{"id":70,"date":"2023-12-19T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:31:15","slug":"ogust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/?page_id=70","title":{"rendered":"Ogust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ogust is a conventional 2NT response to a\u00a0weak two bid or\u00a0weak jump overcall. It is an artificial strong bid, showing 15+ points with interest in game. It usually (but not always) shows trump support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogust is a forcing bid for one round. After hearing a Ogust 2NT response, the preemptor&#8217;s conventional rebids are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th>Bid<\/th><th>Meaning<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>3<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgebum.com\/images\/c.gif\"><\/td><td>Bad hand (5-7 points) with only one of the top three honors in the preempt suit<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgebum.com\/images\/d.gif\"><\/td><td>Bad hand (5-7 points), two of the top three honors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgebum.com\/images\/h.gif\"><\/td><td>Good hand (8-10 points), one of the top three honors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgebum.com\/images\/s.gif\"><\/td><td>Good hand (8-10 points), two of the top three honors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3NT<\/td><td>Good hand (8-10 points), all three top honors<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The mnemonic for remembering Ogust responses is &#8222;Minors are Minimum, 1-2-1-2-3.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebids by the Ogust bidder are natural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogust is a conventional 2NT response to a\u00a0weak two bid or\u00a0weak jump overcall. It is an artificial strong bid, showing 15+ points with interest in game. It usually (but not always) shows trump support. Ogust is a forcing bid for one round. After hearing a Ogust 2NT response, the preemptor&#8217;s conventional rebids are: Bid Meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}