{"id":45501,"date":"2023-07-24T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45501"},"modified":"2023-08-04T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:54:15","slug":"an-even-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45501","title":{"rendered":"An even hand: short club bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7311-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45502 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7311-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A rather even hand with 14 HCP &#8211; not enough for 1NT.<\/p>\n<p>Mistakenly I started with 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f; because it&#8217;s the longest suit. The correct bid should be 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f; the short club bid &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45471\">the convention<\/a> means you&#8217;ve 13 HCP no ability of making this suit into the trump suit = any other suit is better. <a href=\"https:\/\/bridge.fandom.com\/wiki\/Short_club_system\">Learn here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My question is, what to do when your partner doesn&#8217;t understand? And when you don&#8217;t have strength to go level 2? When three passes, and you stuck with it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; you bid the short club expecting to go down unless your partner bails you out<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather even hand with 14 HCP &#8211; not enough for 1NT. Mistakenly I started with 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f; because it&#8217;s the longest suit. The correct bid should be 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f; the short club bid &#8211; the convention means you&#8217;ve 13 HCP no ability of making this suit into the trump suit = any other suit is better. [&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-45501","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\/45501","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=45501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}