{"id":43,"date":"2009-01-19T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/newcomer-novice-12-preemptive-bidding-part-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:36:04","slug":"newcomer-novice-12-preemptive-bidding-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer &amp; Novice #12: Preemptive Bidding, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_NN_12.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this issue, we will continue our multi-part discussion devoted to preemptive bidding.     As you will recall, the speculative nature of preemptive opening calls can lead to \u201ccreative\u201d bidding.  Better said, one person\u2019s garbage is another person\u2019s treasure!  In our last issue, we covered hand evaluation methods helpful to make sound opening bids.  After all, if our preemptive opening bids are completely undisciplined, our poor partner is definitely against the odds facing a:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Left Hand Opponent<br \/>\n&#8211; Right Hand Opponent<br \/>\n&#8211; Center Hand Opponent (please don\u2019t let that be you!)<\/p>\n<p>So our success making preemptive responses is built on opener\u2019s proverbial house of cards.   In this lesson we will cover typical responder scenarios:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Responder\u2019s hand evaluation<br \/>\n&#8211; When to pass<br \/>\n&#8211; When to preemptively raise<br \/>\n&#8211; When to explore game and beyond<br \/>\n&#8211; How to deal with interference bids by opponents<\/p>\n<p>Counting up the numbers, we\u2019ve reached the Rule of 10 in our &#8220;Rules of&#8221; tips.  For the mathematically inclined, perhaps you\u2019ll find this algorithmic approach useful to evaluate when to double opponent\u2019s auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER In this issue, we will continue our multi-part discussion devoted to preemptive bidding. As you will recall, the speculative nature of preemptive opening calls can lead to \u201ccreative\u201d bidding. Better said, one person\u2019s garbage is another person\u2019s treasure! In our last issue, we covered hand evaluation methods helpful to make sound opening [&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\/43"}],"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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}