In the game of
contract bridge a three suiter (or three-suited hand) denotes a hand containing at least four cards in three of the four suits. As a bridge hand contains thirteen cards, only two hand patterns can be classified as three suiters: 4-4-4-1 and 5-4-4-0.
In natural
bidding systems, strong three suiters are often difficult to describe, as — following the likely response of partner in the short suit — they do not allow for a high-level notrump rebid, nor for a
reverse bid
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. Some systems therefore use dedicated opening bids to describe strong three-suited hands (e.g. the 2 opening in the
Roman system
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).
The standard treatment to describe a three-suited hand after an opposing opening in a suit is the
takeout double. Conventions like the
Kantar cuebid
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and
Cansino
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[Manley (2011), page 272.] can be used to introduce a three-suited hand after an opposing 1NT opening.
See also
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Single suiter
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Two suiter
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Balanced hand
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Bridge probabilities
External links
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Notes
References
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Contract bridge bidding
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