Another Useful Convention

Playing in a regional knockout with a sound partner, no one is vulnerable when I pick up

AKJx

AKQJ10x in fourth chair. A little surprisingly, the auction starts 1

on my left. Partner jumps to 2

, weak, and RHO passes. I have a problem.

Not vulnerable, partner sometimes opens five-card weak two bids. I'm not sure if that translates to weak jump overcalls, but I suspect it does. New suits are forcing here, so I could bid clubs, but I have a better idea. I'm going to try Ogust. If partner bids 3NT, solid spades, I can bid a slam. (Yeah, that's dreaming.) If partner bids 3, good suit good hand, or 3, good suit bad hand, we can play 4. If he bids 3, bad suit good hand, he'll have to have something in hearts, so 3NT should be easy. And if he bids 3, total crap, I'll just put down the dummy. All he needs to make that is the 10.

In practice, not surprisingly, partner bids 3 and we make 4, though it is not cold.

I've never before bid Ogust planning to pass 3.