Do Any Freepers Play Bridge?

Vanity ^ | 3 Apr 2018 | American Quilter

[Loud Mime]

In one game I took the bidding up to 6 hearts, Dad then took it to 7. I thought, ‘why is he doing this? His bidding told me nothing. EAST-West doubled. He looked at them and redoubled. oh, boy.....

So I have to play the game while put down his cards. I gambled on one play and it worked, thinking that West, not East, had the only trump card that could stop us. He didn’t play it when he should have and I eventually had him surrender it.

Jack Daniels never tasted better. I do miss him.

[Loud Mime]

We had a cribbage club in the Airstream group. We all had baseball hats with a big “15-2” on them.

Double Deck Pinochle is a GREAT game; I put it #2 to bridge.

[jjotto]

There’s a strip mall in a big suburb where I get my hair cut. There’s always a packed parking lot there. There’s an almost unmarked large space there that is packed with (mostly older) bridge players from early AM to late PM six and sometimes seven days a week.

I had no idea until I asked about the crowd.

[reg45]

Obviously, they needed a fourth.

[DAR]

Played party, duplicate, and some inter club love the game played every week for about 10yrs .

[bigbob]

No, but I watched “Fargo Season 3” and know all the words to “Prisencolinensinainciusol” which I figure must be like the official bridge theme song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3CpHdP76E

[reed13k]

I was a Rummy and Euchre guy growing up in small town Indiana. As I traveled the world I picked up Bouree (LA), Sheeps Head (WI), cribbage, dominoes, etc

Still haven’t played bridge or pinochle.

Current preference is for Euchre... though with the right crowd Sheeps Head is a blast.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[HangnJudge]

Not well...

Do you play weak 2’s or strong 2’s?

[Stosh]

College: pinochle

Summer vacations: cribbage

Grad school: spades

Bridge? never made it to bridge (never had to do a post-doc)

[Jack Hammer]

Wanted to learn and tried valiantly. I even took a class. It’s too complicated for this Old Fogey.

[Fantasywriter]

Lol. That may have been the motivation.

[Conan the Librarian]

1 yes-TRUMP.

:D

I play bridge, but, mostly against the computer. AS well as cribbage. I had a canasta program too, but, not sure where that is. BANG! is also a very fun card game.

Bridge is fun, I learned from a group of older folks at my church when I was in my 20s and enjoy it.

But if you want real fun with a card game, get Arkham Horror. LOTS of fun, very challenging and and the rules can be less clear than Fizbin.

[Ammo Republic 15]

My parents had Bridge parties when we were all growing up every week (or more often). They’re in their 80’s now and still play every week at the country club.

All these years and I never learned how to play.

But I’d like to...

Oh, funny story...when I was a kid me and my sister would climb out the window and go around outside to the bar room and “spy” through the windows and watch them play. They sometimes mentioned something about a “rubber” and we were convinced they were doing something wrong. We were around 9 or 10 at the time when you’re just finding out about things like that...LOL!

[P.O.E.]

Family used to play a lot of pinochle. Can’t seem to get the young-uns interested.

[piytar]

I play bridge. Badly.

How about a nice game of chess?

[Vaduz]

My girl friend enrolled me in a bridge club I jump next Tuesday.

Rodney Dangerfield

[ml/nj]

I played A LOT when I was a teen. We played at lunch in school. We played at our homes after school. We played duplicate at weekly games and at bridge clubs. And we played in big NYC area tournaments. This was in the early 60s.

Then I went away to college and the people I hooked up with played the way I did when I was in seventh grade. (Ironically my school supposedly won the National Bridge Championship during the time I was an undergraduate there.) After graduation, friends knew I played and would ask me to play. I just couldn't take losing because of my partner, and I went back to Chess.

Sometimes, I've gone back via the computer. Bridge Baron was the best I thought.

But if you're looking for Bridge Clubs in Colorado, it seems to me that there are quite a few.

ML/NJ

[greeneyes]

Learned to play at age 19. Belonged to a number of bridge clubs over the years. After 45 years, the brain sort of slowed down, and the last club disbanded-so haven’t played for quite a while now.

[x]

Are there any Freepers who participate in the great American game of Bridge?

Every newspaper used to have a bridge column.

"Column" may not be the right word, but there was a little sample bridge game every day.

Same thing with chess.

Some time between the 1990s and today, all that ended (though there may be a holdout or two somewhere, and soon enough, the newspapers will be gone, too).