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East forgot that he and his partner had agreed to play splinters in this position, so his partner was showing a singleton spade. Rather than sign off with 4 (look at those wasted spade values) or cue-bid with 4, East raised to 4 thinking that 3 showed a suit. Whether West realised that a wheel had come off or that he interpreted 4 as showing the ace, we may not know, but the ambiguity was cleared by his jump to 6. How would you have played 6 on South's lead of 6?
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