This is an interesting hand. The bidding above happened on my table. I play Acol. My hand on South is unbalanced. You open such hands with the longest suit, planning to rebid your second suit, if possible, or repeating your first suit, if there is no other bid. You cannot rebid 1NT in any case, because that is a balanced 15-17 hand.
It happens here that responder has four hearts and bids the suit. My hand is now worth 16 points including length and the singleton. So 3♥ looks like the best bid. I bid only 2♥ and we were in the game missing a slam.
The expert on the other side plays Larry Cohen's full system. The system probably doesn't matter, however. But he reached the slam. Surprisingly, it does not make. If you draw all trumps, you have only 11 tricks in total. If you don't, the hand breaks apart or yields a ruff for the defense.
This the suggestion of Lia "playing your system". It is actually the best result because 4♠X should be down 4 for -1100. I think that 3♠ and 4♠ are most unreasonable bids, worthy to be reported as a bug. Both opponents have stretched the LAW too far, not taking into account the unfavorable vulnerability. West can count only 8 trumps and should pass. He should bid 3♠ with 4 good trumps only. Partner might too easily bid disastrous 4♠.
♠ - ♥ - ♦ - ♣
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