{"id":679,"date":"2010-11-29T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-11-29T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T21:00:47","slug":"poll-7-november-29-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Poll #7, Opening Lead against 3 Notrump: November 29, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/survey.constantcontact.com\/poll\/a07e360hbdmgh2rsvg0\/start.js?v=1&amp;w=300\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. <a href='http:\/\/www.constantcontact.com\/survey\/index.jsp?cc=ViraWidPOL'>Online Surveys<\/a> by Constant Contact. <\/noscript><strong>The opponents bid 1 Notrump, 2 Notrump, 3 Notrump and you are on lead.<\/strong> <strong>Do you\u00a0fire straight away using tried and true leads of rote? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then again,\u00a0maybe you like to throw a curve call.\u00a0\u00a0Or are you one of those systematic types that\u00a0goes through a rigorous pre-race checklist?<\/strong> <strong>Whatever\u00a0your style,\u00a0sooner or later it will be time to give it your best shot.\u00a0 And as so often happens in Bridge,\u00a0you only get one shot so use it wisely! \u00a0 Remember, like in a vigorous trial proceeding,\u00a0a good\u00a0defense <em>never<\/em> rests!\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, we here at <em>BridgeHands<\/em> have our checklists and it goes well beyond those 13 cards we are holding&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To view our commentary and download an illustrative hand example (Zip contains PBN, LIN, HTM, DUP, BRI formats), please login to your FREE Membership Subscription &#8211; see you\u00a0over at our &#8220;Scotland Yard,&#8221; Sherlock! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*** To view our secure BridgeHands members bonus content below, please login***<\/p>\nPlease login or register to view this content.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. Online Surveys by Constant Contact. The opponents bid 1 Notrump, 2 Notrump, 3 Notrump and you are on lead. Do you\u00a0fire straight away using tried and true leads of rote? Then again,\u00a0maybe you like to throw a curve call.\u00a0\u00a0Or are you one of those systematic types [&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\/679"}],"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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}