 CAMBODIA ONLINE SILENT AUCTION
More than 100 wonderful items!
Patti Lee, Ann Katz, Enid Roitman, Linda Ujihara, Anne Lloyd and Stephanie Breed have been working so hard on this Silent Auction. It represents hours of preparation. And the donors! Wow. They have been amazing!
Your donations/participation will help support four schools in rural Cambodia, provide toilets for impoverished families and assist us to bring clean water to rural Health Centres with wells and water towers!
Please mark the dates in your calendar and
watch for an email on 5th or 6th October,
telling you how to get to the online silent auction.
It is SO much fun. Do get involved!!!
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LAOS Bridge Lesson FUNDRAISER on Zoom!
Be a Better Declarer
Plus the notes & recording
ALL Proceeds Go To Adopt A Village In Laos
Donations Of $125 CAD (approx $100.00 USD) and over receive a tax receipt. You will also be sent a picture of the family who receives the water filter and your name will be on the filter!
Enjoy the lesson AND notes from the comfort of your home!
Click here to purchase!
Note: There Is A 5% Credit Card Processing Fee On All Online Payments.
If you are Canadian and prefer to pay by email transfer,
send payment to AKORNEL@SYMPATICO.CA AND also send email to BARBARASEAGRAM@GMAIL.COM with full postal code as well as email address for receipt.
Checks payable to "Adopt a Village in Laos" may also be mailed to:
Barbara Seagram, 220 Lawrence Ave East, Toronto, ON M4N 1T2
If you have any questions at all, please feel free to email barbaraseagram@gmail.com
or call us: +1 (416)487-8321 for assistance!
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NOW AVAILABLE
Counting At Bridge
Imagine if you knew the exact shape of your opponent's hand without even peekkng! Learn how to do this and make all those tough contracts your partner put you in! This lesson will take you to the next level of your bridge excellence.
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ONLY $25.00 CDN
NOW AVAILABLE
Reverses & Other Challenges At Bridge
Reverse is not a scary word! Unravel its mysteries! Then we play lots of hands, guiding you through aspects of declarer play, bidding and defense.
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ONLY $25.00 CDN
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End Plays Made
$CAD $USD | 
An Intro To Two Over One
$CAD $USD |
 FREE Introduction to Bridge Lesson
Watch Barbara's FREE video of an introductory class.
Approx. 28 minutes.
A taste of bridge for brand new players!
NOTE: The video is NOT designed for people to take lessons from me or at our school.
It is for players everywhere to seek out bridge lessons in their community and YOU can help them to find those lessons! Please send this link ( https://youtu.be/V033as-0bCQ ) out to your friends, family, bank teller(!) and anyone else you come into contact with.
If you care about the future of our game, you will promote bridge everywhere and try to get people back to your local club(s).
Watch the Video!! https://youtu.be/V033as-0bCQ |
 
SEVEN NIGHTS ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING ALL YOUR MEALS & DRINKS
There are limited rooms so book early.
This is a smaller tournament. Very friendly and fabulous. It will be sold out so book now.
UPDATE: The Barbados Beach Club is now waitlisted. There are STILL availablities at the Sunbay Hotel which is across the street. So many have stayed there before and enjoyed it just as much. If you stay there, you will have access to the beach at Barbados Beach Club. Sunbay is also all-inclusive and the price is a bit less at $1120.00 USD (dbl occ) $1435.00 USD (sgl occ) all inclusive.
View MAIN TRIPS PAGE or PDF for more details!
 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR
(American Bridge Teachers’ Association)
Barbara's Newest Book (# 36)
PLAY IT SAFE
 Playing party bridge or teams, declarer's objective is to make his/her contract -- nothing else matters. Playing it safe is of vital importance.
Yet playing safe can take many forms -- it might involve simply choosing the best line of play, or keeping one opponent off lead, preserving entries, or even giving up a trick you don't have to lose, all in the cause of bringing that contract home securely.
Playing matchpoints (regular duplicate bridge), there are times when safety is more important than anything else.
Recognizing all these situations, and knowing what to do when you encounter them, will improve your bridge scores by leaps and bounds.
Retail: $25.00 On special: $22.00 CAD.
$20.00 USD Postage extra.
You can also pick up at 220 Lawrence Ave East, Toronto. (Near Yonge & Lawrence)
OR you may order from our online store but above is best for us.
25 BRIDGE CONVENTIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW
My completely revised book: 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know is now in stock!
NEW & FULLY REVISED & REWRITTEN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1999
Cost:
- $24.00 (reg $27.95 CAD $)
- $20.00 (reg $21.95 USD $)
Plus postage OR pick up from our home at 220 Lawrence Ave East, Toronto
Live in Canada? Click here to purchase
Live in USA? Click here to purchase
If you prefer to pay by email transfer or check, please email me and I can easily arrange that.
BRAND NEW LESSON BY BARBARA
AVAILABLE NOW!
Clues: Become A Deadly Declarer
- What did they Bid?
- What did they lead?
- What did they play?
- What do they have?
This is the lesson that I gave in person on Oct 13 this fall. But it is now recorded as an onscreen presentation as many of you asked me to do. In person, we could only manage six hands, here we will do 14 hands!!!
If I do a Zoom live class, we can manage 9 hands usually so you are getting maximum value for a recorded lesson such as this.
You can watch part of it and then take a day or two off or an hour or two. Then you can return to the recording and it will pick up where you left off. All in the comfort of your own home!
To purchase this, click on links below: You will then be sent a link to the recording and the full set of notes that goes with this. This is being done through my online store. The recording will not be on your account but it will be available at all times through the link you will be sent. AND if you lose it, I will send it again, very quickly. Just ask.
Cost is $25.00. It is 2 hrs and 18 minutes.
Live in Canada? Click here to purchase
Live in USA? Click here to purchase
If you prefer to pay by email transfer or check, please email me and I can easily arrange that.
NOW AVAILABLE - OCTOBER 2021 LESSONS
New Minor Forcing
- This is a very important convention that you need in your arsenal.
- Barbara Seagram makes it easy to learn.
Click here to purchase!
ONLY $25.00 CDN (approx. $19.00 USD)
NOW AVAILABLE - SEPTEMBER 2021 LESSONS
Timing and Magic in Declarer Play Lessons
- Watch the spots and learn to develop extra tricks like magic.
Suit contracts and NT contracts. To pull or not to pull (trumps that is). All that and more...
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ONLY $55.00 CDN (approx. $44.00 USD)
NOTE: $25.00 goes to Water filters in Laos charity.
NOW AVAILABLE - JUNE 2021 LESSONS
- Big Hand Bidding and Play
(2 hour Recorded Video Lesson + Notes)
- Judgement at Bridge
(2 hour Recorded Video Lesson + Notes)
If you do not know how to evaluate and revalue your hand, you will miss a whole lot of games and you will also miss lots of slams. You simply have to get a few realities cemented right now, if not sooner. Avoid errors in judgement and improve your bidding, declarer play and defense.
Click here to purchase!
ONLY $55.00 CDN (approx. $44.00 USD)
The site will automatically convert to USD on your credit card
if you are in USA.
FULL access to the lesson recording for an unlimited time
 BOOK OF THE YEAR: Barbara’s Bridge Tips
Whether you have been playing for a while or you’re not very experienced, this book will help you to move your game up to the next level.
The tips cover all aspects of bridge — bidding, play and defense. Advice and examples are drawn from material Barbara Seagram has developed for her students over the last twenty years — it’s like having your own personal bridge coach sitting beside you!
$22.00 CAD + postage
Or
$20.00 USD + postage
Email Barbara ( ) to order
or
pick up from Barbara in Toronto!
This is my fourth time winning the Book of The Year award and I am thrilled. "Barbara's Bridge Tips" is my first solo book. It was my Editor's (Ray Lee) idea and he
was an enormous help.
HOT OFF THE PRESS! BARBARA'S QUIZZES
$22.00 CAD but on special for $18.00 CAD
or $16.00 USD
plus postage (if you cannot pick up in Toronto)
Pick up in Toronto is at 220 Lawrence Ave East (between Bayview & Mt Pleasant)
I cannot tell you how excited I am about this new book. SO much work has gone into it. This is the preface:
When I first began to learn this wonderful game of ours, it was explained to me by my teachers that the key to successful bridge is not being more brilliant than your opponents. In the long run, you will win more games by making fewer errors than they do. If you and your partner are communicating effectively (making bids that state your shape and values accurately) then your partnership will reach the right contract (and, even better, keep your opponents from theirs) more often.
Time and time again, in my bridge career, I have found this advice to be proved only too true. But how do you make sure your bidding is up to scratch?
The answer is easy:
1. You buy this book, and
2. You do the quizzes
And, because you are serious about your bridge, you score 100% (well done!)
And then...and this is the important part... you make sure partner does the quizzes as well. (I would suggest buying partner another copy of this book because I know you will not want to risk losing this one!)
You may have to work with partner until partner does as well as you. But, I promise, this journey will be worthwhile.
All kidding aside, I've written this book so you have a fun way of finding out how much of modern bridge bidding fundamentals you have mastered. It is also a tool that will help you identify and improve any areas of your game that may need some work. I suspect (and am hoping) you will want to share this with your regular partner.
There is some similarity to some of the Covid quizzes but these have all been completely revised, and reworked. The answers are far more comprehensive and this is now such a great learning tool.
I urge you not to write the answers in the book but to use a scrap of paper because you will want to return to the book time and time again to see how much your bridge has improved.
Comment from recent purchasers...
Barbara
So, Rogers thought they 'did me in!' ..no Internet,no land line, no cell phone, no t.v. and there i am....stranded. But, Rogers forgot about Barbara Seagram's Bridge Quizzes.
I lay on my sofa with your bridge quizzes and enjoyed the whole afternoon and evening thanks to you.Not to mention that I learned a lot.
-- All the best. I hope you have a wonderful weekend wherever you are.
Irene
Hi Barbara
I was visiting Toronto for a grandchild's wedding. My children then drove me around to show me where i might like to live when i move there in April.
Actually I thought I should live with you and after 6 months of intensive instruction i would emerge as the 'white swan' of bridge.
I don't remember the flight on Air Canada to and from Wpg. to Toronto and return because i took your new Barbara's Quizzes with me. I started the first page as we were taking off and suddenly I was in Toronto. By the way i also learned a lot. The quizzes were really fun to do and then test myself.
Barbara, you make everything sound so easy and so logical.
All the best and thanks for the Quizzes. xxNora 2 Ways to ORDER
Order by emailing Barbara
- In Canada, you may pay by etransfer to AKORNEL@SYMPATICO.CA.
But email me so that we have all your details
- Americans, you can mail a check to:
Barbara Seagram,
220 Lawrence Ave East,
Toronto, ON M4N 1T2 CANADA.
But email first so we can get the book on the way to you.
OR you may order from our online store but above is best for us.
Trick or Treat with the Lug Pumpkin Tote
Lug has created the perfect Pumpkin Tote for Halloween and by purchasing this bag, you will be supporting the Child Life program @ SickKids.
On October 2 through 9th, 2022, Lug will host special Lug Live shows in support of Child Life at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).
Each show will feature the Lug Pumpkin Tote and all proceeds from the sale will be donated to SickKids.
3 Ways to GET YOURS!!!
VIEW PDF for details!!!
Email Barbara to ORDER:
or
CALL 416-487-8321
SPECIAL:
BUY 4 CHEAT SHEETS: $40.00
or
ALL 5 CHEAT SHEETS: $48.00
Special is on until October 31, 2022
Barbara Seagram's DOUBLES CHEAT SHEET
Takeout doubles, Negative Doubles, Support Doubles, Redoubles, Lead Directing Doubles, Lightner Doubles, Responsive Doubles, Penalty Doubles
  Available in person at our Bridge Studio, or by email to
MY TWO OVER ONE CHEAT SHEET IS NOW OUT!Everything you need to know about this system, in a nutshell. Simply explained. Why you need to know the system that has swept North America by storm!
· What is the Forcing No Trump
· Questions to agree on with partner
· Recommended conventions you should consider playing
· Opener's rebid after Forcing 1NT
· Rebids by Responder after bidding Forcing 1NT
· Raising Partner's Major
· Tips to Help you Learn 2/1
· Semi-Forcing No Trump & an alternative approach
· Fourth Suit Forcing
· Quizzes
And lots more!
Comment from a recent purchaser...
Hi Barbara
YOUR CHEAT SHEETS are saving my life; they are wonderful!!!!! You can quote me. !!! They are so to the point and so easy to understand; invaluable if you are unsure
LF Contact Barbara by email
to order cheat sheets or books.
If you don't have Barbara's other cheat sheets, we will be happy to send these out to you. Just send us your postal mailing address and we will send.
When you receive the package, have a look to see cost of postage on outside of packet. Send us a cheque for cost of the product and add the postage. Sorry but we do not take credit cards.
 
2022 marks our 12th year of working to support schools, education,
sanitation and the villagers in Cambodia!
Did you know? The Laos Water Filters last for over 12 years,
with very little care and maintenance!
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TODAY
 NOW AVAILABLE - LESSON WITH BARBARA OPENING LEADS
Click here to purchase!
ONLY $25.00 CAD (approx. $20.00 USD)
The site will automatically convert to USD on your credit card
if you are in USA.
FULL access to the lesson recording
for an unlimited time
The opening lead is so very important. It communicates so much to partner and often sets the tone for the entire contract.
This one card can explain the triumphs or the disasters for the defenders on any given hand.
2 hour bridge training + Barb's Notes!
Purchase and watch anytime afterwards.
 TWO HOUR LIVE LESSONS
Defensive Thinking & Strategy
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ONLY $50.00 CAD (approx. $40.00 USD) total
for both recordings. (i.e. $25.00 CAD each)
FULL access to the recordings for an unlimited time
Receive a full set of notes too!
Purchase and watch anytime afterwards.
Each lesson has some guiding principles, followed by play of hand with commentary all the way.
TWO 1 HOUR RECORDINGS
1. Balancing
2. Michaels Cuebid & Unusual NoTrump
 ONLY $25.00 CAD
(approx. $19.00 USD) total
for both recordings.
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THESE RECORDINGS
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Barbara's first book in this series (also co-authored by David Bird) won Book of the Year Award by the American Bridge Teachers' Association: Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand. 
The Pocket Guide to Even More Bridge Conventions
Says Seagram,
