Announcements

Ellen McCumsey and Carla Wenzlaff are new silver life masters this month.

Congratulations!

The next installment of our Real Time Bridge classes is Saturday, May 13.

Here are the details of EBC’s classes.

Come to our club on May 9 and May 11 for a chance to earn black, red, silver, and gold points in our Royal STaC games.

Stratification will be open/2000/75 — a good chance for newer players to get colored points.

Fee is $12 for these games.

See you there!

We’ve had big turnouts for the first sessions of our classes. There seems to be a lot of interest in getting better at bridge!

We’ve met a lot of people who are not members of our club, and we’re very happy to see that! While the classes are not for people who have never played bridge, we welcome anyone else who would categorize themselves as a newer or intermediate player.

Social bridge players welcome!

It’s never too late to come in and join a class. You don’t have to make a big commitment. Just drop in when you want. You’ll always learn something!

Here are the details.

Hope to see you there!

A reminder we will be holding our first Basic Bridge session on Saturday, April 22, 9:30am – 12:30pm.

This class is for people with some bridge experience, even if from long ago, or social bridge players who want to learn basic conventions used in duplicate play.

No signup required.

Here are some resources for this first session.

If you have questions or need directions to our club, here is our contact information.

New Basic Bridge Instructional Session Every Fourth Saturday

Beginning on April 22 and every fourth Saturday following, if there is interest, we will hold a session that we are calling Basic Bridge. This class will be in addition to our current Real Time Bridge sessions on the second Saturday of each month and is directed to less experienced players and social bridge players who wish to learn or review some of the basic conventions that players use in our club.

This is not a beginner class but is certainly open to all those folks who want to see if Duplicate is of interest.

We will provide selected hands and we will bid, play, and defend and then talk about how it could have been bid. We will then go through the hand card-by-card on how it could have been played and defended.

The concepts will be basic to start with and the goal will be to give everyone an introduction to basic 2/1 bidding system. The agenda for the first session will be focused on No Trump openings and responses to No Trump openings. It will be easy and fun. It would be nice if we could get at least two tables. Let us know if you might be interested or know of folks who might.

And here are some resources for the topics we’re planning to cover on April 22.

Changes to the Current Second Saturday Real Time Bridge Session

We will reduce the amount of material covered in these sessions. We will focus on fewer hands and take more time hearing from each table on how the bidding went. We will then play the hand on the white board and discuss how it could have been played and defended.

More News

We are adding a ten-minute break to all instructional sessions.

And here’s some great news. Irva Neyhart will be attending the August Real Time session. Mark that on your calendar. She is a top player who is kindly taking her time to visit us and offer her insights.

Please contact Don with questions.