If you have 10 or 11 points and you have an unbalanced hand, you can sometimes “open light” . For every suit that you have greater than 4 cards in the suit, you can add on one point for each card ‘over the 4’
The examples below show the case
| Suit | Hand 1 | Hand 2 | Hand 3 | Hand 4 | Hand 5 |
| ♠️ | AK1097 | KQJ974 | AQ752 | J | J8 |
| ♥️ | KJ97 | 6 | KQ1087 | K97 | 9 |
♦️ | 674 | A87 | 9 | KQJ1092 | KQ92 |
♣️ | 8 | 642 | 96 | 863 | AJ8632 |
| Open 1 | ♠️ | ♠️ | ♠️ | ♦️ | ♣️ |