[Echognome]

Here's what happened next at the table:

Scoring: IMP

(P) - 1♣ - (P) - 1♦
(Dbl) - P! - (1♠) - 2♣!
(P) - 2♠ - (Dbl) - P
(P) - 3♥ - (P) - 3♠!
(Dbl) - ?

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I'm sure many of you will disagree with pass. So you will have to suppose you were called in to sub. I chose it in part to see what partner would bid and also since I knew I would soon have a cuebid available to force. One risk I didn't really think about was it passing out. Luckily it didn't and partner has emerged with 2♣. So I carried out my plan and cuebid 2♠. This went back around to me and I bid 3♥ (again there were various options like redoubling to show first round control). But partner emerges with 3♠!

What now?

[jdonn]

This is hard since I don't like pass or 2♠, especially pass I just don't understand how it would help me at all. I guess if called in to sub at this point I would redouble to show first round control, planning to bid 4♥ next. All partner needs for slam really is Axxx of clubs, or Qxxx and a stiff spade.

[jtfanclub]

I'm too confused to offer something coherent.

What the heck was 3 hearts?

[Fluffy]

redouble to show first round control.

[Echognome]

I'm not sure what is best here. I'd already confused the auction so much. I'm not sure XX here should show first round control. Why didn't I redouble the 2♠ call to show first round control? (Perhaps I should have.) Visualizing that we can make slam opposite a singleton spade and the ♣Q or a doubleton spade and the ♣A, I just punted 6♣ here.

Partner turned out to have been convoluting things much worse than I had:

♠Txx ♥Txx ♦Jxx ♣Axxx

Unfortunately, ♥ did not break (although trumps were 2-1), so were down 1 for -50.

Amazingly enough, this was a win of 2 imps for us. The auction at the other table went:

1♦ - 2♣ - 2♦ - All Pass

And teammates made +110. Funny game sometimes.