sathya

That's quite some bidding by your opponents. Missing AK, A, A, all of which are likely cashing and only an 8-card fit, they've taken the push to 4♥ on those cards ?

No, let's tell them if we have solid ♥, in a limited hand. I am sure they'll have a really difficult time figuring out what to do.

3nt is probably the value bid, but tells them you have solid ♥, encourages them to bid 4♠. I'd try to bid 3♥ and then 4♥. May be they'll still bid 4♠.

[hv=pc=n&s=sqt85ht8dkt52c653&e=sj7642hq3d974caj8&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=p1hp1sp3dp3hp3nppp]266|200[/hv] From the All Western 2-day Regional Pairs event in Santa Clara. I remember the warning in a document on "Distributed Cache Protocol" a long time ago. "Don't start reading this when you have a headache as you're going to get one before you finish reading it". T1: ♣T. 8, 6 from you playing UDCA, K T2: ♥7, 2, Q, T (Reverse Smith) T3:♦4, 2, Q, 3 T4-T7, ♥ discarding 2 ♠ and a ♦ from dummy. Partner follows with 5, 6, 9. On the last one, he discards the ♠3. You in the meanwhile have discarded 2 ♣ and ♠5. Now declarer plays ♣Q, pd following with 2 and then ♣7 to the Ace, as pd follows with the 4. You discard a ♠ on ♣Q, You're now down to ♠QT ♦KT5 and need to find a discard on the last ♣. What shall it be ?