Welcome to the BridgePlus web site!

BridgePlus meets on Fridays at 11:00 am and on Sundays at 1:30 pm at the Bridge Center of Austin, 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd., 512-300-2743.

Friday director is Mike Harris, mharris59@austin.rr.com, 512-215-9009.

Sunday director is BJ Sanders, bjinaustin@gmail.com, 512-327-6078.

Anyone with less than 50 masterpoints may play. You may come with or without a partner. Entry fee is normally $6 ($7 for some charity games.)

BridgePlus is oriented toward the newer player who would like to play and learn in a gentle, friendly environment. Each session begins with a short lesson. We then play duplicate bridge for about 2.5 hours. Players may ask bidding/play questions of the director at any time.

 

Below are some lesson handouts from past Sunday sessions of Bridge Plus. Click to view or download.

• Balancing - bidding after two consecutive passes in low-level auction
• Use of CUE BIDS in competitive auctions
• Forcing and Non-forcing Bids
• Major suit game tries
• Jacoby Transfer - basics (courtesy of Laura Delfeld)
• More on Jacoby Transfers
• Key-Card Blackwood - Improve your slam bidding
• The Negative Double
• Opening Leads
• Overcalls
• Preemptive Bids
• The Takeout Double
• The Strong 2C opening and responses
• Third-Hand Play (behind dummy)
• Responding to an opening bid (quiz)

Here are the hands that were played at the beginning of the Sunday session in past weeks, along with hand analysis.

• Jan 16 2011 Hands
• Jan 23 2011 Hands
• Feb 6 2011 Hands
• Feb 13 2011 Hands
• Feb 20 2011 Hands
• Feb 27 2011 Hands
• March 13 2011 Hands
• March 20 2011 Hands
• April 3 2011 Hands
• April 10 2011 Hands
• May 1 2011 Hands
• May 8 2011 Hands
• May 29 2011 Hands
• June 5 2011 Hands
• June 12 2011 Hands
• June 19 2011 Hands
• June 26 2011 Hands
• July 3 2011 Hands
• July 10 2011 Hands
• July 24 2011 Hands
• July 31 2011 Hands
• August 7 2011 Hands
• August 28 2011 Hands
• Sept 4 2011 Hands
• Sept 11 2011 Hands
• Sept 18 2011 Hands

Other web sites Austin bridge players should visit:

• The Future Life Master newsletter for newer duplicate bridge players
• Unit 207 Web Site. Information on upcoming special games and tournaments in the Austin area and beyond. Results of club games, special games and tournaments. Player photos, email and phone lists, links to the ACBL, etc.
• Bridge Center of Austin Web Site.
• Bridgeclues. Daily lesson hands by Mike Lawrence, a top player & teacher.
• Richard Pavlicek's bridge site. Excellent tutorials and quizzes.
• Playbridge.com. Use the "Advanced Generator" to generate tailor-made hands for bidding practice.