WannaPlayBridge

Due to Covid-19, classes have been moved to online.

Cost: $15 online for each two hour class per person. Class size is limited to 4 at a time. Classes are normally in the 4 to 6 p.m. Central Time frame but other schedules can be arranged.

YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER!
Just call (816-237-0519) or e-mail  to sign up.  Flexible scheduling for online classes.

Defensive Signaling and Card Play (Scheduling for Tuesdays 4 to 6, Aug. 11-Sept. 8, call or email to join the class.)

Class 1:  Attitude and Count  online
Class 2: Suit Preference Signals  online 
Class 3: Opening Leads in Suit Contracts. online 
Class 4: Opening Leads at NT  online 
Class 5:  Discard Signals & Leading through Strength and to Weakness & Review online

DECLARER PLAY – Series 1 (online Mondays 4-6 p.m., Aug. 3- Aug. 24)

It is highly recommended that you purchase these books by Barbara Seagram and David Bird for these classes as well as the series 2 classes coming soon: “Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand” retails for $19.95 you can order from me for $19 including any sales tax and s/h, “Declarer Play at Bridge” retails for $15.95 you can purchase from me for $15 which also includes any sales tax and s/h.

Class 1: Planning the Play in a Suit Contract – Count Losers and plan to eliminate them – 3 main ways to do that: Ruff in short trump hand, discard, finesse

Class 2: Review planning – Pay attention to entries, when to draw trump, which card to play first, loser on loser. Start on planning the Play in a NT contract. Count your winners, developing extra tricks in the safest way possible.

Class 3: More on NT Play – the hold up play, will holding up give them a chance to switch to a more dangerous suit, safe and dangerous hands, establishing a suit

Class 4: Review and practice and then let’s start going deeper – double finesse, two way finesse – how to choose your direction? Plan your entries.

Declarer Play – Series 2 (Mondays 4-6 p.m., Sept. 14 – Oct. 5)

Class 1: More on drawing trumps and more on the dangerous hand

Class 2: More on the hold up play, useful in a suit contract as well as NT. Combine your chances.

Class 3: Gathering information before choosing the suit to try to establish.

Class 4: Counting the hands to give you a clue – counting distribution, counting HCP. Don’t take a finesse that is sure to lose.

Transition to Two Over One (2/1)

Class 1: Responding to an opening Major with Support
Class 2: Responding to an opening Minor, Responding to an Opening Major without support
Class 3: More forcing responses to show support for a Major: Jacoby 2NT and Splinters
Class 4: Putting it altogether – understand when to use what!

Reverses – what are they, when can you, should you use them?

Two hour class – online, flexible scheduling!

Overcalls:

Class 1: One level and two level overcalls: making them, advancing them
Class 2: Pre-emptive overcalls and advances
Class 3: How to keep competing after an overcall, including negative doubles
Class 4: Takeout doubles and advances, how to keep competing after interference caused by a takeout double

Lebensohl Class Series:

Class 1: Over natural 2 level bids
Class 2: Over 2 suited bids
Class 3: Over 3 level bids
Class 4: Responding to a double of a weak 2 and responding to a reverse

Slam Bidding:

1430 Key Card, Quantitative NT, 1430 Gerber, Gerber, Control Bids, Minorwood.

Two session series – each class two hours long.  4 to 6 p.m.  4 students per class.  

I have added an online supervised play for groups of just 4 which will continue through at least year end.  We play for one hour online. The morning session is Monday through Friday, at 11:15.  Afternoon sessions are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 2:15. On those Monday afternoons when in person supervised play is happening, of course, the online version will not be available.  Cost is just $2 to me.    To sign up, call or email me.  I send you a Zoom link so we can talk while playing the deals online.    You pay me via Paypal or a check.  We can work out those details when you sign up.