Sharks Inc, is made up Bid Whist clubs nationwide, that's about 1,000 members, and each tournament is like a big family reunion. Chris Jones says that love reaches way beyond Bid Whist table revelry.

Bid whist was once called “a b-boy form of bridge” by Time magazine. The partnered bidding card game is popular in the Black community, but little known outside it. In his new book, The Gist ...

However, it would not be bid whist without some house rules. To shorten the game, five and out is used instead of seven seven and out. Instead of seven, the number is five.

After facing off in an intense battle of skills in a card game marked by shrewd bidding, the Gordons, the G.I.'s and other two-member teams in the Astrodome-area's Raven's Bid Whist and Dominos ...

When Almaria and Tiffany Clark pulled out their card tournament medals and put them around their necks, they wanted everyone to know that they had come to win. But the Tuesday night regulars they ...

He described the game as like bridge, except that unlike bridge, bid whist encourages trash-talking among the players. "It's a kind of unwritten script that happens when you play.

Long before bridge came to dominate the world of card mavens, a game known as bid whist had established itself as the unofficial card game of the African-American community. Transmitted from the ...

Bid whist isn’t typically a gambling game the way tonk or poker is, but Briscoe, Wilson, and a few others, stick around to play a bid whist variation called Five ‘n’ Out for $80 stakes.

"Bid whist is the ultimate card game," Jones said on the Rundown podcast, "and I believe that if you've not yet experienced bid whist, the world's greatest card game awaits you." ...

The book celebrates Bid Whist, reviving its legacy and introducing it to a new audience through storytelling, strategy, and community-building initiatives. 'The Gist of Bid Whist' puts it all on ...