Palo Alto Bridge

Supervised Play Tuesday Mornings
2022-03-22 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-02-14 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-03-12 08:45 - 10:30, 2024-05-07 08:45 - 10:30, 2024-05-21 08:45 - 10:30, 2024-06-04 08:45 - 10:30, 2024-06-18 08:45 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Polish Your Basics
2022-09-13 08:30 - 10:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Review and refine your bidding in this class for second year students or players who have been away from the game. Expand your understanding of the new style of bidding as we explore auctions that are not discussed in many bridge courses. Written by Pat Harrington
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.

PLAY & LEARN Polish Your Basics
Dates

Categorize Your Strength! How declarer uses discards. Quick losers.
September 13, 2022

Which Suit do I bid first? Bidding distributional hands.
September 27

Bidding balanced Hands. Stayman.
October 11

When you don’t have game, stop at a reasonable LOW spot.
October 25

Help suit game tries with single raise in the majors.
November 8

Major suit limit raises. Why four-card support?
November 22

“Newplicate”, the “Weak Freak” and how to show a good major raise.
December 6

How to avoid rebidding a five-card suit. Reverses.
December 13

Responder’s only forcing bid.
January 17, 2023

When a New Suit by Responder is NOT forcing.
January 31

Supervised Play Monday Evenings
2022-09-19 18:45 - 20:45, 2023-03-06 18:45 - 20:45, 2024-03-04 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-05-13 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-06-03 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-06-10 18:45 - 20:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States

Beginning Bridge
2022-09-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-02-14 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-09-18 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-03-12 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 | 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.

Lecture Series
2022-10-31 09:30 - 10:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Our Unit provides a series of free lectures as part of our education program. These lectures cover areas of interest for new as well as intermediate players. Lectures are held on selected Tuesday mornings at 9:30 AM at our Bridge Center unless otherwise noted.
Information about the lectures an be found here. After the lecture you will also find any handout material provided in class at this link.
This free series is funded by the Peninsula Bridge Education Foundation. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to continue the mission of our foundation.
You do not need to register for this event.

Deadly Defense
2023-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Half the time at the bridge table, you will be defending. Don’t let those mean declarers walk all over you! Defend yourself! Learn how to lead, signal, and discard. This course is written by Pat Harrington
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.

Deadly Defense
Dates

Leading Against Notrump and Against Suit Contracts
March 6, 2023

Second Hand Low
March 20

Second Hand Low … Except
April 3

Third Hand High
April 17

Introduction to Attitude Signals
May 1

Using Attitude Signals When Partner Leads
May 15

Opening Leads and Attitude Signals
June 5

Discards and Attitude Signals
June 19

Saturday Sampler
2023-05-20 10:00 - 12:30, 2023-05-20 13:00 - 16:00 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
A monthly class for novice and intermediate players.
Each class is standalone with a hands-on lesson, followed by pre-dealt boards. You’ll also receive a handout with a summary. Classes will review and reinforce basics; many will present new concepts as well.
You can attend as many or as few as you like. We do ask you to register for each class in advance (scroll down) so we can prepare enough pre-made boards and handouts.
Do I need a partner? No, but partners are encouraged to attend together.
Will classes always be the 4th Saturday of the month? No – class dates may shift due to unit games or other events, but will usually be the 4th or 5th Saturday.
Do I need to know 2 Over 1? No, classes will use Standard American bidding; but will often be useful to 2/1 players as well.
Upcoming Classes
For more information email Anna Ravenscroft annaraven@gmail.com

Deadly Defense
2023-09-12 09:00 - 10:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Half the time at the bridge table, you will be defending. Don’t let those mean declarers walk all over you! Defend yourself! Learn how to lead, signal, and discard. This course is written by Pat Harrington
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.

Deadly Defense
Dates

Leading Against Notrump
September 12, 2023

Leading Against Suit Contracts
September 26

Second Hand Low
October 10

Second Hand Low … Except
October 24

Third Hand High
November 7

Introduction to Attitude Signals
November 21

Using Attitude Signals When Partner Leads
December 5

Opening Leads and Attitude Signals
January 16, 2024

Discards and Attitude Signals
January 30

Suit Preference Signals.
February 13

Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Amber Lin
2024-01-27 09:30 - 11:00 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Special Techniques in Trump Contracts
Amber Lin Webinar
Saturday, January 27, 9:30-11:00am on Zoom
Preventing Trump Control
Preventing Trump Promotions
How to “Sneak” Your Trump Tricks through “Scrambling Elopement”
Information & Registration

World and National Champion
Team USA Member – Women’s, Mixed, Juniors
“It’s Your Call” Bridge Bulletin Contributor
Amber Lin is already an accomplished bridge player, teacher, and advocate at age 26. She is a national champion and two-time world champion medalist in Mixed events and a frequent representative of Team USA on Women’s, Mixed, and Junior teams. She is a full-time energy consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco and is currently on an 8-month internship with the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Educational Foundation working on youth bridge programs. She is also the co-organizer of the USBF Junior Training Program and runs the U26 Women’s Intensive program with Kevin Rosenberg.

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 | 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
