Learn and Play Saturday held on September 26th

Topic: Support Doubles

Teacher: Susan McMahon 

Venue: Wodonga Senior Citizens Centre

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

Wow. This literary adage from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” applies to playing bridge when using doubles in an auction for there are numerous types of doubles and redoubles that can dramatically improve your score or send you down the slippery slope when you fail to make the double.

This Saturday September 26^th, Susan McMahon from the Wagga Wagga Club, provided a lesson on Supporting Doubles that has a very exact message for your partner.

Susan illustrated numerous examples on the whiteboard of bidding and using of Supporting Doubles. The double is used when the opener starts with one of a major suit, the responder makes a new suit reply, and the next player interferes. The goal of the double is to show an exact three card major trump support, which can be invaluable for your partner in responding.

A practice session of supporting doubles followed. Lunch was a variety of salads and quiches with enough variety to ensure there was something for all tastes. A fruit platter and our usual refreshments were on tap. Afternoon tea included scones with jam and cream.

Wendy Stanford thanked Susan on behalf of the Wodonga Bridge Club and presented her with a beautiful pot plant for her efforts. Susan replied that she enjoyed teaching beyond the Wagga Wagga Bridge Club and reminded  us that the web site www.bridgebum.com is particularly a good reference for bridge lessons – particularly for Supporting Doubles which was today’s topic.

The afternoon was occupied by a duplicate tournament and the results were as follows:

Our Learn and Play Day was really successful and did not meet the same end of chaos and death as the prophecy from “Macbeth” foretold!

Many thanks are extended to our members who willingly contribute in : furniture arranging, food provision, the dealing and the numerous arrangements required in running such an event.

Saturday November 14th