Pass is a Valuable Bid

All beginners are taught that the bidding is a conversation,that your bids should tell your Partner about your hand and rightly so.
But often not enough emphasis is given to the meaning of "Pass".

If you open 1 ♠ with ♠ AQ674 A67 Q32 ♣ 54 and the bidding proceeds
1 ♠-P- 2 ♣ - 2

Would you bid 2 ♠ ? If you do what are you telling your Partner- That you have more than 4 Spades ?
That you have better than a minimum opening ? or do you think you are making a weak bid ?
Whether you are playing 5 card Majors or not PASS should guarantee that you have 5 Spades otherwise with 4 and less than 15 points why weren't you opening 1NT.
So therefore a 2 ♠ rebid would show at the very least a very good 14/15 points to possibly force to the three level.With any better you might make some sort of game forcing bid .
So if you bid 2 ♠ with this particular hand you would be deceiving your Partner.
Don't bid your hand TWICE- with many hands your opening bid expresses 90% of your hand and often a later Pass can complete the picture.

" I had no defence to 2 ♠ Partner" how often do you hear that in auctions such as
1 ♠ - 2 ♣ - 2 ♠ - P
  P - 3 ♣           with ♠ 6 A87 674 ♣ KQJ896
There are usually only two results to this sort of auction- Either you go for a big penalty and 2 ♠ is either making (less than the penalty) or going off or The opener bids 3 ♠ and his Partner wakes up to the fact he should have raised to three in the first place and bids the making game

So if you have told Partner more or less everything about your hand with your opening bid, a response to theirs or with an overcall there is no need to tell them again- trust your Partner to do the right thing
Like all thing in Bridge not passing will pay of occasionally but in the long run it pays to be honest.

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