{"id":45868,"date":"2023-11-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45868"},"modified":"2023-12-29T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:08:09","slug":"girls-night-in-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45868","title":{"rendered":"Girls night in bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6618-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45870 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6618-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">A night of exciting bridge<\/a>: all girls, and many interesting hands.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time I bid 5 \u2192<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pass &#8211; my right hand; 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f; me; 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; 2&#x2663;&#xfe0f;<\/li>\n<li>2&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; 3&#x2663;&#xfe0f; me;\u00a04&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; pass<\/li>\n<li>pass;\u00a05&#x2663;&#xfe0f; me<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And I made it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6621-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45871 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6621-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> This hand, my right side opponent opened with 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f; &#8211; this is my suit as well: 6 clubs and total 14 hpc plus a singleton. I chanced it by bidding 1&#x2660;&#xfe0f; and made it.<\/p>\n<p>Ira&#8217;s opinion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">You have two options: double 1C or pass. The double tells your partner you have opening points and the opponent took your bid, therefore your partner if possible make a bid; passing forces the left side opponent to bid or pass or lets your partner to bid. If everyone passes, you play 1C and most likely opponents will go down.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below are some interesting hands<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6624-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45873\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6624-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6626-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6626-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6628-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6628-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; more<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45980\">3 3 3 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45961\">Long suit wins in NT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45909\">A dream hand: 26 pts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A night of exciting bridge: all girls, and many interesting hands. It&#8217;s the first time I bid 5 \u2192 Pass &#8211; my right hand; 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f; me; 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; 2&#x2663;&#xfe0f; 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; 3&#x2663;&#xfe0f; me;\u00a04&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; pass pass;\u00a05&#x2663;&#xfe0f; me And I made it. This hand, my right side opponent opened with 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f; &#8211; this is my suit as well: 6 [&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-45868","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\/45868","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=45868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}