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June 25th, 2010 |

Author: Bryan

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Is Bridge an exciting card game to learn and play?

I play Texas hold em online all the time, but I’m really getting fed up with the luck factor of the game. Should I learn Bridge? Is it a fun, exciting game that I can play online, or is it boring?

Well it is a matter of taste. Certainly, I share you preference of strategy in card play rather than the playing with money. However, I was disappointed with bridge when I tried it. I grew up on trick taking games such as whist or solo, where the emphasis is on playing out the hand – in bridge, the emphasis is clearly on the bidding system and the way it is used to convey information about players’ hands.

It is not for nothing that people say that a good whist player may become a good bridge player but a good bridge player may always be a poor whist player.

Another problem that I had with bridge was that it seemed to reduce the social element for me, the focus on the bidding system had the effect of building in a kind of formality to the game.

A fair while ago now, I did discover an alternative that fit my social and strategic preferences. While I would urge you to give bridge a try – there are many, many players who enjoy it so much – I would also suggest the tarot family as an alternative (don’t worry, most of the games are now played with French suited cards that you wouldn’t recognize as tarot at all).

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