{"id":2998,"date":"2020-09-04T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:28:37","slug":"spade-slams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2020\/09\/04\/spade-slams\/","title":{"rendered":"Spade Slams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6S1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2999\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6S1-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6S1-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6S1.png 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two interesting Spade slams yesterday. In the first with Bob Cole, on the common Club lead, we can trump three Clubs in dummy and get a third entry to hand by finessing the SJ (or overtaking the SK with the SA; both work with J doubleton onside). The Diamond split provides an overtrick.<\/p>\n<p>The second, with Mike Kohler, was the first time I ever redoubled a slam. This time there are plenty of entries to ruff three Hearts in West. No \u00a0one \u00a0else \u00a0was \u00a0even \u00a0in \u00a0slam.<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6Sxx.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3000\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6Sxx-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6Sxx-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/6Sxx.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting Spade slams yesterday. In the first with Bob Cole, on the common Club lead, we can trump three Clubs in dummy and get a third entry to hand by finessing the SJ (or overtaking the SK with the SA; both work with J doubleton onside). The Diamond split provides an overtrick. The second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}