After a couple more boards go by, our teammates decide that playing in 5 Clubs with AQT9854 opposite the singleton 6 is preferable to playing in 4 Hearts with AKQ964 opposite doubleton 73 (the guy with the hearts made a fit bid (he self alerted his jump to 3 Hearts after his pard bid 2 Clubs as fit-showing, I'm wondering if he knows what a fit is.))

The very next board disaster strikes again.

In 2nd, all red you pick up:

KJ9 / AQ7542 / 4 / AK5

I planned to open 1 Heart and rebid 3 Hearts over 1NT.  The suit's a little yucky, but you're at the top of the range values-wise, and I don't like manufacturing minor suit bids unless rebidding 3 Hearts would be a bigger distortion than this.

I opened 1 Heart as planned and Jeff responded 1 Spade.

What now?

Now I felt like my hand has exploded.  If Jeff's whole hand is AQTxx of spades, we have a play for slam.  I can't rebid 3 Hearts and risk all pass.  I jump shifted with 3 Clubs, mildly aggressive, but I think it's the right bid and would do it even if we weren't down 36 with 4 to go.

Jeff now bid 3 Diamonds, which is pretty nebulous.  I bid 3 Spades and he now leaped to 6 Clubs.

I figured the spade Moyse would play better than the club Moyse and converted to 6 Spades (I think 6 Hearts is the right bid, but as I've said before, I tend to be a tad unilateral in ambiguous auctions.)  Jeff bid 6NT and it was not the best contract ever reached, requiring a favorable lead, a 3-3 break, and playing T87 opposite KJ9 for one trick without losing more than one trick.

Jeff's hand:

T87 / K / AT962 / QJT6

Sigh.