How to Pass the Queen of Spades in Hearts

Video Transcript

"Okay, spade suite management passing to the right. This is an important thing that a lot of people forget because they waist an unnecessary card. When you're passing in Hearts and you got to do something about a short handed queen, to use that vernacular. Then you really have to consider what to do when your passing to the right as opposed to the other directions. For example, let us suppose that you picked up your hand, you've gotten, maybe you're passing them. Well the first thing you want to do is something about this short handed queen. Ace, queen, two is a very weakly protected queen. You have the ace, but you're not going to be able to stop the pushes, especially with only two cards. First order of business is what to do about the queen. Well, if you passing the queen to the left and you keep the ace in front of her. What do you thinks going to happen? Well, if this person gets on the lead and this person gets on the lead and they start with a jack, and you have to duck that with a two. They continue with another spade. Up comes the ace and kerpow! You get blasted with a queen. So we know that we shouldn't have sent her over to the left by herself. So if you're passing to the left and you hold the king and queen and a small one. You have to pass them both. That kind of waists a nice pass. Furthermore, when you're passing two of them along to somebody, you're giving them protection. But what else do you do, you don't have any choice. Ditto with the across pass. Here we have the same thing. You don't want to keep the ace, because somebody leading through you again from the right is going to lead through your ace and the queen will be vulnerable. What happens when you pass to the right, well something really nice happens. Because, if a lead comes from here. Let's just say that he holds something like this and he has to play small. You have a free ride to the ace. No problem, you could play it comfortably. If this player leads a spade and the queen person, the person with the queen ducks. You can go up with the ace in complete safety because you know the queen is on the right. You don't have to worry about anything. Again, if you're passing to the left, you're passing across and you have a short handed queen with a high guard like the king or the queen. Then you have to get rid of them both, but if you're passing to the right, keep the king, he isn't going to hurt you. The only thing is that if you're on the lead, you definitely don't want to lead a spade. That would leave your king by itself. Pass to the right, pass just the queen if you have a high guard with her. Pass to the other directions, you got to pass both. I think you'll find that tip to save you a lot of points."