PLAY & LEARN Beginning Bridge

We are delighted to present a more modern style of teaching bridge designed by Pat Harrington called PLAY & LEARN Beginning Bridge. It is a 12 week course covering:

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to Bridge
• Lesson 2 - Choosing a Contract
• Lesson 3 - Opening Bids and Selecting the Best Game
• Lesson 4 - Opening 1NT
• Lesson 5 - Major Suit Opening Bids
• Lesson 6 - Minor Suit Opening Bids
• Lesson 7 - Dummy Points
• Lesson 8 - Responder Bids Notrump
• Lesson 9 - Opener Bids Notrump   
• Lesson 10 - Takeout Doubles
• Lesson 11 - Preempts
• Lesson 12 - Strong 2 Clubs

Cost: $175.00

PLAY & LEARN Planning to Win

• Lesson 1 --- Counting Winners And Entries in NT
     Review --- Bidding Maximum Opening Hands; Opening leads in NT
• Lesson 2 --- Counting Losers And Drawing Trump
     Review --- Bidding Maximum Responding Hands; Opening Leads In Suit Contracts
• Lesson 3 --- Promotion In Suits And NT
     Review --- Bidding With Minimum Hands
• Lesson 4 --- Using Length In Suits And NT
    Review --- Responding to a 1NT Opening Bid
• Lesson 5 --- The Finesse
• Lesson 6 --- Dummy Points And Trumping In Dummy
• Lesson 7 --- Discarding A Loser
• Lesson 8A --- Practice with Finesses
• Lesson 8 --- Watch Out For The Opponents
• Lesson 9 --- This Is A Hold Up

Cost: $140

PLAY & LEARN Deadly Defense

Pat Harrington's follow-on course to Play & Learn Declarer Play. Making the most of your high cards. This 9 week course covers:

• Lesson 1 - Leading Against Notrump
• Lesson 2 - Leading Against Suit Contracts
• Lesson 3 - Second Hand Low
• Lesson 4 - Second Hand Low...Except
• Lesson 5 - Third Hand High
• Lesson 6 - Introduction to Attitude Signals
• Lesson 7 - Using Attitude Signals When Partner Leads
• Lesson 8 - Opening Leadings and Attitude Signals
• Lesson 9 - Discards and Attitude Signals
  

Cost: $130.

POLISH YOUR BASICS: Basic Intermediate

We will provide the details about this course when they are available.

Cost: $150

Intermediate Bridge I

This course focuses on intermediate bidding and Intermediate/advanced concepts in play. It includes discussion of the weekly topic, in-class exercises, lots of practice deals, homework, and occasional examples from deals played at the Wednesday Night game.

This course is designed for bridge players who have a minimum of one year's experience playing duplicate bridge.

This 12-week course covers:

Bidding:

• Overcalling and responding to overcalls
• Takeout doubles and responses
• Responding to preempts
• Preempts - vulnerability considerations

Play of the Hand:

• Finding enemy high cards
• Which finesses to take, which one's to shun
• Avoiding the Dangerous Opponent
• Creating and preserving vital entries
• When to Draw Trumps
• Combining Chances

Defense:

• Opening Leads
• Second Hand Play
• Third Hand Play

Cost: $200 ($150 if you have already taken this class and have the binder.)  All materials and snacks are included.   

Intermediate Bridge II

This course reviews and expands upon topics from Intermediate Bridge I and adds topics covering what to do when the opponents get into the auction (and they will more often in this course).

This course is designed for bridge players who have a minimum of one year's experience playing duplicate bridge.

The 12-week course covers:

• Weak Two (Requirement and Responses)
• Preemptive Bidding (Vulnerability Matters)
• Bidding Judgement (Positional Values - Underbid or Overbid)
• Competing and Sacrificing (Partscore andd High-level Competition)
• Combating Weak Openings (Overcalling and Doubling)
• Notrump Play Technique (Avoidance Finesse/Duck)
• Suit Play Technique (Establishing Long Cards)
• Finessing/Card combinations (and when to Shun a Finesse)
• Trumps (Keep Control)
• Important Suit Tactics (Loser-on-loser and Elimination Play)
• Endplays (Force a defender to Help You)
• Notrump Leads and Strategy (Active versus Passive Defense)

Cost: $200