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Bridge

FOR

DUMmIES

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2 ND EDITION

by Eddie Kantar

Bridge For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0-471-92426-5

ISBN-10: 0-471-92426-1

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About the Author

Eddie Kantar, a transplanted Californian, is one of the best-known bridge

writers in the world. He has more than 30 bridge books in print, some trans-

lated into 8 languages, and is a regular contributor to the Bulletin, The Bridge

World, Bridge Today, and many other bridge publications.

Eddie, a two-time World Champion, is highly regarded as a player and known

as one of bridge’s great ambassadors.

Eddie learned to play bridge at age 11. By the time he was 17, he was teaching

the game to his friends. Eddie was so enthusiastic about bridge that he often

took his bridge books to school, hiding them behind his textbooks so that the

teachers couldn’t see him reading about bridge during class. At the University

of Minnesota, where Eddie studied foreign languages, he taught bridge to pay

his tuition.

Eddie gained stature as a player by winning 2 World Championship titles and

11 North American Championships. His North American titles include wins in

the Spingold Knockout Teams, the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams, the

Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, and the Grand National Teams. Eddie is a Grand

Master in World Bridge Federation rankings and an ACBL Grand Life Master.

Today Eddie is best known as a writer, and many of his books are considered

classics. When not playing bridge or writing about the subject, he can be

found playing paddle tennis (an offshoot of tennis) or bridge at the paddle

tennis courts at Venice Beach (come and join the fun in either game). By the

way, Eddie is the only person ever to have played in both a World Bridge

Championship and a World Table Tennis Championship (he did better at

bridge).

Eddie was inducted into the Bridge Hall of Fame in 1996, the same year he

was inducted into the Minnesota State Table Tennis Hall of Fame.

Dedication

I’d like to dedicate this book to my mom and dad, who stuck with me even

when all the relatives were telling them that I’d come to no good end being a

card player and asking why I didn’t find a “regular” job like everybody else.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Author’s Acknowledgments

I have to start by thanking Joyce Pepple, the acquisitions director, who I con-

vinced that the diagrams in the first edition had to go. She, along with Stacy

Kennedy, the acquisitions editor, were instrumental in convincing the powers

that be that the diagrams needed more of a “bridge look.”

Second, I would like to thank Georgette Beatty, my project editor. Georgette is

an absolute dream to work with. She couldn’t have been more supportive,

and her ideas, suggestions, and corrections were spot on each time.

I also had a great copy editor, Krista Hansing, and an equally wonderful tech-

nical reviewer, Cyndy Cradick. What a team!

But every team needs a coach and I had the best: my wife, Yvonne. Her patience

and understanding of just how far to go in this book saved me headaches and

heartaches, not to mention extra work. Just as with the first edition, there would

have been no second edition without Yvonne. I kid you not.

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

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Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:

Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media

Development

Project Editor: Georgette Beatty

(Previous Edition: Mary Goodwin)

Acquisitions Editor: Stacy Kennedy

Copy Editor: Krista Hansing

(Previous Edition: Diane L. Giangrossi, Joe

Jansen)

Editorial Program Coordinator: Hanna K. Scott

Technical Editor: Cyndy Cradick

Editorial Manager: Michelle Hacker

Editorial Assistants: Erin Calligan, Nadine Bell

Cartoons: Rich Tennant

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Composition Services

Project Coordinator: Jennifer Theriot

Layout and Graphics: Barbara Moore,

Heather Ryan, Alicia B. South,

Julie Trippetti, Erin Zeltner

Proofreaders: John Greenough, Leeann Harney,

Christy Pingleton, Techbooks

Indexer: Techbooks

Special Help Victoria M. Adang

Publishing and Editorial for Consumer Dummies

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