{"id":45961,"date":"2023-12-21T02:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45961"},"modified":"2023-12-21T02:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:32:15","slug":"too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45961","title":{"rendered":"Too much &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45868\">Girls night in<\/a>, I played the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">most hands<\/a>, to a point I felt a little guilty. 8 hands each with two different partners, I played 3 each, total six hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45964 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8311-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The 1st hand, it went from pass to 4 spade.<\/p>\n<p>My partner opened with a pass, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8312-scaled.jpg\">7 hcp, and six spades<\/a>. I&#8217;ve 11 hcp, 1 void. When my rho followed up with 1 heart bid, which is my void, I took a chance to respond with 1 spade bid. Although I&#8217;ve five clubs but I don&#8217;t feel comfortable to go to level 2, when my partner passed.<\/p>\n<p>The bid:<\/p>\n<p>R1: P, 1&#x2665;&#xfe0f;, 1&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, P<br \/>\nR2: 2&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, 3&#x2665;&#xfe0f;, PP<br \/>\nR3: 3&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, 4&#x2665;&#xfe0f;, pp<br \/>\nR4: 4&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, ppp<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; unfortunately, we made only 8\/2, down 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8315-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45962 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8315-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The 3rd hand: after playing the previous two hands, I wasn&#8217;t going to bid again. But got this good looking hand: 17 hcp, 7 card suit, 1 singleton and 1 doubleton. The bid:<\/p>\n<p>R1: 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f;(me), 1&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, P, 3H<br \/>\nR2: P, 3N, PP<br \/>\nR3: double, ppp<\/p>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t clean us up with club, we&#8217;ve good chance to def the contract with my seven diamonds and one ace which could use it to transfer to diamond, which I did. We made 7 tricks.<\/p>\n<p>My question: could or should I insist on diamond? For defeating a contract wins no under the line points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls night in, I played the most hands, to a point I felt a little guilty. 8 hands each with two different partners, I played 3 each, total six hands. The 1st hand, it went from pass to 4 spade. My partner opened with a pass, who has 7 hcp, and six spades. I&#8217;ve 11 [&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-45961","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\/45961","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=45961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}