lamford, on 2017-February-01, 15:00, said:
Teams
Hope you agree your action so far. What is 4H, and what do you do next?
I probably would have bid as you did.
I'd like to think 4H showed three hearts. You haven't promised five hearts and could easily have 4-7 in the reds. Let's assume for a minute that he doesn't show three hearts and try to guess partner's distribution. Partner should never choose hearts on this auction with 2 hearts and 1 diamond so he would have to be void.
7-2-0-4? Your 3H bid is game-forcing even if you don't play 2/1 game forcing so partner can bid 3S here. 3NT would appear to be an awful misfit from his POV if his spades don't run. I'd want to bid 4S if this were his hand but I don't think partner should hold this.
6-2-0-5? Partner is so weak that he can't even bid 3C? Probably nothing makes here but 4H is no worse than anything else.
Given that partner has three hearts, playing in hearts seems sensible. While I have a 4-loser hand, I suspect that much of partner's hand is wasted (partner needs at least one club card to bid 3NT and probably has honors in spades.) I think partner has at most one diamond so setting up diamonds could be a problem, and a club lead could start tapping you. I'm going to be content with game here. Even if partner produces
♥Kxx and the
♠A and a stiff diamond, for practical purposes, you still need 3-2 breaks in both red suits to make slam.