{"id":45946,"date":"2023-12-15T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45946"},"modified":"2023-12-17T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:58:31","slug":"45946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45946","title":{"rendered":"Annual party; cue bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hosted the first annual bridge party<\/a>. 8 players show up (one was unannounced; one couple rsvp’ed but didn’t show … oh well), played on two tables. Between serving foods and drinks, I played 28 hands; won 12 bids, winning 9 of them, 75%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are couple of hands that my rho (right hand side opponent) Mr. L bid my suit.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This hand, I’ve 4 clubs: ♣️Q,J,10,7, with total 13 hcp, not counting the two doubletons.<\/p>\n

Round 1 bid: p, p, 1C, 1S – me, who won the bid.<\/p>\n

My left opponent led ♣️4, my partner has ♣️8,6,3,2, which meant my right opponent has ♣️A,K,9, 5. Also, my partner has 9 hcp.<\/p>\n

We made 2 (8 tricks in total).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Interestingly, the same opponent bid my suit twice, also in club.<\/p>\n

This hand, I’ve six clubs: ♣️KQJ432, 17 hcp with two doubletons. Clearly, club is my best suit.<\/p>\n

There was only 1 round of bidding: 1♣️, 1♠️ – me, who won the bid. At this point, I didn’t know cue bid<\/a>, and also wrongfully bid 1♠️ – I think the better bid should be \u00a01N, to show my points.<\/p>\n

Another option is to penalty double<\/a>. But I’d rather play, to have the chance winning under the line points, that toward a game or rubber. I’ve used double<\/em><\/a> convention many times, for the simplest reason: I’ve better hand and dare the opponent to make his or her contract.<\/p>\n

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I hosted the first annual bridge party. 8 players show up (one was unannounced; one couple rsvp’ed but didn’t show … oh well), played on two tables. Between serving foods and drinks, I played 28 hands; won 12 bids, winning 9 of them, 75%. There are couple of hands that my rho (right hand side […]<\/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-45946","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\/45946","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=45946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}