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1. With two pairs, each pair should always be played as a separate hand. With one pair, the
pair should be kept together and played as the high hand except as follows:
A. Any pair should be split to make two Strong Hands (High Nine, Gong, and/or
Wong), if possible. (See Note 1)
B. Teens or Days should be split to improve the low hand to 3 or higher, if possible.
(See Note 2)
C. Other pairs should be split if doing so would improve the low hand from 3 or less
to 7 or more while keeping the high hand 9 or higher. (See Note 2)
D. Eights should always be split with H10 + L10.
2. With no pair, the hands should be balanced by making the low hand as high as possible,
BUT if it is possible to play a Strong Hand, the final set must include at least one
Strong Hand. (See Note 3)
3. After balancing the hands as stated in rule (2) above, the tiles should be reset to make
the high hand as high as possible if:
(a) the low hand, after balancing, is less than 3, and the tiles can be reset to
improve the high hand to 7 or more (see Note 4), or
(b) the low hand, after balancing, is a 3 in which the high tile ranks below Chong,
and the tiles can be reset to improve the high hand to 9 or more (see Note
5).
4. The choice of where to play two tiles having the same numerical value but different
ranks should be made part of the balancing or boosting process: when the low hand
is being made as high as possible, the higher ranking tile should be played