If one player hold six trumps, it is probable that his partner holds a long suit (not trumps); and if trumps be extracted, his partner may make several tricks in this long suit.
This proceeding is most commonly adopted when the unskilled player holds four small trumps, and is not provided with a long suit, and believes it to be good play to decline to trump a doubtful card second in hand.
It may consist of more than the average number of cards, in which case it is a numerically strong or long suit.
For example: one of the adversaries has a long suit declared in his favour, which is led a second time.
The point aimed at in not drawing the trump, is, first to get the commanding card of A's or B's long suit out of the adverse hand.
It cannot be too strongly impressed that the primary use of strength in trumps is to draw the adversaries' trumps for the bringing in of your own or your partner's long suit.
SEE Shorty's Long Suit, Still Small Voice, and Squirrel Food.
As long as the hand containing a long suit is not so strong that there is grave danger of its being left in with one Spade, it should be started with the defensive declaration.
These extremists desire to permit a Dealer to bid whenever he has a long suit, regardless of whether it be headed by high cards, and also whether it would aid a No-trump.
When the adversaries have a long suit of which they have all the high cards, the chances are that it will be opened; but if not, it will soon be found unless the Declarer can at once run a suit of considerable length.
It is often advisable to refuse to part with the highest card of a long suit, if that card is the only re-entry for the suit.
If you are able to take the trick in either hand, do not take it with the hand that has the long suit, unless that suit is established.
Your adversary may have seven tricks in his long suit, and it is hard to discard from a "good all-round hand.
Save at least one card of your partner's long suit, unless you are forced to give it up in order to protect your hand.
As regards the length of a suit, a player's long suit is rather more likely to be fewer than five than over five.
The opponents should employ the same tactics as the dealer to prevent the latter from bringing in a long suit; they can use them with special effect when the long suit is in the exposed hand.
In a no-trump declaration the main object is to bring in a long suit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long suit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
