{"id":45484,"date":"2023-07-13T01:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T01:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45484"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:05:26","slug":"weak-two-in-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45484","title":{"rendered":"Weak two, in bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7045-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">I&#8217;ve an interesting<\/a> hand: a void, &#x2660;&#xfe0f;2345678, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;AQ76 and &#x2666;&#xfe0f;AK.<\/p>\n<p>My partner played a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45471\">weak 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f;<\/a> a couple of hands earlier (se below \u21d3). So I tried it on this hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weak_two_bid\">Weak two<\/a> means you&#8217;ve weak hand (5-10 pt) but with at least 6 \u00a0&#x2660;&#xfe0f;\/&#x2665;&#xfe0f;\/&#x2666;&#xfe0f;. 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f; is the most effective, because it&#8217;s the top suit, making it harder to top &#8211; only 2NT or going to 3 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My hand has 13 HPC without counting in the void which is an additional 3 pts. But I went with it anyway, for the novelty. We ended up making 10 tricks.<\/p>\n<p>According to my expert, my bidding was wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Count your points! You can\u2019t bid a weak 2 anything; with distribution you have over 13 points!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7043-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45487 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7043-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>My partner&#8217;s weak 2 bid: she opened bid by weak 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, 2N, me pass, 3&#x2666;&#xfe0f;. I doubled it. They only made 9 tricks &#8211; didn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve an interesting hand: a void, &#x2660;&#xfe0f;2345678, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;AQ76 and &#x2666;&#xfe0f;AK. My partner played a weak 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f; a couple of hands earlier (se below \u21d3). So I tried it on this hand. Weak two means you&#8217;ve weak hand (5-10 pt) but with at least 6 \u00a0&#x2660;&#xfe0f;\/&#x2665;&#xfe0f;\/&#x2666;&#xfe0f;. 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f; is the most effective, because it&#8217;s the top suit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45484","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=45484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}