Partner opens a 15-17 1NT and your hand is: ♠ QT3 ♥ T7 ♦ QJT95 ♣ A98 Generally speaking, a 9-point hand is very much on the borderline between bidding game and inviting game. But North’s 9-pointer is a particularly fine specimen, what with that 5-card suit and all those lovely Tens, so in this case North has no qualms whatsoever about bidding 3NT directly.
Now put yourself in Declarer’s seat. West leads the Spade Two (playing fourth best leads), and this is what you see when Dummy goes down: |