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Example of a mid-sized transitional enclosed game room design with beige walls

Not able to get out and about? Well, join the online travel club from around the world. We are all locked in and finding new travel destinations either virtually or from our TV screens.  Well, I have found a great place to visit and it is The Bridge Shop Australia.  

If you are into the game of bridge, bettering yourself and turning an old dalliance into a serious challenge then this is the site to do some exploring.

 Anyone in the know in the worldwide bridge community will have heard of The Bridge Shop Australia.  It is a household name in Australia and has a world-wide and well-deserved reputation for first-class products and customer service. Visit, explore, purchase and become a subscriber and you will, no doubt about it, rate the trip and experience 5/5.

And it is worth a repeat visit.  

  Looking for

a new card table and card table cloths

?

Go to the card table section and click: https://www.bridgeshop.com.au/club-supplies/tables.html

Yes, indeed a new cloth on your new card table – how about this green felt bridge cloth made of dark green felt with suit symbols printed in each corner?  

   Searching for a

great gift for your fellow isolated bridge buddies

who just so happen to be into golf as well?

 Ladies Golf Playing Cards

 A double-deck of playing cards. These beautifully designed cards make a perfect gift and are suitable for Bridge, Whist and many other traditional card games. - Double pack of 52 cards and two Jokers - Gift style packaging - Bridge size 58mm x 89mm

 To tempt your further to explore The Bridge Shop route – check out the

Coming Soon

at The Bridge Shop section

 Like to know when these items are in store? Click on the picture and The Bridge Shop will send you an email as soon as they are in stock.

If you are a bridge playing beginner – then the section

Beginners' Resources

is right up your street

 ·         Beginners’ bridge books

·         Interactive bridge playing CDs

·         Bridge Baron

·         Cheat Sheets

·         V-Blue Course for Newcomers

And lots more valuable products to help you on your bridge learning journey.

  If you take playing bridge seriously and are on a journey of getting you back up to speed at the game of bridge then check out the

Classic Rewind

section

  Various award-winning books are featured; as an example Eddie Kantar's Introduction to Declarer Play and Introduction to Defense. These have both been recently updated and revised by Barbara Seagram. Both are essential reading for the improving player and are still regarded as the classic way to play even after fifty years.

You are often able to download a sample of the featured books to see if they suit your level and style.

So you play contract bridge in the real world?   

You sit at a real table and have real partners and play real contract bridge with bidding boxes and card holders and there is a constant banter of blah blah going on about Cruella Deville who sits in every now again for Harry the Hog?

Well, that is so 2016 my bridge aficionados.  Trust me, if you don’t have some form of computer bridge game on your tablet or laptop you are living in the dark ages.  

Bridge games can be real or they can be virtual.  Try both. 

I am convinced that my bridge game has come a long way since I started playing and experimenting with the numerous forms of bridge games you can download.  My bridge teacher – bless her – told me to find the best bridge game on-line and play as often as possible.

You can play against the computer or you can play against world champion bridge players – you take your pick. Most of all, though, treat these bridge games as being your daily supplement of bridge vitamins.  

You will learn so much.

Available to you – and I got mine from the Bridge Shop on-line, are:

·         Bridge Playing Software

·         Instant download software

·         Instructional bridge games

·         Bridge software for iPads

·         Bridge Baron – which is the world’s number one bridge game for computers

My best is Hand of the Week.  This gives you a fantastic insight into a selection of interesting bridge hands. As you play you get commentary and guidance by bridge playing gurus.

What I love is the snide remarks made like – “well done but remember that gloating is unattractive.”

Tell that to Harry the Hog and Cruella Deville.

And: “Our strategy is to pull his teeth (er, trumps) every chance we get. At trick 2, we begin our strategy. At trick 3, declarer leads a Diamond, and that tells us we are hot on his trail. At trick 4, we lead another trump and glance at him out of the corner of our eye. He's grinding HIS teeth!”

In the last two weeks I have played through the Bridge Shop on-line:

·         A Valiant Effort – by Marti Ronemus

·         A New Look – by Eddie Kantar

·         Forward Planning – by Paul Bower

You can’t really get better know-how and guidance, with a lovely dash of bridge playing humour thrown in, than this. 

Getting back to Reality Bridge Games. (Wouldn’t that be a great idea for a TV show?) 

I have spoken often about have the proper equipment for playing bridge.  One of the best things you can do is introduce your bridge playing dummies, chummies, to bridge card holders. They are a great way of getting the game going, believe me.  So much time wasted in those incompetent hands, fumbling and blah blahing about whomever.  This way you can get everyone up and running quickly.