[porh]

So I was fiddling around BBO and a thought occurred. Why doesn't BBO promote it's money bridge games somehow. I know robot races and BB$ tournaments are fairly popular but I only see a measly 1 or 2 tables at the money bridge section. Surely thats an area of bridge waiting to be tapped into? Think internet poker where the ease of "gambling" makes it so attractive!

[jdonn]

I think it's funny this was the handle of someone posting about money bridge.

[bill1157]

Money bridge will never be very popular on the internet. There is a site in a addition to bridgebase that is doing it, but they get very little participation so it is very hard to get a game except when they have special competitions.

Mini-bridge (with some modification) has great potential as an online gambling game and has several advantages over bridge:

-bidding is eliminated declarer simply choses his contact. No more complex bidding systems misunderstandings, BIT's etc to deal with.

-no reason declarer can't play for himself: i.e. you eliminate CHO (partner) for declarer so nobody's bad declarer play (or poor choice of contract) need affect you adversely.

-you could have human interaction without as much fear of cheating.

Bill