So I'm playing with Jeff tonight against Izzy and Sylvia Caley (Izzy's CWTC partner) and I pick up in 4th, unfavorable:

AQ52 / K / AK42 / Q982

Jeff opens 2 Hearts in front of me.  We play Ogust.  He shows bad/bad.

What's the plan?

(If you bid 3 Hearts, he passes edit: he bids 4, if you bid 4 Hearts, he passes, if you bid 3NT, he bids 4 Diamonds, now what?)

Well, I bid 3NT.  He's got to have something to bid 2 Hearts at these colors.  In retrospect I think I should have picked either 3 Hearts or 4 Hearts, but then I wouldn't have this story.

So over 3NT Jeff bids 4 Diamonds.  I'm thinking he has to be 6-5 or this makes no sense.  I hope that if he has a void it's in clubs and raise him to 5 Diamonds.

Jeff didn't have the hand I hoped, but at least he was stuck playing it for a change.  Izzy led the Jack of spades.

Dummy (reminder):

AQ52 / K / AK42 / Q982

Jeff's glorious unfavorable 2 Heart opener:

- / QT6542 / 9873 / A74

Jeff tried the queen, covered, ruffed.  Led a heart up, Izzy won the Ace and led a low club (not best, but the contract was always cold) and Jeff played the Queen, holding.  Now Jeff ruffed a spade, ruffed a heart, and ruffed another spade.

At this point dummy had:

A / - / AK4 / 982

Jeff had:

- / QT65 / 8 / A7

He cashed dummy's 2 top diamonds and played the last diamond (pitching a club) and his hand was good.

5 Diamonds was the only game that makes.  This hand was good AND ugly.

Izzy held:

JT83 / AJ3 / T65 / K63

Sylvia held:

K9764 / 987 / QJ / JT5