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Need a Partner? Or want to join the Club?

In either case please contact Mary Baker
Welcome to Stoke Mandeville Bridge Club
Stoke Mandeville Bridge Club (At Aston Clinton Park, near Aylesbury) prides itself on providing a friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

We play duplicate pairs every Monday.

Pre-dealt hands are used with hand records available

Bridgemates at the table for scoring.

Play starts at 7:15, so please arrive by 7:05

Free tea and coffee are provided.

We enter three teams in the Berks and Bucks County League of 8.

THE MATCHES ARE PLAYED ON LINE USING REALBRIDGE

GUESTS: Guests, Visitors and New Members are most welcome. If you need a partner please contact Mary Baker. As we do not operate a Host System, a few days notice is appreciated.

EBU: We are affiliated to the EBU and issue master points.

EBU

CAR PARKING: There is ample car parking at Aston Clinton Park.

SAD NEWS

ELAINE CRUMP

Elaine died on Monday 7th July

Elaine had been a member of SMBC for many years.

Our thoughts are with Ted, family and friends

at this very sad time.

Rest in Peace.
Hand of the Week 14th July

There were two hands (17 & 22) that offered slams which several people found. Sadly, too many of you for me to feature as HotW although that does save me from publicly kicking myself for missing the obvious overtrick in 6S on board 17… oops! So I look at a rather more prosaic result, on Board 16 where the computer tells is that grand slam is available in both diamonds and NT. This makes it disappointing for the three pairs who languished in a diamond part score, making 12 tricks and still more disappointing that no one could find the slam in NT, everyone stopping in game. Perhaps, with just 28 points, slam is a big ask and, as for making all 13 tricks… well that’s an even bigger ask. We find 3 pairs making 11 tricks and 4 pairs making 12 tricks but the top board went to the one pair who managed to disentangle all 13. Certainly there’s a lot of luck involved, as with 8 clubs outstanding, the Queen drops doubleton and, I have to say, I respectfully doubt that they played for that! So a qualified well done to the lucky pair, Ralph and our guest from IOM, Liz K.

 
Bridge Weekend Away

Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry NN11 6JT

SMBC Bridge Weekend 16th to 18th January 2026

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Deposit required by 10th July 2025

2 nights stay, buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner, offer of 5 sessions of Bridge, prizes and full use of all the leisure facilities, with plenty of parking on site.

Single £260, Double £200 with an additional £20 Bridge fee per player

£50 deposit required by 10th July 2025. Balance for the room required by 7th November 2025 along with the £20 per player Bridge fee

Neither the deposit or the balance is refundable but the committee will do everything possible to promote your place to others

Non-playing partners, spouses and singles welcome. Host system offered

This is not an EBU event and therefore no Master Points will be awarded and no NGS ratings will be affected

Timetable
Friday Access to the conference room from 1pm with Bridge 2pm – 4pm
Check-in to rooms after 4pm
Buffet dinner at 6pm
Bridge 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start (24 boards) and finish by 10.30pm
Saturday Buffet breakfast
Bridge 9.30am – 12.30pm
Buffet lunch
Afternoon at leisure
5.15 drinks party
Buffet dinner at 6pm
Bridge 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start (24 boards) and finish by 10.30pm
Sunday Buffet breakfast
Bridge 9.30am – 12.30pm
Prizes, awards
Buffet lunch
Depart

If you are interested, please register using the registration form found here

Any queries please contact Lesley Wright lesleyebwright@yahoo.co.uk / 07933 608512 or Mary Baker mary.baker12@btinternet.com / 07970 320600
FREE ONLINE INFORMAL TEAMS
BBO

Wednesday 16th July. Seating now closed. We have three groups again. smiley

Chris has started an automated email notification service for updates to this section - the service runs from 7am to 10:55pm - if you would like to subscribe, please email Chris

(If you want to notify members of your own similar event here, please email David Barker)
Birthday/Charity Event

THANK YOU ALL WHO ATTENDED AND DONATED

TO MY 70TH BIRTHDAY/CHARITY EVENT.

ALSO, A BIG THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HELPED ON THE DAY.

I AM VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE RAISED

£1,020.00

FOR FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

 
Latest Newsletter

The latest newsletter is available of the News Page here
ALERTING AND ANNOUNCING RULES

EBU Announcing Rules can be found under the EBU Information menu item
Results
14th Jul 2025
Pairs Local Charity Event
Director: Stephen Marshall
Scorer: Bridgemate
7th Jul 2025
Pairs
Director: William Astles
Scorer: Bridgemate
30th Jun 2025
Pairs
Director: David Barker
Scorer: Bridgemate
Calendar
21st Jul 2025
Pairs
Director: Fiona Scriven
28th Jul 2025
Pairs
Director: Richard Plummer
4th Aug 2025
Pairs
Director: David Barker
11th Aug 2025
Pairs
Director: Steve Marshall
18th Aug 2025
Pairs
Director: Bill Astles
EBU promotions for June 2025
EBU

Congratulations to the following who were promoted during June:

Murray Cooke
District Master


Current EBU Rankings for club members (who have opted in) are available here
On Line League
Berks and Bucks Contract Bridge Association 
 
On Line League for 24/25.
We had three teams and it was on Realbridge.
 
A team - Mary Baker (captain)
B team - David Barker (captain)
C team - Carol Harris (captain)
 
For next season (25/26) we will only be entering two teams.
 
RealBridge

Our matches are now complete.

Thank you to all three captains for their hard work in organising the matches.

Thank you to all those that are playing in the teams.

To see the On Line League results tables click here
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