This Week at RBC

  • Our annual membership drive is under way. Ask game directors for more information.
  • TUESDAY, December 16
    7pm at the Royal - Open and 500 Grassroots FUNd Pairs Competition
  • THURSDAY, December 18
    7pm at the Royal - Open, 800 and PLAY & LEARN Pairs

Coming Soon...

  • December 25 - NO GAMES at RBC due to the holidays
  • December 30 (Tuesday) will be the first RBC INDIVIDUAL game in many years. It’s a fun event where you switch partners every round. GREAT way to ‘get around’ to learning all the RBC players. RULES:
    -- You will not need a partner BUT we really hope to have a number of players that can be divided by 4.
    -- We use Standard American Yellow Card (I’ll try to get some cheat sheets by then)
    -- Each player will have their own ‘dance card’ and will change partners the entire evening.
    -- Each player will be responsible for making sure their scores are correct.
  • January 6 - RBC annual Holiday Party/Dinner/Yearly Awards with an annual business meeting of the club. We will be asking you to RSVP as the date approaches. REMINDER: Members (required) who have played 20+ times during the year (including on BBO) attend the event for free with our thanks for supporting your Raleigh Bridge Club!
  • January 15-18 - Raleigh Winter Sectional Tournament!

Check out 📅 our calendar for more information about RBC games and nearby tournaments.

Location

3801 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, NC

The Royal Banquet Center

Near I 440 E Hillsborough St. Exit
Across from Meredith College
In the same building as Ben & Jerry's, ComedyWorx, and Brickhouse Sports Bar

See directions here.

About Us

Welcome to the website for the Raleigh Bridge Club!
We hold duplicate bridge face-to-face games on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and online games on Sunday evenings.

Play begins at 7:00 p.m.

See schedule for more information.

Game Results

Partnership Desk

Need a partner?

Click Partnerships for help finding a partner in either the OPEN pairs or the 0-100 and 0-800 game.

Member Directory

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The peculiarly satisfying quality of a bridge hand is that it is a fragment of human experience, a sliver of reality that, unlike most things in life, can be completely understood. We can grasp its meaning, relate it to a larger scheme of things, spot harmony, introduce order. Bridge relieves a small part of our urgent need for clarity. Really, we play and study the game for the same reason Dylan Thomas gave when asked why he wrote poetry: “for some measure of light”. If we seek to explain further our fascination with the game, we run up against the limitations of language. For bridge, in a sense, is like love - its delights have to be experienced at first hand. How could a non-player be expected to understand the sweet torment of lying awake in the early hours of the morning while your mind tries to work out new ways of making last night’s 3NT? When an interesting deal arises, it is the inherent mystery that attracts us, not so much whether it ended in triumph or tragedy, in brilliancy or blunder. -- Hugh Kelsey