{"id":45909,"date":"2023-11-28T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45909"},"modified":"2023-12-03T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T21:50:49","slug":"a-dream-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45909","title":{"rendered":"A dream hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7206-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45910 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7206-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An unbelievably handsome hand to cap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45868\">the girls night in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7393-scaled.jpg\">Joyce to my left dealt<\/a>, who has 12 hcp, bid 1&#x2665;&#xfe0f;. My partner passed. Linda paused and then said, <strong><em>4N<\/em><\/strong>. She has 26 hcp: 4 aces, 2 K+J and 1Q.<\/p>\n<p>Me? A lonesome &#x2666;&#xfe0f;J. So I passed, reluctantly.<\/p>\n<p>Her partner Joyce, looking pleased, <strong><em>5N<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My partner Barb said cheerfully, <em>pass<\/em>, she was blessed with a &#x2665;&#xfe0f;J.<\/p>\n<p>After I led with my only prized possession and the dummy laid down her hand, Linda said, &#8220;let&#8217;s not to play &#8230;&#8221; ha ha ha&#8230; no point, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45568\">asking for aces<\/a> <sup>4NT <\/sup>&amp; kings <sup>5NT<\/sup>: &#x2663;&#xfe0f;<sup>4 or none<\/sup>,&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<sup>1<\/sup>, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;<sup>2<\/sup>, &#x2660;&#xfe0f;<sup>3 kings<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ira: Correct response to 4N (asking for aces) sb 5C (all or none); next bid sb 5N (asking for kings since they have all the aces) correct response sb 6H (2 kings) then 7N<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; 7N is the proper bid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unbelievably handsome hand to cap the girls night in. Joyce to my left dealt, who has 12 hcp, bid 1&#x2665;&#xfe0f;. My partner passed. Linda paused and then said, 4N. She has 26 hcp: 4 aces, 2 K+J and 1Q. Me? A lonesome &#x2666;&#xfe0f;J. So I passed, reluctantly. Her partner Joyce, looking pleased, 5N. My [&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-45909","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\/45909","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=45909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}