{"id":3518,"date":"2013-03-18T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:24:48","slug":"social-lesson-7-standard-american-responder-bids-toward-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Social Lesson 7 &#8211; Standard American, Responder Bids Toward Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s time to step up responders bidding a bit. \u00a0 Playing the Standard American system, after opener begins bidding in a major suit, with 10+ points for responder its paramount to find the best bid.\u00a0 Of course, the fun is just getting started.\u00a0 Now both the opener and responder must be on their proverbial toes to succinctly and accurately describe their hand with the ensuing rebids.<\/p>\n<p>After responders two-level response, almost all opener bids are forcing.\u00a0 Not only will we entertain you with lots of bidding examples, but in this video lesson we will also have the opportunity to actually play an assortment of hand &#8211; some with straight forward play, others not so much.\u00a0 In fact, here at <em><strong>BridgeHands<\/strong><\/em> some of the hands we have prepared might make you pause and take a second look before bidding.\u00a0\u00a0 But the good news is that if you can master bidding and play of our hands, you will be well equipped for real Bridge at the table.\u00a0\u00a0 Tip &#8211; in addition to going for the obvious finesse and side-suit ruffs, be aware of opponents suit distribution and entries when trying to promote the dummy&#8217;s side suit.\u00a0 Oh yeah, also be on the lookout for the situation when a suit does not break favorably!<\/p>\n<p>So sit right up and tune in to our <em><strong>BridgeHands<\/strong><\/em> videos!<\/p>\n<p>Premium and ULTRA members are welcome to enjoy both lesson segments as well as the Social Part 2 lesson.\u00a0 Better yet, check out the hundreds of hours of videos in our archive by clicking &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?page_id=540\">Index to Videos&#8221; on the navigation above or simply click this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgehands-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Social_7_Teaser\/Social_7_Teaser.html\">General Audiences &#8211; click here to view our Teaser<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/premiumcontent\/Social_7\/Social_7.html\">Premium and ULTRA Members click here to view Part 1 with 34 minutes of video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/premiumcontent\/Social_7_Part_2\/Social_7_Part_2.html\">Premium and ULTRA Members click here to view Part 2 (play at the table) with 32 minutes of video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPlease login or register to view this content.\n<p>Happy Trails,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>BridgeHands<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s time to step up responders bidding a bit. \u00a0 Playing the Standard American system, after opener begins bidding in a major suit, with 10+ points for responder its paramount to find the best bid.\u00a0 Of course, the fun is just getting started.\u00a0 Now both the opener and responder must be on their proverbial [&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\/3518"}],"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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}