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Lesson Series
Beginner Lesson Series: Click here for the topics covered in the 12 week series.
2/1 Game Force Series:
- Overview of the benefits of 2/1 Game Force. Why it is easier than Standard American. How to make a 2/1 Game Force. Rebids in 2/1 Auctions.
- How to respond when you don't have a game force. The pros & cons of 1NT Forcing versus 1NT semi-forcing. The pros & cons of Bergen Raises
- Choosing the right game. Game priorities. How to right-side notrump conracts. The best rebid structure after 1H-2C and 1S-2C.
- Slam bidding. The meaning of jump bids. Cue bidding and gauging the level of slam interest.
- 1♦-2♣ 2/1 Game Force. Rebids. How to find the right game. How to right-side notrump contracts. Assessing slam interest.
- Improving 2/1 Game Force
Planning Lesson Series
- A Time for Planning - provides a checklist for declarer to consider when dummy is tabled
- Placing Cards - discusses how declarer can place cards in the hidden hands and provides examples to apply your card placing skills
- Form Your Plan - takes the concepts from the first 2 lessons and applies it to boards for class discussion
- Examples of planning - practice play and a discussion of the boards played
Lesson Topics
- 1m-1M-2m Auctions (3rd Suit Forcing)
- 1NT Forcing versus Semi-Forcing
- 2-way New Minor Forcing
- 2nd Hand Play
- 3rd Hand Play
- 4th Suit Forcing to Game
- Advancing a Takeout Double of a Weak 2 (using the Lebensohl Convention)
- Avoidance Plays
- Balancing: Don't let the opponents steal your matchpoints
- Best Practice for SAYC and 2/1 Game Force
- Big Hands Begin with a Double
- Building Tricks
- Captain of the Auction
- Control Bids
- Count Your Way to Winning Bridge
- Dead Notrump Defense
- Defending 2 Suited Overcalls
- Defending Interference Over 1NT (using the Lebensohl Convention)
- Defending - What to lead and why? What to return and why?
- Defensive Signals: What, when, how & why
- Defensive Signals Advanced: How to signal Suit Preference or Count when completing an echo
- Defensive Strategies
- Don’t Let the Opponents Play Well against You
- Trump Management: Draw Trump or Not to Draw Trump
- Drury
- End Plays
- Fast Arrival
- Feature Asking 2NT Response to a Weak 2
- Flannery
- Game Priorities
- Gazzilli
- Good-Bad 2NT: Differentiate competitive bids from invitational bids
- Hand Evaluation
- Inverted Minors (best agreements)
- Jacoby 2NT (traditional and recommended improvements)
- Jacoby 2NT Auctions: Handling Interference
- Jacoby Transfers & Texas Transfers
- Inviting Game without Helping the Opponents
- Loser on Loser plays
- Low Information Puppet Stayman
- Maximal Doubles
- Meckwell Defense to 1NT
- Minor Suit Transfers
- Mixed Raises
- Negative Doubles & Continuations
- Non-Serious 3NT Slam Try
- Notrump Structure
- Ogust Quality Asking 2NT Response to a Weak 2
- Opener’s Rebid
- Opener’s Reverse & Blackout Continuations
- Opening Balanced Hands
- Opening Light
- Overcalls
- Penalty Doubles
- Preempt Strategy by Seat Position
- Punt Bids
- Range Asking Bid
- Responders Rebid
- Responding Light
- Responsive Doubles, 4th Suit Doubles & Continuations
- Roman Key Card Blackwood and the Queen Asking Bid
- Rule of 20 for a 1st or 2nd Seat Opener
- Safety Plays
- Smith Echo
- Smolen
- Splinter Bids
- Squeezes
- Stayman
- Strong 2♣ Auctions
- Suggestion of 22 for a 1st or 2nd Seat Opener
- Suit Preference Signals
- Support Doubles & Continuations
- Takeout doubles & Advancing a Takeout Double
- Transfers over Opener's 2NT Jump Rebid
- Transfer Walsh
- Weak 2 Bids
- Winning Notrump Leads
- Woolsey Defense to 1NT
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