{"id":47039,"date":"2025-10-14T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47039"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:06:37","slug":"a-slam-bid-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47039","title":{"rendered":"A slam, bid &amp; won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4893-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47040 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4893-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I bid 6 NT, and won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46556\">a grand slam<\/a> &#8211; all 13 tricks. It&#8217;s a wonderful 50 minuetes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">of play<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13251\">before the book club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>36 hcp: I&#8217;ve 23 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f; AKQ &#x2665;&#xfe0f; Q&#x2666;&#xfe0f; J 10 6 5 &#x2663;&#xfe0f;AKQ97. My P has 13 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;982 &#x2665;&#xfe0f;A 10 3 &#x2666;&#xfe0f;AKQ 7 &#x2663;&#xfe0f;10 3 2.<\/p>\n<p>Janet is very gracious, helping us with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46533\">which bid is asking for A and K<\/a>, which is a prelude to a NT bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bid 6 NT, and won a grand slam &#8211; all 13 tricks. It&#8217;s a wonderful 50 minuetes of play, before the book club. 36 hcp: I&#8217;ve 23 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f; AKQ &#x2665;&#xfe0f; Q&#x2666;&#xfe0f; J 10 6 5 &#x2663;&#xfe0f;AKQ97. My P has 13 hcp: &#x2660;&#xfe0f;982 &#x2665;&#xfe0f;A 10 3 &#x2666;&#xfe0f;AKQ 7 &#x2663;&#xfe0f;10 3 2. Janet is very [&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-47039","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\/47039","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=47039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}