Bridge
Bridge is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards, played by four players in two competing partnerships.
In contract bridge you always play with a partner against another pair. All the 52 cards are dealt out, each player receiving 13 cards. For most recreational players, bridge is simply an interesting and fun game that never gets boring and is always challenging. However, with practice and experience, any person with a good memory can, during the course of a game, pretty much work out who holds which cards.
What makes bridge different from many other card games is its bidding system. Bidding often takes up half of a game, while the other half comprises the actual playing of the cards. The side that “wins” the bidding is contracting to take a certain number of tricks in the play, and will be rewarded in the scoring if they do so, but punished if they fail.
We teach the Acol bidding system.
In contract bridge you always play with a partner against another pair. All the 52 cards are dealt out, each player receiving 13 cards. For most recreational players, bridge is simply an interesting and fun game that never gets boring and is always challenging. However, with practice and experience, any person with a good memory can, during the course of a game, pretty much work out who holds which cards.
What makes bridge different from many other card games is its bidding system. Bidding often takes up half of a game, while the other half comprises the actual playing of the cards. The side that “wins” the bidding is contracting to take a certain number of tricks in the play, and will be rewarded in the scoring if they do so, but punished if they fail.
We teach the Acol bidding system.
Lessons
Our lesson program for beginners runs from March to August.
There are twelve lesson nights, interwoven with twelve playing nights in which you practice what you have learned. After the lessons are completed the lesson group plays practice nights for the rest of the year.
Cost: $30 for the lessons, plus $5 table money on playing nights only.
Our next lessons will start in March 2012, on Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
If you are interested in joining or receiving more information about the next lesson program, please send email to office@otagobridgeclub.org.nz with your details in the message and “lessons” in the subject line. We will contact you before the lessons are due to start.
Further information: On bridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
On Acol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acol
If you like to play 500 you will love playing bridge even more.
There are twelve lesson nights, interwoven with twelve playing nights in which you practice what you have learned. After the lessons are completed the lesson group plays practice nights for the rest of the year.
Cost: $30 for the lessons, plus $5 table money on playing nights only.
Our next lessons will start in March 2012, on Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
If you are interested in joining or receiving more information about the next lesson program, please send email to office@otagobridgeclub.org.nz with your details in the message and “lessons” in the subject line. We will contact you before the lessons are due to start.
Further information: On bridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
On Acol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acol
If you like to play 500 you will love playing bridge even more.
