Waikoloa Bridge Club

To sign up for our email list, please click on our group link here:  waikolobridgeplayers@googlegroups.com group . 

If you are not signed up, you will get a screen that says permission denied and has an ask to join button at the top. 

Click on the ask to join button and fill in the information. We will approve your request as soon as we can. 

You can watch this video if you are unsure of how to make the request. 

Once on this list, you will be emailed when signups open for each of our games. 

This is easiest if you already have a google gmail account. 

However, if you do not have a gmail account, you can still join the group by following these google help instructions. 

If you are unable to follow those instructions, you can email the manager at waikoloabridge@gmail.com and ask them to send you an invitation to join the group. This will take a little longer, so is recommended only as a last resort. 

You can email the manager at waikoloabridge@gmail.com

There are several advantages to using google groups over a manually managed list (which is how we previously handled emails). These include: 

• The footer provides standard, helpful information on every email sent

• People can subscribe and unsubscribe themselves without the managers being involved. 

• A player can email a request for a partner without the manager being involved without knowing the email addresses of the other players (an ACBL requirement) 

• The use of a header makes it easier to filter messages from this groups when received 

Please go to our home page and sign up directly on that page. Note that you can only have 1 signup for an email address, so if you are signing up for multiple partnerships, you will need to use alternative emails.

You can edit or delete your registration for a game using the email address that you used to sign up originally.

You have two options.

First, you can enter your name and Needs Partner + your contact information on the signup sheet. This allows anyone looking for a partner to see you and reach out.

You can also send an email to waikoloabridgeplayers@googlegroups.com asking for a partner and providing your name, email, and phone number. That will alert everyone who has signed up for our notifications and is the best way to find someone to play with. 

Note that you can only send an email to the group from the email account that has joined the group. All other emails will be rejected as we do not want the group to be spammed by outsiders. 

Please do NOT send email to the manager and expect them to find you a partner.  In general, the managers will just ask you to send an email to the group since that is what they would do. 

There are two possible issues: 

1) You are not signed up for the google group. As of July 2025, all signup and other club emails occur through the google group. We sent an email to our list at that time requesting people sign up – but not everyone got that email. If you didn’t sign up, please refer back to the question above about how to join the group.

2) You are on the list and the emails are going to your spam folder.  If you check your spam folder and see the emails there, then please report them as not spam. This encourages your email program to correctly classify them. You can also add the google group and the senders to your contact list, which reduces the chances of them being sent to spam. For additional options, you can search your specific email provider (eg for gmail account)

We are sorry to see you go, however, we realize circumstances change and people move on. 

You can remove yourself from our list by going to your google groups page at https://groups.google.com/ and leaving the group.