Palo Alto Bridge

Polish Your Basics
2023-01-17 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-01-31 08:30 - 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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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
2023-01-23 18:45 - 20:45, 2023-02-06 18:45 - 20:45, 2023-03-06 18:45 - 20:45, 2023-03-20 18:45 - 20:45, 2023-04-03 18:45 - 20:45 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Kathy Harper
(650) 207-1816
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Beginning Bridge
2023-01-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-02-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-02-14 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-02-28 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-03-14 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-03-28 08:30 - 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.

Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Gavin Wolpert
2023-01-28 09:30 - 11:00, 2023-02-04 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Webinar, Link to be provided to registrants
“Reverses, Jump Shifts + Common Questions” Saturday, January 28, 9:30-11am

The first part of this two-part series will be about defining reverses and discussing the fundamental differences between strong jump shifts and reverses. We will also answer common questions like ‘Are reverses on in competition? Do reverses in 2/1 show extras? How forcing are reverses?’ There are so many common mistakes made related to reverses. We will go through tons of bidding examples and iron out lots of these issues. Intermediate and Above

“Continuing after Reverses” Saturday, February 4, 9:30-11am
The second part of the series will deal with the major problem with reverse auctions in that opener only promises 17 and responder only 6. This means we are not necessarily going to game. On the other hand, responder is unlimited and may have an opening hand that wants to look for slam. This well-known problem has been solved with a modern method of having a “slow down” bid. This class will go through the modern standard method for how responder can slow down reverse auctions by using the cheaper of 2NT and the 4th suit. We will go through responder’s responsibilities and how opener should react. Advanced Intermediate and Above
Information and registration

Board of Directors Meeting
2023-02-08 16:00 - 17:30, 2023-03-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Held on the second Wednesday of every month. Meetings are via Zoom. Please see our Event Calendar for possible changes.
Members are welcome to attend. Please contact the board if you would like a subject added to the Agenda.
Please see our Governance page for information about the board, the agenda for this meeting and the agenda and minutes of past meetings.

Supervised Play Tuesday Mornings
2023-02-14 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-02-28 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-03-14 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-03-28 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-04-11 08:30 - 10:30 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States

Lecture Series
2023-02-21 09:30 - 10:30, 2023-04-04 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.

San Mateo Unit 498 Sectional
2023-02-25 - 2023-02-26 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Unit 498 will be holding a sectional at our Bridge Center. Unit 498 website.

Deadly Defense
2023-03-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-04-03 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

Non-Life Master Face-to-Face Sectional
2023-03-17 10:30 - 14:00 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
The Palo Alto Unit is pleased to announce a one-day, one session Non-Life Master Sectional tournament to be held at our Bridge Center.

The tournament is a stratified, match point event and will award 80% silver and 20% black master points.
Join us on St. Patrick’s Day for a fun time of bridge and win silver master points. And remember to wear green!
For planning purposes, we ask that players sign-up.
The tournament chairperson is Marc Cervellino, who may be contacted at marc.cervellino@hotmail.com.

Unit 503 Super Silver Open/Non-Life Master Sectional
2023-03-31 - 2023-04-02 | Bridge Center, 432A Stierlin Rd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
We will be holding our Super Silver Open/Non-Life Sectional Friday, March 31 – April 2, 2023 at our Bridge Center.
100% Silver Points awarded for all games.
Pairs games for players at all levels, including 0-20 newcomer games!
Bracketed Swiss team games.
And more.
Information and Signup
Space is limited and signup is recommended to guarantee a space so sign up early!
