H. Anthony Medley - Learn to Play Bridge Like a Boss: Master the Fundamentals of Bridge Quickly and Easily with Strategies From a Seasoned Pro!

This is not your standard how to play bridge book. While its basic purpose is to teach you how to easily play the game starting from scratch, what makes it unique is that it doesnt stop there. It continues from teaching you the basic game to also teaching you advanced techniques used by experts.

Not only will you learn the basic game of Standard American, you will also learn Two Over One, a system used by many of the best players today. In addition to learning standard bidding and carding techniques, youll also learn advanced bidding techniques like Weak Twos, New Minor Forcing, Negative Doubles, Jacoby Transfers, Jacoby Two No Trump, Splinters, and many more advanced methods of communicating with your partner that you wont find in most basic bridge books.

While learning basic playing techniques like the finesse, youll also learn advanced ways to play the cards like Ducking, the Strip and End Play, and numerous other techniques used by advanced players. Its all here in one easy-to-read simple book.

Furthermore, most of the hands used in the book are actual hands that I have played, not hands drafted to show a specific point.

Be forewarned, bridge is an addictive game. Once you get your first taste of how much fun you can have playing it, you might very well be hooked for life. In this part, I whet your appetite by introducing you to the basics of the game. Bridge has its own unique language, which you will begin to grasp as you find out about the bidding process and how to play a hand. After you finish reading these four short, easy-to-read and easy-to-understand chapters, bridge will no longer be a mystery, and youll be firmly on the road to becoming a bridge player.

Can you add to 40? Can you count to 13? If you can do these two things, you can play bridge.

Card games have been around for at least a millennium. Bridge is a fast-paced four-player card game played with a standard 52-card deck. Its reliance on concentration and skill has made it popular with all ages for more than 75 years. This chapter gives you a brief history of how contract bridge came to be, and what you need to play the game.

Bridge is played by four people, comprised of two pairs. You and your partner play against two other people. At the table, you are positioned opposite your partner while your opponents sit on either side of you.

By the way, in the examples throughout this book, your partner will be female and your opponents will be male, so references to your partner will be to she and her and references to your opponents will be he and him. Ive adopted this convention to keep from getting twisted up in the pronouns, but of course you can play bridge with any combination of either sex!

In bridge terminology, you are sitting in directions named after points on the compass. So, if you and your partner are sitting North-South, your opponents are sitting East-West, and vice versa. These are just terms and have no relevance to true magnetic north.