{"id":46774,"date":"2025-04-08T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46774"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:38:42","slug":"3nt-7h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46774","title":{"rendered":"3NT; 7H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an intense one hour day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">bridge<\/a>: my L played bid and won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6243.jpg\">7H<\/a>! My hands have been good, as usual, and won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46672\">3NT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6243-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6244-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6301.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6244.jpg\">3N hand<\/a> with 29 hcp:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve 17 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;KQ92, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;AQ7, &#x2666;&#xfe0f;Q83, &#x2663;&#xfe0f;A92.<\/li>\n<li>P has 12 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;A, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;10 6 4 2,&#x2666;&#xfe0f;KJ94, &#x2663;&#xfe0f; KJ10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One round bidding: my RH passed, I bid 1NT, LH pass and P bid 3N, which effectively close the bid.<\/p>\n<p>The math: opening with 1N, means I&#8217;ve 16-18 hcp. P has 12, so we&#8217;rehacing at least 29 hcp (16+12), because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/gc00\/bidding\/lessons\/1nt.html\">two partners should have<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>26 hcp, bid a game<\/li>\n<li>32 hcp, \u00a0bid a small slam<\/li>\n<li>36 hcp, bid a grand slam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an intense one hour day of bridge: my L played bid and won 7H! My hands have been good, as usual, and won a 3NT. Our 3N hand with 29 hcp: I&#8217;ve 17 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;KQ92, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;AQ7, &#x2666;&#xfe0f;Q83, &#x2663;&#xfe0f;A92. P has 12 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;A, &#x2665;&#xfe0f;10 6 4 2,&#x2666;&#xfe0f;KJ94, &#x2663;&#xfe0f; KJ10 One round bidding: my RH [&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-46774","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\/46774","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=46774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}