Daily Archives: Apr 25, 2015

Bridge & Humor: Anecdotes of the Famous

At a dinner party attended by bridge expert Ely Culbertson...

Allow your opponents to make mistakes by Karen Walker

The idea is that an aggressive, potentially dangerous bid can be a good gamble if it gets you to your best contract or pushes the opponents into a bad one.

Defense Was Ruff, Thought Declarer by Phillip Alder

This deal, from the first-round Bermuda Bowl match between Argentina and USA1 in Portugal 2005, featured one of the prettiest defenses of the tournament.

Culbertson’s Rule of Hand Evaluation by Jeff Lehman

Many HE methods pale in comparison to Culbertson’s Rule, which I had read many, many years ago in Jeff Rubens’ great book The Secrets of Winning Bridge.

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