Mike Lawrence to teach Beginners and Intermediates

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Mike Lawrence will be teaching on BBO for the first time!

 

Two Thursday sessions in the Beginner/Intermediate Lounge (BIL)

at 11:00 EDT on October 28 and

at noon EDT on November 4.

 

All beginning and intermediate-level BBO players are welcome to join the Lawrence sessions by registering for a 60-day free membership in the BIL at www.bilbridge.com.

 

Lawrence is a three-time world champion, whose bridge career began with an invitation by Ira Corn in 1968 to join the Dallas Aces.

 

“This was Ira’s dream,” says Lawrence, “to captain a team that would win back the world championship for the US. Our team succeeded in this, winning back-to-back championships in Stockholm and in Taiwan.” The Aces defeated the long-reigning Italian Blue Team by winning the Bermuda Bowls in 1970 and 1971.

 

Under Ira Corn's mentorship, Lawrence started teaching bridge and subsequently writing books. He has written more than 20 books since and has received numerous book-of-the-year awards starting with his first book, How to Read Your Opponents' Cards.

 

Lawrence’s “semi-forcing” contribution to the theory of 2/1 game forcing systems competes with Max Hardy’s "unconditional forcing" approach. Together, they wrote the book Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century in 2000. He also helped develop educational bridge software with our own Fred Gitelman. (Congratulations, Fred, on Diamond Team Victory!)

 

Lawrence’s many wins include 16 North American Championships, as well as the Cavendish Invitational—the largest money bridge tournament in the world.

 

Lesson Format:

Mike will have two players that he met on BBO bid five prepared hands for him.

 

Mike will be in the other two seats and will be commenting on the points of the hand and talking with his two friends.

 

For the duration of the bidding session, he won't be able to take questions but afterwards may be able to answer a few of them.

 

The topic will be competitive bidding where they are faced with an opening bid.

 

What they do and what it all means will be part of the package.

 

Questions about the teaching sessions? Please Email me

 

BIL Membership:

Processing can take 24 hours from when you fill in the Application Form - if you miss out on the first session you will be able to attend the second one. There will be no late entries accepted.

[kevlarsen]

Sounds very interesting.

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Mike's first visit to the BIL was very well received and enjoyed by those who attended.

 

Summed up by one member who said

 

what a great time with Mike Lawrence this morning - so clear, logical, and well paced. and very nice not to have time and space taken with comments from the kibs. thank you to you, Cornelia, and, of course Mike L. a terrific experience!

 

The session focused on Bidding Take Out Doubles

 

We are all looking forward to the 2nd part - Take Out Doubles Continuations Thursday November 4, 2010 - starting at NOON EST ( New York time) hope you can attend Kev