{"id":46559,"date":"2024-01-21T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46559"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:53:22","slug":"bridge-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46559","title":{"rendered":"Bridge basics: points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">There are total 40 points in a deck<\/a>: A K Q J, the high card point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HCP:\n<ul>\n<li>Ace = 4 points<\/li>\n<li>King = 3<\/li>\n<li>Queen = 2<\/li>\n<li>Jack = 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>long suit:\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0= 5-card suit<\/li>\n<li>= 6-card suit<\/li>\n<li>= 7-card suit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>short suit:\n<ol>\n<li>= doubleton<\/li>\n<li>= singleton<\/li>\n<li>= void<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just so you know, the maximum points a hand can have &#8211; mathematically proven &#8211; is 37 HCP because each hand has only 13 cards.<\/p>\n<p>&#x2660;&#xfe0f; A K Q J<br \/>\n&#x2665;&#xfe0f; A K Q<br \/>\n&#x2666;&#xfe0f; A K Q<br \/>\n&#x2663;&#xfe0f; A K Q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are total 40 points in a deck: A K Q J, the high card point. HCP: Ace = 4 points King = 3 Queen = 2 Jack = 1 long suit: \u00a0= 5-card suit = 6-card suit = 7-card suit short suit: = doubleton = singleton = void Just so you know, the maximum [&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-46559","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\/46559","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=46559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}