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Counting HCP can give more clues than you realize...

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I'm very happy to share the first video in Pam Livingston's free mini-course, Aggressive vs. Passive Defending in Bridge. The next three lesson videos in this series will be sent out to you in the next two weeks.


So many thanks to Pam for taking the time to make these for us!


If you know anyone who might enjoy these lessons, please feel free to forward this email to them - they can register here:


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Lesson 1: Count Your High Card Points

Counting the high card points as the hand proceeds gives us much needed clues to the defence. We usually know how within a narrow range how many points declarer has. Adding those points to dummy’s and our own tells us how many points our partner is likely to have.


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Watch the video and then try playing through the hand here


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If the link doesn't work above, you can watch this lesson video on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUSTuJEla1k


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Pam Livingston has represented New Zealand in the Open Section multiple times and is a current member of the New Zealand Women’s team. She is widely admired, both as a player and a teacher.


Starting in June, Pam will teach four interactive online lessons, New Tools for your Bidding Tool Box. Members of the class will be able to join the live lessons or watch via replay.

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