{"id":706,"date":"2010-12-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T08:40:13","slug":"poll-8-opening-lead-against-6-notrump-1212010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Poll #8, Opening lead against 6 Notrump, 12\/1\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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><strong>The auction starts peacefully enough with RHO opening 1 Notrump. With your 2=5=4=2 shape, you might even be tempted to bid if you held another primary honor and we not vulnerable. Next your LHO tries 2 Club, Stayman asking opener for a 4 card major. But then they do not find a major suit fit, surprise &#8211; surprise! The responder jumps up, up, up and away to 6 Notrump!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So with the opponents aiming to make 12 tricks, now is a good time to think about your long term plan to play and discard tricks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When the opponents propel the auction to 6 Notrump, do we stick to our prior lead strategy or is there more to this auction than meets the eye? What&#8217;s going on with our lefty bidding 6 Notrump, eh? Ah, so many questions &#8211; so little time. Okay, everyone has their eyes on you &#8211; time to show your partner you&#8217;ve got the right stuff with your opening lead&#8230;<\/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 auction starts peacefully enough with RHO opening 1 Notrump. With your 2=5=4=2 shape, you might even be tempted to bid if you held another primary honor and we not vulnerable. Next your LHO tries 2 Club, Stayman asking opener for [&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\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}