Thursdays at 7PM
Notice:
We have suspended our Thursday night game until further notice.
Please check back for more information.
Meyer Library Forum Room
560
Escondido Mall, Stanford CA
Note that the Forum Room is on the exterior of the building on the
“corner” closest to the Green Library fountain, i.e. you do not
access it through the building lobby.
See details below
Detailed
Location Information (Directions, Parking, etc.)
Club
Policies, Specials, and other excitement
9-18-08: Welcome back, everyone! We have a great new location for games
this fall and winter (see details below) and a full schedule of exciting games
through the end of the calendar year (also see below). We hope to see you at our games!
Recent Results Top
2008 Final Club
Masterpoint Race
2009 Club Masterpoint
Race Through February
1/15/09: Results Hand Records
1/22/09: Results Hand Records
1/29/09: Results Hand
Records
2/5/09: Results Hand Records
2/19/09: Results Hand Records
ACBL-Wide
Results ACBL-Wide Frequencies
ACBL-Wide Recap
(We’re section I, at the very bottom)
2/26/09: Results Hand Records
3/05/09: Results Hand Records
3/12/09: Results Hand Records
If
you are a Google Calendar user, you can add the club calendar: 
Games are suspended until further notice.
If you’re going to be playing with us regularly (and we hope you are!) we strongly encourage you to join our mailing list. This is a low traffic list, probably no more than 2-3 emails a month, only to be used for major club news and schedule changes. You can stay also up to date about information for that game and general bridge goings-on at Stanford by visiting the general Stanford Bridge Club site or joining the general Bridge Club mailing list.
Manager/Director Eric Mayefsky, ACBL Certified Club Director and Silver Life Master
cardinalDBC-owner@lists.stanford.edu
(914)299-1311
Please use email for
all club-relevant communication up to within an hour of game time (including
partnership requests) and only use the phone number just before game time. I cannot guarantee partners under any
circumstances but will have a much better chance of finding you a partner if
you contact me at least 24 hours before game time.
New 2008-2009 Location: Meyer Library
560
Escondido Mall, Stanford CA
We are very excited about this new location, which is well lit, at a
central campus location, and should provide a consistent venue for our Thursday
night game.
Games will generally be held in the Forum Room.
Meyer Library itself is circled in red above. Parking is available on
Remember: NEVER park in a space marked “RF.” Spaces marked “EA,”
“ES,” “A” or “C” are fine to park at.
Directions:
From 101 or
From 280, exit onto Alpine Road toward
Parking: The nearest parking lots to Meyer
Library technically require a “EA” or “ES” residential
parking permit at all times.
However, permit requirements are not generally enforced in the
evening. We do not think you will
get a ticket; however, we are not
responsible for citations for parking without a permit. There are many lots within 5-10 minutes
walking distance that are truly free in the evening (any space which requires
an A or C permit is free in the evenings).
A complete parking map is available here;
see also information about buses below.
Under no circumstances should you
park in a space marked “RF”; these spaces are reserved for
individuals and you will in all likelihood get a ticket or be towed.
Handicap Access: If you are concerned about handicap access to our game, please contact us in advance and we’ll see what we can do to accommodate you.
Marguerite Buses: If you would prefer to use mass transit,
the Marguerite, Stanford’s free bus services, runs are available. The A, B, M, and SE lines all serve the
corner of
Food and Drink: The Cardinal DBC will have ample snack food available for free at the play site. Meyer Library is located right next to Moonbeans, a popular campus coffee outfit, serving the usual coffee-related beverages.
Club Policies, Specials and Other Excitement Top
Preduplicated Hands: The Cardinal DBC is proud to offer preduplicated boards with hand records for all pair games. This means you don’t have to shuffle and will be able to see all the hands with “double dummy” analysis after the session. Paper hand records will be available; hand records will also appear on the web. Preduplicated hands are not rigged, we promise! (If you need more convincing of this, read this. Most of the things the ACBL does as described in this article go for our club too.)
Free Plays for 70% Games: The Cardinal DBC will reward truly exceptional sessions with free plays for any pair scoring above 70% in any standard pair game (this does not apply to team games or other unusual format games). For Stanford students (who play for free anyway), a 70+% game will be rewarded with a bridge book of their choice from the club library.
Frequent Special Games: The Cardinal DBC is committed to supporting ACBL programs, with particular emphasis on supporting the ACBL Junior Fund and ACBL Educational Foundation. If this means extra masterpoints for you, that’s great too! J Currently, we intend to run special extra masterpoint games on the first and third Thursday of each month. In addition, the third Thursday of each month will be in a special format, such as Swiss, Board-a-Match, or Individual games. Check the calendar for details.
Newcomer Strats and Flights: The Cardinal DBC will run a separate 49er flight whenever overall attendance warrants (i.e., if there are enough tables in the manager’s discretion to run a decent game in both flights). When the game is a combined game, stratifications will cater heavily to newcomers (20/100/open or something similar; strats will vary based on attendance).
Be Nice or Else!: We hope that the Cardinal DBC will be a
fun, friendly environment where new and old players alike feel welcome. Because we anticipate being among the
first duplicate bridge experiences for many Stanford students and other
community members, we take behavioral issues very seriously (which is ACBL
policy anyhow!). Bad behavior will
be dealt with on a case by case basis, but being
mean or rude at the Cardinal DBC is sufficient cause for an individual to be
suspended or banned from the club.
More about us: The Cardinal DBC is a not-for-profit undertaking of The Stanford Bridge Club (a voluntary student organization at Stanford). We’re hoping to provide a great place to introduce Stanford students and others to duplicate bridge and provide a fun, upbeat environment for all our players. Because we’re operating on a college campus, there are a few things we have to be a little more flexible about than at a full time club, like using more portable equipment, dealing with the occasional location change, and so on. But, we think the opportunity to play with newer players in a fun, different environment and support bridge at Stanford and among younger players in general is well worth it, and we hope you will too!
The Cardinal DBC is
made possible by generous support from the Associated
Students of Stanford University, Stanford
Graduate Student Council, and Palo
Alto Unit 503 of the American Contract
Bridge League.