Thursday Afternoon Game

Starting Jan.2010, Anyone (a player with any amount of Mp's) may mentor a player with less than 50Mp's in the Thursday afternoon game and play for free (but alas no points for the mentor). If the player to be mentored isn't an "Easy Bridge 2" student, he/she must pay an entry fee. Help us bring more players to the game we love to play!

EASYBRIDGE 2:  Modern Bidding, Play and Defense

Leon Galecki will be continuing the second part of the EASYBRIDGE lessons on January 21st at 1 PM and run through March.   The cost of the course is $112 which includes your book and your entry fee into the novice game at 2 PM.  After each short lesson there will be a novice club game for people with less than 50 masterpoints starting at 2 PM, shooting to get done by 4:30 (18 hands nominal).  There is a short index of the EB2 lessons included below.    Since the classes do not start until the 21st, in order to keep the novice game going till then we will have the following class/games.   On the 7th we will have a class called "Old Wives Tales of Bridge" followed by the 2 PM game.  Then on the 14th we will have a class called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Doubles" followed by the 2 PM game.   The fees will be $4 per person for both the class and the game. a brief summary follows.

January 7th     Old Wives Tales of Bridge
We will discuss sayings like:
"8 always, 9 never" when does that apply.
"Always lead your partners suit" should we?
"Always lead 4th from longest and strongest"  when to and when not to.
"Second Hand Low"  is that important?
"If no clue, lead trump"  Right or wrong?
"Cover an Honor with an Honor"  Sometimes, why?
"Lead through Strength" "Lead to weakness" when and why?

January 21th    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Doubles
We will discuss take-out, penalty, negative and balancing doubles.

January 21         Game 1         Leads Against Suits Contracts
January 28         Game 2         Getting to the Right Contract!
February  4        Game 3         How to Play a Bridge Hand!
February 11       Game 4         The Bones of Bidding!
February 18       Game 5         Playing & Defending NT
February 25       Game 6         Weak Twos for Republicans & Democrats
March  4             Game 7         Ruffing in the Short Hand
March 11           Game 8          Overcalls: The Lifeblood of Defense
March 18           Game 9         The Seven Deadly Finesses
March 25           Game 10       Balancing