8 Ways to Improve Your Bridge Memory

BRIDGE is a complicated and intriguing card game, for which having a good memory is the secret to success. Looking for ways to improve your Bridge memory is a good idea considering the amount the average Bridge player has to remember. Firstly the rules of the game are expansive, then there’s the rather important matter of remembering your agreed bidding strategies with your partner and to top it off one has to be able to recognise, interpret and remember the bidding strategies of your opponents!

So we decided to curate 8 ways to improve your Bridge memory from the low tech to high tech.

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10 Gift Ideas for Card Players This Christmas

AS a premium UK outlet for Bridge aficionados and card players alike, we decided to create a top 10 gift ideas for card players, to inspire you.

We have been steadily carving out a niche based around exclusive and high quality card gaming equipment. Everything we stock we source from the best manufacturers we can find and increasingly, we are sourcing as many of our products as possible from within the UK. Furthermore we are slowly but surely building up own brand lines, which are made by us exclusively in our workshop in Devizes.

Below are our top 10 gift ideas for card players this Christmas, starting with the cheapest and moving through to the most decadent!

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Swap Cards and the Melbourne Playing Card Collectors

The Beginnings of the Melbourne Playing Card Collectors (MPCC)

By Hilary Oates of the Melbourne Playing Card Collectors, Australia (MPCC)

Before we look at the beginnings of the MPCC we need to first look at the Beginnings of Card Collecting and Swap Cards.

Hilda Hulsbergen our immediate past President for 25+years and now Public Officer of the MPCC remembers how Card collecting had been

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