Opener’s Second Bid (or How to Have Your Cake and Eat it Too)
In this special 3-part lesson series, Graeme will help us make sense of notrump bidding, reverses, and showing our strength accurately.
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Course Category: Acol
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Winning Strategies at Duplicate Bridge
- Intermediate Lessons (Acol) with Jack Stocken - $40 every 4 weeks
- Improver Lessons (Acol) with Jack Stocken - $40 every 4 weeks
Whether playing at the club or online, you'll notice some players who consistently do a bit better than everyone else in the results. What do these players know that is helping them excel so consistently? When we play duplicate bridge, a better understanding of how our results will be compared to others' can give us clarity while bidding.
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Communication: Let's Talk!
Bridge is all about communication. It's one of the things that makes it such a great game. Communication comes into every aspect of bridge. The bidding, the play and the defence.
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Understanding 2-over-1 & the BBO Robots
- Understanding 2-over-1 & the BBO Robots - $40
This course is suitable for players of any system, whether you already tend to play 2/1 and would like to understand GiB’s particular style, or whether you play Acol and have never even encountered a strong-and-five system before. I shall be demystifying weird robot-y explanations, providing a grounding in how the system is structured and identifying the conventions you will need to watch out for. By the end of this course, you will feel much more comfortable when you are playing with and against GiB: another tool to help you practise your bridge!
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Etiquette & Communication in Bridge: Online & in Real Life
- Etiquette & Communication in Bridge: Online & in Real Life - $40
This course is suitable for players of any system, whether you already tend to play 2/1 and would like to understand GiB’s particular style, or whether you play Acol and have never even encountered a strong-and-five system before. I shall be demystifying weird robot-y explanations, providing a grounding in how the system is structured and identifying the conventions you will need to watch out for. By the end of this course, you will feel much more comfortable when you are playing with and against GiB: another tool to help you practise your bridge!
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Exceptions to the Rules in Bridge
We’ve all learned lots of bridge “rules”: third-hand high, fourth from your longest and strongest, new suit by responder is forcing, etc. Unfortunately, there are no hard-and-fast rules in bridge, and each of these rules has exceptions. We’re going to look at some of the most common “rules” and their exceptions.
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First Steps: How to Bid in Bridge (Acol)
In this course, you will learn the basic structure of bidding in bridge: how to open, respond and rebid with the most common hand types; and what the aim of the whole thing is! You will also get the chance to learn a little bit of competitive bidding: basic overcalls.
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Common Mistakes in Bridge - Free Lessons
In this popular course, Tina McVeigh will guide you through the most common mistakes she has seen her students make again and again over the years and teach you how to avoid making them yourself.
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Aggressive vs. Passive Defending in Bridge - Free Lessons
In half of all bridge hands your side is defending. There are great gains to be made by improving your defence and it is all about gathering information and putting together the pieces of the puzzle. Join Pam for this free introductory defence course and find out why defence is her favourite part of the […]
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Counting Winners & Losers in Bridge - Free Lessons
As declarer in bridge, it is so important to come up with a plan before playing a card from dummy. The first step after the opening lead comes down will be to count your winners & losers.