bid out of rotation under Law 29A (the auction continues normally), or if they wanted to open 1♠ (maybe they didn’t notice the 1♣ bid). If this is the case, 1♣ is canceled, the auction starts with 1♠, no lead penalties, but 1♣ is UI for West. This result is required by LAW 28B which provides Call by Correct Player Canceling Call Out of Rotation: A call is considered to be in rotation when made by a player whose turn it was to call before rectification has been assessed for a call out of rotation by an opponent. Making such a call forfeits the right to rectification for the call out of rotation. The auction proceeds as though the opponent had not called at that turn. Law 26 (lead penalties) does not apply, but see Law 16C2.  Law 16C2 is the Unathorized Information  and is  discussed on the Eductation Page.

 

Last updated : Nov 8, 2025 22:20 CST
Comment
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
Comment
Calendar
November 13, 2025
Open
Center Club Room 12:00PM
November 17, 2025
Open
Center Club Room 12:00PM
November 19, 2025
Novice / 299
Center Club Room 9:00AM
Director: Leon Koster
November 20, 2025
Open
Center Club Room 12:00PM
Results
Novice / 299
Director: Leon Koster
Open
Director: Jean
Scorer: Karen Bourne
Open
Scorer: Karen Bourne
Novice / 299
Director: Leon Koster