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Do Any Freepers Play Bridge?
Vanity ^ | 3 Apr 2018 | American Quilter

Posted on 04/03/2018 1:00:40 PM PDT by American Quilter

Are there any Freepers who participate in the great American game of Bridge? I'm taking lessons, and it appears it's mostly retirees who play. My parents played their whole lives, and it used to be a very popular game for people from teens to the elderly. I'm just wondering whether the game's dying out along with its increasingly gray-haired adherents.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bridge; cards
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To: American Quilter

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.


21 posted on 04/03/2018 1:39:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: Crolis

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.


22 posted on 04/03/2018 1:41:13 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: American Quilter

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.


23 posted on 04/03/2018 1:52:23 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Fantasywriter

Obviously, they needed a fourth.


24 posted on 04/03/2018 1:55:47 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: American Quilter
Played party, duplicate, and some inter club love the game played every week for about 10yrs .
25 posted on 04/03/2018 1:57:18 PM PDT by DAR
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To: American Quilter

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


26 posted on 04/03/2018 2:02:13 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: American Quilter

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.


27 posted on 04/03/2018 2:07:08 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: American Quilter

28 posted on 04/03/2018 2:17:53 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.arare)
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To: American Quilter

Not well...

Do you play weak 2’s or strong 2’s?


29 posted on 04/03/2018 2:19:56 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: American Quilter

College: pinochle

Summer vacations: cribbage

Grad school: spades

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


30 posted on 04/03/2018 2:27:30 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: American Quilter

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


31 posted on 04/03/2018 2:38:34 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: reg45

Lol. That may have been the motivation.


32 posted on 04/03/2018 2:42:51 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: American Quilter

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.


33 posted on 04/03/2018 2:51:45 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: American Quilter

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!


34 posted on 04/03/2018 3:02:15 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: American Quilter

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


35 posted on 04/03/2018 3:03:10 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: American Quilter

I play bridge. Badly.

How about a nice game of chess?


36 posted on 04/03/2018 3:14:01 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: American Quilter

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

Rodney Dangerfield


37 posted on 04/03/2018 3:15:42 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: American Quilter
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

38 posted on 04/03/2018 3:25:29 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: American Quilter

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.


39 posted on 04/03/2018 3:30:58 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: American Quilter
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).

40 posted on 04/03/2018 3:34:51 PM PDT by x
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