{"id":45242,"date":"2023-05-13T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45242"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:18:36","slug":"missed-a-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45242","title":{"rendered":"Missed a slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">I got Karen to play<\/a> and we teamed up. She&#8217;s a good player but doesn&#8217;t offer any opinion unless was asked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4712-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4660-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4661-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4661-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, my hands have been good, and we made most of our biddings. It was so good, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4660.jpg\">I misplayed 2nd to the last card<\/a> and missed a slam. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4660.jpg\">4<span class=\"hearts\" title=\"hearts\">&#x2665;<\/span><\/a> hand, and after 11 tricks has been played, my partner and I both had a <span class=\"hearts\" title=\"hearts\">&#x2665;<\/span>. I should have used her <span class=\"hearts\" title=\"hearts\">&#x2665;<\/span>A to trump. But instead I played her last &#x2660; when &#x2666; was led. One of the opponent&#8217;s &#x2666; was a little higher. What was I thinking??? Too relaxed and careless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4661-scaled.jpg\">An interesting hand<\/a>. The opponent to my right was the dealer and opened the bid with 1&#x2666;. I&#8217;ve six &#x2666; AK etc., with 13 points. So, I doubled him. The hand ended up in NT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got Karen to play and we teamed up. She&#8217;s a good player but doesn&#8217;t offer any opinion unless was asked. Luckily, my hands have been good, and we made most of our biddings. It was so good, that I misplayed 2nd to the last card and missed a slam. This was 4&#x2665; hand, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}