Fall Bridge Weekend

October 4 & 5, 2008

Bridge at Ginger Creek, Champaign IL

Advance your game to the next level:

A full weekend of workshops and duplicate games to help you tune up your partnership agreements, improve your play skills and think like an expert.

Program

Friday, October 3, 2008

7:00 pm -- Duplicate game -- Individual movement (optional).

Saturday, October 4, 2008

9:30 am -- Coffee and pastries
10:00 -- Partnership Bidding Workshop: "Expert Standard" style and agreements for all partnerships
Noon -- Lunch on your own
1:00 pm -- Duplicate pair game -- full sectional rating with hand records
4:00 -- Analysis and discussion of game hands
            Partnership Bidding Workbook & Quiz
7:00 -- (optional) Informal group dinner and discussion (bridge, politics, football, whatever!) at Biaggi's Restaurant

Sunday, October 5, 2008

9:00 am -- Breakfast
9:30 -- Partnership Quiz "answers" and discussion
10:15 -- Declare and Defend Workshop: Tips and techniques you can use every time you play
Noon -- Sandwich lunch from Jimmy John's
12:30 pm -- Duplicate pair game -- full sectional rating with hand records
3:30 -- Analysis and discussion of game hands

Tips and techniques for advanced -- and advancing -- players.

Lessons will be presented by Karen Walker. The focus will be on developing advanced bidding judgment and play skills, but the workshops and discussions will feature ideas that can benefit a wide range of experience levels, from bright beginners to long-time Life Masters.

Win masterpoints, too.

The Saturday and Sunday duplicate games offer full sectional rating (black points) and will include instructional hands to illustrate at-the-table uses of the workshop tips. The two-day workshop fee also includes an entry in the Individual duplicate game on Friday night (club championship rating). Advance notice is needed if you plan to play on Friday night.

Sign up with your partner or join as a single.

Partners will be available. The workshops will feature concepts can be applied in any partnership and any system, along with tips for improving individual decisions. If your favorite partner(s) can't attend, you can bring home the ideas and Partnership Bidding Workbook and use them in discussions with all your partners.

Fee:  $75 per person ($50 for students age 25 and under), which includes:

  Two days of lessons

  Saturday and Sunday duplicate games with sectional-rated masterpoint awards

  Friday-night Individual (optional; advance reservation needed)

  Lesson packet, workshop materials, Partnership Bidding Workbook and game hand records

  Coffee and refreshments

  Breakfast and lunch on Sunday

One-day registrations are also available:  $40 for Saturday or $50 for Sunday.

Questions?
Contact the instructors:


Karen Walker

 
Mike Halvorsen

Phone: 217-359-0042

Email: kwbridge@comcast.net

To sign up: Fill out this form (or a facsimile) and send with your check to Karen Walker, 2121 Lynwood Dr., Champaign IL 61821. Please reserve by September 24. 

Registration for Fall Bridge Weekend -- October 4 & 5, 2008 -- Champaign IL

Name                                                                                                                      No. of masterpoints:

Address

Phone                                                  Email

Enclosed:  ___ $75 for the full weekend    or   ___ $40 for Saturday    or   ____$50 for Sunday

Do you need a partner for Saturday & Sunday?     NO       YES  (Partner's name: ____________________________)         NOT SURE

Will you be playing in the Friday-night Individual?     NO          YES