When playing a suit contract, having extra trump cards add value to the hand. They reduce the number of trump cards held by the opponents, and potentially enable the offense to win more tricks using the extra trump cards as "wild cards". The support hand must hold at least 3 trump cards.
Extra Trump Suit Points
(only in the trump suit) |
Trump
Suit Length | Pts |
| 3 cards | 0 |
| 4 cards | 1 |
| 5 cards | 2 |
| 6 cards | 3 |
When playing a suit contract, having short suits (in the non-trump suits) add value to the hand. They can enable the offense to use trump cards to take tricks with a void, or when a short suit is depleted.
Short Suit Points
(not in the trump suit) |
Other
Suit Lengths | Pts |
Void Zero cards
(with 5 trump cards)
(with 4 trump cards)
with 3 trump cards) |
5
4
3 |
| Singleton 1 card | 2 |
| Doubleton 2 cards | 1 |
The Point Count Value of the support hand =