Does anyone play Bridge anymore?
Remember Bridge Clubs?
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I do that any way ... with or without cards 
They played together maybe weekly, occasionally at our house. They must have had 10+ couples most of the time, playing for small prizes, and boobie prizes. And this was in a town of 5000 in Iowa.
I think 90% of the attraction was social, but I know they all knew how to play, or gradually learned pretty well.
If I joined a club now, I would embarass myself weekly I imagine, if not more often. But the embarrassment would probably make me improve quickly
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It's a fun game though.
Said she plays with a church group of little old ladies in Houston at St. Vincent de Paul.
I got the impression that it's reasonably difficult.
Funny family story: My grandmother hosted bridge parties many decades ago and I found canasta deck boxes (two decks) in her house.
I also heard a story from Mom that grandma was hosting a bridge party and the ladies were giggling a lot. Her husband at the time barged into the kitchen and said, 'What are you using for a jigger?' and she held up a pimento glass. He said, "Good lord! It's a wonder they haven't passed out!" This was in the 1940s or 1950s.
Respectable women like my grandmother didn't know what a jigger was because respectable women did not go in bars. 
Picture of said Kraft pimento cheese glasses. Sorta like "Bama crystal" only smaller:
I remember the small thicker glass jars that had like a thumbprint molded in design at the bottoms. don't remember cheese spread in pretty jelly glasses (or maybe I am thinking of chipped beef)
gin/rummy too (can't remember the dif, now 
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But try to find 3 people with the knowledge and patience to play the game nowadays?
That's the really tough part.
Remember any of these?
I do
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Gotta luv that
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I remember
thanks
along with most of the other card games. It was the fifties and bridge parties were all the rage. It's the perfect game for two couples.
But I would rather play poker (obviously), backgammon (picked it up in the seventies when there was a bit of a rage, read a book and started winning tournaments), chess and go.
(Go board)
Neither of my parents played chess but they gave me a set for my eighth xmas. After I taught myself, I taught my father. My father used to describe chess as bridge for two people. We used to play almost every evening. When I left for college he had no one to play with so he tried to teach my mother but she said it gave her headaches. My dad would have loved the Internet.
I used to play chess, also with my father and I play a lot of internet backgammon.
I think we got a Go game for Christmas years ago but, I only played it once or twice.
I don't know why but, I just never did get into poker ...except for the occasional blackjack game
So was my mother, who we lost ten years ago.
I would rather play backgammon than poker but it's hard to find money games. There's a weekly bg tournament in Vegas that I have played. But poker is everywhere.
Go is fascinating. So simple. Easier to learn than chess but much more complex. While chess computers beating grandmasters and world champions is commonplace today, computer go has no chance against a master. Go isn't really about dominating your opponent—though that can be fun—it's more about balance. You encroach here; I encroach over there. You have a twenty stone threat threat over there but I have a twenty-five threat right here. It's about analyzing the entire board and responding to appropriate threat. If all you do is defend, you're going to be pushed around all over the board and all you will accomplish is losing your position. It's very yin-yang.
See the white encroaching on the black and vice versa? That's go. A perfect go game would consist of both players playing perfectly and a winning margin of just one stone.
I take the same approach to poker. Most people think it's about bullying and dominating the table with outrageous bluffs. And while there are all kinds of ways to win at poker, that approach is what many professionals refer to as high variance.
Poker is really about simply making the right play. Win chips, not pots. Allow room for your opponent to make the biggest mistake possible. Trying to bully and intimate your way into winning each and every pot will eventually bite you in the ass.
There is zen in poker.
