The Video Transcript:

The other jargons used in the game as well. This stuck with this. They have to leave that sooner or later, and you’ve got the stopper.

So a lot of good players will try to pass a heart if they can, and if they can’t avoid a suit, and maybe do it on the first hand so that then the opponent that’s getting that heart the next time will say, “I don’t want to set my hand up to shoot the mood because he’s passing me a heart.”

On the other side of the coin, if you’re dealt three really rotten hearts and the rest of your hand is loaded with high cards and you have the opportunity to get rid of the hearts, you’re hoping that he’s not going to pass you a heart so the rest of your hand is all high cards, and if you don’t have a losing heart and maybe you can get these other suits to work for you because they play their high cards early, you wind up having a chance to shoot the moon and shooting the moon is the ultimate goal in hearts besides winning.

Okay, so the main thing is defensive pass.

Try to pass a middle heart if you can.

Another passing strategy: try to avoid a bad suit.
If you have low cards in a suit, you don’t have to worry about it, and of course, most importantly of all is the very first thing you do in hearts is to check your spade suit, and if you’ve got this, this, or this and they’re short, you need to get rid of them.

Okay, if you’ve got the queen, king duced out to you and you’re passing to the left or across, you need to basically get rid of both.

If you’re passing to the right and want to cover this lady, you need to just get rid of the queen. So check your spades, check your hard suits, and check your side suits.