{"id":46672,"date":"2025-03-11T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T02:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46672"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:55:17","slug":"the-nt-bid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46672","title":{"rendered":"NT bid &amp; response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46776 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6244-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"2025.4.08\"\/><\/a>No Trump is the 5th suit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">in bridge<\/a>, and it&#8217;s the highest of the four.<\/p>\n<p>To bid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1N: 16-18 hcp, balanced hand<\/li>\n<li>2N: asking for major suit<\/li>\n<li>3N:<\/li>\n<li>4N: asking for A<\/li>\n<li>5N: asking for K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The math: opening with 1N, means I&#8217;ve 16-18 hcp. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/gc00\/bidding\/lessons\/1nt.html\">Two partners should have<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>26 points to bid a game<\/li>\n<li>32 points to bid a small slam<\/li>\n<li>36 points to bid a grand slam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1NT opening. You know your P has at least 16 hcp. Plus your own hand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0-7 HCP: Signoff Responses<\/li>\n<li>8-9 HCP: Invite to game.<\/li>\n<li>10-13HCP: Game with no interest in slam.<\/li>\n<li>14-15HCP: Game forcing, slam invitational.<\/li>\n<li>16-17HCP: Small slam forcing<\/li>\n<li>18+ HCP: Grand Slam Invitational\/Forcing (depends on hand)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Response to NT bid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2N<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46774\">3N<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4N<\/li>\n<li>5N<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Trump is the 5th suit in bridge, and it&#8217;s the highest of the four. To bid 1N: 16-18 hcp, balanced hand 2N: asking for major suit 3N: 4N: asking for A 5N: asking for K The math: opening with 1N, means I&#8217;ve 16-18 hcp. Two partners should have 26 points to bid a game [&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-46672","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\/46672","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=46672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}