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Supporting Hand The valuation of cards held by the supporting hand in a trump bid consists of: "3, Trump length and honours in partners suit. bid:
"2, Low cards and honour tricks in ide suits. 3 Ruffing tricks due to short suit (voids, singletons and doubletons The value of Dummy's tramps are independent of the main trump suit, The reason is that the increased length in Dummy will promote the favourable distribution of De-claver's trump suit, and thereby increase possibility of dropping any outstanding missing honour.
'The chief characteristic of the supporting hand is inthe use of pulling tricks, These ave not count dag extra tricks in the opening hand, but acquire a special value in Divminy, and occasionally in' oppo nents' hands. 'These puffing trick Values are due to the fact that otherwise worthless tramps in Dumfny-can be utilised in ruling' losers from the opening. hand, Trump Length and Honours support of partner's trump the trump length and honours ae valued as follows:
Three cards oF loss No value Four cards (1 trick if headed have' of 1 8 trick for Ace i ise ad for Ring 1 ick for Queen tice td for Queen and nave} tek Never count, more than, 15 tricks for honours in Dummy's trump suit.
Honours in Dummy's side suit are valued defensively' og in the Standard 'Table, and are added to the value of low' cards in. side sults which are the same as in Declarer's hand. Long suit tricks cannot' be counted in a suit bid cly opponents, Rufling Trick Values The puffing tricks are valued:—
With 8 of With ¢ of Partners partners A Doubieton (2 cards mit) J tick 1 trick °Singloton. (i cad momilt) ace 1 trick 2 tricks Vela "an ligent salt EMENS tricks ack the hand contains two short suits, only one of them should be valued, the shorter. Using above valuations in Dumniy—value honours in trumps, honours in side suits, length in. trumps, length in side suits and ruting tricks value—automatically gives exact number of playing tricks in support of partner's trump bid of "One." gpeden Ate" King xt eons Opening hand. (ith pader bid rin Kings st tree Diamonds x 3° 0 tek 5 playing trieka Dummy hand (in support of ides' Queen Jack Wenrts Ace's x'x a Diamonite x 2° treks embe "Ace x x x, teles 6} playing tricks Against Opponents low card tricks in side suits coosd Against, opponents' frum
exist and the ruffing trick values Necome very Uncertain. Only tramp tricks amt taking honours' can be counted "as winners. against "op ponents' trump bid.
The Three Valuations Ag short suits are of value only in' the supporting hand, long suits' cannot be counted against opponents' trump bid, while honours Menerally retain their value. It. easily understood that the trick taking value of the hand changes constantly during the bidding. The three ways the same hand can be valued are:
At one'e own bid.—Count honour' tricks and long suit tricks in both the trump and side suits, but not short suit tricks In support of partner's bid—Count everything, viz., trump tricks Tength "and honours, side suits Jength and honours, and short suits (puffing tricks).
Against opponents? trump bid.—Count honours and trump. tricks, but not low cards inside suits, Count exceptionally a singleton or "void,
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