By Juliet Chung of The Wall Street Journal
Saturday, October 24, 2009
With players like Warren Buffett giving it cachet, the game, once a bigger pastime, holds its own. Investors know Warren Buffett as the Oracle of Omaha. His online bridge partners know him by another handle: Tbone. He says the skills the game teaches— making inferences and working well with a partner—are invaluable in broader life."I really do recommend it to people," he says.
Some figures suggest Mr. Buffett has a receptive audience.
The American Contract Bridge League, the sanctioning body for competitive bridge in North America, says it expects to have nearly 163,000 members by the end of the year, a 15-year high. A spokesman for Bridge Base Online, a site partly owned by bridge enthusiast Bill Gates (screen name Chalengr, according to Mr. Buffett), estimates 100,000 computers log onto the site daily, up from 75,000 two years ago, but says the growth could reflect players defecting from other sites.
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Honors Bridge Club, Book Talk & SigningSUNDAY, JUNE 21 at 10:00AM PST
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, June 22, 2009
By Bo Emerson
After philandering Kansas City salesman Jack Bennett slaps his wife, Myrtle, during a 1929 bridge game, the wronged woman shoots her husband dead – in front of the shocked eyes of their partners.
How does this salacious tabloid murder propel the genteel art of bridge into a million American living rooms? The answer is the improbable tale The Devil’s Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age by former Atlantan Gary M. Pomerantz.
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