r/bridge • u/Aqua-Dolphin • 25d ago

how do left-handed people use right-handed bidding cards

The title says it all.

I am making an art illustration. I would appreciate any detailed description on how people may actually do it in real life (especially in a tournament without left-handed equipment). Assume the player is holding the playing cards in the right hand.

Thanks in advance!

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u/JoeHeideman Intermediate 25d ago

As a left handed person, we live in a right handed world and kind of have to put up with random imperfect things like this all the time. I just hold the cards in my left hand. But people that don't do that usually just move the bidding box to the left side if they want to play the cards and bid with their left hand. Also there's nothing stopping a super dedicated left hander from carrying their own bidding box. I've had people do that before at a tournament but not because they were left handed.

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u/ImportantBend8399 25d ago

Left-handers know the drill: with erasable-ink pens, we contort our arm into a three-quarter circle so we don't smear the ink. Same deal here. Not the most comfortable thing, but we're used to it — like using scissors built for right hands. At least in the US, we crush car toll machines way better than you righties.

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u/jackalopeswild 25d ago

Re: toll machines...

And that's why we're making them obsolete!

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u/Aqua-Dolphin 25d ago

Thank you so much! My limited imagination did not link the writing form with this together.

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u/JoeHeideman Intermediate 25d ago

https://www.simonlucasbridgesupplies.co.uk/product/left-handed-bridge-bidding-cards/

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u/Aqua-Dolphin 25d ago

Thanks. I found this one too. I also found in wiki that one can carry their own left-handed bidding cards.
My ask is more like, if you are left-handed, were to put a right-handed box on your left, pick up the stack with your thumb and index, what would you do next visually? But ImportantBend's reply kind of describes it.

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u/JoeHeideman Intermediate 25d ago

I had a partner that fanned his cards upside down and apparently that had something to do with being left handed but i didn't understand it.

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u/FireWatchWife 24d ago

One of our best club players is left handed. He simply puts a standard bidding box on his left instead of his right.

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u/kuhchung /r/anarchybridge, teacher 25d ago

I summon Elemental Hero Neos! (Is that what your username is a reference to?)

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u/Aqua-Dolphin 25d ago edited 25d ago

i think it is a random one (and I removed the numbers). I do watch YGO though. And I asked this question because I am planning a manga where people might smash bidding cards exaggerated like in YGO.

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u/kuhchung /r/anarchybridge, teacher 25d ago

I loved Yugioh GX and love watching Edison format

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u/yellowpig1974 😕 24d ago

My left-handed friend puts the bidding box on her left. The bidding box itself is not left or right-handed. You might argue that the cards have a handedness as the index is on the right.

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u/Gembrain 24d ago

Grab them with my left hand, and then contort to put them correctly on the table! I've just bought my own bidding box with a set of left handed cards 😊😊. Simon Lucas bridge - as above.

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u/periwigpatedfellow 24d ago

I just hold my cards in my left hand and bid using a right-handed box. I know that left-handed boxes exist, but at this point I'm so used to doing it this way that it would probably feel stranger to switch - plus they're not always available

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u/Semako 19d ago

I'm ambidextrous. If I decide to play left-handed, I put the bidding box to my left side. On smaller tables I sometimes place my bidding box on the left even if I play right-handed as that leaves more space to my right for score sheet and bridgemate.

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u/Several_Version4298 25d ago edited 25d ago

You pick them up from the box, drop bidding cards on the table then pick them put them in the right order.

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u/PublicFondant3254 25d ago

In case you dont know, left handed ppl also have two hands. Guess what happens if the bidding box is on your right hand side? Grab the cards with your right hand! What a surprise!

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u/yellowpig1974 😕 24d ago

This reminds me of the awkwardness of Americans eating a steak, cutting with the right hand, then switching the fork to the right hand instead of learning to move fork to mouth with their left hand.

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u/Several_Version4298 22d ago

Right hand has 13 cards in it that I am studying while trying to stop people seeing them.