{"id":44,"date":"2009-01-19T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/newcomer-novice-13-preemptive-bidding-part-3\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:37:01","slug":"newcomer-novice-13-preemptive-bidding-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer &amp; Novice #13: Preemptive Bidding, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_NN_13.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this issue, we conclude our multi-part discussion devoted to preemptive bidding.  In the second issue of our series, we explored responder\u2019s hand evaluation and forcing bids after opener\u2019s 2 level preempt bid.  We also touched on interference bidding by the opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Also in this newsletter, we\u2019re up to the Rule of 11 in our &#8220;Rules of&#8221; tips.   On defense without an honor sequence, we\u2019ve learned to lead the fourth best card from our honor suit (except when holding an Ace in a suit contract).  So when partner leads a 2, what does that tell us?  How about when leading a 3 and we are holding the 2 in that suit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER In this issue, we conclude our multi-part discussion devoted to preemptive bidding. In the second issue of our series, we explored responder\u2019s hand evaluation and forcing bids after opener\u2019s 2 level preempt bid. We also touched on interference bidding by the opponents. Also in this newsletter, we\u2019re up to the Rule of [&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\/44"}],"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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}