Bridge Game, Bridge Lessons at RonKlingerBridge.com

DVD

• Advanced Bidding Technique
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For intermediate to advanced players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Learn from the best with bridge master Ron Klinger, as he takes you through advanced bidding techniques.

  Ron shows you how you can locate stoppers for no-trumps, discover how strong an opener is, and many other innovative strategies.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • Fourth suit forcing
  • How to locate the vital stopper for no-trumps
  • How to discover how strong an opener is
  • How to find secondary support
  • The value of long suit trial bids and how the technique allows you to find whether your partner has the right cards for game or slam
  • Learn the Roman Key Card Blackwood to increase the accuracy of your slam bidding

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Bidding Over Pre-empts
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners to intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Learn from the best, as Bridge master Ron Klinger helps you improve your game. Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • If your partner opens with a pre-empt, should you push on or leave it? Should you try a different suit or no-trumps? Is there any chance for a slam?
  • After an opposition pre-empt should you double, takeout, or call a suit?
  • When should you jump to game?
  • What about 3NT? What does 4NT mean?
  • If your partner has doubled a pre-empt for takeout, how should you reply?

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Card Combinations For Declarer
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For intermediate to advanced players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  On this DVD bridge master Ron Klinger shows you when to depart from recommended technique and exercise your own judgment, so you can make the most out of your hand.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again. This DVD covers:

  • How to make the most out of the cards you have been dealt
  • How to play many recurring combinations to best advantage
  • What the rules are and when to break them
  • When to finesse
  • When to play for the drop
  • When to take a first round finesse for the queen
  • How to guard against a bad break
  • How to keep a dangerous opponent off lead

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Competitive Bidding 1
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Learn from the best, as bridge master Ron Klinger takes you through the key areas of the auction, how to signal your partner, what your partner’s bids mean, and other winning bridge strategies.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • When to overcall
  • When to use a takeout double
  • How to resolve the choice between overcall and double
  • How to use jump overcalls
  • How to show the very strong hands
  • When to double in preference to a 1NT overcall or a jump overcall
  • Replying to an overcall
  • Replying to a double by a partner
  • When to bid at the cheapest level
  • When to give a jump reply
  • When to prefer no trumps

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Competitive Bidding 2
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Bridge master Ron Klinger’s lessons in competitive bidding continue with more advanced strategies like bidding in the partscore zone, when you should push to the three or four level, and how to defend against weak twos.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • The general strategy of bidding in the partscore zone
  • When to stay out of bidding and when it is essential to enter
  • How to compete
  • When to push to the three level
  • When to bid to the four level
  • The unusual 2NT overcall
  • The use of Michael’s Cue Bids and how to defend against them
  • Defending against weak twos
  • How to compete when your opponents open with a multi-two

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Defensive Play
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners, intermediate and advanced players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Are you a polished defender? This DVD can help you defeat more contracts. Declarers will have to treat you with greater respect in the future!

  Learn from the best, as Bridge master Ron Klinger helps you improve your game. Instead of getting just a single lesson, view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • How to defend in second seat and third seat
  • How to deduce your partner’s holding in a suit from the card played
  • How to recognise the basic defensive card combinations
  • Surround plays
  • How to recognise when a switch is essential
  • How to find the correct card when a shift is indicated

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Improve Your Hand Valuation
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Bridge master Ron Klinger helps you improve your hand valuation with his expert advice.

  He’ll take you through important concepts like the power of 10s, the value of honours supporting honours and how to use your opposition’s bidding to reappraise your own holdings.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • When you should upgrade your hand
  • When you should downgrade it
  • The power of 10s
  • The value of honours supporting honours
  • When you should depreciate your honours to zero
  • How to use your opposition’s bidding to reappraise your holdings
  • The losing trick count

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Opening Leads 1
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners to intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Learn from the best as bridge master Ron Klinger shows you how you can find the best opening lead with the cards you’ve been dealt.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • The basics of opening lead strategy
  • The importance of the card you play to the first trick

  
  

  Running time: approximately 75 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Opening Leads 2
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners to intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Bridge master Ron Klinger takes you through some more advanced Opening Lead strategies, including what to lead against slams, when to prefer your partner’s suit over your own, and how to read your opponents’ bidding.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can view the DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • When to avoid your normal long suit lead
  • Which suit to choose when not leading your longest
  • When to lead your partner’s suit and when to prefer your own
  • The use of lead-directing doubles
  • How to read your opponents’ bidding and avoid the danger suits
  • How to find great leads and avoid the abysmal ones
  • How to choose from the in-between ranges
  • When a singleton is a good choice and when it is poor
  • Leading against slams
  • Leading the opponents’ suit
  • When to choose a trump lead

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Responder's Strategy
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners and intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Learn the ins and outs of the strategies you should adopt as responder from the best, with bridge master Ron Klinger.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can practice the areas of the game covered on this DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • The best approach to the responder’s initial problems, whether you have less than 6 points, the weak range of 6-9 points, the troublesome 10-12 range, or have enough for game on 13 or more
  • You will learn when to bid your own suit, when to support your partner’s and when to prefer no-trumps
  • How you should order your priorities after a major suit opening or a minor suit opening and when you hold a strong or weak hand
  • What happens when there is interference by the opposition
  • How to follow up on later rounds of bidding

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Signals and Discards
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners and intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Bridge master Ron Klinger takes you through key areas of signalling your partner with concise lessons on key areas. Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can practice the areas of the game covered on this DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • Should you encourage or discourage your partner’s opening lead?
  • When should you ask for a switch?
  • How can you signal your honour card holding?
  • Signalling when declarer leads a suit
  • How to signal when discarding and what to keep
  • How to recognise which suit to retain
  • Advanced signalling methods, including reverse signals and suit preference discards

  
  

  Running time: approximately 90 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format

• Tips On Bidding
  
  
  $36.00
  
  

  By Ron Klinger

  For beginners and intermediate players

  Bridge lessons on DVD

  Get tips on bidding from the best with bridge master Ron Klinger, so you can be more accurate whenever it comes time for your next auction.

  Instead of getting just a single lesson, you can practice the areas of the game covered on this DVD again and again.

  This DVD covers:

  • Some difficult bidding situations and what to do when you find yourself in them
  • How to bid more accurately
  • Tips on signalling your partner

  
  

  Running time: approximately 85 minutes

  Playable in all regions, PAL format