| Welcome to Maidstone Bridge Club |
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The Club meets on Monday afternoons and Wednesday evenings for face-to-face bridge at the Maidstone Civil Service Club with computer scoring and pre-dealt hands
Table money is £3 for members (£3.50 visitors who are very welcome) and free tea, coffee and biscuits are available. Please note: card payments are required on Wednesday evenings
There is ample on-site parking at the rear of the Club, particularly on Wednesday evenings
Play starts at 1300 on Mondays and 1900 on Wednesdays; we normally play 24 or 27 boards with play finishing around 1600 or 2215
Please note that there is a host available on Mondays but not Wednesdays
Scores are normally posted on this site about half an hour after play finishes
Players looking for a partner for either session please give Barry a ring on 07442 132119. For general bridge enquiries please email ras15h@virginmedia.com or see our Facebook page
On-line bridge is also available on Wednesday evenings starting at 1915 using the Realbridge platform; details of how to take part are shown in the adjacent column
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| Last updated : 21st Dec 2024 14:03 GMT |
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| Hand of the Week |
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Board 17 from 16th December: the theme is Bidding Big Hands. Only one pair found the 6H slam (well done Linda & Tara) as these hands with 20-22 pts are often problematic - what should North open? 1H, 2NT or 2C are all options. Open 1H and you may find partner passing when with South holding as little as KD and 9C you can still make game. Open 2NT and you could well lose the first 5 tricks to Spades. But, with slightly less than 23 pts should you open 2C?
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Expert tip: consider opening all 3 Losing Trick Count (LTC) hands and many 4LTC hands with 2C and you will not miss many slams and avoid those frustrating missed games where the bidding starts and stops at the 1 level. You can definitely open 2C with slightly less than 23 pts with a shapely hand if you want to play in game facing a partner from whom you need very little.
With Board 17, as it turns out, South has a huge hand and so after a 2C opening the partnership should find the 6H slam with a bidding sequence which would likely follow 2C, 2NT, 3H, 4NT, 5C (playing RKCB) or 5H (playing Blackwood), 6H. |
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| Last updated : 21st Dec 2024 21:39 GMT |
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| Ladders Pairs 2024 |
Congratulations to Jenny Kendall and Richard Sissons for winning this years Ladder Pairs Competition. They scored 63.22% with Barry Quinnell and Eugene Hood a close second on 62.79%. Third were Daran Steele and Geoff Smith on 62.14%.
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| Last updated : 6th Dec 2024 17:44 GMT |
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| The 2024 Learn Bridge Class's Final Lesson |
 Catherine and Geoff held the final wrap-up session with the Class of 2024 on 2nd December
We look forward to this talented group of students joining the Club's duplicate play
Congratulations to all!
Well done Michael Bishop & David Brown - the first of this year's students to win Master Points
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| Last updated : 2nd Dec 2024 18:01 GMT |
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