Note: These are all semi-private lessons. No more than eight to a class. These classes require that you have a Bridge Base Online (BBO) account and understand the basic idea of how to play out a hand online. Most teachers offer a repeat class. That happens if the first class fills up. Unless specified, all classes are $35 and are between an hour and forty-five minutes and two hours.
ADVANCED BEGINNER COURSES:
Two brand new Barbara Bayone courses starting in early August.
Your first look at preemptive bidding with Barbara Bayone
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm….Starting August 4th.
What does an opening 3 diamond bid by your partner mean? How do you respond to it? What can your opponents do to compete. All this and the equities involved in “sacrifice” bidding are topics you will be exploring. These “first look” courses mean just that. You are not expected to know much, if anything, about the subject being presented.
Email: bbayone@gmail.com for reservations.
Your first look at slam bidding with Barbara Bayone
Thursdays from 10:30 am…Starting August 6th.
Barbara will start with the three types of “strong bids”: Jump Shifts, Reverses, and the strongest of all, 2-Club openings. Then comes Key-Card Blackwood and control-showing cue-bidding. Lots of examples and practice hands.
Email: bbayone@gmail.com for reservations.
Defensive Play with Shlomit Rind
Tuesdays from 10:00 am
Shlomit’s Thursday defense class. Basic concepts in defense. Where are your tricks coming from? Where are declarer’s? Counting declarer’s points. Trying to figure out declarer’s shape. The three types of signals. And lots of practice hands. What does an opening 3 diamond bid by your partner mean? How do you respond to it? What can your opponents do to compete. All this and the equities involved in “sacrifice” bidding are topics you will be exploring. These “first look” courses mean just that. You are not expected to know much, if anything, about the subject being presented.
Email: shlobridge@gmail.com for reservations.
INTERMEDIATE COURSES:
Planning the defense with Joe Byrnes
Second book on bidding with Jeff Hand
This session is available when the previous Tuesday’s class was sold out…See Tuesday below.
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Competitive decisions with Yefim Shoykhet
Second book on bidding with Jeff Hand
Tuesdays from 10:00 am (Repeated the following Monday at 2 pm)
Your first concern should be to build a solid bidding foundation based on a thorough understanding of basic concepts.
This is the essence of what these classes hope to accomplish.
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Play and defense for the strong Intermediate player with Andrea Hayman
distribution of the hands and placing the high card points.
Bridge thinking with Adam Parrish
The basics of sound declarer play with Joe Byrnes
- Setting up long suits
- Managing entries avoidance plays
- Fast losers vs. slow losers
*Email: bridgeprojoe@gmail.com for reservation
Defense with Jess Jurkovic
Wednesdays from 10:00 am (If sold out, repeated on Fridays from 10:00 am)
Improving card sense with Jeff Hand
Wednesdays from 4:00 pm (Repeated on Fridays at 10:00 am, but 9 days later, not 2 days)
PLAY AND LEARN. Usually declarer does not have enough immediate winning tricks to fulfill the contract. Additional tricks must be found and established. In these lessons we will discuss several ways that this can be done. For example: Declarer establishes additional tricks by promotion (forcing out honors and promoting lower-ranking honors), and by setting up long suits while keeping the bridge connection to them open. We will also look at and try to learn to “see” how the opponent’s cards are likely to divide and how best to play accordingly.
Email: hand_jeff@hotmail.com cell: 914-960-3055
Play of the hand with Yefim Shoykhet
Wednesdays from 6:30 pm (If sold out, Thursday at 6:30 pm).
One or both of your opponents have entered the auction. If you buy the contract, how will their bidding influence you? After their opening lead, what assumptions should you be making to guide you to the best line of play?
*Email: yefim50@verizon.net for reservations.
Defensive ideas for solid Intermediate players with Joe Byrnes
Wednesdays from 6:30 pm (Repeated Fridays at 6:30 pm).
More advanced ideas in:
- Signalling
- Lots of counting
- Defensive card combinations
- Lots of counting
- Breaking the rules
- Lots of counting
*Email: bridgeprojoe@gmail.com for reservations.
Build a Solid bidding system with Jeff Hand
Thursdays from 10:00 am (Again at 1:00 pm if there is an overflow.)
Do you think, by learning a few conventions, that you know how to bid? Before learning so many conventions, you are better off learning and owning the meanings of all of the basic bids. Then you will know if a bid is weak and meant to be a sign-off or if it is invitational or forcing. Does a particular bid promise a 4-card suit or five or even longer? Might it be a shorter ? These questions and more are what you should expect to take from this course.
July 23rd…Jump Overcalls
Email: hand_jeff@hotmail.com cell: 914-960-3055
Essential conventions with Jess Jurkovic
Thursdays from 6:30 pm (If sold out, repeated the following Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Jess’s bidding conventions course returns, and will begin with those concepts that should be standard and owned by you. If not now, soon. Remember to invite your partner. Refining your bidding, to be sure you’ll be landing in the right contract more often than you do now, is the goal of any good partnership and of this course.
Improving card sense with Jeff Hand
Fridays from 10:00 am (Repeated 9 days after the class that is held on Wednesday at 4:00 pm)
PLAY AND LEARN. Usually declarer does not have enough immediate winning tricks to fulfill the contract. Additional tricks must be found and established. In these lessons we will discuss several ways that this can be done. For example: Declarer establishes additional tricks by promotion (forcing out honors and promoting lower-ranking honors), and by setting up long suits while keeping the bridge connection to them open. We will also look at and try to learn to “see” how the opponent’s cards are likely to divide and how best to play accordingly.
Email: hand_jeff@hotmail.com cell: 914-960-3055
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Topics for the more advanced players with Joe Byrnes.
- Basing the defense on what’s in the dummy (dummy types)…
- Signalling.
- Deciding whether to return partner’s suit or start a new suit.
- Lots of counting.
*Email: bridgeprojoe@gmail.com for reservations.