Fun! Social! Challenging!
Intellectually Stimulating!
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
TUESDAY
Zoom Lessons
and Online Play
With Alan Powell
The main audience for these lessons
is the player
with some Bridge playing experience:
Players are expected to understand the basics of planning and playing a Bridge Hand.
Players should be familiar with counting winners and losers.
Players should be familiar with techniques such as promotion, length, and the simple finesse.
This is a 8-Week Online Series.
Players may attend all or any of the classes.
When:
TUESDAYS: July 11 - August 29
Morning Session: 10am - 11:45am OR
Evening Session: 7pm - 8:45pm
Price for Lessons:
$144 for all 8 weeks
Players may enroll in the entire series at once,
choose specific dates at once, or
pay for each class on an individual basis
Single session classes - $18
What: Class Day Lecture and Play
* Pre-Class PDF Packet with Examples and Answers
* Pre-Class Video to accompany the Lecture PDF
* CLASS DAY: 45-minute Zoom Lecture
followed by 60-minute online Shark Bridge
Play Practice
Questions?
alan@essexbridgecenter.com
NEW!!
Extra Shark Practice
for Your Declarer Play Skills!
Participants in these classes will have FREE access
to replay their lesson Shark Hands IN SHARK!
Each Class will include access to replay and practice the hands from that lesson.
Individual Topics for Each Week
Tuesday, July 11
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Card Combinations
What to Play at Trick 1 - How to Preserve Stoppers
Double Finesses
Two-way Finesses
Tuesday, July 18
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Dangerous Opponent
Identifying the Dangerous Opponent
The Two-way finesse revisited
Tuesday, July 25
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Declarer's Holdup Play
Cutting Defensive Communications
Dangerous Opponent revisited
Tuesday, Aug 1
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Managing Entries
Planning, Preserving and Creating Entries
What to play at Trick 1 revisited
Tuesday, Aug 8
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Trump Management - To Draw or Not To Draw Part I
Trumping in Dummy
Before, While, or After Drawing Trump
Tuesday, Aug 15
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Trump Management - To Draw or Not To Draw Part II
Discarding Losers
Before, While, or After drawing Trump
Using Trump as Entries
Tuesday, Aug 22
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Trump Management - To Draw or Not To Draw Part III
Crossruffing
Deciding Whether to Draw the Last Trump
Tuesday, Aug 29
Essential Play of the Hand Concepts
Setting up a Side Suit
Using Trump, Entries and Timing to Create Winners
from your Long Suits