{"id":45475,"date":"2023-07-11T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45475"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:57:11","slug":"nt-bid-with-void-or-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45475","title":{"rendered":"No NT bid with void\/singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6995-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45476 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6995-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve an interesting hand at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">today&#8217;s bridge<\/a>: K&#x2660;&#xfe0f; + A&#x2665;&#xfe0f; + A&#x2666;&#xfe0f;+ A&#x2663;&#xfe0f;=15 points, without counting in two singletons, which worth 2 pt each (a void is 3 pt).<\/p>\n<p>This hand maybe an easy decision: bid &#x2660;&#xfe0f; because I&#8217;ve 7 of them (as it turned out, my partner has two: A&#x2660;&#xfe0f; and 6&#x2660;&#xfe0f;.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45420\">the scoring<\/a>: 3NT or 4&#x2660;&#xfe0f; makes a game, score 100 points below the line.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Correct opening bid ought to be 1S: you have 15 points and 7 spades. An alternate opening bid could be 3S bc you have 7 spades. Either one is NOT perfect but FAR better than 1NT bc you have too many gaps in the other suits and you have 7 S<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve an interesting hand at today&#8217;s bridge: K&#x2660;&#xfe0f; + A&#x2665;&#xfe0f; + A&#x2666;&#xfe0f;+ A&#x2663;&#xfe0f;=15 points, without counting in two singletons, which worth 2 pt each (a void is 3 pt). This hand maybe an easy decision: bid &#x2660;&#xfe0f; because I&#8217;ve 7 of them (as it turned out, my partner has two: A&#x2660;&#xfe0f; and 6&#x2660;&#xfe0f;. Just remember [&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-45475","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\/45475","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=45475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}