I was sitting North. Went down one after good play by my p.
Catalog of mistakes and optimisms from me I guess. Chose to support with 3 cards, my two honors and the poor spades as the excuse.
In my defense I am new to the art of controls and was not sure if my 5♦ was slam forcing. I figured P would stop in 5♥ if he does not have the other control in clubs and there is a high chance that our losers in spades are only one due to my doubleton.
So please let me have it. Where should I have stopped? Pulled to 4♥ after 4♣. Is my hand not worth the diamond control? If I pull to 5♥ after 4♠, does partner not complain that slam was missed because he was worried about a second diamond loser? He has no space to ask for queen of trumps either so I have to take that into account myself.
Is partner blameless? I did limit my hand to a maximum of 14 HCPs and my 12 are not the worst. Would a queen of spade really make a difference to my hand? Partner could make slam if he has King of spade instead of jack. Denying him diamond control would put him in 4nt, followed by 5♦ from me and maybe a queen ask from him or an expectation to pull his 5h to slam with the queen.
Thanks for your input.