We’re delighted to have Barbara Seagram this spring teaching a class on Opening Leads. Her class last year at this time, Clues from the Bidding, was the highest attended class of our series. She is a phenomenal teacher and we are privileged to have her again.
In bridge, you will be defending approximately 50% of the time. When it is your turn to lead, this is an opportunity to be at your best. It is like a head start in a race! More contracts are made because of poor opening leads but after this class, you will become a feared opponent! Feared because you will make brilliant opening leads and your opponents’ contracts will be doomed!
This lesson will benefit players of all levels.
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Barbara Seagram hails from Barbados, West Indies. She was educated in Barbados and then graduated from the University of New Brunswick with her Bachelor of Nursing degree. Barbara used to teach nursing & now teaches bridge in Toronto, Canada, with her husband, Alex Kornel.
Barbara now owns and runs a School of Bridge in Toronto. She teaches tens of thousands of students a year at all levels, mostly in USA and Canada but also travelling all over the world. Barbara and Alex have now visited 171 countries. They love to spend time with the people and nationalities of so many diverse countries. Their real passions are Africa, Cambodia, Laos and India.
Seagram has been the recipient of a number of awards in bridge: The Kate Buckman Award, given to the person who has contributed most to others’ enjoyment of the game and the most recent being the Audrey Grant Award for teaching. She is a Sapphire Life Master and a frequent speaker at NABC’s. She has been named # 40 on the list of the top 52 bridge personalities that have most influenced the game.
Seagram was a co-founder (one of two) of the Zero Tolerance program. Barbara is the co-author of 30 published bridge books; the most well-known being “25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know” This is now in its 19th. printing and has been translated into French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Danish. This book has been named one of the top five best-selling bridge books of the last 60 years. It has just been revised and reprinted.
Barbara is also very active in the American Bridge Teachers’ Association. 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 9000 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 favourite partner, her husband, Alex.