MIke Lawrence returns to the BIL

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Mike Lawrence ( MIKESL on BBO) will hold another 2 hr session in the Beginner/Intermediate Lounge (BIL) on BBO

for Beginner and Intermediate Players

 

on SUNDAY December 5 at 15:00 EST( New York time)

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.

 

The tutorials from his first two in BIL sessions are availabe for members of the BIL to study in the BIL Library www.bilbridge.com > Explore BIL > Teaching Sessions > Mikesl

 

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 take all 4 seats and the 2 hour Lecture will focus on ten things that new players should get right now and not have to unlearn later.

 

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.

 

CHICK ( Cornelia ) will BILAssist on the day and all questions should be sent to her via private chat - please follow her instructions. When asked a question in relation to the lecture send your answers directly to CHICK not to the table.

 

 

Please Note:Everyone will need some of the yellow sticky 'post it' notes ( or similar) to be able to stick on your computer monitor to cover specific hands as directed on the day.

 

The software does not allow you to kib both E/W hands but not see the N/S hands at a BBO teaching table.

 

Mike wants you to be able to do that to get the most out of the lesson.

 

Questions about the teaching sessions? Please Email me - admin@bilbridge.com

 

BIL Membership:

Processing can take 24 hours from when you fill in the Application Form on www.bilbridge.com . There will be no late entries accepted.