I recently decided to get serious about learning bridge also.. the first question to answer is what form or where you want to play. I decided I wanted to go the duplicate competition route since that is the most stable version. People play so many different versions of bridge. Here in the US, the American Contract Bridge League runs the duplicate bridge competitions where you can progress up the ranks like the International Chess Federation. Great series to get you started are written by Audrey Grant. Look at the ACBL website. There are local duplicate games all over that are completions where you can win duplicate points. According to where you live, there may be local competitions. You will probably do well with bridge. When I play on BBO, I look at people's profiles and pick partners that use similar bidding processes to mine. Bridge depends on you being in sync with your partner so you understand each other's bidding language. After this info, what other questions do you have?