Your Bid

Here's a hand that came up the other day.

You hold this hand:
♠KQ752
♥QJ
♦A6
♣JT98

Your RHO is Dealer and they open with 1♠. What is your bid?

I know. Right now you are thinking "But I was going to open 1♠!"

But you didn't get to. RHO bid first.

What is your bid? Do you tell Partner about your ♠ suit?

NO! Most of the time when you have the enemies suit you just Pass and hope they get into trouble.

On this hand if you Pass, everyone else does also. Your RHO gets to play in 1♠. If you bid YOU get into trouble! You have no good place to play.