Dealer
: East
Vuln : North-South |
HAMMAN'S
TIPS #38
by Bob Hamman
the world's #1 ranked player
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Italy's
Arturo Franco was South. He had three
losers (a heart,
diamond and club). He had to
imagine a distribution that
would allow him to
make
an endplay. He won the  K and ducked
a diamond. He won
the spade return in dummy
and ruffed
a diamond. Then he led a club to the
ace and ruffed another
diamond. Next the  K
was cashed and a heart led to the
ace. On the
 K, he discarded a heart, then he led a trump
and West was
endplayed to give a ruff-sluff.
Notice that Franco didn't
need the ace of
diamonds to fall, since
he could have ruffed
that king of diamonds and then led
a
trump.
This
week's tip is to picture exactly what you
need to make
a difficult hand and then play for
it. Franco needed one
opponent to hold a
doubleton heart and doubleton club.
That's
all. And then he played for it.
PS.
At the other table I was South in 4. How
do you think
you should play 4 after a spade
lead? (Clue: Don't let
the East-West cards
influence your decision.) I'll give
you the
answer next Thursday.
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