How long have you been playing?

[jillybean]

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.

Edited January 17, 2009 by jillybean2

[gwnn]

Three years and a half.

[Gerben42]

Over 15 years, but I see it as a hobby only and therefore I am still not any good.

[jkljkl]

10 - 15 (and 20-25) are missing.

[dicklont]

I clicked 15-20 but it really is missing option 10-15.

[Free]

almost 15 years, so I'll just vote 15-20 since 11-15 is missing...

[Aberlour10]

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.

 

Robert

[helene_t]

I learned it 33 years ago but didn't start playing regularly until eight and a half year ago.

[Hanoi5]

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.

[kenberg]

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.

[blackshoe]

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.

[BillHiggin]

Started about 45 years ago. Like others, there were huge gaps during which no bridge got played.

[JLOL]

12 years

[MFA]

17-20 years.

Learned the game when I was 13 but didn't play in a club until I was 17.

[jdonn]

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.

[matmat]

calendar time or at the table time?

[awm]

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).

[jillybean]

calendar time or at the table time?

Calendar time I hope or we will have a lot of fat asses around here.

[kfay]

I've been playing just over 5 years now.

[qwery_hi]

3 years :D

[HeavyDluxe]

I learned the real basics at the table with my folks and grandparents when I was 12 or so. I played maybe a 20 hands between then (late 80s) and 2005. I joined the forums in '05, around when I started to get 'serious-er' about the game.

[Phil]

First duplicate game was in 1980. Learned about 2-3 years prior to that. So, 'round 30 I guess.

[mtvesuvius]

I am only 12 (I will be 13 tommorow :D), but I have been playing for 7 years, I did not attend my first tournement for another year or so after I learned... BTW, how did everybody get started playing, and who introduced them? (I learned on a cruise :D)

[jdonn]

BTW, how did everybody get started playing, and who introduced them? (I learned on a cruise :D)

My grandparents ran a bridge club, and my mother met both her husbands at a bridge game. But most of my learning took place by reading and on a computer game.

[Trumpace]

Was introduced to bridge around 6 years back, but I wish I had learnt it earlier. Played my first duplicate around 4 years back.