Bobby WolffWikipedia: Robert S. (Bobby) Wolff(born October 14, 1932, San Antonio, Texas) is an American bridge player, writer, and administrator. He is the only person to win world championships in five different categories.
Wolff was an original member of the Dallas Aces team, which was formed in 1968 to compete against the Italian Blue Team which was dominant at the time. The Aces were successful and won their first world championship in 1970. Wolff has won 11 world championships, over 30 North American championships, and was the president of World Bridge Federation (WBF) 1992–1994, and served as president of American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) 1987. He is the author of a tell-all on bridge chronicling 60 years on the scene, entitled The Lone Wolff, published by Master Point Press. His column, The Aces on Bridge has been appearing daily for over 32 years, is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate in more than 130 newspapers worldwide and is available online two weeks in arrears.
IMPs Dealer North. Both Vul
A 7 5
A Q
A K 8
Q 10 7 6 5
Q 8 2
K J 10 9 7 6
7 5 4
3
West
North
East
South
1
Pass
1
Pass
2NT
Pass
3
Pass
4
Pass
Pass
Pass
“A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner” English proverb.
West led the Q.
Plan the play for South.
South chose a routine plan to score today’s game, but it didn’t work, He would have been placed had he put dummy’s entries to wiser use.
South took the first diamond in dummy and drew three rounds of trumps, overtaking dummy’s queen with his king. A low club was led to dummy’s 10, won by east’s jack. East returned a diamond, establishing a defensive winner in that suit. South then ruffed a club and exited with his last diamond to West’s jack. South was forced to ruff West’s last diamond, and it was now or never with the spades.
A spade was led to the ace and back to the queen to no avail. West scored two spades and a diamond, and East took a club, down one.
South makes his game by using dummy’s entries to establish and cash dummy’s fifth club. At trick two, a low club should be led from dummy and the diamond return is won in dummy. A club is ruffed and dummy is entered twice in trump for two more club ruffs, establishing the fifth club. The last trump is now drawn and dummy’s A provides the entry to cash the fifth club while South discards a losing spade.
The full deal:
A 7 5
A Q
A K 8
Q 10 7 6 5
