Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Contract Bridge is a partnership game,
Contract Bridge is a partnership game, and, as in all such games, one partner is usually more skilled than the other. Their combined ability is therefore less than that of the better player. In Poker, with each player on his own, a skilled player is not handicapped by a less able partner; his skill potential is not reduced.
Contract Bridge is basically a game of strategy
Contract Bridge is basically a game of strategy plus partnership signals (bidding). Poker is a game of strategy, deception, mathematics and psychology, with a considerable amount of courage thrown in. Judgment of one's opponent's psychological traits or habits plays little part in Bridge strategy, whereas a top Poker player must be a master of Poker psychology in order to analyze properly and simultaneously the playing traits of as many as ten opponents. Deception is much more used in Poker than Bridge, and a knowledge of the game's mathematics is much more important in Poker than in Bridge. Money management is important in Poker and not in bridge.