Better Bidding
About the course
WHO
is it for?
This is an advanced course, for experienced players who are confident with the standard bidding system and would like to add some refinements.
It is also for Brush Up Your Bidding graduates who have a good grasp of the contents of that course and are ready for the next step.
If you have a regular partner, it may be helpful if you both take the course so that you can put it into practice together.
WHAT
will I learn?
I plan to cover these topics:
- Transfers – aiming for the best contract after partner has opened 1NT or 2NT
- The Losing Trick Count – measuring the strength of an unbalanced hand
- Fourth Suit Forcing – finding out more about your partner’s hand
- Trial Bids – deciding whether to bid game
- Three-Card Raises – supporting partner with only 3 cards in her suit
- Raising Partner’s Overcall – when you mean it and when you don’t
- Responder’s Double – when an opponent’s overcall has taken your bid away
- Protective Bidding – when the opponents have stopped at a low level
HOW
will I learn it?
You will have face-to-face lessons and you will use resources on this website.
Every week, I will ask you to download study notes from the website and to watch a short video. The more you work at them, the more you’ll learn.
You will come to a lesson every week, where we will discuss the notes and video and you will bid and play with other students. I hope that we will all have fun together.
Afterwards, you can practise bidding and playing the lesson’s deals on the website.
Whenever and wherever else you play, you can put into effect what you have learned and come back to the next lesson to talk about how it has gone.
WHEN,
WHERE
and
HOW MUCH?
The course will run twice, from 9.15 to 11.30 on Tuesdays. There will be 9 lessons.
(a) starting on Tuesday 14th January 2025.
(b) starting on Tuesday 25th March 2025.
It will run in the computer room at the Christ Church Scout and Guide Hut in Long Lane, Aughton.
The cost will be the same as for the regular u3a Bridge Group – currently £1 per session.
How can I
SIGN UP?
Both courses are now full.
Let me know if you would like to join a reserve list.