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Gimme a break!

Look in the chart below to determine how often the opponents' cards will break in a usual or unusual way. Start in the first column by finding the number of cards that you are missing in a suit. The second column will list the number of ways they can break and the third column shows the likelihood of each break.

Cards Missing

Break

Percent

2

1-1

52.0

2-0

48.0

3

2-1

78.0

3-0

22.0

4

3-1

49.7

2-2

40.7

4-0

9.6

5

3-2

67.8

4-1

28.3

5-0

3.9

6

4-2

48.5

3-3

35.5

5-1

14.5

6-0

1.5

7

4-3

62.2

5-2

30.5

6-1

6.8

7-0

0.5

8

5-3

47.1

4-4

32.7

6-2

17.1

7-1

2.9

8-0

0.2