Anyone for bridge?

[Jon Chevreau]

Any bridge players here, either face to face or online? The top bridge club on the planet is BridgeBase Online, founded by a Canadian now in Las Vegas: Fred Gitelman. Bill Gates put money in it and both Gates and Buffett play there.

It's called BridgeBaseOnline, BBO for short.

I play there under a "handle." Great fun! Oh, and it's free!

http://www.bridgebase.com/

[lb71]

It's always been a game I had interest in learning.

My downtime is spent on yahoo euchre.

[Robillard]

When I moved to BC from Toronto, I couldn't believe that none of the locals had ever heard of Euchre. Then again, they were equally shocked that I had never heard of Big Two.

[Jon Chevreau]

Euchre is just bridge with training wheels.

What's Big Two?

[ethos1]

Big2 is a card game for 2, 3, or 4 players.

Each player receives 13 cards and the objective is to be the first player to discard all your cards.

The player holding the lowest ranked card starts by discarding a card set that includes the lowest ranked card (eg. in a 4-player game, the lowest ranked card is 3). Each player, in turn, plays a higher card set or passes. This continues until 3 players pass. The remaining player then starts a new round with any card set. Passing doesn't prevent you from playing subsequent hands in the same round.

[Robillard]

Big Two is basically Asshole with the added twist of poker hands. Both of these card-shedding-style games seem to have originated in Asia.