Bernard Magee Bridge – Week 121 – Defence At Pairs

[Mark Williams]

Monday, 17 October 2022

I hope you are enjoying Bernard Magee Bridge.

This week your topic of Defence at Pairs continues.

Please do email any example hands – Bernard likes to have hands from real games to demonstrate his ideas.

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WEEK 121 – CONTENT GUIDE:
Once you have logged in to fourmstaging.duqakibfdx.cloudpages.xyz, you will arrive at your ‘My Homepage’ where you will see the latest BMB UPDATES. Under this you will have large red buttons that will take you to all the new weekly content – designed in bitesize modules:

• LIVE SHOWS
• QUIZZES
• HANDS (OF THE WEEK)
• BIG SEMINAR & SET HANDS (MONTHLY)

The COMMUNITY Forums and Facebook Group are also regularly updated.

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Playing Set Hands on BBO:
The Set Hands are available for you to play online through Bernard’s organised BBO sessions. If you have not played the set hands yet, here are all the opportunities to play them (also on the BMB CALENDAR):

October

18 – TUESDAY           2pm
19 – WEDNESDAY    11am
20 – THURSDAY        8pm
22 – SATURDAY        11am

25 – TUESDAY           2pm
26 – WEDNESDAY    11am
27 – THURSDAY        8pm
29 – SATURDAY        11am

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The LIN and PBN files are available to download from the website. They are at the bottom of the ‘big’ Seminar page, underneath the 8 Set Hands videos.

You would only use these if you want to use your own software, or you want to organise a private game on BBO.
[note: See the HELP MENU for guides on using the LIN and PBN files.]

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BMB Bridge Club

BBO:
We have one 16 board game on Monday evening at 7.30pm.


CASUAL BRIDGE:
Casual bridge is still being played in the Pogo Bridge Refugees Club at the regular times.

Check the times of all of our bridge sessions on the BMB CALENDAR or on our BridgeWebs page.

Please email [email protected] with any feedback you have.

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Bernard is at Two Bridges and has pre-recordedthis week’s 11am show covering the theme ofDefence at Pairs.

Make sure you tune in early so you don’tmiss anything: https://bit.ly/3BUM1DO

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Our events this week:

MONDAY 11am pre-recorded – subject is Defence at Pairs
THURSDAY 7:30pm – Bernard plays TEAMS LIVE on BBO [commentary on the website].  Please note the change of day to Thursday for teams this week as Bernard will be travelling on the Wednesday.
FRIDAY 11am – subject is Third Hand Bidding (Part 1)

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To access the LIVE SHOWS via the website:

• Log in to fourmstaging.duqakibfdx.cloudpages.xyz
• Click the yellow ‘Live Shows’ card – this takes you to the next Live Show
• Click the ‘triangle’ play button in the middle of the screen to play the live video and then wait for the show to start
• ALTERNATIVELY if you want to view with the ‘Live Chat’ please click the large red button under the video screen (without clicking the ‘triangle’ button) and this will take you to a new page on YouTube with the Live Chat – you will need to ‘Subscribe’ to the page in order to be involved in the Live Chat

You can also get to the ‘Live Show’ from the ‘BMB Bridge Hub’:

• Click BMB Bridge Hub
  
• Click on ‘Live Shows & Archives’ card
• Click the ‘triangle’ play button in the middle of the screen to play the live video and then wait for the show to start

 

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To access the LIVE SHOW ARCHIVES via the website:

• Log in to fourmstaging.duqakibfdx.cloudpages.xyz
• Click the yellow ‘Live Shows’ card – this takes you to the page showing the next Live Show
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see: MONDAY LIVE ARCHIVE; FRIDAY LIVE ARCHIVE; TEAMS ARCHIVE

You can also get to the ‘Live Show Archives’ from the ‘BMB Bridge Hub’:

• Click BMB Bridge Hub
  
• Click on ‘Live Shows & Archives’ card
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see: MONDAY LIVE ARCHIVE; FRIDAY LIVE ARCHIVE; TEAMS ARCHIVE

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NEWS:

• Congratulations to this week’s Prize Quiz winner:   Edith Brosnan

 

WEBSITE UPDATES:

• We have made some changes to help you navigate BMB content more easily via the BMB Bridge Hub. This is now the central hub to access all bridge areas of BMB. So, if you ever get lost, simply click BMB Bridge Hub from the main menu on any page.
• We are continuing to do a lot of work to improve your experience on BMB. Part of this involves transitioning all members to our new management system which will give you much greater control over all your membership details. You may receive an email from BMB requesting you to contact us to update certain details. If you are ever concerned that an email from Bernard Magee Bridge is not genuine, you can check the contact details given on the email against those on the website. Always feel able to call us to check on 01344 205120.

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Thank you

Bernard Magee

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