The official online bridge service of the American Contract Bridge League is Bridge Base Online (https://www.bridgebase.com). I manage a virtual bridge club there, the Pasadena Pomona Downey VBC, and we have two weekly newcomer games:
- Saturday afternoon at 12:20
- Wednesday evening at 7:15
Each game is 12 boards, and lasts about 90 minutes. Both games play the same hands as an "Open Pairs" game that runs at the same time, so they provide a fascinating opportunity to see how experienced bridge players bid and play hands. On Wednesday I also convene an after party (a.k.a. "postmortem") to answer questions about hands.
This is the way to get a taste of official ACBL bridge, playing with other new players. If you do well in the games, you even get to win masterpoints™. They get awarded in hundredths of a point. :)
(I'm not sure about the status of these games after May 30, so ...)
There are games similar to my newcomer games at the All-Western 99er NiteClub on BBO. The games are at 6:30 every Monday through Thursday.
They've been working on establishing games for 0-20 players as well, and need new bridge players to join up.
They also have a post-game board review with a teacher on most evenings.
Drop me a note and I can get you on the list for these games.
Every Saturday at 10:30 at the Arcadia Bridge Center they hold a "rookie game" for newer players. That's you!
Jane and I are planning to host bridge games for vaccinated new bridge players on Saturday afternoons in May. We'll gather at our house in Monrovia at about 4:00. I have room for three tables. Here's your best way to transfer your game from online to in-person!
These will be purely social duplicate bridge games for fun, and learning to play bridge with physical cards.
We're thinking of playing at 4:00, break for pizza, maybe play some more after. No charge, just social bridge.
To join the online games, you need to do a couple of things:
I want to give you all the opportunities I can to get out there
(or stay in) and play some bridge.