{"id":45980,"date":"2023-12-29T03:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2023-12-29T03:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:07:29","slug":"again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45980","title":{"rendered":"3 3 3 4 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45868\">Girls night in<\/a>, two interesting hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8674-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45983 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8674-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Bidding correctly is important: I tend to bid low, to feel my partner&#8217;s hand, or give her\/him a chance to bid too. But many times, I don&#8217;t get to rebid when three passes occurred. Like this hand. My rho opened with a pass:<\/p>\n<p>R1: p, 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f; (me), 1&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<br \/>\nR2: 3&#x2663;&#xfe0f;, 3&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the bidding went on after my initial 1 diamond bid, which should have been 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f; bid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8675-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45984 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8675-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This hand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45975\">is identical to the last time<\/a> at the club, 3 3 3 4, with 11 hcp, with the same partner:<\/p>\n<p>R1: p, p (me), p, 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<br \/>\nR2: p, 2&#x2663;&#xfe0f;, p, 2N<\/p>\n<p>By passing the first round, I&#8217;m telling my partner that I don&#8217;t have an opening hand, 12 to 13 hcp. She bid 1 diamond. The second round, I changed to clubs, which is my best suit, telling her that I&#8217;ve 10 points and club is my best suit. She then bid 1NT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls night in, two interesting hands. Bidding correctly is important: I tend to bid low, to feel my partner&#8217;s hand, or give her\/him a chance to bid too. But many times, I don&#8217;t get to rebid when three passes occurred. Like this hand. My rho opened with a pass: R1: p, 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f; (me), 1&#x2660;&#xfe0f;, 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f; [&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-45980","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\/45980","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=45980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}