{"id":39,"date":"2009-01-19T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/newcomer-novice-9-notrump-bidding-gymnastics\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:29:44","slug":"newcomer-novice-9-notrump-bidding-gymnastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer &amp; Novice #9: Notrump Bidding Gymnastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_NN_9.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this issue, we will focus on Notrump bidding and responses.  You may recall two issues back we discussed captaincy and our last issue we covered material from Marty Bergen\u2019s new book, \u201cMore Declarer Play the Bergen Way.\u201d  So let\u2019s continue to build our Notrump bidding foundation by practicing our bidding and responses with some Notrump hands.<\/p>\n<p>The Rule of 7 is our next stop progressing up the \u201cRules of . . .\u201d  When playing a Notrump contract with losers in opponents&#8217; suit and insufficient quick tricks to guarantee the contract, considering the Rule of 7 is useful to disrupt communications between opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER In this issue, we will focus on Notrump bidding and responses. You may recall two issues back we discussed captaincy and our last issue we covered material from Marty Bergen\u2019s new book, \u201cMore Declarer Play the Bergen Way.\u201d So let\u2019s continue to build our Notrump bidding foundation by practicing our bidding and [&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\/39"}],"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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}