Palo Alto Bridge

Beginning Bridge
2024-03-26 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-04-09 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-04-23 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-05-07 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-05-21 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-06-04 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-06-18 09:00 - 10:30, 2024-09-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 5 more dates | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Learn Bridge the modern way in this course designed by Pat Harrington! Each class includes both instruction and practice play. Start playing the very first day! Children & teens welcome.
For people who have never played bridge and those people who have played for years but want a refresher course or just to learn the basics.
Notes will be emailed for all classes. No make-up classes are offered for missed classes.
Our course instructor is ABTA Master Teacher Kathy Harper. Kathy and our wonderful volunteers give students individual attention which helps our students learn in a fun environment.
Please contact Kathy Harper for more information.

Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Michael Berkowitz
2024-03-30 09:30 - 11:30 | Online Webinar, Link to be provided to registrants
How to Find Tricks: Card Combinations for Declarer Play
Michael Berkowitz Webinar
Michael Berkowitz is a young bridge professional, son of David Berkowitz, a bridge legend. Michael works with Larry Cohen giving webinars and other forms of instruction. He also has a column in the ACBL Bridge magazine. Michael has a delightful sense of humor as well as insightful instruction.

As a teacher, he models his instruction style after his mother, and takes his humor from his father. The combination has allowed him to teach all levels and pass his love of the game to others.
In addition to directing and teaching, Michael edits for several bridge publications. Larry Cohen recognized Michael’s natural teaching abilities (very similar to his own style) and has added him as a member of the “Bridge with Larry Cohen” travel and teaching team.
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Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Barbara Seagram
2024-05-11 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Webinar, Link to be provided to registrants
Opening Leads
Barbara Seagram Webinar
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.

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.
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Two Over One System
2024-06-17 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-06-24 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-07-01 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-07-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-07-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-07-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Two Over One (2/1) is a bidding system in modern bridge. It is a very popular system in the United States. When the auction begins 1/1/1, a 2 level response (non-jump) in a new suit is forcing to game.
This Basic-Intermediate Bridge Class builds upon our Beginning Bridge Classes and prepares our students for our Intermediate Classes.
Notes will be emailed for all classes. No make-up classes are offered for missed classes.
Our course instructor is ABTA Master Teacher Kathy Harper. Kathy and our wonderful volunteers give students individual attention which helps our students learn in a fun environment.
Please contact Kathy Harper at (650) 207-1816 email for additional information.

2 Over 1
Dates

Forcing No Trump by Responder & Opener’s Rebid After the Forcing No Trump
June 17, 2024

Responder’s Rebid after Bidding the Forcing No Trump
June 24

Two Over One Auctions
July 1

Opener’s Rebid after Partner Uses Two Over One
July 8

Responder’s Rebid after Using Two Over One
July 22

Practice Hands
July 29

Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Gavin Wolpert
2024-08-10 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Webinar, Link to be provided to registrants
“Being Hungry for Overtricks as Declarer at Matchpoints”
Gavin Wolpert Webinar

One of the quickest ways to improve your pair game scores is by taking more overtricks. This class will help you build a thought process as declarer that focusses on eliminating losers. You will also learn about when it is right to risk your contract for overtricks. This seminar is appropriate for Beginner, Advanced Beginner and Intermediate players.
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Supervised Play Monday Evenings
2024-09-09 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-09-23 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-10-07 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-10-21 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-11-04 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-11-18 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-12-02 18:45 - 20:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Adam Parrish
2024-10-19 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Webinar, Link to be provided to registrants
When Not to Draw Trump
Adam Parrish Webinar
Saturday, October 19, 9:30-11am PDT
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Adam Parrish has written six acclaimed books, three of which, including the classic When to Draw Trumps, have been nominated for the IBPA book of the year. His column “Parrish the Thought” appears monthly in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin. Adam grew up in Cincinnati and now lives in New York City, where he is the President of the Greater New York Bridge Association and President of District 24. He is also one of the partners of both Bridge Winners and Swan Games. Outside of bridge, Adam is a playwright, screenwriter, and composer.
