{"id":3185,"date":"2013-01-06T02:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T10:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2013-01-14T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T08:24:43","slug":"advanced-lesson-1-freebids-in-competitive-auctions-in-duplicate-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=3185","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Lesson 1 &#8211; Freebids in Competitive Auctions in Duplicate 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>In our advanced lesson, we delve into competitive bidding &#8211; contrasting freebids from balancing seat bids in the passout seat.\u00a0 We will explore when not to make a negative double, &#8220;The Law&#8221; of Total Tricks, misfits, using the Rule of 10 to consider penalizing mischievous opponents and other provocative topics.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgehands-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Advanced_1_Teaser\/Advanced_1_Teaser.html\">Click here to view Teaser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/premiumcontent\/Advanced_1\/Advanced_1.html\">Premium and ULTRA Members click here to view entire 35 minute video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We 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. In our advanced lesson, we delve into competitive bidding &#8211; contrasting freebids from balancing seat bids in the passout seat.\u00a0 We will explore when not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"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=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}