{"id":31,"date":"2009-01-19T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/newcomer-novice-5-trumps-are-wild\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:15:07","slug":"newcomer-novice-5-trumps-are-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer &amp; Novice #5: Trumps Are Wild!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_NN_5_0506.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month we explored the raw power of trump used for ruffing and sluffing. This month we have a special treat &#8211; Marty Bergen has generously agreed to allow BridgeHands excerpt the chapter \u201cTrumps are Wild\u201d from his  Points Schmoints book (nominated \u201cbook of the year\u201d by the  ABTA &#8211; American Bridge Teachers\u2019 Association).<\/p>\n<p>In our premiere issue, BridgeHands covered the basics of the finesse. Let\u2019s add a handy reminder on repeated finesses, enter the Rule of 2.<\/p>\n<p>Goulash, a tasty treat for Bridge players? No, we\u2019re not referring to anything edible. But the  goulash deal is an oddity enjoyed by masochistic Bridge players, if you care to try a bizarre interlude from the typical Rubber Bridge game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER Last month we explored the raw power of trump used for ruffing and sluffing. This month we have a special treat &#8211; Marty Bergen has generously agreed to allow BridgeHands excerpt the chapter \u201cTrumps are Wild\u201d from his Points Schmoints book (nominated \u201cbook of the year\u201d by the ABTA &#8211; American Bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}