I enjoy bridge, but high level competitive bridge sounds like a nightmare. "Expert poker players often take advantage of a skill they call table feel: an ability to read the facial expressions and other unconscious “tells” exhibited by their opponents. Bridge players rely on table feel, too, but in bridge not all tells can be exploited legally by all players. If one of my opponents hesitates during the bidding or the…
You can't. It's a game that is fundamentally flawed at the base level, just like blackjack. The fact that both these games outlaw certain thought processes , be that counting cards in your head or acting on your partner's hesitation, shows that they've been shoehorned into something they're not.
The weird thing about card counting is that casinos want the people who are bad at counting cards. So it is not a flaw in the game, but just a weird rule that in the casino world you are not allowed to win.