This hand is adapted from “Example 24” in from Hugh Kelsey’s book, Master the Odds in Bridge. In hearts, North holds K3 , and South (declarer) holds A10985. Declarer needs four tricks from the suit and can afford …
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Suit Split Tables
This is an excerpt from a lengthy post titled “Basic Bridge Odds.” The main purpose is to suggest useful approximations to use at the table: Also, the Individual probability entry can be multiplied by the number of combinations* in a …
New Diamond Life Masters — Tom and John
The Build Better Bridge Club of Cedar Rapids honored both John Morano and Tom Flanders as new Diamond Life Masters.
Four other Diamond Life Masters attended the event: Beth Kelly, Rich Bailie, Mark Patton, and Joyce Dodson-Anderson.
The achievement was …
Honoring Mary Ann
On September 26th, 2022, the Unit 163 Board honored MaryAnn Boardman for her many years of tireless service to our bridge unit. Carol Panzer has written a nice article , complete with pictures, about the surprise celebration and the many …
Quad Cities Online Clubs
Hello, all! We are the latest group to pool with Eastern Iowa Bridge, making it a total sweep for all out Unit clubs playing under one name! If you have been playing in Mary Ann, Carol, and Ramesh’s games, you …
The Longest Day: Virtually
One of our favorite bridge days was the fund raiser for Alzheimer’s, The Longest Day. This year it will look a little different. The ACBL is dedicating all the virtual club games played on the weekend of June 20 and …
Using Bridge Base Online (BBO)
| COMPREHENSIVE Tutorial (38min) for new players | Multiple Taped Tutorials by Silvana Zangri |
| The Basics for New BBO Users( PDF Guide) | Presentation by Susan Powell |
| Eastern Iowa Bridge Guide | Specific Instructions for playing Our local club games online at BBO |
| Eastern Iowa FAQ |
Vacant Spaces
Most players know the “8-ever, 9 …
Computing Combined Odds
Often it is necessary to combine the probabilities of multiple events. For example, holding AKQT, missing six cards, you would like to know the chance of making four tricks. You hope to drop the jack in three rounds, but you …
Basic Bridge Odds (revised 4/1/2025)
The “Suit Splits” tables at the end of this post show the odds (casual wording) of a split of a certain number of missing cards. The information is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge_probabilities but rearranged to emphasize patterns. These “a priori” probabilities assume …