BridgeMojo
Classes
Pasadena Pomona Downey VBC
New rookie bridge game
We can't go to the physical bridge club, but we can still
play bridge with our friends and fellow students.As part of the new online "virtual bridge club" I'm going to be opening a game for rookie bridge players.
We'll play on Wednesday evenings at 7:15 p.m., on Bridge Base Online (BBO), https://www.bridgebase.com. The first game is this Wednesday!
The game format will be somewhere between 8 and 12 hands, enough to play for no more than two hours. The hands will be randomly shuffled — no idea what to expect!
I'm planning to have a Zoom meeting after each game so we can celebrate victories and cry over defeats. We can talk about what went right and what went wrong.
I expect to have many single players looking for partnerships, and hopefully enough standby players to have full tables.
I'm building a separate email list wed-night@bridgemojo.com to make weekly game announcements. I'll be taking reservations for the game.
Each session will deduct $4 from your BBO account, so you'll want to have at least that much in the account before we start.
Would you like to be on the email list? Just reply to this note and say so!
Saturday morning mini lessons
Every Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. we have a non-Life
Master (0-500) game on BBO, and last Saturday I started the
first of a 20-minute mini bridge lesson at 9:30 a.m.I'm doing a series of topics on the subject of defender card play. These sessions are on Zoom, they're free, and anyone anywhere is welcome to join in.
If you're on the email list for the virtual bridge club or the Wednesday night games, I'll be sending a Zoom invitation on Friday before each class, and mention the topic for the day.
Fall Bridge Basics courses through
PCC
I just (today) got approval to offer three of the popular
Bridge Basics courses online through PCC Extension.All of the courses will be on Tuesday evenings, starting August 25.
The three courses will be Introduction to Bridge, Popular Conventions, and Competitive Bidding.
I've been practicing offering these topics online using Zoom and Bridge Base Online, and finding that some things are actually easier to explain online than at a physical card table. I'm not sure how that very first class is going to work yet, but I have a few weeks to work on it!
Nothing is available yet for enrollment. They're just putting together the catalog now. As soon as things are ready I'll drop another note here. I'll also update the web site with lots of class information.
I'm thinking that the Tuesday evening classes will work very nicely with the Wednesday evening bridge games. We should have more, and easier, ways to get together, practice, and play this great game!
Final note: No! I haven't yet had a haircut. I should really make a new head shot, no?
Best regards,
Mojo