Several of Barbara Seagram's books are now available for download as an eBook. Visit Barbara Seagram's author page at www.ebooksbridge.com from Master Point Press.

Bridge books and software are available by contacting us by email at bseagram@uniserve.com or calling (416)487-8321.

Planning The Play of a Bridge Hand (Interactive Software) (B. Seagram) New!
Pocket Guide to Conventions You Should Know (B. Seagram & M. Smith) New!
25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (B. Seagram & M. Smith) Bestseller!
25 MORE Bridge Conventions You Should Know (B. Seagram & D. Bird) New!
Practice Your Slam Bidding CD-ROM (B. Seagram & L. Lee) New!
Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand (B. Seagram & D. Bird) New!
Pocket Guide to Bridge (by B. Seagram & R. Lea)
Barbara Seagram's Revised Bridge Cheat Sheet
Barbara Seagram's Advanced Bridge Cheat Sheet
Beginning Bridge (by B. Seagram & L. Lee)
25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding (B. Seagram & M. Smith)
25 Ways to Take More Tricks as a Declarer (B. Seagram & D. Bird)
25 Ways to be a Better Defender (B. Seagram & D. Bird)
Stayman Auctions (B. Seagram & L. Lee)
Jacoby Transfers (B. Seagram & A. Stark)
Four Suit Transfers (B. Seagram & A. Stark)

Practice Your Bidding Series
Jacoby 2NT (B. Seagram, L. Lee & A. Stark)
Roman Keycard Blackwood (B. Seagram, L. Lee & A. Stark)
Splinter Bids (B. Seagram, L. Lee & A. Stark)

Planning The Play of a Bridge Hand (New!)

by Barbara Seagram ($29.95 incl. tax) (Reg: $34.95 plus tax)

The book on which this CD-ROM is based won the 2010 ABTA Book of the Year award. Now in interactive software, the user can play through all the examples onscreen, going through them as many times as necessary to understand the principles involved. This is an excellent piece of software for novice and intermediate players.

Pocket Guide to Conventions You Should Know (New!)

by Barbara Seagram ($10.00)

Using the same format as The Pocket Guide to Bridge, this book will provide a handy pocket summary of a number of popular bidding conventions. In a concise but readable manner, it summarizes the ideas presented in 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know from the same author team - a book that is now the bestselling bridge title of the last 50 years (almost 150,000 copies sold in four languages).

Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand

Barbara Seagram & David Bird ($22.95)
Winner of Book of the Year Award 2010

Do you get that terrible sinking feeling when you first see dummy? Does your mind go blank as everyone waits for you to play to the first trick? If so, you're not alone.
Beginning bridge players are taught some of the basic techniques of declarer play: suit establishment, ruffing losers, the finesse, and so forth. The hard part is learning what to do when. In the dreaded moment following the opening lead, the typical novice declarer has no idea where to start. Yet the key to success is simple: before playing from dummy at Trick 1, make a plan.

In this book, two of the world's best bridge teacher/authors explain how to go about making a plan as declarer, using a simple step-by-step process. Readers will learn how to decide what to do on a given deal, both in notrump contracts and suit contracts. By the end of the book, even the most inexperienced declarer will be comfortable with more advanced material, such as entry management and counting the hand.

(Now in Interactive Software also)

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (Bestseller!)

by Barbara Seagram & Marc Smith ($21.95 CAD)

"It doesn't get any better ..."
-- Eddie Kantar

BARBARA SEAGRAM is the former owner and operator of Toronto's oldest bridge studio. Each year, she teaches over one thousand students to enjoy bridge. She has been awarded Master Teacher status by the American Contract Bridge Teacher's Association.

MARC SMITH writes monthly columns for Bridge and Bridge Plus magazines in Britain and for the OKbridge Spectator on the Internet. He occasionally writes for the ACBL Bridge Bulletin and is an expert bidding forum panelist for numerous magazines. Among his recent books are World Class (1999), Countdown to Winning Bridge (1999, with Tim Bourke), and the Bridge Technique series (with David Bird).

The topics covered in this book include:
Balancing
Blackwood & Gerber
Cuebid Raises
Control-showing Cuebids
Fourth-Suit Forcing
Grand Slam Force
Help Suit Game Tries
Jacoby & Texas Major-suit Transfers
Jacoby 2NT as a Major-suit Raise
Landy 2C over an Opponent's 1NT
Lebensohl after a 1NT Opening is Overcalled
Lead-directing Doubles
Michaels Cuebids & Unusual Notrump
Negative Doubles
New Minor Forcing
Ogust Responses to Weak Two-Bids
Responsive Doubles
Reverse Drury
Reverses
Roman Key Card Blackwood
Splinter Bids
Stayman
Takeout Doubles
Two Clubs Strong Artificial Opening
Weak Two-Bids

25 MORE Bridge Conventions You Should Know (New!)

by Barbara Seagram & David Bird ($21.95 CAD)

If you're comfortable with the material in Barbara Seagram's best-selling first book, then you're ready to move on to the more sophisticated bidding gadgets in this one. Even if you don't want to add all these to your own system, you need to be familiar with them because you'll find your opponents using them. Once again, each convention is clearly and simply explained, and you'll see how it fits into any standard bidding system if you decide to use it. Each chapter includes a helpful summary of the key points and a quiz with full explanations of the answers.

CONVENTIONS:
- Ace-and-king (Italian) cuebidding
- Bergen Raises
- Cappelletti
- D.O.N.T.
- DOPI, ROPI and DEPO
- Exclusion Blackwood
- Fit-showing Jumps
- Flannery
- Forcing 1NT
- Four-suit transfers
- Gambling 3NT
- Ingberman
- Inverted Minor Raises
- Leaping Michaels
- Multi Two Diamonds
- Namyats
- Pick-a-slam 5NT
- Puppet Stayman
- Responding to Three-bids
- Snapdragon Doubles
- SOS and other Redoubles
- Stayman continuations
- Support Doubles
- Unusual over Unusual
- Weak Jump Shifts

Practice Your Slam Bidding CD-ROM (New!)

by Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee ($29.95 CAD)

IBM compatible PC
Windows
16 MB RAM
10 MB Hard Disk Space
CD-ROM
min. 800 x 600 screen res.

This CD-ROM is an interactive companion to three books in the Practice Your Bidding series by Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee: Jacoby 2NT, Roman Keycard Blackwood, and Splinter Bids. It includes:

- All the material , hands and quizzes from the books
- Interactive bidding with a computer partner
- Complete hand diagram printouts for all examples (great for teachers!)
- Software that will produce as many more practice hands as you want, and then bid them with you

Pocket Guide to Bridge

by Barbara Seagram & R. Lee ($10.00)

Do you need a quick hint about what to bid? Do you know what you are supposed to lead from KJ10x? Do you remember what a reverse is?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this handy reference book is for you!

Barbara Seagram's Bridge Cheat Sheet

by Barbara Seagram ($10.00)

This is a detailed summary of bidding that you can keep on your lap and refer to as you play! You can't live without it. Version 2.0

Barbara Seagram's Advanced Bridge Cheat Sheet Conventions & More

by Barbara Seagram ($12.00)

Beginning Bridge

Barbara Seagram & Linda Lee ($21.95 CAD)

This book is based on the material that Barbara Seagram uses in her own classes to introduce hundreds of new players to the game every year. Suitable for both classes and for readers learning on their own, it will take new players to the point where they can enjoy a social game with friends or begin to explore their local bridge club.

25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding

by Barbara Seagram & Marc Smith ($19.95 CAD)

"You are holding a winner in your hands; just make sure you get one in your partner's hands as well."
-- Eddie Kantar

BARBARA SEAGRAM is the former owner and operator of Toronto's oldest bridge studio. Each year, she teaches over one thousand new students to enjoy bridge. She has been awarded Master Teacher status by the American Contract Bridge Teacher's Association.

MARC SMITH writes monthly columns for Bridge and Bridge PLus magazines in Britain and for the OKbridge Spectator on the Internet. He occasionally writes for the ACBL Bridge Bulletin and is an expert bidding forum panelist for numerous magazines. Among his recent books are World Class (1999), Countdown to Winning Bridge (1999, with Tim Bourke), and the Bridge Technique series (with David Bird).

The topics covered in this book include:
Simple Suit Overcall
Raising Partner's Suit
Responding To Overcalls Without Support
Overcalls That Show Two Suits
Jump Overcalls
Takeout Doubles at the One Level
Responding to a Takeout Double
Later Bidding After a Takeout Double
Other Takeout Double Situations
Notrump Overcalls
RHO Bids Over a 1NT Overcall
Competing over 1NT
Doubling 1NT
Conventional Defenses to 1NT
Takeout Doubles of Weak Two Bids
Overcalling Weak Two Bids
Bidding Over 3-Level Openings
Bidding Notrump Over a Preemt
Bidding Over Other Preempts
Balancing - General Principles
Other Balancing Auctions
Forcing Passes
Locating Stoppers for Notrump
The Law of Total Tricks
Hand Evaluation

25 Ways to Take More Tricks as a Declarer

by Barbara Seagram & David Bird ($21.95 CAD)

This book deals with the play of the cards as declarer, perhaps the most important part of the game.

As usual in the '25' series, basic ideas on the strategies and tactics available to declarer are covered comprehensively in the early part of the book, while in later chapters, more advanced players will find ideas and topics that challenge their own understanding of the game.

25 Ways to be a Better Defender

by Barbara Seagram ($21.95 CAD)

Defense is the hardest part of playing bridge, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to learn.

In the final book of the bestselling '25' series, the authors explain how to make a plan as a defender: how to work out from the auction and play what declarer probably has, and which of the strategies available to defenders is likely to be successful. Opening leads, signaling and discarding are all covered in this basic guide to a vitally important topic.

Stayman Auctions

by Barbara Seagram, Linda Lee, and Andy Stark ($10.00 CAD)

Part of the popular Practice Your Bidding Series.
Each book in the series in in paperback format, 72 - 80 pages.

With these handy little books, you can:
- Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it
- Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format
- Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions

Jacoby Transfers

by Barbara Seagram, Linda Lee, and Andy Stark ($10.00 CAD)

Part of the popular Practice Your Bidding Series.
Each book in the series in in paperback format, 72 - 80 pages.

With these handy little books, you can:
- Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it
- Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format
- Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions

Four-Suit Transfers

by Barbara Seagram, Linda Lee, and Andy Stark ($10.00 CAD)

Part of the popular Practice Your Bidding Series.
Each book in the series in in paperback format, 72 - 80 pages.

With these handy little books, you can:
- Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it
- Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format
- Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions

Jacoby 2NT, Roman Keycard Blackwood or Splinter Bids

by Barbara Seagram, Linda Lee and Andy Stark ($9.95 CAD Each)

With these handy little books, you can;
- Learn a new convention, or extend your knowledge of it
- Learn and practice by yourself using the unique quiz format
- Practice with your partner using the specially selected sample hands, and compare your results with the recommended auctions.