REBECCA ROOD'S MAILBAG.....................................................

• Dear Rebecca, Just recently I went off in 3 NT on a combined 30 points. What is the world coming to ? Yours a little Tad Mift
• Dear Tad, Most players of little stature, such as yourself, constantly overlook the possibility that games in suit contracts represent safer and better options than no trumps. Indeed, I 've seen plenty minor suit slams go begging, with players determined to stand by their inferior 3NT contracts. Has it never occured to you that 30 HCPs do not necessarily guarantee a game in no trumps ? Indeed, it is equally possible to go off in 3NT on a combined 33 points.........should you be holding a jack doubleton opposite partner's queen doubleton ( in a seriously exposed suit ). I would also like to add that using a 2 NT opener to show 19-20 or 21-22 is poor bridge, in that the bid leaves little room to discover the potential weaknesses of each other's hand. Use 2C as the bid to show all big hands and be done with it. Yours suitably circumspect Rood