Bridge Mania

(that meanz i wont understand it coz i m single )

If you are single that is all the more reason why you wud appreciate the importance of having a good hand.

Regards

HP:

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about bridge. I played bridge yesterday. On one hand, my partner bid a little slam without any help in bidding from me and he made it. My hand although quite weak in points held two key cards which helped him fulfill his contract. I am enjoying bridge now in my retirement more than ever before.

Be well,

Mohammad Gill

Re: # 5
Are you corrupting the youth of Athens by recommending self-help instead of marriage?

Tahir mian,

Don't worry. People will generally find that a good partner is better than a good hand. But if you can't find a good partner....

Regards

I play bridge for several hours every evening - on the Internet. The site I go to (there are several) is www.games.yahoo.com. There are five different levels where you can play, from beginner to advanced. There are always at least 500 people from all over the world playing at the same time, sometimes it is in thousands. It is free.
I used to play a lot of duplicate bridge, but nowadays in Dubai there is no duplicate tournament. Internet bridge is very fast. Whereas typically one plays about seven deals an hour in duplicate, on the Net (advanced level) you play at least 20 deals an hour. If one is slow, one get booted out.
It is fun to play with many different people. There could be a guy from Hongkong, me from Dubai, a Turkish guy and an American, playing together. You get to know who the good players are, and land up with a dozen or so people with whom you like to play (and who accept you !). generally people are very well mannered, and one does not shout at one's partner.
If you haven't played bridge but would like to try, type "learning to play bridge" on google and look up the available sites.
Believe me, it's a great game. Card luck doesn't matter because over time it evens out. What you need is memory (to remember cards) and an ability to solve many simltaneous equations mentally and very fast. To explain : if your partner had bid a certain suit at a certain level and played a particular card but didn't play another, you can figure out what cards he has. Generally, by the third or fourth trick (out of thirteen tricks) one can guess what cards each player has.
As I come closer to retirement I expect to play more. It keeps your brain cells active. Try it.

it is hot-shyte popular inidian colleges. i recall playing for 4 days continuously during diwali holidyas when we wouuld not go home from hostel. we would hoard up on mithai and play continuously. great times...

Re: # 12; majumdar bhai,

"...partner better than hand..."

partner! what is a partner?!...the pet goat?!

Re: # 15

Cheema Saab,

cheee...cheee...

Re: # 15
oye kheema! WTF Tahir mian wants to know the art of pounding out a partner to build a bridge and you are spoiling this MChod with a pet goat....lay sab ko tum logon jaisse, australian, you think tahir wants to do it with the sheep and a goat

he can go it while looking at the moon goddess at night and wolving down....he is an unevolved person as god set him down on eart.

tahir mina, are you stioll like god made or have you altered your fucking appearence....

Re: # 16; vengat

you prude soul; now stop blushing, will you

Abusing those who insist on gentlemanly behaviour and laid-out rules of CHOWK interaction is like--as the name implies--pure HP!

I'm sure this nutcase thrives on HP alone. He will never know real love; making love to his pet chickens is his fate.

"Myrtle was released without any punishment"

how many times have you had a Myrtle moment? I recall once ...the highest cards i Held were a J-S and a 10-D the rest were riff-raff. Okay there 4 more S. The auction shoould have stopped at 5S or 6S (both doable, maybe 7S doable with some luck). But my partner in his excitement went OTT and decided 7NT can be made. So after the first two, all the other went down the tubes. I mean I could have shot the person - on the othre table 7S was made (with a few lucky breaks).

This is a problem with Bridge. You can always blame you partner for losing...in flaush/flash/teen-patti etc it is a single person playing and you take the blame.

Bridge, Tennis, TT etc are games where the balme can be easiliy (and almost always) laid at your partners feet for defeat!

OT: Tahir mian where ever you go go, why is is that the quality of the interacts goes south? I wonder why.....have you asked yourself this question?