{"id":45907,"date":"2023-11-27T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45907"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:03:50","slug":"how-to-bid-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45907","title":{"rendered":"Strong two: slam, missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45908 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7161-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">My first hand of the night<\/a>: 15 hcp, six spades, one void &#x2666;&#xfe0f;. My right hand opponent opened bidding with a pass.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pass<\/li>\n<li>2&#x2660;&#xfe0f; &#8211; me<\/li>\n<li>P<\/li>\n<li>3&#x2660;&#xfe0f;<\/li>\n<li>P<\/li>\n<li>4&#x2660;&#xfe0f; &#8211; me<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We ended up, making 11 total tricks. Did I open correctly? Is this hand possible for a 12 tricks? How could we bid better?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ira: You opened short of a true strong two opening. Your partner\u2019s first response should have been 4C , asking for aces bc of partner\u2019s point count. You would have been in small slam. Probably 6S<\/p>\n<p>If partner responds 5C, it means you have all the aces and is asking for kings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45471\">Bidding convention<\/a> of strong 2 bid opening: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strong_two_bid#:~:text=In%20contract%20bridge%2C%20a%20strong,open%20at%20the%20one%20level.\">wiki<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgebum.com\/strong_two.php\">bridge bum<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first hand of the night: 15 hcp, six spades, one void &#x2666;&#xfe0f;. My right hand opponent opened bidding with a pass. Pass 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f; &#8211; me P 3&#x2660;&#xfe0f; P 4&#x2660;&#xfe0f; &#8211; me We ended up, making 11 total tricks. Did I open correctly? Is this hand possible for a 12 tricks? How could we bid [&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-45907","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\/45907","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=45907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}