| Lesson on Five Card Majors and Strong No-Trump |
The final lesson of my Beginner's Course covers Five Card Majors and Strong No-Trump. It will take place at the Oaks Cafe on July 7th at 7:15 and will last about two hours. This is the same session that I ran in July 2024. I am opening this lesson up to anyone who is not doing the beginner's course - if any member of the club would like to attend please let me know in person or on paulbridgelessons@gmail.com.The charge for those not attending the beginner's course will be £10.
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| Summer break |
Wednesday morning meetings will continue until the end of July. There will be no meetings during August and we will restart on September 10th (NOT September 3rd).
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| July 9th - Random Hands |
We will play a set of randomly generated hands.
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| New Beginners Classes - September 2025 |
Full Beginners Classes
A new set of Beginners Classes will start on 29th September 2025. It will take place in Aylesbury on a Monday morning at 10 a.m. Each session will last about two hours and will cost £10. The initial course will last for ten weeks. Part one covers 30 sessions in all and there is an optional part 2 of another 30 sessions. Please get in touch for details of location and start times.
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| New Continuing Bridge Course - September 2025 |
New Continuing Bridge Course
This is the second year of the EBU course and develops what was taught in Beginning Bridge. It covers declarer play, defence and introduces some new conventions e.g. the unassuming cue bid. This will be different from my previous course as I will be using slides sets that are now available from the EBU.
The lessons will 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. The first lesson is on September 29th. 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:
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Number of Lessons
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Dates
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Lesson Subjects
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Planning the play
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1
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2025
Sep 29
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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
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Developing the auction
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4
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Oct 13
Oct 27
Nov 10
Nov 24
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Hand evaluation / LTC
Red suit transfers
Strong responses
Bidding the 4th suit
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Defensive Guidelines
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3
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Dec 8
2026
Jan 5
Jan 19
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3rd hand play, signaling and unblocking
2nd hand play - when declarer has the lead
Lead through strength and lead partners suit
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Competitive bidding
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7
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Feb 2
Feb 16
Mar 2
Mar 16
Apr 13
Apr 27
May 11
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The wider use of takeout doubles
A second double
Double of 1NT
Negative doubles
More on doubles
Bidding after 1NT
Protective bidding
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Declarer play
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2
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Jun 8
Jun 22
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Basic Declarer Technique including the Danger Hand
Counting by declarer
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Tidying up and bending the rules
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2
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Sep 21
Oct 5
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Showing Shape
Bidding awkward hands
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Defenders Play
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3
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Oct 19
Nov 2
Nov 16
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Signals and discards
Count signal on declarers lead
Making tricks with trumps
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Slam bidding
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2
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Nov 30
Dec 14
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Review of what we know and use of Blackwood
Cue bidding
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The final countdown
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5
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2027
Jan 4
Jan 18
Feb 1
Feb 15
Mar 1
Mar 15
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Landy defence to a 1NT opening bid
4441 hands
The Unassuming Cue Bid
Signals in the trump suit
Duplicate tactics
End of year competition
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