{"id":643,"date":"2010-11-24T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2010-11-24T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:27:08","slug":"poll-6-november-24-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Poll #6, November 24, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/survey.constantcontact.com\/poll\/a07e35nc1c1ggwjyu7s\/start.js?v=1&amp;w=300\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.constantcontact.com\/survey\/index.jsp?cc=ViraWidPOL'>Online Surveys<\/a> by Constant Contact.<br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Note: Due to the two day Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S., we will not have a &#8220;Polling You&#8221; contest on 11\/26\/10.\u00a0 We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-Sustaining Suits are not only great when we are bidding on our own.\u00a0\u00a0Self-sustaining suits, those\u00a0long suits\u00a0guaranteed\u00a0not to lose more than 1 trick\u00a0(even when partner holds a singleton)\u00a0get even more exciting when our partner opened the bidding!\u00a0 Of course its not uncommon to have a misfit with partner, making the bidding look like the proverbial married couple that can&#8217;t agree on anything (1S &#8211; 2H. 2S &#8211; 3H, 3N &#8211; 4H&#8230;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But when our partner opens 1 Notrump and we have a long running major suit, we know the contract belongs in the major suit (always play in your long 8+ card major suit).\u00a0 And since partner&#8217;s opening 1 Notrump bid promises at least a doubleton, with a 6+ card major suit makes it clear to play in that suit &#8211; i.e., &#8220;the golden fit.&#8221;\u00a0 Okay, with that in mind let&#8217;s get ready to &#8220;bid &#8217;em up&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=634\">that same lovely 7-3-2-1 shaped 17 HCP hand we held on Poll #5 back on Monday<\/a> &#8211; but this time partner opened 1 Notrump!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So how high do we go? Yes, we know partner holds around 16 points, but how does that equate to tricks and what&#8217;s the best method to explore slam?\u00a0 For more commentary, please login to your FREE Membership Subscription &#8211; see you there&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*** To view our secure BridgeHands members bonus content below, please login***Please login or register to view this content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. Online Surveys by Constant Contact. Note: Due to the two day Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S., we will not have a &#8220;Polling You&#8221; contest on 11\/26\/10.\u00a0 We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend. Self-Sustaining Suits are not only great when we are bidding on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}