I can't blame anyone in this case. The hands fit magically,
and I don't think there's a legitimate way to discover that in a standard
auction. The hands have a combined 22 high card points. In a mostly A level
game, I expect that slightly more than half N-S pairs will get to 4 hearts.
Among those pairs that do reach the game, it will be South, re- evaluating the
hand as being worth an opening bid opposite a six card heart suit. I would bid
4 hearts directly over my partner's 2 heart re-bid, but not with absolute
confidence. You can't expect North to bid again. South's 3 hearts, which is conservative
but reasonable, asks North if they have anything extra beyond what has already
been said. The answer is: Nothing significantly extra.
Now remember, the bidding is only an estimate of what
will happen in the play. If you look at only the N-S hands, not knowing how any
suits are divided or cards located in E-W, 4 hearts is a little better than
50%. Hearts and/or diamonds could break 4:1( about 50% combined), which would
put 4 hearts in jeopardy. As it happens on the actual deal, East has no
damaging lead to make and would be very unlikely to prevent N from taking 11
tricks. To hold the hand to 10 tricks, E must underlead the ace of clubs and W
must return a spade to establish a spade trick. If E-W found that defense, they
would be suspected of being totally clueless or cheating.
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