The only UI that West has in this case is that East is not bidding her spades but the 3♠ bid is based on the probable spade major on West. Had West escaped to 4♦ and this proved to be a winning choice then there would have been ...
If the sequence is not forcing then what is the point of making any other bid besides passing? Despite the 5-5, your hand is a sad minimum with many losers and the ♦AJ makes the hand rather defensive so that I would not worry about the opponents making slam. After ...
While 4NT is far more descriptive, it does not serve justice to this hand and eats up all available bidding space. Why not double and later bid your two suiter to explore any slam possibilities? And keep the 2M doubled option in case of a misfit?
Should your partner bid 2♠ and not give you the chance to pass for penalties had you had a suitable hand? And why not prefer 2♠ to 3♦? Both suits belong to the opponent and spades is one level lower. Plus, the opponent with the long spades ...
OK, but why not 4-1-4-4 or 4-1-3-5? I think the second being more probable with your cards and the bidding so far. Actually your partner has ♠AJ94 and with the actual hand you can make 2♠ (certainly doubled :)) even with AJ32 as North is being endplayed.
Great lead in practice. I led it too, and as declarer didnot guess (ducked from K10xxx in dummy) we had an extra trick but unfortunately that was only our 5th defensive trick!
Let's give everybody justice. Opps with 9 trumps which makes it reasonable to compete to the 3 level and pd something like ♠K ♥AQJxxx ♦Qxx(x) ♣x(x) making it reasonable to dbl?
And all these make me reasonable to pass.