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 nominating committee for candidates for the Board of Directors would like anyone interested in running for the Board to please notify someone from the nominating committee whom are listed below.  We need people who are willing to work - females, males, limited players, open players etc.  The meetings are on the third Tuesday of each month, usually at Lake Miona Recreation Center after the afternoon bridge game.

Please contact Beverly Parrish, Charlie Showalter, Harry Freedman, Mike Kwiatowski or Sally Gauthier with any questions or to show interest.  Please do so by Oct 25 as the nominating committtee needs to finalize their slate of candidates.

Our club has announced the following temporary venue or game changes:

• October 25 - Friday afternoon's game held at Eisenhower will be a Board-A-Match team game.  This will be a stratified team game with hand records which will give you a great opportunity to go out to dinner afterwards and discuss the hands with your teammates!  Instead of only playing 4 other teams, you may play as many as 14 other teams!  Every board is a win, lose, or draw and will be scored by the computer instead of manually by you.  Gold points are possible as it will be a Club Appreciation Team Game.  Pre-registration is required with Rick Gauthier at exretiree@gmail.com   If you are looking for teammates please contact John Blackwell at john.blackwell.iv@gmail.com 
• October 31 - Thursday afternoon's Mulberry game will be an Instant Masterpoint Game.
• Nov 22 to Nov 24 - Villages Sectional Tournament, all regular games cancelled.
• November 27 - Wednesday morning Newcomer game at Eisenhower will be cancelled, but all other games that day are on.
• November 28 - Thanksgiving, all games cancelled.

The results of the Summer Series games has been tabulated and are available for review.  The Summer Series winners are the 6 players with the highest 6 game averages for the games played from July 1 through September 30, 2019.  There are winners in each of our regular games.  There were 173.36 Points awarded overall.  That's quite impressive!  That's almost 700 points a year - WOW!  Click on the appropriate link below to see the results:

Summer Series Winners - Limited

Summer Series Winners - Open

The Fall Series starts October 1 and will run through December 31, 2019.  The standards may be found under Competitions link on our web page.  Good luck to all.

Rick Gauthier has announced the following Sunday games:

• Sun Oct 27 - Stratified Open IMP Pairs Game.  Use reservation system.
• Sun Nov 3 - 500/NLM Swiss Teams - please register with Jon Williams at jonwbridge@earthlink.net
• Sun Nov 10 - Pro-Am Swiss Teams - no teammates needed!  You MUST register on our reservation system as a pair only.  The top half of the field in average masterpoints will have a random draw to play as a team with one of the pairs from the lower half of the tier.
• Sun Nov 17 - Mentor/Novice game - please register with Jon Williams at jonwbridge@earthlink.net
• Sun Nov 24 - Swiss Teams at our Sectional Tournament - no reservations/registrations required.

Pre-registering is desirable to aid the Director is setting up the game but not mandatory.  Walk-ins are welcomed.  All games are held at 1:00 pm at Sea Breeze.

For information on how to use the Reservation System please click Reservation Instructions

For a very informative video on how to use the system please click Here 

And this is part 2 showing how to change reservations and some FAQ’s  Click Here

Please contact Janet Matthews for any questions or problems at janetmatthewsusa@gmail.com