Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards


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Many bridge books feature magical and inspiring hands but hands that are never seen in day-to-day play at the bridge table. Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards concentrates on the type of hands that will make a real difference to your scores and which will help you improve your game. Discover how to assess your opponents' strengths and weaknesses - in relation to your own - and win!




How to Play Bridge


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Win at Bridge and Impress Your Friends! When you open How to Play Bridge, you’ll discover a rich and exciting world of strategy. Bridge has long been associated with the modern aristocracy. Harold Vanderbilt (on a long ocean cruise) combined two popular variants of Whist (a 17th-century card game) to create the game we lovingly call Bridge. This comprehensive (and easy-to-understand) guidebook explains how you can impress your opponents with your knowledge of the game. You can step up to the table with confidence after mastering the many concepts and strategies in this fascinating book: Bidding Basics and Basic Gameplay Playing as the Declarer and the Dummy Scoring: Contract/Overtrick Points Slam, Doubled, and Redoubled Bonuses Rubber and Honour Bonuses Avoiding Penalties and Common Errors You’ll even learn advanced concepts like reading players’ card organization styles, noticing psychological tells, and playing well with your partner. By mastering the rules of the game and making them second nature, you can pay more attention to the cards played – and the people playing them. By understanding each player’s point of view, you can rule the table and win big at bridge!




How to Improve Your Bridge


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How the Experts Win at Bridge


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There are three unique things about this book: (1) It is the first book in about 40 years to deal with the entire game of bridge, (2) It represents the best thinking of modern day experts and (3) It is expecially well organized and easy to read. The book received the 1997 Book of the Year award and continues to be a bestseller at national tournaments




Winning Contract Bridge


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Bridge for Beginners


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Are you looking for a fun and interesting game of cards to play with your friends during game nights or your free time to keep you occupied and entertained? And have you recently started playing bridge and you'd like true and tried tips and strategies for becoming the best player and beating your opponents from the first draw? If you've answered YES, Let This Hold You By The Hand In Your Journey To Mastering Bridge Through Leveraging The Power Of Highly Effective Tips And Strategies That Pros Don't Want To Share! Arguably the most popular card game ever in the world, any card game player will tell you that bridge is the best of all card games. However, just like any other activity, it can be quite hard and frustrating to be part of a game where you don't know the basics or guidelines of how to play. The fact that you are here reading this means that you'd like to be a master of bridge but are wondering... How exactly is bridge different from other forms of card games? Is it possible to become a pro in bridge when you've never even played cards before? Can you build a winning hand and bid with confidence? And which are some of the best strategies and tactics you can use to become a better player and defeat your opponent(s) with the first few tricks? If you have these and other related questions about bridge, you are in luck because this book will show you everything you need to know it inside out and excel at it without trying too hard! Inside it, you'll find: An introduction to bridge, including what it is all about and how it has evolved over the years The basics of bridge, including exactly how to master the art of playing a hand of bridge and the art of bidding The basic and advanced bidding techniques you can use How to know when to respond to an opening bid and when to rebid and when to pass The ins and outs of the four bidding exercises and the contract bridge scoring system Strategies you can use to play bridge with your partner and win How to build a winning hand and bid with confidence And much more Whether you're a long time player or new to the game, this simple yet elaborate guide will walk you through the intricacies of the game and equip you with the best strategies for being a better player and beating your opponents. Scroll up and click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get started!




Countdown to Winning Bridge


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Did you ever notice how the bridge experts always seem to know where every card is? How their finesses always seem to succeed? How their guesses are nearly always perfect? This book won't teach you to play quite that well, but it will introduce you to some very simple techniques that the experts use on play and defense. As declarer or defender, counting the hand is the one thing that will help you the most. But how do you keep track of all those cards? This book will show you how - explaining the tricks of the trade, and helping anyone who can count to thirteen to become a much better player. Full of practical examples of how to apply the information you get from counting, this book is sure to improve your game.




How to Play a Bridge Hand


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Neither for beginners nor for experts but for the 90 percent of players in between, How to Play a Bridge Hand includes more than 300 of bridge master William Root's favorite hands. Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings.




Contract Bridge for Beginners


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Here is the first book on Contract Bridge for beginners which introduces them at once to the generally accepted Point Count method of bidding used by the experts. Written by the leading authority, the foremost teacher, and the most successful bridge player in the world, it will prove a boon to the novice and the average bridge player alike.




Card Games Properly Explained


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Do you turn down invites to poker games because you don’t know the rules? Then Card Games Properly Explained is the book for you. Arnold Marks’s handbook will teach you not only what you need to know to play the game, but how to play to win. He will teach you Whist and its variations: Solo and Napoleon; Poker and its variations like Seven Card Stud and Deuces Wild; Cribbage; Rummy—the forefather of Gin Rummy and Canasta, among others; and more. Written for the novice player and to help players looking for a book to decisively settle arguments with clear, understandable rules, Card Games Properly Explained is a great book to have on hand in any game room.