Due to the current Goverment advice, we have decided to suspend all face to face bridge sessions and bridge lessons for the next few months.

However, we are running Gentle Duplicate Online Bridge and Intermediate Bridge Lessons on Bridgebase Online (BBO) and RealBridge as follows. £3 per person.

• Mondays – Pairs Game at 2pm on BBO  (Register between 12:00-1:45pm) 
• Thursdays – Pairs Game at 7:30pm on RealBridge.
• Fridays  – Pairs Game at 2pm on RealBridge.  

All these games are called “Pinner Gentle Duplicate”.

I normally have a Zoom talk before each game.  Please use the "Contact me" box if you are interested in playing in these games.

Intermediate Bridge Lessons

The dates/times for the next lessons of the online bridge course are as follows:

Tony Staw is running a new Online Intermediate Bridge Lessons using Zoom and BBO.

 These lessons cover most of the material in the EBU Continuing Bridge Course.

 Lessons will be on Monday evenings at 7pm.  Each lesson will be 2 hours.

 Please could you let me know if you are interested in this course.  The planned topics are as shown below.  You can see some of my online lessons onhttps://www.youtube.com/user/tony57uk

These lessons cover most of the material in the EBU Continuing Bridge Course. It costs £10 per person per lesson to attend, and I will invoice you, approximately monthly after the lessons.  You will be able to pay by bank transfer or Paypal.  While I hope you will attend each lesson, you will only be charged for the lessons you attend.

The format of each lesson is a Zoom meeting to present and discuss the topic (about 30 minutes), and then some hands for you to play on BBO on the topic (around 6 hands), which we will then go over, using Zoom again.

There might also be some handouts and quizzes on each topic.  

What do you need to join

You will need to be able to run Zoom and you will need to log in to BBO. You can do both these things on a PC/Laptop/Tablet or Smartphone.  If you have two suitable devices, I suggest you use one to run Zoom, and another for BBO.  Otherwise just use one device for both. We will start the lesson with Zoom, and then after the first part of the lesson you should log in to BBO, to play the hands. 

It costs £10 per person to attend, and I will invoice you after the lesson.  You will be able to pay by bank transfer or Paypal.  

There are a number of website offering the ability to play bridge online such as Bridge Club Live, Funbridge, Trickster and Bridge Base Online.

All the websites allow you to join as a guest, and just watch (kibbitz) for a while. 

Bridge Base Online (BBO) is probably one of the best.  Tony Staw has made a short video about the Acol Players' group on BBO www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRWcZWpxBLk and there is lots more information about this on https://berwickbridgeclub.co.uk/bbo 

You can also play in EBU games on Bridgebase Online (BBO)  https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3738 

Finally, there is another article about playing bridge on your computer or mobile device on https://www.ebu.co.uk/online

"Learning bridge has transformed my social life!  How I wish I had learned earlier!  I now have a circle of friends who meet regularly to play (together with a glass or two of wine)"

"After my husband died last year, I am so glad I have now found this delightful but infuriating game, that gets me out of the house, and keeps my brain active"

"Tony has managed to make learning bridge really fun!"

My own 2-page guide to Basic Acol (Weak Twos)

Get started with Bridge, by learning to play Minibridge

Get started with Bridge, by learning to play Minibridge