Hello everyone.

Yes, I'm also a bridge player when I don't play any PC or console games, well I use to be but not any more.

The last time I played was for 7-8 years ago and sometimes I missed it very much, so I was thinking to re-enter my bridge career again. I'm only need a partner to start playing again and I know where there is bridge clubs to visit.

Enough talking and let you to share you story with the rest of us.


Cheers ... :wave:

I thought bridge was only for blue hairs. I like cribbage, though. I'm sure you don't really care.

No, it's a game to every one regardless your age or the hair colour, but I do care for others interest even I don't know much about cribbage though.

You can be young as 13 years old and still compete with some one who are over 85 on exactly the same terms. Further more there is one thing I definitely like, is that you can learn a new things for each round you are playing. B)

I played when I was in college, but not very often since. Last time I played I got owned by some of dagoth_jeff's blue-haired old ladies. You're right; there is something new to learn on every hand.

I was froced to learn when I was in the Navy. Some of the senior guys in my department needed a 4th, and they picked me. I played quite a bit while I was in, but never since getting out (1980). It's a good game, but requires regular playing to even remember the basics, much less get good at it.

I learned cut-throat cribbage from my grandfather when I was 7.

I can play a lot of card games but this aint one of them, I suppose I will cross that BRIDGE when I get to it.

What bidding system did you and your partner use?
You can play it for social reasons, such as there some players came together 1-2 times in the week and just play for a couple of hours. I've done that on several occasions when I was an active player.


I bet you still can play it, but it's like you said you need time and play on regular basis to catch up your basics knowledge.


If you want to learn more try this link for the http://www.google.se/search?q=mvp+bridge&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a web site.

"Standard American", five-card majors and weak twos. The usual conventions like Stayman, Jacoby, and Blackwood. That's what the whole crowd, except for snobs who liked to fool around with Precision and Blue Club, played.

Even though five-card majors is dominant nowadays, and it seems everybody goes through the ritual of Blackwood to bid a slam, I dislike both. Five-card majors leads to a lot of 4-4 fits with the strong hand in dummy. Blackwood is usually inferior to cue-bidding.

Do you mean Culbertson or Goren?
I've read a lot of Precision and Blue Club (Blue Team Club, BTC), but never play with these systems.
I guess my experience is not good enough for this system.


What you describe is close to the swedish system called Modern Standard (MS), so I know exactly what you mean.
A strong hand should always be examined before you gave your final bid.
My ex-partner was playing just like that, I don't know how many times we talked about this and finally I gave up.

Standard American = Goren.

Culbertson's original system was a complex one based on "honor tricks" and the "rule of eight" (at no trump, honors will, on average, take eight of the tricks). Culbertson was a genius, and much of his advice was impossible for ordinary card players to follow. Culbertson contributions live on in practices such as counting quick tricks.

Sure it was complex, but also revolutionary for a young bridge society in the 1920. Did you know that Culbertson was in fact the inventor of 1-over-1 bidding rule, which you and I today take for granted. The whole bridge world have a lot things to appreciate thanks to Culbertson, but on other hand Goren's point system was indeed a revolution it self.

The point counting system was released 1948 by Goren, but Culbertson didn't managed to recover from the popularity Goren's system have although Culbertson did release it 1952.

If any mod see this they could locked this thread, because some important changes I'm going to do. :user:

If I start another 'Bridge' thread here it will have a different title though.