{"id":152,"date":"2014-09-04T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:05:56","slug":"lesson-thursday-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Thursday 9\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated after the class on 9\/4.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what\u00a0I covered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Suit combination AJ9 opposite xx(x), what&#8217;s the best play for 2 tricks?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: \u00a0You should finesse the 9 on the first trick. \u00a0If it loses to the K or Q then finesse the J the second time. \u00a0This wins when RHO has Kx(x)(x) or Qx(x)(x) and loses when RHO has 10x(x)(x), 2:1 odds.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Two defense problems I posted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Killing The Discard\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=162\">Killing the Discard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Asking &#8220;<a title=\"Ask Yourself \u201cWhy Is Declarer Doing That?\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=157\">Why is Declarer Trying to Do That?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. \u00a0<a title=\"Weak Two Bids: Worksheet\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=147\">Weak Two Bids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The worksheet for Thursday&#8217;s lesson is available <a title=\"Weak Two Bids: Worksheet\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=147\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Please print it out and bring it with you. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have a few extras, but not many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated after the class on 9\/4. Here&#8217;s what\u00a0I covered. &nbsp; 1. \u00a0Suit combination AJ9 opposite xx(x), what&#8217;s the best play for 2 tricks? Answer: \u00a0You should finesse the 9 on the first trick. \u00a0If it loses to the K or&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=152\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}