Who on this bitch plays bridge?

(I am also a reckless bidder).

I knew the standard rules but never got into the bidding conventions and such.

I never got over the fact that if you win the bid your partner just lays his cards out face up and doesn't play from his own hand. It haunts me to this day.

BTW, you give info to your opponents whether they know your conventions/systems or not. They are entitled to ask the meaning of a bid. You obviously don't have to tell them what is in your hand, but you do have to say how many points it means or whether it indicates a four-card major or how many kings or a take-out double or what.

Misunderstood and misleading conventions are all part of the game. E.g., opening your weakest minor!

Tell me the rules for domino bridge again?

Also, any NYC bridgies up for a game when Matos is in town?

Weak twos are not mentalist!

ps are there any decent bridge freeware programs?

Weak two aren't mentalist! You can totally express any point count with rebids, so it makes total sense to have nasty obstructive pre-empts in the system, I reckon...

"Game of games", we call it.

OK 4 years on I think it may be bridge time again. Except, I haven't played in 4 years, and Colette has never played, and we'd like to at least get the basics down before seeking people out for games. Are there good ways to do this with just two of us (possibly involving computers/the internet)? Any good introductory books/gateway games (I think I got into bridge via hearts, for example).

I love this game, but no one i know plays it.

otm

I played a bit with my champion gram as a kid, but I'd love to re-learn it.

When I was 13, a teacher at school offered to show a group of us how to play bridge. We declined and started playing D&D instead.

Love the bidding - endlessly interesting - but find the play has this weird plateau after you understand basic 'take the certain tricks + try to finesse' strategy where you basically don't get much better for a *long* time? Did anyone else find this?

Never played bridge, but that was def the case when I played Spades a lot during college.

i just started with some friends

who on this bridge plays bitch?

Gandalf to thread...

Used to play with work friends, but when that ended I stopped.

playing no trump is always a challenge. i dunno, it takes a certain awareness of where cards are likely to be to successfully finesse. and keeping track of how to get back and forth between your hand and the borad. a lot of it is just ~memory~

but yeah it's the bidding that separates the women from the girls

I am ridiculously good at most games and tend to master new ones quickly. The problem is: I'm no fun to play with. My friends warn each other not to play me in Scrabble because it's too humiliating. After my bf taught me a card game called Big Two and after two hands I started roundly trouncing him, and he got angry at me, I decided that it'd probably be worthwhile to try and learn Bridge because a. we can play on the same team, and b. I've heard it's really difficult and complicated? and might be fun

But pretty much immediately it became clear that it's far too complicated for him, and maybe for me also. I have spent the last few nights playing Bridge Trainer before bed and feeling insane about how poor my play is. All the methods I had at securing wins in Hearts and Spades and 9-5-2 and so on-- completely useless. I think I might hate this game