Announcements

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.

We’ve decided to raise the limit on this game to 749 MP to try to get more tables. It’s been down to three tables as a 299er lately, which doesn’t make for the best game. Help us get the word out.

Georgia French, New Club Master

Kristi Crowell, New Sectional Master

Anne G Bogart, New Regional Master
Susan C Smith, New Regional Master

Beverly Roy, New Bronze Life Master

Don Elconin, New Silver Life Master

Congratulations to all!

ACBL will now award a 50 percent bonus on masterpoints earned at in-person club games. This applies to Swiss team games and the monthly unit game as well as the regular games on Tuesday and Thursday. Join us at the club!

For now, I think we will keep it as one group. Yes, we have a range of experiences. We can make that a positive.

John and David and I have some great hands for the next session. You can expect that we will be spending more time on bidding and playing the hands and then putting them up for discussion with, of course, a few little side tidbits thrown in just to keep it interesting.

Here is a hand from last issue of Bridge Bulletin that we will start with:

You hold J5=JT7=AKJ3=KJ95.  No One is Vulnerable. MP.

It’s Your Call

Bring your “answer” to the next session. We will see how we all do versus the experts.

Saturday, April 8th, 9:30.

Don