declarers and dealers The dealer is a member of the declarers' team that starts every round, and plays an important role in helping his team increase their rank in that round. The dealer is usually determined as such: In the first round, every team starts at rank of 2. For teams are not separated into declarers or opponents yet, players should reveal any 2 card from the cards he drew as quickly as possible; the first to do so will instantly become the dealer. His team will thus become the declarers while the other team will become the opponents. In subsequent rounds, if the declarers have defended their points in the previous round, they will remain as declarers, but the partner of the previous dealer will become the new dealer. If the opponents have caught 80 points, they will become the new declarers, with the player sitting on the right of the previous dealer becoming the new dealer. Determining the dominant suit and rank The dominant rank is always equal to the score of the declarers in any particular round. Hence, when the declarers obtain a score of 5, the rank for that round is 5; when the score is raised to 7, the rank is 7, and so on. The dominant suit, on the other hand, is determined during the drawing of cards where any player decides to reveal a card in the trump rank he has, and the suit of the card becomes the trump suit. In cases where players do not agree to the dominant suit set, they may play doubles of another suit in the same rank to cancel the original declaration, making the new suit the dominant suit. E.g. The dominant rank is 9. Player North reveals a 9 to make hearts dominant, but Player East then reveals a pair of 9♣, effectively cancelling North's declaration and making clubs the dominant suit. In order to prevent this, North may reveal another 9 before East's declaration to secure the declaration of Hearts as the dominant suit. In certain cases, where no player decides to reveal a card to determine the dominant suit, then the first card in the kitty is turned over, and its suit is adopted as the dominant suit. If the card turned over is a joker, there is 3 methods of it: turn over the subsequent card play no-trumps round reshuffle the cards