This video really helped me a lot. I am fairly new to bridge and I've started getting the hang of the bidding, but I just couldn't get the play of the hand right. The idea that your count your losers in a trump suit and your winners in NT really helped me a ton. Thanks, this was great.
Thank you Pete for all the videos, I can only say that I have learned a lot from the vast majority of them. I'm currently teaching the basics of bridge to a few colleagues from work, as I want to recruit new (and younger) members for our local club. Please can you let me know if the boards you used in this video are available for download somewhere on the net. I was looking for resources with simple files to teach the basics and these are great for the purpose. Thanks a lot, really appreciated.
Thanks for the quick reply Pete, it is indeed complicated to extract boards from BBO 😀 I was hoping you might have found them somewhere and downloaded them as a lin file. I'll keep digging and/or create my own boards on BBO (time consuming).
You have no chance of keeping those players unless you teach in a classroom environment with a physical whiteboard. If you can't teach the concepts that way, your students will never be able to apply it to the table, and I guarantee they will give up inside of a month. That's why bridge has become irrelevant and is dying: My observation is that bridge teachers as a rule have no concept how to ease non-players into the game and refuse to accept that beginners are easily confused, especially because rubber rules are not the ruleset of choice anymore.
@@journeymanproject1756 There's no need to be insulting. Pete does a great deal of very instructive videos. If you disagree with his approach, simply don't watch.
