{"id":47120,"date":"2025-11-11T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47120"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:19:47","slug":"13-hcp-no-bid-or-short-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47120","title":{"rendered":"13 hcp, no bid or short club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The short club<\/a>, which is 1C in the bridge bidding convention<\/a> means with opening-level points (13+) but no five-card major suit.<\/p>\n

I’ve 13 hcp<\/a>: 3 4 3 3. So I opened 1C. My partner asked me if I play short club<\/a>. I said no. But with this hand, it’s. So afterward, they suggested that I should pass, which I think it’s misleading and not correct.<\/p>\n

So I checked online.\u00a0AI says: To open bid a minor suit, you need at least three cards in the suit and 13 or more high-card points (HCP). <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>If you have two 3-card minor suits, you should always open with 1\u2663. If you have two 4-card minor suits, open 1\u2666. If you have 3 cards in both minor suits and a 4-card major suit, opening 1\u2663 is recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n

How best to bid this hand<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Should I open 1N or 1C?<\/p>\n

I bid in club, thinking my 3 diamonds are weak for a NT bid. My P bid 1\u2666<\/em>. I rebid 2C but the hand is played at 3\u2663<\/em>\u00a0by my partner.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This hand, my P bid<\/p>\n

~ me: P
\n~ 1h
\n~ 2\u2666<\/em>
\n~ p
\n~ p<\/p>\n

Should I bid 2S?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short club, which is 1C in the bridge bidding convention means with opening-level points (13+) but no five-card major suit. I’ve 13 hcp: 3 4 3 3. So I opened 1C. My partner asked me if I play short club. I said no. But with this hand, it’s. So afterward, they suggested that I […]<\/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-47120","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\/47120","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=47120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}