BCON is expanding our online bridge games. We have joined the “SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective,” which you may have seen on BBO as “SE Carolina.”

What is the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective? (also know as SE Carolina Online Bridge) It is comprised of 180+ ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs from all over North America.

What does this mean for our Club? Every time one of our players joins one of the SE Carolina online games, we get a portion of the entry fee. We don’t have to pay a Director or do any of the work. At the end of the month, they send us a cheque. Most importantly, it helps our Club financially as we are still recovering from the effects that COVID had on Face to Face games.

What does this mean for you? When you’re not playing in one of our F2F games or either of our online games, we invite you to play at any of SE Carolina’s online games which start at 9:30 am and run throughout the day. They offer beginner games right up to Open level with prices ranging from 3 to 6 BBO dollars. A full list of games is posted weekly and can be viewed at SE Carolina On-line Bridge. The match points awarded are the same colours as those awarded in a F2F game - Black, Silver, Red. Note that if you play in a partner game, the game results will be available on BBO, and on ACBL Live for Clubs. Only our own BCON online games will be available on our website. 

How to join? Once you are logged into BBO, go to Virtual Clubs, then ACBL-North America, then in the top right corner type Carolina in the Search box. Their list of games will appear.

If you’re not sure how to play online, click here “All About Playing Online”.  Here you will find lots of information and if you're still stuck, send us an email to info@bcon.club, and one of our experts will help you. 

We need your support! If you are currently playing online, but not with our club, please consider playing in the SE Carolina online games. This is a great opportunity for you to play in an ACBL online game and support your club at the same time. We need you.

At BCON we love to play Bridge! So, incase you can't get enough bridge from playing at our face to face games in St. Catharines, or if you just haven't made it out to see us yet… a whole other world awaits you in the online space!  Online, you play with real people, you can play with people you know, in a game you know. You can play with your regular partner, or you can find a partner then and there, at the game. What's this all about??? If you're not sure about online bridge, or haven't had the chance to try it out, click here to learn all about how to play online!

We hope to see you at one of our online games, or at one of our SE Carolina partner games. And, of course, we always want to see you in person at a real table!

BCON is expanding our online bridge games. We have joined the “SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective,” which you may have seen on BBO as “SE Carolina.”

What is the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective? (also know as SE Carolina Online Bridge) It is comprised of 180+ ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs from all over North America. ..........

If your email provider is Sympatico or Bell.net, all emails coming from the Bridge Centre of Niagara have been blocked. This usually happens because the provider runs a program that screens for spam/fraud/phishing etc., and if their program suspects an email to be suspicious, it will disallow all incoming emails from that source. Often such programs are overly rigid, and reject very legitimate emails, such as ours. 

Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done at our end, and until your provider allows emails coming from members@bridgewebsemail.com, you will not be able to get any emails from The Bridge Centre of Niagara. Furthermore, if you get emails from another bridge club, many of whom use the same system as we do, you will not be able to receive emails from those clubs either. 

Here are my recommendations:
1. If you have an alternate email address, please update that in your BCON member profile. That will immediately solve the problem, and you do not need to do anything else.
2. Ensure that members@bridgewebsemail.com, is added to your known contacts. Our BCON emails come from this address, and it is this address that your email provider is blocking.
3. Resubscribe to our emails following the steps given below. You must go through the resubscribe process for your email address to be accepted. I do not expect this to be a permanent solution, if at all, but it must be done.
4. Contact your email provider. They will likely ask you for an error code. You can give them this information: 

Transaction failed. The server response was: 554 5.7.1 [VI-1] Message blocked due to spam content in the message. [15.235.99.33:24903->129.158.33.68:25]

Here is a document to show you how to change your email address and update your personal information in our BCON system.

Please send me an email if you still need help.

Dena Jones, Webmaster

To re-subscribe to our emails, please follow these directions: 
    
    1.    Click on this link https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwx/bw.cgi?club=bw&pid=display_page35. Or you can copy and paste it into your browser.
    2.    (Optional) Check the status of your email address. It will likely come back as blocked/unsubscribed/junk/bounced. 
    3.    There will be a button to “Re-subscribe.”
    4.    This will take you to a page to enter your name and email.
    5.    ******VERY IMPORTANT****** You will be sent an email where you will have to click “Subscriber Activation”
    6.    Make sure that members@bridgewebsemail.com is added to your known contacts so that our emails are less likely to go to your junk/spam folder.
    7.    If you do not see the email, please check your junk folder. 

If your email provider is Sympatico or Bell.net, all emails coming from the Bridge Centre of Niagara have been blocked. This usually happens because the provider runs a program that screens for spam/fraud/phishing etc. ..........