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Receive my weekly posts DIRECT to your chosen email box. Click 'Join Here' It's really easy to sign up & your email is safe so you won't be spammed - I respect your privacy. Bridge has a rather unsavoury disease. Much like a fungus, the disease has penetrating fungal tentacles that are unseen, below the surface, invisible. Only in particular places and at certain times does the fungal fruit rise to the surface and bloom. Is the fruit delicious to some, poisonous to others? Let me describe the nature of this fungal I am going to stick my neck out here and say something that you might not agree with. But, it’s not as if I am one to stop you having your say… After all you too can leave your views in the comment box beneath this post. So what am I going to be talking about? Well… the One of the things I find frustrating about Bridge businesses is that they tend to operate like little fortified islands. Bridge businesses are like little islands Last year I was at a marketing conference in the Arizona. There were lots of experts giving talks on internet marketing. One of the most respected marketers there stated on stage In the comments section of last week’s blog Bridge & Business Part 1 – Ignore Social Media at your Peril Peter posted the following question: How do I use our bridge club to get new people interested? The thing is there are several hurdles standing in the way of new members joining a Bridge club. Now, before we On 28th May 2011, I wrote an blog entitled ‘A Baptism of Fire at the Bridge Club‘. Following the post, a rather lively exchange of comments ensued regarding the proper use of bidding cards and whether it was correct to return them to their box after or before the lead card was chosen and/or faced on I know that some of you will be irritated with this post, but I have no alternative but to talk to you about ‘Pianola‘. ‘What is Pianola and what has it to do with Contract Bridge?’, I hear you say – I’ll come to that in a minute. The thing is, two weeks ago I wrote this post This week I met the man in charge at PlayBridgeDealer4, Terry Collier. The elusive Terry Collier PlayBridgeDealer4.com boss Most people know of PlayBridgeDealer4 from the dealing machine they make for Bridge tournaments, clubs and the ACBL et al. Watch my new ‘Jazzed up’ video demonstration.
How do you officiate at a Bridge Club when you are being challenged forcefully? One of the issues that clubs have is that of the “Reluctant Director”. Last week, Dave left this comment after my post ‘A Baptism of fire at the Bridge Club‘: Myths are perpetuated for a reason. Contract Bridge myths are difficult to dispel – It’s better to confuse them Myth #1: Most players are familiar with signalling to partner to indicate whether they like a suit or not. Typically this occurs after a lead: Say partner leads a Queen. But I have a great tip for you that I rarely see used in clubs |
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