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649 N Fair Oaks Ave
#201
Pasadena CA 91103
(626) 247-4457
pasadenabridgeclub.com
I spent this past weekend in Costa Mesa as an
exhibitor for a conference hosted by the
California Association for the Gifted.
I was representing Patty Tucker's Jump
Start Bridge program that mentors teachers
to introduce bridge as a school enrichment or
after school program. The teachers at "gifted"
and math teacher conferences have been
extraordinarily receptive to the idea.
Jump Start Bridge is a worthy charitable
organization for supporting bridge education in
schools. They fund all the materials and
supplies for teachers who start a bridge program
in their school, even providing a stipend for
the teachers! Visit https://www.jumpstartbridge.org/
to learn more about it!
We registered over 70 leads from teachers
interested in the program, and signed up 12
teachers with the ACBL who are ready to get
started now!
Student/Novice Player Program
This is the week that our new student/novice
player program starts!
We are still looking for (slightly!)
experienced players who are willing to
mentor players and supervise our
social/supervised play sessions. Right now the
Friday session doesn't have an "owner." Jon and
Susan are covering the Tuesday session, but we
always need backups and standbys!
It doesn't take a Grand Life Master to be a
great host for these events. The main effort is
going to be in helping them play smoothly and
efficiently, and enjoy the game! Once in a while
someone will ask for help on bids or plays, and
you only have to tell them what you might do
with the hand, or what options they might
choose from.
The full student/novice weekly schedule is
available on the web site at
this link. Zachary's first workshop had
five tables! Our first Thursday 0-20 novice game
is already a "go" with at least two tables of
players, and the Wednesday class has three full
tables!
Are you ready to sign up? Drop me a
note!
Bridge Classes This Week
Every week this month will have five great
learning opportunities! We have two courses that
just got started last week, and this week begins
our free Wednesday morning seminars with
Lulu Minter, as well as Bridge Basics 3 in
the afternoon.
This week's classes:
- Wednesday, March 5, 10:00 AM Lulu Minter
FREE seminar, "Counting"
- Wednesday, March 5, 3:00 PM Bridge
Basics 3 - Popular Conventions "The
Stayman Convention"
- Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 PM Introduction
to Defense "Opening Leads against Trump
Contracts"
- Thursday, March 6, 7:00 PM Improving
Your Judgment - Doubles "Responding to
the Takeout Double"
In addition, every Saturday morning at 9:30, we
have a free workshop using a hand from Eddie
Kantar's Thinking Bridge series. Every
entertaining hand teaches players how to think
about problems in bidding, play, and defense.
The next Bridge Basics 1 - Introduction
class starts Thursday, April 3. It's open for registration
at this link. If you get the PCC Extension
catalog in your mailbox, you'll find our class
listed!
Save the date for our next Robert
Todd seminar: Sunday, March 30, all day.
We're starting to take reservations for the
event. This is a first class bridge seminar.
Robert features a bidding topic in the mornings,
and a card play topic in the afternoon. The
seminar fee will be $90.
Coming up ...
Our next Sectional Tournament at Clubs
will be this coming week of March 10-16. We'll
be offering silver point games every day that
week! Card fees will be $13 to cover extra
sanction fees.
Best regards,
Mojo, Jane, Zachary
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