This class is not for beginners, nor for experts, but for all the players in between. It presents the techniques needed to be a good declarer, gives each student a chance to practice those techniques and to interactively discuss and analyze many interesting and instructive hands.

 Each lesson includes:

• Lecture (with sample hands)
• Supervised Play (prepared hands, each with a prescribed auction & lead)
• Review & discussion of the played hands
• Student Handouts include:
• Written analysis of the sample hands and the prepared deals
• Notes summarizing the Key Lesson Points 

Lesson 1: Thinking at Trick 1

•   Deductions & Inferences from the Lead
•   Deductions & Inferences from the Auction
•   Counting Winners & Losers
•   Making a Plan

Lesson 2: Reconstructing the Unseen Hands

•   Counting the Opponents' Distribution
•   Counting the Opponents' Points
•   Assumptions
•   Discovery Plays

Lesson 3: Developing Tricks

•   The Dangerous Opponent
•   Blocking & Unblocking Plays
•   Trump Management
•  Dummy Reversal

Lesson 4: True & False Cards

•  Reading the Opponents' Signals
•  "Jamming" the Opponents' Signals
•   Painting a False Picture

Lesson 5: Going With The Odds

•   Percentage Play
•   Combining Chances
•   Restricted Choice
•   When to Go Against the Odds

Lesson 6: End Plays

•   Elimination Play
•   Throw-ins
•   Trump Coups