Palo Alto Bridge

Board of Directors Meeting
2024-08-13 16:00 - 17:30, 2024-09-10 16:00 - 17:30, 2024-10-08 16:00 - 17:30, 2024-11-12 16:00 - 17:30, 2024-12-10 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-01-14 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-02-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Usually held on the second Tuesday of every month at 4pm. Meetings are via Zoom. Please see our Event Calendar for possible changes.
Members are welcome to attend. Please contact the board if you would like a subject added to the Agenda.
Please see our Governance page for information about the board, the agenda for this meeting and the agenda and minutes of past meetings.

Bridge Center Closed During Santa Clara Regional
2024-08-27 - 2024-09-02
There will not be any games at the Bridge Center. Online games will still be held.

Swiss Team Club Game
2024-09-09 10:30 - 14:00, 2024-10-14 10:30 - 14:00, 2024-11-11 10:30 - 14:00, 2024-12-09 10:30 - 14:00
Swiss Team games are great fun to play and grant generous master point awards at sectional, regional, and national tournaments! Now you have the chance to play at the club level in our monthly games hosted by John Schwartz and Will Watson.
These games are a wonderful opportunity to polish one’s Swiss Team skills throughout the year and especially prior to sectional, regional, and national tournaments. If you are less experienced or have never played in a Swiss Team game and would like to play Swiss Teams at future tournaments, these Swiss Team club games are a perfect opportunity to gain experience in a more relaxed club game environment. For those less experienced Swiss Team players, here are slides from a Swiss Team strategy lecture from a Swiss Team strategy lecture given in August 2023..
These games will have an Open and a Limited section. They will award 100% black points.
A light lunch will be served.
For planning purposes, we ask that players sign-up to play at: https://www.signup123.com/unit503bridge/Scripts/slogin.pl

The game reservation system is designed for pairs games and not Swiss Teams. So, to sign up your team, sign up you and your partner in both the N/S and E/W boxes.
Having trouble signing up? Email Will Watson watsonbridge@gmail.com

Don’t have a team of four? The Unit will help you find a team. Email Will Watson at watsonbridge@gmail.com.
Have questions? Please contact Will or Marc Cervellino at marc.cervellino@hotmail.com.

Swiss Team Club Game
2024-09-09 11:30 - 14:30, 2024-10-14 11:30 - 14:30, 2024-11-11 11:30 - 14:30, 2024-12-09 11:30 - 14:30, 2025-01-20 11:30 - 14:30, 2025-02-03 11:30 - 14:30
Swiss Team games are great fun to play and grant generous master point awards at sectional, regional, and national tournaments! Now you have the chance to play at the club level in our monthly games hosted by John Schwartz and Will Watson.
These games are a wonderful opportunity to polish one’s Swiss Team skills throughout the year and especially prior to sectional, regional, and national tournaments. If you are less experienced or have never played in a Swiss Team game and would like to play Swiss Teams at future tournaments, these Swiss Team club games are a perfect opportunity to gain experience in a more relaxed club game environment. For those less experienced Swiss Team players, here are slides from a Swiss Team strategy lecture from a Swiss Team strategy lecture given in August 2023..
These games will have an Open and a Limited section. They will award 100% black points.
No lunch is provided. Snacks aree available before and during the game.
For planning purposes, we ask that players sign-up to play at: https://www.signup123.com/unit503bridge/Scripts/slogin.pl

The game reservation system is designed for pairs games and not Swiss Teams. So, to sign up your team, sign up you and your partner in both the N/S and E/W boxes.
Having trouble signing up? Email Will Watson watsonbridge@gmail.com

Don’t have a team of four? The Unit will help you find a team. Email Will Watson at watsonbridge@gmail.com.
Have questions? Please contact Will or Marc Cervellino at marc.cervellino@hotmail.com.

SiVY Halloween Pizza Party Tournament
2024-10-13 11:00 - 15:00
View SiVY Calendar for more information.

Palo Alto Open + Non-Life Master Sectional
2024-10-24 - 2024-10-27
More information to come.

Halloween Game
2024-10-31 10:30 - 14:30
Wear a Halloween costume – prizes awarded for best costumes!
Our annual Halloween bridge game spooktacular will be held on Thursday, October 31, 2024, at our Bridge Center.
Last year’s Halloween game had a large turnout and was scary fun, with most players wearing a costume (see photo). So, dust off that costume, mark your calendar, call your partner, and plan to play in the Halloween game.
· 10:30 AM Phil Abrahamson (American Bridge Teacher’s Association 2024 Teacher of the Year) Bridge Lecture. Bidding is a Conversation (How to Improve Your Bidding)
· 11:30 AM Open game at $12/person (24 hands)
· 11:30 AM 0-499er game at $4.99/player (18 hands)
Play will start at 11:30 AM and finish at about 2:30 PM. We’ll have Halloween yummy treats as well as our usual coffee, tea and snacks like breads, cheeses, nuts, crackers, fruits, etc, but not a full lunch or lunch break.
For planning purposes, we strongly encourage preregistration at www.signup123.com/unit503bridge
Also, included at that website is a feature allowing one to use the reservation system to find a partner. (The instructions for doing that are on each reservation page. Please add your email address or phone number.)

Silicon Valley Fall Sectional
2024-11-01 - 2024-11-03
The Silicon Valley Unit Fall Sectional will be held at our Bridge Center.

SiVY Winter Pizza Party Tournament
2024-12-14 11:00 - 15:00

Holiday Party and Unit Game
2024-12-15 11:30 - 15:30
You are cordially invited to join us and your friends at our annual party to celebrate the holidays with food, fun and bridge on Sunday, December 15th at the Palo Alto Bridge Center.
The bridge game is FREE and starts at 12:00noon. Signing at 11:30. Special masterpoints will be awarded. Open, 499er and 199er stratified sections.
Information and Signup

Find a Partner Game
2025-01-15 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-01-22 10:00 - 14:00
One of the challenges of bridge is finding compatible bridge partners. To help we are holding several Find-A-Partner games.
Game time 10:30am
Lecture prior to games at 10am
Information and Signup

Pro-Am Game
2025-02-01 12:30 - 16:00
Want to improve your bridge game by playing in a relaxed atmosphere and partnering with an experienced player?
What is the Pro-Am game? It is a F2F bridge game where a newer player partners with an experienced player in a pairs game, competing against other pairs of one newer and one experienced player. After the game, the experienced player will review bidding, declarer play, defense, and opening leads of select hands.
Information and Registration

Grand National Teams Flights A & B
2025-02-08 - 2025-02-09
The GNT Flight A – Under 6,000 master points and Flight B – Under 3,000 contests will be played at our Bridge Center.

Valentine's Day Game
2025-02-14 10:45 - 14:00
The Bridge Center will have Valentine’s Day decorations and themed goodies galore!
Wear some red and get in the mood.
❤️❤️❤️ Love will be in the air! ❤️❤️❤️
Call your partner and join the fun!
Goodies available throughout the game and soup and salad will be served as a lite-lunch.
There will be an Open and a 0-750 masterpoint section.
For planning purposes, please signup at Valentine’s Day Signup

San Mateo - Redwood City Sectional
2025-03-08 - 2025-03-09
The San Mateo / Redwood City Unit Sectional held at our Bridge Center.
