Play and learn

As well as teaching bridge in small groups, I host a regular online weekly supervised play and learn session on Tuesday mornings (from 9am to 11.30pm) with a faithful, fun band of students – please contact me by email if you are interested in joining these sessions – and a weekly supervised play session in Wytham Village Hall, a lovely village just off the A34 (a couple of miles to the north east of Oxford).

The Wytham sessions have been running for several years now. Play starts at 9.30am and continues until 12.15/12.30. There is plenty of free parking and tea, coffee and refreshments are provided. During each face to face session we bid and play through a series of 16 pre-dealt hands, with friendly expert supervision and advice available at every point. I provide notes on how the bidding might ideally go and the most likely outcome of each hand. This is a snapshot of the venue, which overlooks the village cricket pitch and across towards Wytham Woods.

If you think you might be interested in coming along to either the online or the face to face session, please feel free to send me an email (arb.oxford@gmail.com) to express your interest.  You will be made very welcome. For the Thursday sessions there is no need to bring a partner, although it helps if you can. Many of our regulars came on their own originally, but have since found themselves a regular partner by playing with us.

The charge for each session is £20 a heading cash or by bank transfer. Apart from complete beginners, whom we are happy to teach separately from scratch, we cater for almost any standard – come along and try us if you are not sure. It is a great chance to meet like-minded people and play some enjoyable bridge. I should add that the sessions are played the way all bridge should be played, in a good spirit. We don’t tolerate bad behaviour of any kind.

How to get to Wytham Village Hall. You can reach the village of Wytham either from the A34 heading north, via a turn off once you have passed the A420a roundabout, or from the Peartree roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road, which will take you through the village of Wolvercote and across the river towards Wytham.