{"id":3182,"date":"2013-01-06T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T10:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2013-01-14T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T08:18:33","slug":"social-lesson-1-major-suit-raises-in-contract-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Social Lesson 1 &#8211; Major Suit Raises in Contract Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, we are beginning the new year with shorter, more frequent lessons for the social and advanced players.\u00a0 Premium and ULTRA members are welcome to enjoy both lesson segments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgehands-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Social_1_Teaser\/Social_1_Teaser.html\">Click here to view Teaser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/premiumcontent\/Social_1\/SociaL_1.html\">Premium and ULTRA Members click here to view entire 35 minute video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our social lesson, we discuss some of the nuances associated with major suit raises for our social contract Bridge players.\u00a0 As you will recall, most opener and responder hands come in one of three sizes:\u00a0 Minimum, Medium and Maximum.\u00a0 Assuming the partnership at least a 5-3 or 4-4 fit between the opener and responder then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Opener<br \/>\nMinimum: 12-15 points, Medium: 15-17 points, Maximum: 18\/19-21 points<\/p>\n<p>Responder<br \/>\nMinimum: 5\/6-9 points, Medium: 10-12 points, Maximum 13+ points<\/p>\n<p>Bidding generally goes:<\/p>\n<p>Minimum + Minimum = stop in 2 of the major suit<br \/>\nMedium + Minimum = invite to 3 of the major suit but do not accept a 4 level game<br \/>\nMaximum + Maximum = force to at least 4 level major suit game<\/p>\n<p>Even if you understand the basics, be sure to check out our topics on how counting can influence which way to take a finesse, suit quality, losing trick count, cover cards and more.<br \/>\nWe hope you enjoy the show!<\/p>\nPlease login or register to view this content.\n<p>Happy Trails,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>BridgeHands<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, we are beginning the new year with shorter, more frequent lessons for the social and advanced players.\u00a0 Premium and ULTRA members are welcome to enjoy both lesson segments. Click here to view Teaser Premium and ULTRA Members click here to view entire 35 minute video In our social lesson, we discuss some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182"}],"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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}