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How long have you been playing?

Poll: How many years have you been playing bridge? (116 member(s) have cast votes)

How many years have you been playing bridge?

  1. Less than 1 year (1 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  2. 1 year (2 votes [1.72%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.72%

  3. 2 (1 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  4. 3 – 5 (11 votes [9.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.48%

  5. 5 - 10 (21 votes [18.10%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.10%

  6. 10-15 (19 votes [16.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.38%

  7. 25 – 30 (11 votes [9.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.48%

  8. 30 – 35 (11 votes [9.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.48%

  9. 35 – 40 (6 votes [5.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.17%

  10. 40 – 45 (7 votes [6.03%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.03%

  11. 45 – 50 (6 votes [5.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.17%

  12. 50 – 55 (4 votes [3.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.45%

  13. 55 – 60 (1 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  14. More than 60 (1 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  15. 15 – 20 (6 votes [5.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.17%

  16. 20-25 (8 votes [6.90%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.90%

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#1 User is offline   jillybean 

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Posted 2009-January-17, 03:18

I’m just interested to see how long forum members have been playing this game.


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Thanks, again.

Its about 8 years for me, but Im not sure I should count my yahoo bridge time as bridge.

This post has been edited by jillybean2: 2009-January-17, 11:23

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Posted 2009-January-17, 03:58

Three years and a half.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:05

Over 15 years, but I see it as a hobby only and therefore I am still not any good.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:08

10 - 15 (and 20-25) are missing.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:17

I clicked 15-20 but it really is missing option 10-15.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:17

almost 15 years, so I'll just vote 15-20 since 11-15 is missing...
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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:41

My adventure with bridge began 17 years ago, pressed in the mountains by the friends, they needed 4th man while bad weather conditions. Then a long time a very "primitive" rubber bridge player. At the beginning of the online bridge era in +- 1999, I started to learn more serious.

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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:44

I learned it 33 years ago but didn't start playing regularly until eight and a half year ago.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 04:52

12-13 years, which is missing. Unfortunately, I haven't progressed much since I haven't been reading as I used to 9 years ago.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2009-January-17, 07:05

So far I have the largest number. I have played for 47 years, off and on, and in various formats.

In 1961 I was a graduate student. I had always enjoyed playing cards and some people were playing bridge. I bought Goren's "Introduction to Contract Bridge" or something like that.

I was working at Minneapolis Honeywell for the summer and there were lunchtime games . Long lunch sometimes.

My first daughter was born in August of that year and we would get together with another couple for an evening of cards.

This was all rubber bridge.

I got sort of involved for a while, eventually reading Goren's Contract Bridge Complete. Someone took me to a duplicate game but I didn't care for it all that much. Too rigid, no beer, etc.

I pretty much put bridge aside for a while, but took up duplicate and joined the ACBL maybe around 1978. At times I have played a lot, other times not so much.

By now I think it's pretty much a part of my life.
Ken
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Posted 2009-January-17, 07:57

Ken has me beat by four. I started in college, 1965, As Ken, there were periods (including 14 straight years, while I was in the Navy) when I didn't play at all. Rubber (and other variants) in the early days, exclusively duplicate for the last 18 or so, off and on. Mostly on, now.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 09:28

Started about 45 years ago. Like others, there were huge gaps during which no bridge got played.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 09:38

12 years
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Posted 2009-January-17, 09:45

17-20 years.
Learned the game when I was 13 but didn't play in a club until I was 17.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 10:38

15 years, but never went to a tournament for about the first 4. I am in the early stages of what will probably be the first long life gap where very little live bridge will be played.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 10:42

calendar time or at the table time?
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Posted 2009-January-17, 11:17

21 years if you count from when I first learned to play the game. 15 years for duplicate club games. 10 years for "tournament" bridge in some form or other (starting with the ACBL collegiate contest).
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Posted 2009-January-17, 11:20

matmat, on Jan 17 2009, 09:42 AM, said:

calendar time or at the table time?

Calendar time I hope or we will have a lot of fat asses around here.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 11:35

I've been playing just over 5 years now.
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Posted 2009-January-17, 14:56

3 years :D
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