This class, taught by Dave Brower, is intended for new players, and is held on Thursday nights at 6:30p at our club on the top floor of Lloyd Center. The class is run through Portland Community College and is found in the  PCC Community Ed catalog. It runs in the Spring and Fall terms.

For more information, email dave@portlandbridgeclub.com

This class, taught by David Castles, is intended for newer players and is run online on Thursday nights from 6:30p-8:30p. It is offered year-round through Portland Community College on a combination of Zoom and the website bridgebase.com.

Registration is through the PCC Community Ed catalog , where the first five weeks are listed in the summer / winter catalogs as Bridge 101, and the next five weeks as Bridge 102. The series continues in the fall / spring PCC catalogs with Bridge 103 and 104. You can join the class at any time during the series.

For more information, email davidc@portlandbridgeclub.com

 

Taught by Bob Johnson, this is intended for beginning to intermediate players and want to sharpen your skills.

Time: Saturdays from 10a-noon

Location: Lloyd Center

Cost: $20

Let us know (email management@portlandbridgeclub.com) if you want to get on the email list so you can get some notes on the upcoming week's topic! It might be something like:

• Opening bids - balanced vs unbalanced
• Strength ranges for openers and responders
• Overcalls
• Takeout Doubles
• Reponding to Takeout Doubles
• Responding to 1N
• Preempts
• Competitive Auctions - When to stop and when to go on
• Slam Bidding
• Cuebids

This class, taught by David Castles on a combination of Zoom and BBO, is intended for players relatively new to the game, or new to duplicate.

It runs on Wednesday's from 3:30p - 5:30p, and costs $20. You can pay using our Online Payments page, or, if you have one, your PBC account. To participate, email davidc@portlandbridgeclub.com and David will add you to the class email list.

It is run topic-of-the-week style, so you can pick and choose the weeks you wish to attend. To participate, you need a BBO username, which you have provided to David (davidc@portlandbridgeclub.com). You should have logged in to BBO before the start of class and joined the teaching table (find dcastles in "people" and click "join"). You should also have joined the class Zoom meeting, shown below:

Meeting ID: 978-4232-2556
Password:  686466

The schedule of upcoming classes is:
Apr 29: Diagnosing slams
May 6: Supervised Play
May 13: Various finesses
May 20: Supervised Play
May 27: Principles of doubles, negative doubles
June 3: Supervised Play
June 10: No Class
June 17: No Class
 

Bid Play Learn 2 is going on hiatus for a few months. David has a very busy schedule this winter!

This class, taught by David Castles on a combination of Zoom and BBO, is intended for intermediate players who are working on improving their game.

It runs on Thursday's from 3:30p - 5:30p, and costs $20 per week. You can pay using our Online Payments page, or, if you have one, your PBC account. To participate, email davidc@portlandbridgeclub.com, and David will add you to the email contact list.

It is run topic-of-the-week style, so you can pick and choose the weeks you wish to attend. To participate, you need a BBO username, which you have provided to David (davidc@portlandbridgeclub.com). You should have logged in to BBO before the start of class and joined the teaching table (find dcastles in "people" and click "join"). You should also have joined the class Zoom meeting, shown below:

Meeting ID: 851-7410-4891
Password:  653873