Barbara Seagram is always a favorite of our celebrity lecture series. She is the author of numerous bridge book classics; including “25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know”.
Barbara’s 2-hour Zoom workshop “Stripped and Cornered – End Play Magic” will be a guided tour in fine-tuning your declarer play. Barbara will show you how to create just the right situation at just the right moment so that defenders find themselves out of options. She emphasizes timing, imagination, and the quiet elegance of trying to avoid finessing. The session will be strategic and playful and you will be a better player by far just for attending.
Watch some magic in your declarer play. Call your partners and join us at this fun seminar.
This lesson will benefit all levels of players, particularly Newcomers and Intermediate players.
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Barbara Seagram hails from Barbados, West Indies. She got her degree in Nursing in Canada. Barbara used to teach nursing and now teaches bridge in Toronto, Canada, with her husband, Alex Kornel. Barbara is also an author (38 books now) and a licensed travel agent.
Barbara owns and runs a School of Bridge in Toronto. She teaches thousands of students a year at all levels all over the USA and Canada, but also travelling all over the world. Barbara and Alex have now visited 171 countries.
Seagram has been the recipient of several awards in bridge: The Kate Buckman Award, given to the person who has contributed most to others’ enjoyment of the game and the Audrey Grant Award for excellence in teaching. She is a Diamond Life Master and a frequent speaker at NABCs. She has been named #40 on the list of the top 52 bridge personalities that have most influenced the game. She will be inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in July this year!
Seagram was a co-founder (one of two) of the Zero Tolerance program. Barbara’s most well-known book is “25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know”, which is now in its 21st printing and has been translated into several languages. This book has been named one of the top five best-selling bridge books of the last 60 years. It has recently been revised and reprinted.
Barbara tirelessly promotes bridge wherever she goes in the world. She jokes: “It is my solution to world peace!” She also has mentored many players as students and as teachers and directors. Many of the classes that she teaches are done for charity; either for a local charity or a local bridge club or to raise funds for Cambodia or Laos. Post-Covid, Barbara has been on a mission to help face-to-face clubs by giving workshops at many bridge clubs struggling to survive.
Barbara is also very active in the American Bridge Teachers’ Association (ABTA). She is passionate about marketing events of all sorts and writes a monthly newsletter, advertising all upcoming events and including lots of bridge articles in order to further students’ knowledge at the same time. She sends this out to over 9500 of her former and current students. She loves to support local bridge events and community causes.
More than anything, Barbara loves to play bridge and would do so morning, noon and night, given a chance, with her favorite partner, her husband, Alex.