The Manhattan Bridge Club's Beginner Program

Dear Bridge Enthusiast:

After forty years at the bridge table I still feel a rush of excitement each time I pick up a hand. I can't help wondering what new adventure awaits me. I love this beautiful game.

I also love teaching it.

At my clubs we teach bridge like no one else does.

Two reasons why...

One:

As strange as it seems few teachers seem to remember that it's a game.

We don't make that mistake. We certainly don't adhere to the old fashioned rote way of teaching that requires a powerful memory, endless blackboard work, and copious note taking.

We take a much more user friendly, common sense approach. We assume nothing, not even that you know an ace from a deuce. We begin by playing "War", a game you probably played as a child. Step by step we build on that until midway through the first session you find yourself playing bridge. By the end of that first session you will have a basic understanding of how tricks are won and lost and you'll be starting to bid and play without having memorized a thing!

After seven lessons you won't be a great player, but you will have an insight into what it takes to be one. Hopefully we will have done our job and passed on to you our love for this remarkable, exciting game.

Two:

Four or five students to a class.

That's right...four or five. One table, one instructor.

That's for five of the seven sessions that make up the beginner course.

The other two sessions are group lessons. Here's where you'll get to meet everyone else starting out and be introduced to other members of our staff. You'll practice what you learned with over twenty pre-set instructional hands.

Ask around. No such program, no such 4/5 to 1 ratio exists anywhere else.

This combination of semi-private and group lessons works. We have an outstanding track record. A high percentage of our students go on to become players. Each week nearly a hundred students play in one or more of our practice sessions, and our weekly novice and intermediate games are always jammed. In the past thirty-three years we've probably created more players than anyone else.

The classes are fun. The instruction is first rate.

And I know you're going to have a great time.

I guarantee it.

The Beginner's Package:

Our complete beginner's program, designed to have you playing in either our club practice sessions or on your own with family and friends, includes the following:

Seven lessons: five hour and forty-five minute semi-private lessons, and two. two hour plus group lessons.

A great beginner book (mine).

Coffee, tea, and both heathy snacks and junk food.

The cost is $200

For more information or to have me help you find your new group, please call me at 212-845-0153 or E-mail me at manhattanbridgeclub@gmail.com.

Endless adventure and enjoyment await you!

Yours truly,

Jeff Bayone,

Manhattan Bridge Club