Ed Betteto News Today

The non-Life Master Pairs is scheduled to take place at the Bridge Club today, but at the time of writing this column the event is in doubt as there are only six pairs signed up – puzzling, as the maj...

One of the most compelling things about this great game of ours is that the learning never stops – for instance, all of a sudden a hand turns up that has a card combination that needs working out, and...

Those of you with reasonable ability to recall bridge hands will have noticed that there are three or four hands that I trot out every year or so – I do that mainly because they are helpful in develop...

Sorry about the missing column last week – I’m going to blame it on the demands of the new grandson in the faint hope you will believe that .….. Every year the Bridge Club keeps a tally of the masterp...

Welcome to the first column in 2023 and I hope the year brings you all good health and happiness, and lots of great things happening at the bridge table! Some phrases you hear in your childhood stay w...

Big congratulations to Marge Way and Misha Novakovic who are the 2022 Bridge Club Open Pairs champions after a dramatic and wafer-thin victory over Ed Betteto and David Sykes in second and Elizabeth M...

The fall tournament season gets under way today with the Open Championship taking place this morning and afternoon at the Bermuda Bridge Club – players are starting to return to the live games and hop...

The Bridge community in Bermuda is one large family, and it is with shock and great sadness that we learned last week of the sudden and untimely death of long-time member Marilynn Simmons, and at the ...

The world of competitive bridge has, as one would expect, experienced a quantum change since I first started playing the game in the early 1970s, and most of the changes have been for the better – per...