"I might add," Mr. Dale concluded, "that I can see nothing wrong with a contract where one opponent holds eight trumps against you—not as long as you make it."
Martin Hoffman is a hero. Now in his eighties, he can still analyse a hand faster than most people can sort their cards and he still plays at the speed of light.
When you pick up your hand and notice an eight card suit in it, you can say that your desired trump suit is pretty obvious regardless of partner's holding.
The winners of this phase are Antonio Palma & Juan-Carlos Ventin before the Americano-Canadians John Hurd and Vincent Demuy and the AngloSwedish Gunnar Hallberg and Peter Bertheau.
