I'm a serious bridge player and would like to discuss the game with anyone interested.
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I understand that you use several decks and that the betting is complicated. I've no Bridge experience. I've played: Spades, Hearts, Texas Hold'm, Rook(like spades except highest bidder chooses the trump suite), and Gin. I've played a few other kid games.I'm a serious bridge player and would like to discuss the game with anyone interested.
Used to play at club level but not played for 20-years, the ACOL system was what we played.
I understand that you use several decks and that the betting is complicated. I've no Bridge experience. I've played: Spades, Hearts, Texas Hold'm, Rook(like spades except highest bidder chooses the trump suite), and Gin. I've played a few other kid games.
Careful what you call boring! "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." -- Master OogwayI'm a competent player, it's just that I find the game boring. (As a consolation I don't like any card games, per se.)
It was based on a weak no trump opening bid based on 12-14 points. You also had to have a balanced hand, i.e. no voids or singletons.I understand that that system is popular in the UK, but I have never learned it. I started with Standard American and then added 2-Over-1 Game Force with the Forcing 1NT convention later.
I think that I recall hearing that ACOL allowed opening 4-card majors. Is that correct?
I think it counts. Can you count cards?I used to play on bridges. Does that count?
I like bridge, and I'd be happy to join a conversation, although I'm rusty.
As an aside, I would highly recommend a short story written by Robert Benchley entitled: "Not According to Hoyle". It's a hoot.
On the railway bridge, out on the side car extension thingamajigger, as the trestle shook, we counted cars, but not cards, sorry. Windy place.I think it counts. Can you count cards?
I think it counts. Can you count cards?
I play bridge, but have not been able to find a group in the small town of Hillsborough to play.
That was also my story from the late seventies, when I played bridge in college, until I rediscovered the game upon retirement and expatriating to a community of expats with a disproportionately large bridge contingent.
So, I dove in.
It's been a rich experience, and I was hoping to find others that followed a similar arc. It seems to be a dying game in the States, but not in the world.
@DavidFirth has a bridge avatar.