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Which Suit to Open?

Here are the guidelines:

  1. Always open your longest suit – length, not strength is key.
  2. With two five-card suits, always open the higher-ranking. Start high, so you can finish low.
  3. With two four-card suits, open 1 if one of them is hearts, otherwise open 1. With 4-4, it doesn’t matter. You choose.
  4. There’s a fourth guideline, less important (and far rarer) than the above:
    1. With three four-card suits, the dreaded 4441, it’s best to open 1 with a red-suit singleton and 1 with a black-suit singleton.

Which suit would you open with these?.
 

Hand a) Hand b) Hand c)
♠ K 10 8 4
K J 10 4
A 4
A 10 9
♠ 3
K 10 9 8 2
A 2
A Q J 7 2
♠ A K Q 2
♥ 2
A J 2
 8 6 5 3 2
  • With (a), open 1 (with 4-4, open 1); 
  • with (b), open 1 (“high fives”); 
  • with (c), open 1 (always longest).
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