{"id":45952,"date":"2023-12-17T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45952"},"modified":"2023-12-17T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T21:11:45","slug":"doubles-in-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45952","title":{"rendered":"Doubles in bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My rho bid 1♣️ off the bet: I doubt that he’d make it.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

One of conventions<\/a> in bridge<\/a> is doubles: takeout<\/em> or penalty<\/em>. It’s being used so often, that can be taken as a natural call<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I use the penalty double<\/em> (jericholibrary.org<\/a>) often, especially when I don’t have a biddable suit. My aim at this stage, is to win under the line points toward game and rubber, and doubling a contract, however successful, wins no such points.<\/p>\n

The following two hands were good candidates for penalty double, at my 2023 annual party<\/a> (cue bid): my rho bid twice my suit and both times, were club.<\/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 lho 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). If I just doubled him, we wouldn’t win the 20 under the line point.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Interestingly, the same opponent bid my suit the second time, 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 1N, to show my points.<\/p>\n

The take out doubles, on the other hand, is a little complicated, with many factors …<\/p>\n

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  1. essentially, it’s asking your partner to bid the unbid suit<\/li>\n
  2. you’ve 11+ pts, 3+ cards in each unbid suit<\/li>\n
  3. …<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    My rho bid 1♣️ off the bet: I doubt that he’d make it.\u00a0 One of conventions in bridge is doubles: takeout or penalty. It’s being used so often, that can be taken as a natural call. I use the penalty double (jericholibrary.org) often, especially when I don’t have a biddable suit. My aim at this […]<\/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-45952","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\/45952","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=45952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}