How do I bid with a 4441?

Exercise: Which suit would you open with these hands? What is your planned rebid if partner responds in your singleton?

Hand a)	Hand b)	Hand c)
♠ 4 ♥ K J 4 3 ♦ A K J 3 ♣ K J 9 6	♠ J 9 4 2 ♥ Q ♦ A Q 8 3 ♣ K 7 5 2	♠ Q 8 5 2 ♥ A Q 7 4 ♦ 5 ♣ A Q 5 2

• (a). Open 1♥ and rebid 1NT over 1♠, showing 15-16 “balanced”. Partner will think you have 2/3 spades. That’s life.
• (b). Pass. Yucky 12-count with two dubious points in hearts. Perhaps an opponent will open 1♥ and you can make a take-out double, describing your hand in one call, when by opening you’d be unable to describe it in two.
• (c). Open1♣ and rebid 1♥ over 1♦. Hope that your lack of the advertised fifth club will not prove serious.

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