We are based in a dedicated bridge room in our own premises in South Croydon, we run four duplicate sessions a week and some tuition. All duplicate sessions have returned to face-to-face.

New players are always welcome and should email the Club email address.

We are running Swiss Teams events on

• 22 May - Lock Watson Cup
• early October (02 or 09 Oct)
• 11 December

The event on 22 May will start at 14:00 and finish about 21:00, with a meal break in the middle. There will be a charge of £16 per head, which will be collected on the day (card or cash), members may add it to their monthly statement.

The aim is to have 6 8-board matches. If there are insufficent entries then we will run a multiple teams event. If it is a Swiss event, the Lock Watson Cup will be awarded to the highest placed team which consists of only South Croydon BC memners. There will be cash prizes, these are not resricted to member only teams.

Meal options:

• main
  • salad - checken or ham
  • jacket potato - with chesse, tuna, beans or cheese
  • sandwiches - ham, tuna or cheese
• desert
  • cheesecake
  • gateau
  • cheese and biscuits

Click here for entry form.

For more information or if you want to play but don't have a partner or team mates  contact Tony or Su

We welcome new members and visitors to all our sessions of play. Please contact the Committee on southcroydonbridge@gmail.com or call Tony on 07900 823752.

All sessions have real time computer scoring and pre-dealt hands. We have a licensed bar which serves hot and cold food. On site car parking is available.

See Committee Contacts on the left should you wish to speak to a Committee member.

Bridge Sessions

We run the following face-to-face sessions:

• Wednesday 11:00 (lunch available at the bar)
• Thursday    19:30
• Friday        19:30
• Saturday    14:15

The sessions will be played under the following Covid restrictions:

• you must have received both the main Covid vaccinations to play, the booster is not yet required; exemptions for those who have been medically advised against receiving it 
• kitchen access will be restricted to two nominated people per session who will serve the drinks before the session and once during it
• windows will remain open to maintain ventilation during the session

Until the number of tables is consistently high enough to guarantee that a session will go ahead, in to avoid wasted journeys pre-booking by 20:00 the day before play is essential. Please email  Tony (southcroydonbridge@gmail.com) for the Friday and Saturday sessions. Wednesday and Thursday are attracting enough players and are turn up and play.

Table money for members will be invoiced monthly in arrears, payment from non-members may be collected in advance.

Saturday 4 June - Saturday 2 July - Saturday 6 August

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 

The winning pair will each get a bottle of wine from a choice of Merlot, Malbac and NZ Sauvignon Blanc - standard table money. Guests welcome!

This hand came up at Adam Wiseberg's Real Bridge session on Tuesday, 14 December. He was partnering the great Indian and Lancashire cricketing legend Farokh Engineer. Dave Harper was partnering Ricki Douglas, now back in France. The 2♣ opener is the big hand and the 3♣  was supposed to convey a hand in the 13-15 HCP range. After the 2♥ rebid and 4NT enquiry, Dave bid 6H a bit disappointed that Grand Slam probably wasn't on. After the hand was over, Adam objected to Ricki's opening as being illegal and so awarded himself Average+.

As 2♣ is a strong hand  Law 7C (a) in the Blue book applies where the opener must have 16+ HCP or 12+ HCP AND at least 5 controls. At the other two tables the contract  was 4♥ +2!

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