Bridge Games in Blah Blah Land
So you play contract bridge in the real world?
You sit at a real table and have real partners and play real contract bridge with bidding boxes and card holders and there is a constant banter of blah blah going on about Cruella Deville who sits in every now again for Harry the Hog?
Well, that is so 2016 my bridge aficionados. Trust me, if you don’t have some form of computer bridge game on your tablet or laptop you are living in the dark ages.
Bridge games can be real or they can be virtual. Try both.
I am convinced that my bridge game has come a long way since I started playing and experimenting with the numerous forms of bridge games you can download. My bridge teacher – bless her – told me to find the best bridge game on-line and play as often as possible.
You can play against the computer or you can play against world champion bridge players – you take your pick. Most of all, though, treat these bridge games as being your daily supplement of bridge vitamins.
Available to you – and I got mine from the Bridge Shop on-line, are:
· Bridge Playing Software
· Instant download software
· Instructional bridge games
· Bridge software for iPads
· Bridge Baron – which is the world’s number one bridge game for computers
My best is Hand of the Week. This gives you a fantastic insight into a selection of interesting bridge hands. As you play you get commentary and guidance by bridge playing gurus.
What I love is the snide remarks made like – “well done but remember that gloating is unattractive.”
Tell that to Harry the Hog and Cruella Deville.
And: “Our strategy is to pull his teeth (er, trumps) every chance we get. At trick 2, we begin our strategy. At trick 3, declarer leads a Diamond, and that tells us we are hot on his trail. At trick 4, we lead another trump and glance at him out of the corner of our eye. He's grinding HIS teeth!”
In the last two weeks I have played through the Bridge Shop on-line:
· A Valiant Effort – by Marti Ronemus
· A New Look – by Eddie Kantar
· Forward Planning – by Paul Bower
You can’t really get better know-how and guidance, with a lovely dash of bridge playing humour thrown in, than this.
Getting back to Reality Bridge Games. (Wouldn’t that be a great idea for a TV show?)
I have spoken often about have the proper equipment for playing bridge. One of the best things you can do is introduce your bridge playing dummies, chummies, to bridge card holders. They are a great way of getting the game going, believe me. So much time wasted in those incompetent hands, fumbling and blah blahing about whomever. This way you can get everyone up and running quickly.
Card holders are not going to break your bridge piggy bank – they range from $2.95 to $16.95. But they will break the endless fumbling of sorting out your bridge hands.
