{"id":46556,"date":"2024-01-21T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46556"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:33:53","slug":"bridge-biddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46556","title":{"rendered":"Slam &amp; bid \u6ee1\u8d2f \u53eb\u724c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45535\">Bidding<\/a> starts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">bridge game<\/a>. It communicates between two partners, as \u00a0what kind of hand you&#8217;ve. It often needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45471\">various conventions<\/a> to nail down the contract, but it&#8217;s NOT convention.<\/p>\n<p>Two slam bidding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45471\">convention<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Blackwood @ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackwood_convention\">4NT<\/a> bid<\/li>\n<li>Gerber @ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerber_convention\">4C<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><sup>A few slams that are bid &amp; won<\/sup><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>bid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47039\">6N<\/a>, won 7: 36 hcp<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46632\">6N<\/a>, 32 total hcp<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46533\">2025 21 hcp<\/a>, 32 total<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45568\">my first small slam<\/a> bid &amp; won, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><sup>A few unbid slams\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47258\">2nd first hand gs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8260-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47263 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8260-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47258\">two grand slams night<\/a> 21 hcp @ 4&#x2665;&#xfe0f;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47121\">a grand slam with 3 aces<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46793\">a grand slam<\/a>: 30 total hcp, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6700.jpg\">bid 3&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46632\">grand slam<\/a>, 34 total hcp, bid 4&#x2665;&#xfe0f;<\/li>\n<li>grand slam fm 5D, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1856-3-scaled.jpg\">30 hcp &amp; void<\/a> \u21d3<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46477\">bid 3NT won a grand slam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45541\">won my 2nd slam on the first hand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45507\">won my 2nd grand slam<\/a> <sup>bid 2NT <\/sup>asking for aces<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45138\">won my 1st grand slam<\/a> <sup>bid 4&#x2665;&#xfe0f;<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45041\">Won my first slam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44973\">my first slam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Blackwood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45471\">convention<\/a>: at 4NT bid, you&#8217;re asking your partner for Aces; the response of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 &#x2663;&#xfe0f; = none of all 4 aces<\/li>\n<li>5&#x2666;&#xfe0f; = 1 ace<\/li>\n<li>5 &#x2665;&#xfe0f; = 2 aces<\/li>\n<li>5 &#x2660;&#xfe0f; = 3 aces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 5N, P response with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 &#x2663;&#xfe0f; = none of all 4 aces<\/li>\n<li>6&#x2666;&#xfe0f; = 1 ace<\/li>\n<li>6 &#x2665;&#xfe0f; = 2 aces<\/li>\n<li>6 &#x2660;&#xfe0f; = 3 aces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HCP needed in a slams and the bonus when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45420\">scoring<\/a>:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 85px;\" border=\"1\" width=\"413\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><sup>\u00a0 hcp needed<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><sup>\u00a0\u00a0not vulnerable<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><sup>\u00a0 vulnerable \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a06 level<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0 33<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0 500<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0 750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a07 level<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0 37<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0 1000<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0 1500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8230; the hcp needed to win a slam, really depends. The following hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1856-3-scaled.jpg\">we&#8217;ve 30 hcp<\/a> but our hands fit perfectly, and won a grand slam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bidding slam with a void<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1856-3-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46567 alignleft\" title=\"2025.1.20 w\/ Joyce\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1856-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>My hand: 19 hcp, with a void.<br \/>\nMy partner: 11 hcp, 6 diamonds<\/p>\n<p>I opened it with 1N, which is wrong. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzbridge.org\/info\/learn\/1st%20Year%2099er\/lessons\/Slam%20Bidding%20I%20(Control%20Bids).pdf\">Control bid<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cue_bid\">cue bid<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>~ p, 1N, p, 2&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<br \/>\n~ p, 3&#x2666;&#xfe0f;, p, 4&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<br \/>\n~ p, 5&#x2666;&#xfe0f;, ppp<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t ask for A or K &#8230; because I wanted to be the dummy to watch the Australian Open &#8230; unfortunately, Coco Gauff didn&#8217;t do well, defeat by Paula Badosa (7-5, 6-4), out of Aussie Open in the quarter final.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidding starts bridge game. It communicates between two partners, as \u00a0what kind of hand you&#8217;ve. It often needs various conventions to nail down the contract, but it&#8217;s NOT convention. Two slam bidding convention: Blackwood @ 4NT bid Gerber @ 4C A few slams that are bid &amp; won bid 6N, won 7: 36 hcp 6N, [&hellip;]<\/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-46556","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\/46556","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=46556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}