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Advanced+ II ~ Reverses & Unusual Bidding Advanced+ II ~ Reverses & Unusual Bidding 8-Week Course Designed by World Champion & Master Teacher Donna Compton Lesson 1 Advanced Two-Suited Bidding Join Donna for a further look into two-suited bidding including direct seat passed-hand 1NT bids, balancing 1NT bids, balancing 2NT bids, passed-hand 1NT bids, passed-hand 2NT bids and more. 9 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. Lesson 2 Unusual vs Unusual Your opponents bid a Michaels cuebid or unusual 2NT against you and what you were going to bid is no longer available. It’s time to add Unusual vs Unusual to your convention card. Join Donna for the cutting-edge defenses to these bids including silent cuebids, showing stoppers, asking for stoppers and more…4 lesson hands and a quiz are included with the lesson bundle. Lesson 3 Advanced Card Combinations Donna takes your card combination knowledge to the next level with the exploration different play techniques. Just a few of these include the following: number of tricks needed, the form of scoring, when playing a doubled contract or a great contract, clues from the bidding, having a count on the hand, avoidance plays and more… 6 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. Lesson 4 Advanced Suit Defense Signals! But wait…there is more! Join Donna for advanced treatments of attitude, count and suit preference signals. Encouraging, discouraging and false come-on signals will be explored. Additionally, lowest spot card, second highest spot card and trump suit count is discussed. Finally, suit preference signals based on the bidding and more… 10 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. Lessons 5-8 on Reverse Side Lesson 5 Opener’s Reverses I hear players say, “I don’t do reverses.” The problem with reverse is the name! If we could go back to the 1940s and rename the reverse the “forcing partner to a higher level” bid, it would make more sense. Logic is the way to go. Join Donna for a simple explanation and a few other finer points of reverses. A 1 page summary page makes it easy to review too! 4 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. Lesson 6 Lebensohl After Reverses I always say, “if you can spell it, you can play it!” There are three situations in which to apply lebensohl and reverse is one of those times. It took me 15 years to figure out how to explain lebensohl logically. You are in luck…it is logical, and you will be explaining it to your partner when you leave class! Better yet, bring your partner with you! 4 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. Lesson 7 The Simple Squeeze The first play technique we learn is the finesse. Then we spend years mastering techniques to avoid the finesse. The Squeeze is one of those techniques. Donna will layout the elements of a simple squeeze ~ threat, non-threats, number of tricks, ducking tricks, number of threats, and order of suits played. Executing a squeeze takes time and practice but you will have the tools you need to begin your squeeze adventures! 4 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. Lesson 8 Advanced Notrump Defense Time to join Donna to take your game to the next level with notrump defense. Clues from the bidding, opening lead interpretation and type of dummy are just a few “big ideas” Donna will cover in this class. The topics of unblocking, overtaking, counting declarer’s tricks and signals just for notrump will also be explored. 7 lesson hands are included with the lesson bundle. See Course Syllabi for Topics and Dates $40/Class with BAND Accredited Instructors BAND Patron 30% Discount Retakes are ½ Price Multiple Class Discounts 8 Lesson Punch Cards and 4 Lesson Punch Cards Available .
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