I'm a serious bridge player and would like to discuss the game with anyone interested.
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Do we have any bridge players among us?
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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 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?
Bridge uses a single standard deck of four suits of 13 cards each, and doesn't generally include betting, but it can if you like. I've never played bridge for money.
I remember playing rook as a kid. Like bridge, spades and hearts, it is a trick taking game.
Careful what you call boring! "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." -- Master Oogway
Altfish
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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.
There are special bids, 2C is one.- a very strong hand 20+ points
Your partner's response was very prescribed too.
I think it s a very good learners system
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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.
No problem. What topics would interest you? Do you play Jacoby transfers over no-trump opening bids and overcalls?
Thanks. Just heard it recited. Funny.
On the railway bridge, out on the side car extension thingamajigger, as the trestle shook, we counted cars, but not cards, sorry. Windy place.
This is not the same as counting in blackjack. You're trying to determine the shape of an unseen hand held by an opponent - how many of each of the four suits he started with - which is useful to help decide which cards to discards and which to hold. We also like to count high card points. If declarer opened a 15-17 point 1 no-trump and has already produced three aces and a king, he doesn't have the fourth ace. If you can't see it in dummy or your own hand, partner holds it.
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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.
You're probably just a few years ahead of me on that arc. I hope to find some players nearby as well. But I'm really rusty. You were asking earlier about bidding conventions and I have to look up what to call the conventions I used to try to follow.
I think I remember weak 2hearts? with a 6 card suit. 1nt is strong - 16-18. have to go look some stuff up...
DavidFirth
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Where is that confounded bridge?