Declarer
played the
8
from dummy, Lambardi the
3
and Fernando won the first
trick with the
A.
He continued with three TOP trumps, Ravenna played his
5
the first time and a spade and a
little club the second and third,
meanwhile
Lambardi played heart the three
times...4,
8,
10....
Finishing the hearts, Fernando
played the
K...
¿What
do you do with South cards?
1)
If you play the
A
and declarer has 2
diamonds...he wins the hand, he will
be able to pitch his hand loosers in
dummy's diamonds.
2)
If you dont play the
A
and the
K
is only declarer´s diamond...he wins
the hand...loosing only two more
clubs...bidding suggests declarer
has a club honor, and you are
watching your Q
and dummy's
J...
For
the play and the bidding you already
know that
declarer has:
1)
Only one spade card
2)
8 hearts
3) Does he have two diamonds and
two clubs?
or one diamond and three clubs?...all
other combinacion is irrelevant, the
contract is cold.
¿How
can you now...instead of guessing?
Pablo
played the
A
the correct card...and commentted,
that it was easy, ¿Why easy?
I asked him, so he added:
Pablo
(for Lambardi) without seeing the A,
Fernando had not played yet,
and since my K
lead, did not indicated who
had the A,
knowing that my K
could win the first trick, played
the 3,
and that card explained me the whole
story.
¿So
easy? How is that?
The 3
showed a club honor and at last 2
diamond cards,
if Pablo had a single diamond he
would have show it in his first card.
And added:
When
dummy appeared, Lambardi knew
immediatly that the key of the hand
was to show me his attitud and
distribution, after the third heart
round I could see that my partner´s
distribution was 6-3-2-2, 6 spades
from the bidding and 3 hearts from
the playing.
Also. if I had any doubt, his
first heart the
4,
confirmed the exact distribution.
So
Fernando...couldn pitch his club
loosers...and went one down...
In
the other room, "the Pablos"´s mates,
let play 4,
one down, so the hand gave them 5 IMPs,
but if Fernando could win the hand
it would had
cost them 11 IMPs.
The
complete hand: