All beginners are taught that the bidding is a conversation,that your
bids should tell your Partner about your hand and rightly so.
If you open 1 ♠ with ♠ AQ674 ♥ A67
♦ Q32 ♣ 54
and the bidding proceeds
" I had no defence to 2 ♠ Partner" how often do you hear that in auctions
such as
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
But often not enough emphasis is given
to the meaning of "Pass".
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.
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
Like all thing in Bridge not passing will pay of occasionally but in the
long run it pays to be honest.