The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

He owned the first firm of playing card manufacturers to develop plastic cards Kem Cards and developed and owned a chain of bridge schools with teachers qualified in the Culbertson bidding system. Hal Sims in 1935 (this latter between the two married couples Culbertson and Sims). Col.

He was a great showman who became rich was highly extravagant and lost and gained fortunes several times over. Ely Culbertson (July 22 1891 – December 27 1955) was an entrepreneurial American contract bridge personality dominant during the Thirties and Forties.