| Supervised Play With Dave Brower |
All of the supervised play works as follows:
If there is one table, then we play a board and I comment on the bidding and play after each hand.
If there is more than one table, every table plays the same board and then after all of the tables are done with that board we talk about the bidding and play.
In general the instruction is intended to help guide your thinking through logic rather than teaching specific conventions. At the start of each session there's an opportunity to ask general bridge questions.
You can come as a partnership or as a single.
Advanced - $30 (2/1 is assumed)
Intermediate - $30
Beginner - $20
Please note, that since this is about learning, feel free to correct mistakes if you immediately recognize you made them and if playing with a new partner, feel free to ask aloud about the meaning of any potentially conventional bid. (i.e. what kind of ace asking is 4N?)
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| Learn to Play Bridge Live Series |
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. The next iteration will be in the fall.
For more information, email dave@portlandbridgeclub.com
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| Learn to Play Bridge Online Series |
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
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| Bridge refresher course |
Taught by Bob Johnson, this is intended for those of you who have gotten a bit rusty during the pandemic, 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
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| Bid, Play, Learn 1 Online |
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:
Sept 11: Play in a minor, or Notrump?
Sept 18: No class - on vacation
Sept 25: Supervised Play
Oct 2: Dealing with blocked suits
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