{"id":1154,"date":"2011-01-02T22:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T06:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2013-01-09T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:39:47","slug":"poll-22-finesse-promotion-ducking-01032010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Poll #22, Finesse, Promotion, Ducking, 01\/03\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Contract and Duplicate Bridge: Finesse, Promotion, Ducking<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Happy New Year,\u00a0Bridge friends!\u00a0 And so we&#8217;ve made our personal affirmations and are ready to make the best of 2011.\u00a0\u00a0To begin\u00a0our Polling You blog for the new year, we offer an\u00a0interesting set of hands.\u00a0\u00a0Beside our normal array of\u00a0bidding and play possibilities, not everyone is likely to agree with the hand evaluation and the initial bid.\u00a0\u00a0 But that&#8217;s part of the joy of Bridge, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Our exciting game offers players a wealth of options.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s why we are here &#8211; to explore the tradeoffs and consequence of various scenarios.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><noscript>JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. <a href='http:\/\/www.constantcontact.com\/survey\/index.jsp?cc=ViraWidPOL'>Online Surveys<\/a> by Constant Contact.<\/noscript><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><strong> <\/strong><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>On today&#8217;s poll, we have a multi-part question: one querying opener&#8217;s rebid, the other asking our play strategy.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, that pretty much sums up Contract Bridge and Duplicate Bridge doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 For sure, making accurate bids is necessary to make the contract.\u00a0\u00a0 So our hand evaluation, or re-evaluation here is our first hurdle.\u00a0 After that, you can ponder a range of play options where suit promotion, finesses and ducking plays might enter the picture.\u00a0 Okay Bridge thrill seekers, look at your ballots an register your votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgehands-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Poll_22\/Poll_22.html\" target=\"_blank\">See our <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgehands-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Poll_22\/Poll_22.html\" target=\"_blank\">animated video animation with bidding and play commentary &#8211; and now with background music!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Free\/Premium\/ULTRA Members &#8211; please scroll down for more video<\/strong><strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"bchd\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\">\n<h2>\u2660 K 10 8 5 4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2665 <\/span>A K 2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2666<\/span> 10 4<br \/>\n\u2663 A Q 3<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<h2>\u2660 \u2014<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2665<\/span> 9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2666<\/span> \u2014<br \/>\n\u2663 \u2014<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<table class=\"bcct\" width=\"64\" border=\"0\" frame=\"void\" rules=\"none\" bgcolor=\"#008000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n<h2>N<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<h2>W<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<h2>E<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n<h2>S<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<h2>\u2660 \u2014<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2665<\/span> \u2014<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2666<\/span> \u2014<br \/>\n\u2663 \u2014<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\">\n<h2>\u2660 6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2665<\/span> J 10 4 3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2666<\/span> A J 3<br \/>\n\u2663 J 10 8 6 5<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><strong>North\u00a0deals and opens 1 Spade, while some advanced players would prefer beginning with 1 Notrump to show a reasonable 16 HCP hand.\u00a0 Sure enough, partner South bids 1 Notrump and North must make an uncomfortable rebid &#8211; Pass or invite with 2 Notrump.\u00a0\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s a handful of decisions after the lead of the Heart 9. with some challenging declarer&#8217;s and defender&#8217;s play strategy.\u00a0 We discuss this and more in our Protected Content area &#8211; please login and we will see you over on the other side.<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>*** To view our secure BridgeHands members bonus content below, please login***<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<strong>Please login or register to view this content.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Premium and ULTRA Members &#8211; please login for advanced lesson on tips, tricks, and traps<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Please login or register to view this content.<br \/>\nPlease login or register to view this content.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Thanks for dropping by BridgeHands &#8220;Polling You&#8221; website.\u00a0 Every week, we continue to load our Bridge Blog with commentary, downloadable files, and video card animation with background music.\u00a0 And coming this month, we will begin including real video with action-packed adventures at the table.\u00a0 Our goal is to enlighten, entertain and educate Bridge players as well as offer our materials to Bridge Teachers to share with their students.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Happy New Year,<br \/>\nMichael<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contract and Duplicate Bridge: Finesse, Promotion, Ducking Happy New Year,\u00a0Bridge friends!\u00a0 And so we&#8217;ve made our personal affirmations and are ready to make the best of 2011.\u00a0\u00a0To begin\u00a0our Polling You blog for the new year, we offer an\u00a0interesting set of hands.\u00a0\u00a0Beside our normal array of\u00a0bidding and play possibilities, not everyone is likely to agree with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}