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I was recently playing face to face with Ron (Archibald) at a local club.

Dealer North
Spades   A Q 10 8 7 3
Hearts   A 8
Diamonds   3 2
Clubs   A 3 2
   
Spades  6 5
Hearts  Q J 9 5 3
Diamonds  8 4
Clubs  K 8 4
 
Spades   K 9 4 2
Hearts   7
Diamonds   6 5 4
Clubs   J 10 7 6 5
Spades   J
Hearts   K 10 7 4 2
Diamonds   A K Q J 10 2
Clubs   Q
Lead: Hearts5
North
archibald
1Spades
3Spades
5Clubs
Pass
East

Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass
South
badderzboy

2Diamonds
4NT
6NT
Pass
West

Pass
Pass
Pass


badderzboy writes -
 
After partner's jump to 3Spades, as I was concerned that partner might pass 4Hearts, I keycarded with 4NT (RKCB) and got the response of 3 Key Cards.

As we were playing MPs, and it looked like we had long Spades (J was a nice filler) and 6 Diamond tricks, I decided to bid 6NT.

West led the Hearts5  (I prefer
HeartsQ  lead as top of a near sequence which looks like it might beat the contract).  With the Hearts8  winning, we make 12 tricks as I ran the SpadesJ  and got 2 Spade tricks to go with 3 Heart tricks, 6 Diamonds and 1 Club.

Why so wild?  After not declaring any of the first 18 boards of the session - I wanted a challenge!!!