I will play if someone wants to p with me.

Best way to start learning/playing bridge? I am a huge fan of both hearts and spades, and I have been told bridge is even better. Just read the rules and play around online until I get the hang of it? Is Swan Games the best?

Thanks.

A few of us have played on Swan, but for the most part players here play on BBO (Bridge Base Online).

Playing with people you know is much better than playing with randoms. POG action has been a bit dead for a while, but watch this thread and if there's talk of a game, join in.

Brag: Won a sectional open pairs last night with a pretty huge game. 69%.
Brag: Second sectional open pairs win in my last 3 attempts.
Beat: 7 tables, so my partner, who needs silver for LM, only got 2.83

Variance: there must have been a lot of variance, since I am terrible at pairs.

I don't think POG action has been dead, there are often people online.

Pasghettos if you make an account on bbo post your sn in the thread and I will try to drag up the post with other people's names.

It's in the OP

Sick, congrats

Bah team (mostly) POG nearly pulled it out

http://www.bridgebase.com/myhands/ha...64-1329006802-

Except for Kaplan finding a nice time open 3S with 5 on hand 8. Also opps gamble on 1 also worked nicely. Was a fun little match to play prec against a forcing pass.

Chuck and I are planning to **** on a Sectional next month. Ultraelite East TN sectional pair imo.

Holla holla

Well,

We finished 8th in the NAP. I just got word that a bunch of people declined the trip to Memphis, and it was offered to me and my partner.

Unfortunately, it is too late for me to make arrangements for the trip, so I had to also decline

I am bummed out.

Dang, that's too bad.

atb

AKJ10xxx
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1N-2H!
2S-4D!
4S-AP

2H transfer, 4D splinter

+480

It's bad enough that my district had the NAP finals 6 weeks before Memphis. Then they give me an option a week later and like 30 minutes to make up my mind. No way I could have gotten the time off from work, and found someone to take care of my son while my wife was working. There was NO way she could get time off from work either.

Add that to the fact that the $200 each that we would receive would not make a dent in the expenses. Airfare alone was about $550 each round trip.

If we had come in 3rd originally, I would have found a way to make it all work.

4th seat r/r IMPs

x / Kxxxx / x / Q109xxx

Q1: who would you rather be?

(1C) 1H (1S) 2H
(4H) 5H (P!) P
(X) P (5S!) P
(6S) AP

(p = forcing, 5S is slam invite)

or

(1C) 1H (1S) 4H
(X) AP

Q2: Your call in 4th?
Q3: Your lead against 6S?