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The 13 cards of each suit are divided between between the four players. Each hand has a distribution, for example, a hand consisting of three spades, three hearts, four diamonds and three clubs has a distribution of 4333.

A balanced hand contains:

• no void (suit with no cards)

• no ‘singleton’ (suit with just one card)

• not more than one ‘doubleton’ (suit with just two cards)

must know

All distributions (or ‘shapes’) can be subdivided into one of two categories: balanced or unbalanced.

The distributions, or shapes, that satisfy all three criteria are 4432, 4333 and 5332. These are the three balanced shapes: