Paul's Bridge Lessons
Release 2.19r
Wednesday Meetings

We run an informal bridge session starting at 10am every Wednesday morning.  This is at Oaks Coffee Shop, Elm Court, Elm Farm Rd, Aylesbury HP21 7NQ.  We will provide a partner if you don't have one.  Please contact Paul (paulbridgelessons@gmail.com) if you want to join us.

Results
Bridge - Random Hands
Director: Paul
Bridge - Random hands
Director: Paul
Bridge - Random Hands
Director: Paul
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Welcome to Paul's Bridge Lessons
Summer break

Wednesday morning meetings do not take place during August and we will restart on September 2nd.

Whatsapp Group

To make it fair for everyone I am outlining some rules to help everything run smoothly. 

We have a Whatsapp group to manage attendance to the sessions.  A poll will be sent out on Tuesday so you can reserve a place.  Please respond by 9 a.m. on the morning of the session to make sure you can play.  I will always try to find a place for anyone who books late or turns up without booking but this cannot be guaranteed.

Apart from exceptional circumstances there is a limit of six tables or 24 people.  At present (January 2026) 30 people are invited.  Bookings are recorded in date/time order so if more than 24 people wanted to come, it would have to be based on the 1st come, 1st served principle.

 

Continuing Bridge Course

Continuing Bridge Course

There are twelve lesson left in this course and the lesson topics and dates are shown below.

The lessons take place at the Oaks Cafe, Elm Court, Elm Farm Rd, Aylesbury HP21 7NQ on a Monday afternoon at 2p.m.on a roughly fortnightly basis and will cost £10 per lesson.  To guarantee a place you can pay in advance in blocks of five - if you miss any of the five you will not be charged for that lesson.  If there are spare places for a lesson they will be available to anyone who wants to join on a first come, first served basis.  Please get in touch at paulbridgelessons@gmail.com if you want any further information or to join the course. 

The topics that will be covered are:

 

Topic

Number of Lessons

Dates

Lesson Subjects

Tidying up and bending the rules

2

Sep 21

Oct 5

Showing Shape

Bidding awkward hands

Defenders Play

3

Oct 19

Nov 2

Nov 16

Signals and discards

Count signal on declarers lead

Making tricks with trumps

Slam bidding

2

Nov 30

Dec 14

Review of what we know and use of Blackwood

Cue bidding

The final countdown

5

2027

Jan 4

Jan 18

Feb 1

Feb 15

Mar 1

Mar 15

 

Landy defence to a 1NT opening bid

4441 hands

The Unassuming Cue Bid

Signals in the trump suit

Duplicate tactics

End of year competition

 

Problems Accessing the Members Only area

Some members have reported problems when accessing the page.

Instructions for creating your password can be found here:

https://www.bridgewebs.com/guideus/page183.html

This process requires you to receive and respond to an email.  Some email systems seem to be putting these into spam or rejecting them as suspicious.  If you don't get an email get in touch with Paul (paulbridgelessons@gmail.com) and I will set up a password for you.

Calendar
19th August 2026
No Bridge
Director: Paul
Host: Madeleine
26th August 2026
No Bridge
Director: Paul
Host: Madeleine
2nd September 2026
Bridge
Oaks Coffee Shop 10:00
Director: Paul
Host: Madeleine
Results
Bridge - Random Hands
Director: Paul
Bridge - Random hands
Director: Paul
Bridge - Random Hands
Director: Paul