22 Boards,  Eleven 2 Board rounds.  14 minutes per round.  Table Money £2.00 (visitors £3.00) 

To play in this event you and a partner need to be registered on BBO.

Prepayment of £2.00 (Visitors £3.00) per session is required see below for how to pay.  You can check your balance at any time but note that it may take a week or so for recent payments in to appear. 

Registration starts at 5.16pm on Mondays. Both you and your partner need to be online on BBO to register.  Go to Competitive/All Tournaments and search for "Trowbridge", select the trowBRIDGEclub pairs event from the list and enter your partners name.  They will get an Invitation Pop up to accept and once they do, the pair of you are registered.

If you register early please make sure you and your partner are online and in the Competitive area of BBO 10-15 minutes before the event starts.  If you and your partner are not online and in the Competitive area at the start of the event you will not be allowed to play.  (This is not under the Directors control!) 

Your Directors will be Stan Christie, Phil Meats and Gerry McAinsh. 

When the event starts BBO will automatically log you into the event and you will remain logged into it until the event finishes so if you lose connection for any reason just log back into BBO  and you will rejoin the event. If you are absent for a while, the directors substitute a robot who will finish the play of the board and you will rejoin at the start of the next board.

Please introduce yourselves and advise the opposition what your basic conventions are at the start of each round.

The rounds are timed and when the time is up, if you have not finished playing, play will cease and the two pairs at that table will be given an adjusted score, normally by the system, but the Directors can review the adjusted scores and change them later. Please claim as soon as you can and leave any “chat” about boards until you have played both the boards in the round. 

Note that we do not allow UNDO's in the auction or play.

If you need a partner, try our partner finding service.

See below for a few helpful links on getting started with BBO but if you would like further help please contact Stan Christie, Phil Meats or Gerry McAinsh.

If you are a visitor and want to play on our BBO Session please email webmaster@trowbridgeclub.org. 

If you haven't played on BBO here are sone short videos showing you how to do so.

First get your own username, see how here: Getting a BBO Username. 

Then become familiar with the site, see here: Familiarise yourself with BBO.

Next learn how to join a game with a partner you know: Join a game with someone you know.

You can also set up your own table for exclusive use by you and three friends: create your own table on BBO.  .

Use BBO Chat manager to store your system description.

Compare your results with how others did with the same cards: Compare your results with others.

Buying BB$ so you can hire robots and enter EBU tournaments: How To Buy BB$

On BBO you should self-alert all bids your partner would alert or announce face-to-face. Here's how:: Self-Alerting on BBO

How to enter one of the four daily EBU tournaments: Entering an EBU Tourney on BBO.

The Acol Players Club (if that's what you play): How to watch or play in Acol Players Club

Set up a table to practice bidding with your partner: Practice your bidding

Set up a teaching table on BBO: Set up a BBO teaching table

Test yourself with challenges on BBO: Take a challenge on BBO

Develop your card play with BridgeMaster: How to Find BridgeMaster - a declarer play tutor

Setting up your own Teams of Four match: Play a Match Between Two Teams of Four