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Basic-Intermediate Bridge Series
Our Basic-Intermediate Bridge Series builds up our Beginning Bridge Series and prepares our students for our Intermediate Series.
Classes are taught by ABTA Master Teacher Kathy Harper and are held at our Bridge Center unless otherwise noted.
Please contact Kathy Harper at (650) 207-1816 email for more information.
Current and Upcoming Classes:
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Polish Your Basics
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Thursday Mornings
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM |
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Review and refine your bidding in this class for second year students or players who have played before. In this series, we'll review old bids and expand your understanding of other bids as we explore auctions that are not discussed in most bridge courses. |
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Categorize Your Strength! How declarer uses discards. |
September 15, 2011 |
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Which Suit do I bid first? Bidding distributional hands. |
September 29 |
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Bidding balanced Hands. |
October 13 |
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When you don’t have game, stop at a reasonable LOW spot. |
October 27 |
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The single raise and help suit game tries. |
November 10 |
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Major suit limit raises-Why four-card support? |
November 17 |
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The “Weak Freak” and how to show a strong major raise. |
December 1 |
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How to avoid rebidding a five-card suit. |
December 8 |
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Responder’s only forcing bid. |
January 12, 2012 |
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An exception-New suits after 1NT |
January 26 |
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Notrump and stoppers |
February 9 |
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Two over one responses-Some rules change. |
February 23 |
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Cost: $175.00 |
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Deadly Defense
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Thursday Mornings
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM |
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Half the time at the bridge table, you will be defending. Don’t let those mean declarers walk all over you! Learn how to lead, signal, and discard. This course is written by Pat Harrington. |
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Leading Against No Trump |
March 1, 2012 |
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Leading Against Suit Contracts |
March 15 |
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Second Hand Low |
March 29 |
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Second Hand Low ... Except |
April 12 |
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Third Hand High |
April 26 |
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Introduction to Attitude Signals |
May 10 |
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Using Attitude Signals When Partner Leads |
May 24 |
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Opening Leads and Attitude Signals |
May 31 |
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Discards and Attitude Signals |
June 7 |
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Suit Preference Signals |
June 14
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Cost: $150.00 |
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