Bridge is a weird game in that the actual play of the hand is almost unimportant. You can lose the game by playing the hand badly, but you can only win consiste

Bridge is a weird game in that the actual play of the hand is almost unimportant. You can lose the game by playing the hand badly, but you can only win consistently in the bidding. Which is why abstract and complicated bidding systems dominate the game, which gives it that lovely, steep initial learning curve.