♠ ♥ WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR GAME SKILLS?♦ ♣
Plan on taking this terrific class offered by Calvin Manship
Start Date: APRIL 15th - 5 Mondays in a row, 9am to 11am, ending Monday, May 13th
Cost: $60 payable up front
This class will only run once this year so don't miss out.
WEEK ONE: Monday April 15th, 9am - 11am
NO-TRUMP OPENING BIDS :
Consensus definition of 1NT Opening bids / Other hand shape options
STAYMAN:
Extensive discussion of when and how to bid Stayman and when you should not
How to bid unbalanced hands after Partner Opens 1NT (major or minor suited)
Continuation bids to final contract / Smolen
Pursuing slam
JACOBY TRANSFER BIDS:
Underlying Requirements
Continuation Bids to final contract
Pursuing slam
THREE-LEVEL BID OPTIONS
Puppet Stayman
3 Minor suit options
2 Major suit options
FOUR-LEVEL RESPONSES:
Texas Transfers
Gerber
QUANTITATIVE NT RAISES
WEEK TWO: Monday April 22nd, 9am - 11am
OPENING A SUIT AT THE ONE LEVEL
2/1 FORMAT – Defining how 2/1 differs from Standard American
To open or not to open? That is the question!
Priority Responses to Major suit opening bids / Opener rebid options
Jacoby 2NT / 1M – 3NT??
Limit Raises / showing 3 and 4 card support
Preemptive Raises / Weak jump shifts
Bergen / Constructive raises
Splinter Bids / Drury
New Minor Forcing
Priority Responses to Minor suit opening bids
Inverted Minors / Criss Cross
NT response levels
Weak jump shifts
Reverses / Responder Reverses
4th Suit Forcing
FORMAT for all sessions will be group participation followed by a series of bidding sequences for the group to identify and define.
WEEK THREE: Monday April 29th, 9am -11am
BIDDING IN COMPETITION – WHEN WE OPEN AND THEY COMPETE:
Lebensohl after NT interference Jordan 2NT
Unusual over Unusual Using Redouble after major suit double
Use of Cue Bids Preemptive jumps - Preemptive raises
Negative Doubles Maximal doubles
Support Doubles / Redoubles Responsive doubles
Balance Doubles Reopening doubles
WEEK FOUR: Monday May 5th, 9am - 11am
BIDDING IN COMPETITION – WHEN THEY OPEN AND WE COMPETE:
Double: When to double or no? Response levels w/o intervening bid/responding after interference
NT Overcalls
Michaels Cue Bids – Bidding Parameters – Responding with or without interference
Unusual No-Trump – Bidding Parameters – Responding with or without interference
Overcalls at the ONE level – Bidding parameters – Partner responses (passed hand / not a passed hand)
Overcalls at the TWO level – Bidding parameters – Partner responses
Weak Jump overcalls
Leaping Michaels
NT interference options: Summaries of Meckwell, HELLO, Cappelletti, DON’T: FYI only
WEEK FIVE: Monday May 13th, 9am -11am
WHAT’S LEFT TO DISCUSS??
Two Level Opening Bids: 2C strong game forcing – Flannery 2D – 2NT – Weak two opening bids
and response options (Feature / Ogust)
RKC Blackwood – Response options – King asking bid response options - Queen Asking bids
Responding to Blackwood with a void
Exclusion Blackwood
Bidding in the Balance Seat – Opening or overcalling – what’s different?
A few quirkly hands
Lingering questions!
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