Several thoughts.
1. For ELC you not only need to agree that you areplaying it you would to agree on what converting a
response to
would show. I would not expect it to be on five hearts.
2. With E not knowing of his partner's strength, I see the E hand as barely worth a 2 level overcall. I think I might, but I am far from sure of it.
3. If I do overcall, I would expect W to bid on in NT. Probably 3NT, he has an opening hand and he expects a decent dummy to hit. Clubs are a worry but you can't wait for certainty.
4. 2NT, or 3NT, from W might get them to 6
. But also it might not. Hopefully they don't end in 3NT. Well, maybe they won'tl ead a
. Or maybe they block.
5. When the opponents enter the bidding, you seldom have a slam. Yes, 6
will almost certainly by coming home here. You have three assured tricks in spades. But that is hard to discover in the auction. If E lacked the
T then there would be only 2 spade winners. And N could have, in high cards, the
K and the
AKQ. So S could have the
Q. Although, during the bidding, W looks at his
A and figures E for a suit headed by, at the very least,
KQ. So probably 6
is on even if E did not have the
T, but he does.
6. BWS does say that after 2
a 3
call is non-forcing "A new-suit bid by an unpassed advancer is natural and nonforcing, constructive if an advance of a two-level overcall.". I think of that as, say, Lho opens 1
, partner overcalls 2m and I bid 2
. But, as written, it appears to include the 3 level advances as well. I would hope "constructive" could then be construed as "highly constructive". But I also think it should be on a six card suit. I am pretty sure that if I held the W cards and partner bid 2
I would go with some number of NT. Maybe just 2NT. That should also be highly constructive.
It's something of a magic 26 count. It would be nice to get to 6
but I would neither hang my head in shame nor figure we need to revise our bidding methods if we didn't get there.