Tonight at 7:15 let's play 12 hands of bridge! Reservations required please! Bring your favorite partner, or let me know and I may be able to find you one. The hands we play on Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon are /randomly shuffled/. I generate the hands using a remarkable deal generator that's capable of creating every possible bridge hand, which is an astounding feat! If you're curious about generating bridge hands, I wrote a feature article a few years ago on my site Where do the hands come from <https://bridgemojo.com/game/where-do-the-hands-come-from>. Check it out. It also has a glimpse of the machine that I use in a real bridge club to generate hands. :) Our hands on Wednesday evening are played both in our game and the Open Pairs game that starts at 7:30 (which is one reason why it's not allowed to watch ACBL games in progress). After the game (by 10:00 anyway) it's possible to compare how you bid and played a hand with how more experienced players bid and played a hand. Meanwhile, here's the link for tonight's Zoom postmortem, launching at about 8:45: Topic: Wednesday newcomers game Time: Feb 3, 2021 08:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89727466652?pwd=aXhxWWQ3dkxlNmtrZUxjbFpzUGE4dz09 Meeting ID: 897 2746 6652 Passcode: 194771 I'm going to invite my current class of new bridge players to drop in on the Zoom call tonight and consider playing bridge with us very soon. :) Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com> Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org> Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>