FEATURED TEACHER: Ed O’Reilly
Few bridge players have trained as many young people as Ed O'Reilly.
In the early 1990s the Kingston, Ontario-based club owner began teaching bridge during class hours to students in elementary and middle school. His lessons became so popular - at one time he was told that more youth were learning bridge at school in Kingston than in the rest of North America combined - that he received calls from locations as far-flung as Hawaii, San Diego, and Austin, Texas, asking how he had accomplished it.
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:
Eddie Kantar
Our author this month is none other than prolific bridge legend Eddie Kantar, whose many books include Modern Bridge Defense, Bridge Humor (later renamed Classic Kantar), and Kantar on Kontract. New this week: A lesson plan on two-suited overcalls.
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WHAT'S THE SCORE? THE T.I.'S KNOW
Playing card collectors often forget that card games, especially those of the past, required not only a deck of cards, but other highly collectible items like rule books, score pads, card tables, card shufflers, pencils, tablecloths, markers, and... trump indicators.
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A MOTTO TO LIVE BY
Left: This proverb is engraved on a wooden trump indicator 4 inches long and 3 ½ high with a diamond shaped wooden insert that rotates at the top to indicate the trump suit.
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