Welcome to The Villages Duplicate Bridge Club.  Our club is located in The Villages (Florida's Friendliest Hometown) which is in central Florida.  Our ACBL sanction number is #217489.  We are in District 9, Unit 128.

This is an invitational club so guest passes must be obtained for a guest to play.  All regular game fees are $3 per person for a resident and $5 per person for a guest.   We are a non-smoking club and adhere to the ACBL Zero Tolerance Policy.

Our web site has a lot of information and you should scroll down the home page first to find out what you want and then click on the special menu buttons to obtain additional information on a specific subject.

The Villages Duplicate Bridge Club is sponsoring a short series of basic bridge review lessons.

The classes will run from 8:30 am to 10:30 am on Tuesdays at the Odell Recreation Center.  The fee is $5 per class payable upon arrival.

• The first class, on June 8th, is “A Review of Basic Bidding, Part 1”.  Topics to be covered include hand valuation, finding a golden fit, assessing likelihood of game, opening 1 in a suit, opening 1 in no trump, responding to 1 no trump, responding to 1 in a suit, opener’s rebid after an invitational bid from responder, opener’s rebid after a forcing bid from responder, and responder’s rebids. 
• The second class, on June 15th, is “A Review of Basic Bidding, Part 2”.  Topics include overcalling, advancing the overcall, takeout doubles, responses to takeout doubles, and stayman. 
• The third class, on June 22nd, is “A Review of Basic Declarer Play”.  Topics include planning the approach; developing tricks through promotion of high cards, developing long suits and finessing; eliminating losers with ruffing and discarding; paying attention to entries; paying attention to opponents; and managing the trump suit.
• The fourth class, on June 29th, is “A Review of Basic Defense”.  Topics include leads against no trump contracts, leads against suit contracts, third hand play, second hand play, defensive signals, and interfering with the declarer.

At each of these classes relevant prepared boards will give students a chance to practice what they learn by playing hands and discussing them afterwards.
If interested in attending, please contact Marilyn Schmidt (marilynjeanschmidt@gmail.com) to pre-register, because space is limited.

For Instruction on how to register for this competitive opportunity, click here.

During the game, if you need to contact the Director, Click on the blue rectangle in the top left, click 'call the director' and please state briefly the problem.

When the game has finished if you need to contact the Director. click on PEOPLE and then SEARCH, type in the user name of the director and write your request to him/her. (They should still be online for at least 10 minutes after the game has finished).

Here are our BBO User Names:

 Janet Matthews.         vacb217489    or      janmanutd.         352 283 4914         

 Caroline Davies.         rolie1

 Jim Dick.                    jbdtd                                                    352-643-1595                                                    

 John Quinn                JTQVT2

Ann Smallen.              mvbapres.                                            315-527-1294

Especially if there are Robots involved (Limited Games only), give the Director chance to make the alterations before you contact him please.