{"id":45975,"date":"2023-12-26T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45975"},"modified":"2023-12-29T03:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:06:15","slug":"best-suit-vs-responding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45975","title":{"rendered":"Best suit vs responding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8599.JPG.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45976 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8599.JPG-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">Playing at the<\/a> club today, I&#8217;ve this hand &#8211; 11 hcp, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45980\">3 3 3 4<\/a>, responding to my partner&#8217;s opening bid of 1 diamond.<\/p>\n<p>The bidding:<br \/>\nR1: p; p (me), p, 1N<br \/>\nR2: p; 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; p; 4&#x2666;&#xfe0f;, ppp<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I should have bid 1NT or 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f;, which is my best suit. Essentially, it boils down to my best suit vs response to partner&#8217;s bid.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Per Linda: If I have 4-4 diamonds and clubs I will start with clubs. If I start with diamonds it is because I have 4-3 or 5-3. So, knowing that we don&#8217;t have an 8 card fit in clubs, why bid them? If I have five of a minor, then I can rebid that suit because you can open with 4 or even three.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing at the club today, I&#8217;ve this hand &#8211; 11 hcp, 3 3 3 4, responding to my partner&#8217;s opening bid of 1 diamond. The bidding: R1: p; p (me), p, 1N R2: p; 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f;; p; 4&#x2666;&#xfe0f;, ppp In fact, I should have bid 1NT or 1&#x2663;&#xfe0f;, which is my best suit. Essentially, it boils [&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-45975","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\/45975","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=45975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}