Any duplicate bridge players on Volnation?

#27
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VolNExile said:
I think it’s a tournament thing, where every table of four gets dealt the same hands, but I’m not taking a bullet for that.

Not without the Google thang anyway.
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If this would have been better in the Pub, my apologies.

That's a pretty good basic description. A typical tournament will involve teams or pairs playing 28 hands and all tables will have played the same 28 hands (or boards as they are called). After the scores are compared the winning team will be the one that got the best relative total score for the 28 boards.

There are several key components to duplicate bridge:

Bidding which is akin to learning a foreign language, teams bid to determine which suit will be trump and how many tricks they contract to take.

Defense, which includes strategy and card signals to let partner know what your hand looks like and what cards might be best card to play or not play at a particular time

Declarer play (that's the person who won the contract in the bidding portion of the game).

Duplicate Bridge is the most difficult challenging game I've ever played. Much tougher than chess, whist is a simple version and spades has some basic similarities.

Just checked the online version of the game, currently a bit over 14,000 people are online and 4130 tables are playing.
 
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VolNExile said:
I like bridge, although hardly anyone plays any more after hearing their parents come to the edge of divorce after a few bad hands. Never played duplicate though.
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LOL this can be a problem. My wife is my regular partner and occasionally we get into some pretty heated discussions. Many married bridge players have playing partners other than their spouse.

If you are interested, the online version is called Bridge Base Online, or simply BBO
 
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GoDucks349 said:
If this would have been better in the Pub, my apologies.

That's a pretty good basic description. A typical tournament will involve teams or pairs playing 28 hands and all tables will have played the same 28 hands (or boards as they are called). After the scores are compared the winning team will be the one that got the best relative total score for the 28 boards.

There are several key components to duplicate bridge:

Bidding which is akin to learning a foreign language, teams bid to determine which suit will be trump and how many tricks they contract to take.

Defense, which includes strategy and card signals to let partner know what your hand looks like and what cards might be best card to play or not play at a particular time

Declarer play (that's the person who won the contract in the bidding portion of the game).

Duplicate Bridge is the most difficult challenging game I've ever played. Much tougher than chess, whist is a simple version and spades has some basic similarities.

Just checked the online version of the game, currently a bit over 14,000 people are online and 4130 tables are playing.
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Souce said:
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$29.95 per seems a small price to pay to get all of your worthless threads where they belong.
 
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GoDucks349 said:
If this would have been better in the Pub, my apologies.

That's a pretty good basic description. A typical tournament will involve teams or pairs playing 28 hands and all tables will have played the same 28 hands (or boards as they are called). After the scores are compared the winning team will be the one that got the best relative total score for the 28 boards.

There are several key components to duplicate bridge:

Bidding which is akin to learning a foreign language, teams bid to determine which suit will be trump and how many tricks they contract to take.

Defense, which includes strategy and card signals to let partner know what your hand looks like and what cards might be best card to play or not play at a particular time

Declarer play (that's the person who won the contract in the bidding portion of the game).

Duplicate Bridge is the most difficult challenging game I've ever played. Much tougher than chess, whist is a simple version and spades has some basic similarities.

Just checked the online version of the game, currently a bit over 14,000 people are online and 4130 tables are playing.
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In all fairness I have played a lot of bridge with two Master Class players and I still suck. Bidding is absolutely a language until itself. I always want to bid like spades and that don't work.
 
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GoDucks349 said:
LOL this can be a problem. My wife is my regular partner and occasionally we get into some pretty heated discussions. Many married bridge players have playing partners other than their spouse.

If you are interested, the online version is called Bridge Base Online, or simply BBO
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I refuse to pay bridge with GVG. Divorce would be eminent.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
In all fairness I have played a lot of bridge with two Master Class players and I still suck. Bidding is absolutely a language until itself. I always want to bid like spades and that don't work.
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Top quality players can humble a person very quickly.... LOL

A couple years ago my partner became ill about 5 minutes before a regional tournament was to start. They found me a "sub" who was a top level player and that meant we had to play in the top level of the tournament. After the tournament, he smiled at me and said, "well today you played against four professional bridge players". I'd probably have freaked out if I'd have known.

I've had pretty good teachers/coaches, my primary teacher was on the Canadian National team for quite a while, she brought in a friend who is a professional from Croatia for a few lessons. Plus the National Tournament Director lives here and I've had a few lessons from him as well. I'd describe myself as a pretty good beginner or an average intermediate. I've got a little under 400 master points.
 
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GoDucks349 said:
Top quality players can humble a person very quickly.... LOL

A couple years ago my partner became ill about 5 minutes before a regional tournament was to start. They found me a "sub" who was a top level player and that meant we had to play in the top level of the tournament. After the tournament, he smiled at me and said, "well today you played against four professional bridge players". I'd probably have freaked out if I'd have known.

I've had pretty good teachers/coaches, my primary teacher was on the Canadian National team for quite a while, she brought in a friend who is a professional from Croatia for a few lessons. Plus the National Tournament Director lives here and I've had a few lessons from him as well. I'd describe myself as a pretty good beginner or an average intermediate. I've got a little under 400 master points.
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My wife's cousin and his wife were both master class players. They tried over several years to teach me and I am unteachable. I can't bid for crap even using cheat sheets. Strange thing, I would rather defend. I can play the cards, just can't bid.
 
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GoDucks349 said:
If this would have been better in the Pub, my apologies.

That's a pretty good basic description. A typical tournament will involve teams or pairs playing 28 hands and all tables will have played the same 28 hands (or boards as they are called). After the scores are compared the winning team will be the one that got the best relative total score for the 28 boards.

There are several key components to duplicate bridge:

Bidding which is akin to learning a foreign language, teams bid to determine which suit will be trump and how many tricks they contract to take.

Defense, which includes strategy and card signals to let partner know what your hand looks like and what cards might be best card to play or not play at a particular time

Declarer play (that's the person who won the contract in the bidding portion of the game).

Duplicate Bridge is the most difficult challenging game I've ever played. Much tougher than chess, whist is a simple version and spades has some basic similarities.

Just checked the online version of the game, currently a bit over 14,000 people are online and 4130 tables are playing.
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Other than the bit about each table getting the same hands, are there any other differences from contract bridge? Your description sounds the same.

I may have peaked at age ten 🤪 We were visiting my GM in Memphis, and it was her week to host 5 tables of bridge. Someone called in sick at the last moment, and to my horror, I was assigned to cover. (Imagine women in their sixties in the South in 1965 or so, with fox stoles, bright red lipstick, pearls, and a Really Serious Expression.)

I did know how to bid and to work with my partner, and I got really lucky with partners and cards, and I won high. 😲 I won a tiny bottle of Chanel No. 5, which I still have, with an ever-so-faint remaining scent. 18 angry ladies (19 including my GM), and I never got anywhere close to a day like that again.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
My wife's cousin and his wife were both master class players. They tried over several years to teach me and I am unteachable. I can't bid for crap even using cheat sheets. Strange thing, I would rather defend. I can play the cards, just can't bid.
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Well given that statistically everyone should be playing defense 50% of the time you are way ahead of most bridge players. Most tend to concentrate on bidding and getting to the right contract then flounder when playing defense.
 
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VolNExile said:
Other than the bit about each table getting the same hands, are there any other differences from contract bridge? Your description sounds the same.

I may have peaked at age ten 🤪 We were visiting my GM in Memphis, and it was her week to host 5 tables of bridge. Someone called in sick at the last moment, and to my horror, I was assigned to cover. (Imagine women in their sixties in the South in 1965 or so, with fox stoles, bright red lipstick, pearls, and a Really Serious Expression.)

I did know how to bid and to work with my partner, and I got really lucky with partners and cards, and I won high. 😲 I won a tiny bottle of Chanel No. 5, which I still have, with an ever-so-faint remaining scent. 18 angry ladies (19 including my GM), and I never got anywhere close to a day like that again.
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Contract bridge is quite different from duplicate. In contract you're often trying to put together a couple hands to reach a game or two to win the rubber. In duplicate winning a rubber doesn't exist. It's all about how well you do on a hand verses how well someone else playing the same cards does against opponents with the same cards as your opponents. You can bid 2 spades and make your contract and get a bad score because everyone else bid 2 spades and made 3 spades.

The score for making 2 spades would be 30 per trick plus 50 for the partial game score for a total of 110 points. If other people playing the same hand made 3 spades they would get 90 points for the 3 spade tricks, plus 50 for the partial for a total of 140. Thus getting the better relative score.
 
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Did anybody watch the National Championship round of Mixed Doubles Over 50 Underwater Rollerblade Duck Shooting?
 
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