Passed Hand Bidding
People seem to have widely varying views about how to handle the auction after one player has passed. Our partnerships pass some pretty good balanced hands, so there may be an extra obligation to open the bidding in 3rd or 4th seat. Once the bidding is open, we expect partner to develop the auction normally. In particular, we rebid with any hand where we would have opened in first or second position. Trying to stop at the one-level never works anyway, so we save it to warn of a light opening.
A correspondent recently sent some hands on this theme, so let’s see how we would do.
You hold the following at IMP’s :
KQ 
9732 
J9532 
A3.
You pass in 2nd seat, neither vulnerable, and your partner opens 1. You respond 1 and he raises to 2, the opponents remaining silent.
What is your next move?