{"id":45410,"date":"2023-06-19T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45410"},"modified":"2023-06-20T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:27:15","slug":"two-doubles-in-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45410","title":{"rendered":"Two doubles in a hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6260-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45412 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6260-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Double<\/strong><\/em> is one of bidding tools used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">in bridge<\/a>, which means you dare your opponent if you don&#8217;t think s\/he can fulfill the bid or the contract.<\/p>\n<p>If they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nofearbridge.co.uk\/acol\/doubles_general.htm\">make their bid<\/a> (# of tricks unaffected) they&#8217;ll score additional points.<br \/>\nIf they fail to make the contract, their opponents will award extra points.<\/p>\n<p>This hand, the player to my right opened with 1 &#x2764;&#xfe0f;, I doubled; to my left 1 &#x2660;&#xfe0f;, my partner doubled. 2 &#x2764;&#xfe0f; was played. I led with 2&#x2663;&#xfe0f;. They made two. &#x1f602; They were too nice to tell me what my penalty was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45415 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6251-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takeout_double\">takeout double<\/a>, one of the conventional tools.<\/p>\n<p>This hand with 15 pts plus the &#x2663;&#xfe0f; singleton: pass, me 1 &#x2764;&#xfe0f;, pass, 2 &#x2764;&#xfe0f; from my partner. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45398\">Looking at my<\/a> &#x2666;&#xfe0f; and especially &#x2660;&#xfe0f;, I didn&#8217;t go to 4 but we ended up making four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double is one of bidding tools used in bridge, which means you dare your opponent if you don&#8217;t think s\/he can fulfill the bid or the contract. If they make their bid (# of tricks unaffected) they&#8217;ll score additional points. If they fail to make the contract, their opponents will award extra points. This hand, [&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-45410","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\/45410","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=45410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}