Bridge Winners Profile for jonathan hellman

Sorry, this user has no cards yet.

jonathan hellman's bidding problem: QT8x T AQT98 Axx: 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 ...
jonathan hellman's bidding problem: QT8x T AQT98 Axx: 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 ...
jonathan hellman's bidding problem: QT8x T AQT98 Axx: 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 ...
jonathan hellman's bidding problem: QT8x T AQT98 Axx: 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 ...