{"id":46882,"date":"2025-07-21T23:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46882"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:06:23","slug":"1nt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46882","title":{"rendered":"1NT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3850-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46883 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3850-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>32 hcp, 1NT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">bidding<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Playing with a newbie.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve 19 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;A42 &#x2665;&#xfe0f;K8 &#x2666;&#xfe0f;KJ842 &#x2663;&#xfe0f;AKJ<\/p>\n<p>P has 13 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;KQ53 &#x2665;&#xfe0f;A10 6542 &#x2666;&#xfe0f;A &#x2663;&#xfe0f;10 6<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all As and Ks &#8230; he should bid heart; it was a slam hand. &#8230; never mind. Next time.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fun night. Joyce and I played most hands and won.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3919-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>32 hcp, 1NT bidding &#8230; Playing with a newbie. I&#8217;ve 19 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;A42 &#x2665;&#xfe0f;K8 &#x2666;&#xfe0f;KJ842 &#x2663;&#xfe0f;AKJ P has 13 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;KQ53 &#x2665;&#xfe0f;A10 6542 &#x2666;&#xfe0f;A &#x2663;&#xfe0f;10 6 We&#8217;ve all As and Ks &#8230; he should bid heart; it was a slam hand. &#8230; never mind. Next time. It was a fun night. Joyce and I played [&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-46882","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\/46882","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=46882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}