Your Seat at the Table: Learn to Play Bridge Five Minutes at a Time

By John D Mayfield

You don't need a club, a partner or a lifetime of lessons. You need a seat.

John Mayfield's mom, Pat, loved bridge, and he never learned to play while she was here to teach him. So he sat down and learned it, five minutes at a time, and wrote this book as he went. It's friendly, plain-spoken, and full of pictures of real cards on a real table, so you always see what the words mean.

You will learn to:

Sit down at the table, follow suit, win tricks and use trumpsCount your points and read the shape of your handOpen the bidding, respond to your partner and find your way to gamePlay the hand as declarer: count winners, draw trumps, take a finesse and set up a long suitMake the opening lead, defend with your partner and keep score

One deal, start to finish. You follow Pat's Hand through the whole book. You play tricks from it, bid it, play it as declarer, then defend it and score it.

Practice built in. Every chapter has "Your Turn" problems and a Rosa and Walt story about two beginners making the mistakes everyone makes. Every Part ends with practice hands, and there's a full answer key, a one-page quick reference and a glossary of bridge words.

The bidding taught is a simple form of Standard American, the system most beginner classes in the United States use.

Read it on its own, or with the companion video course (details inside the book).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN4LYJ3F
• ISBN13: 9798162539759
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"