Assumptions, maybe, but not random.
Partner broke tempo. I was always bidding, but rules are rules. The issue was judged subjectively, I guess. There appeared to have been a punitive aspect to the ruling. I had neither the time or the inclination to pursue it. Hand was of interest to ...
You'd bid 4 hearts with that? In any case, that's a pretty specific collection. Way more likely, some 1-7-3-2 or thereabouts. This one feels like a double game swing in the making, with not that much down side. In fact, that is what occurred, but the directors, in ...
Partner obviously has working values. The only question is whether he has spades. This hand is worth a lot more than 12 HCP, especially in support of spades. And unless partner is looking at your hand, he may have no available bid, e.g. KJxxx x jxx Kxxx, a true ...
Astonishing outcome, if only 11 votes. RHO passed and LHO preempted. What hand can partner hold, with spades, that won't have play for 10 tricks? And he's at least 50-50 to have spades, maybe more since RHO is unlikely to hold 6 of them (no weak 2, not ...