I’m picking up this card game again, and have been playing the contract bridge once or twice a week. The players here don’t do duplicate bridge because each time, whomever shows up, starts the game. Set day and time but not players. Some times it’s only 1 table and other times, three tables.
The points, conventions & scoring
Fun way to Serious Bridge (1978) by Harry Lampert is a good book to brush up skills, or learning to play. It was published in 1978, 13 years ahead of the For Dummies book series.
- 6 4 3 1, jump
- 7 3 2 1
- Best suit vs responding to bid: 3 3 3 4
- Long suit wins NT
- cue bid rho bid your suit ↓
- someone bid your suit; 1st time bid 5 and making it
- 4N asking for As; how to respond
- Ace and space
- Good hearts ♥️
- weak 2♠️
- two singleton As and long in spade – not good for NT
- void and long in ♠️ and more
- Long suit in ♠️ – time to learn the conventions
- Too many all 9s
- NT and scoring
- Two doubles in a hand
- A diamond night ♦️ importance of 13 pts
- A night filled with ♥️
- A few good hands
The slams
- my first small slam bid & made
The hands that made 12 or 13 tricks – pls ignore the titles
- won my 2nd slam on the first hand
- won my 2nd grand slam bid 2NT asking for aces
- won my 1st grand slam bid 4♥️
- Won my first slam
- my first slam
Girls’ night in
… some parties
没人打百分 (这该有多老呀 [偷笑])
只能打桥牌 … 更老 [呲牙]
临时抱佛脚 – 这本📖 不错 👍
… 每次开叫前 借用手指头数分
然后
就没有 然后了 [偷笑]🤣
热情不减 [调皮]
Some terms – contract bridge glossary
- game: 100 pts
- double: game can also be made via a doubled or redoubled contract: e.g., 2♠ doubled is worth 2 × (2 tricks × 30 points per trick) = 120 points.
- rubber: best of three games (a game =100 pts); a team which has already won a game toward the current rubber is said to be vulnerable
- above the line
