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Daily Bulletin Friday, March 22, 2013 Volume 56, Number 8

56th Spring North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Sue Munday

Goodwill MessageGreet and welcome your opponents.Sandy DeMartino, Goodwill Chair

ATTENDANCEthrough Monday

7420 tablescontinued on page 5

Walter Johnson 1953–2013Walter Johnson

of Columbus OH died this week. He was 59 years old.

Johnson learned about bridge by playing a box game called “Bridge for Juniors” with his father, Ernest. In college, he became

Only a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage of little boys grow into the NBA and MLB and NFL players they dream of being. Sportswomen, too—only the smallest fraction makes the swing onto LPGA golf greens and WTA tennis courts. Imagine being able to earn your living playing a game!

Bridge is no different. Most bridge professionals acknowledge how fortunate they are to get paid to play and teach and write about the game they love. But suppose they weren’t able to make a living playing bridge? Suppose they actually had to work for a living! What career path might they have chosen?

Zia Mahmood gave the question thoughtful consideration. “I would be a losing poker player,” he proposes. “I would be a businessman who never went to the office. I would be an out-of-work actor.” Then his face lights up. “I would be a nursery school teacher because I love children.”

Barnet Shenkin guesses that he might be in the carpet business. Before he turned to bridge for a living, the native of Scotland traveled the world buying rugs and carpets for a family business. He now resides in Florida with his wife, Maggie,

Take away bridge . . . now what are you going to do?

Zia

Barnet Shenkin

Justin Lall

Fulvio Fantonicontinued on page 5

BBO founder’s call:It’s time for time off

For more than 20 years, Fred Gitelman has been a regular – and regular winner – at NABCs. Now, he says, it’s time for a break.

The eight-time North American champion says he plans to sit out main events such as the Vanderbilt, Spingold and team trials for at least a year. He prefers to call his break a sabbatical rather than retirement. The Grand Life Master is a member of the Les Amoils squad in the Vanderbilt at this tournament.

The founder and president of Bridge Base Online says his responsibilities as BBO’s main programmer require a lot of time and hard work. Making BBO better and trying to keep up with commitments to

major team events, he says, has become burdensome. He allows that it’s fun to compete in big events –

he won a world championship in 2010 as part of the John Diamond team – but that, too, is work.

“When I get home from a tournament,” he says, “I don’t feel relaxed and refreshed.”

Between tournaments, he says, he must find time to practice with his partner and work on systems. He and Brad Moss, also playing for Amoils, were a regular partnership for 15 years.

Gitelman, 48, moved to the U.S. from Toronto about 10 years ago. He and his wife, Sheri Winestock, now live in Las Vegas.

Before he left Canada, he was a star Junior player, representing his home country in the 1991 World Junior Championships with Geoff Hampson as his partner. Hampson now lives in the U.S. and was one of Gitelman’s teammates on the Diamond team that won the Rosenblum Cup (world open teams) in 2010. Gitelman has a silver medal in the Bermuda Bowl playing for Canada.

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Top Vanderbilt seedshave close calls

Three of the top four seeds in the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams advanced to the quarterfinal round, but not without some drama for two of them.

Top seed Nick Nickell was blasted in the first set 56-1 by the Norberto Bocchi team (“Norby” on the bracket sheets) and trailed by 33 IMPs at the half before rallying in the third quarter to take the lead. Bocchi came back midway through the final set to lead by 10, but four small swings put Nickell back on top. No. 1 held on for a 132-131 victory.

Through three quarters, No. 4 Team Monaco was crushing the Sabine Auken squad, but Auken stormed back with a 71-10 final set to just miss a comeback win. The final score was 137-131 for Monaco – but see note at the bottom of this page.

Coloradans sit top Red Ribbon

Half the field of 164 teams was eliminated after the first day of play in the Bean Red Riboon Pairs. Andrea Kutscher and Paul Flanders of Longmont CO are in front with a 76-point carryover. David Loeb and Maureen Loeb from Heathrow FL, with 69.26 points, trail by less than a point. In third are Californians Joanne Merry and John Jefferson, who have 63.27 points.

Starr and Granovetter lead women’s pairsThe Whitehead Women’s Pairs drew 118 pairs, of

whom 52 qualified to come back and play some more today.

Yiji Starr, Wayland MA, and Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH are out front with a score of 1497.00—a healthy 87.50 (top was 45) ahead of their closest pursuers.

In second are Texans Nancy Passell and Peggy Sutherlin. Irina Ledyzhensky, Ellenton FL, and Kamla Chawla, Longmeadow MA, currently sit in third place.

Sealy and Foster lead Silodor field

Larry Sealy of Huntsville AL and Jim Foster from Birmingham AL lead the pack of 130 pairs going into the second day of the Silodor Open Pairs. They have a 174.87 carryover versus the 156.32 held by John Hurd, New York NY, and Spencer Hurd, Meigs GA, who follow in second-place.

The event ends today with two final sessions.

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NoticeAs this issue went to press, a committee

was deliberating on an appeal that could have changed the outcome of the Monaco-Auken match in the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams. The report on the Vanderbilt and the pairings for today’s matches are based on the most current information available at the time of the deadline for submitting files to the printer.

Daily Bulletin Friday, March 22, 2013

RegistrationThe registration desk is located at the America’s

Center through the end of the tournament.

Masterpoint disclaimerScores as reported in the Daily Bulletin are

subject to change because of score changes or corrections.

The masterpoint awards as shown are, therefore, also subject to change.

Smoking rulesTournament directors have receive complaints

about players smoking in the stairwells at the Renaissance Hotel. Smoking is not permitted anywhere on the hotel property and is a violation of the law in St. Louis. Players found to be smoking in the hotel will be subject to a full board penalty in pairs games and a comparable penalty in team games.

Be consideratePlayers, please be considerate of others in

wearing perfume, cologne or other fragrance at the table. Many people have extreme sensitivity to such scents.

Missing jacketSteve Sturm reports that someone apparently

took his black leather jacket by mistake, leaving him with a jacket that doesn’t fit. It was taken at the America’s Center in the area where the Open Pairs was played on Tuesday. If the person who took the jacket realizes the mistake, the person can drop it off at the Daily Bulletin office or contact Marjorie Michelin (310-422-9330). The smaller jacket is in the Daily Bulletin office.

Don’t miss these free lectures in St. Louis from expert players. These talks will be held in Room 230 at the America’s Center.

Friday, March 22 9:15 a.m. Mike Flader Ruling the Game 6:45 p.m. GS Jade Barrett Losing and Winning Trick Count

Saturday, March 239:15 a.m. Mark Ehret How to Execute a Simple Squeeze 6:45 p.m. Michael Huston Convention Choices

SPECIAL EVENTSMEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS

CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM

Friday, March 22 11 pm-2 am Women’s Team Trials meeting. (Renaissance, Benton Room)

ENTERTAINMENT and HOSPITALITY — Landmark Ballrooms 1-4Friday, March 22

Chinese night: Cajun fried rice and spring rollThe Pennsylvania Slim Blues Band has been performing blues, R&B, soul, jump swing and rock‘n’ roll from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties for over 15 years.

Saturday, March 23Chili cookoff: Vegetarian chili, turkey chiliFriendly Henry’s will keep your toes tapping with bluegrass, folk and a little country.

Going gold!Mark Brightfield of St. Louis MO scored big

on his home turf. He made Life Master and Bronze Life Master, winning B in Thursday’s two-session, stratified Swiss. He needed 9.2 gold points and he earned 11.51. He was playing with Janet Vontz from St. Louis. Barbara MacPeek and Veena Uberoi round out the all-local squad.

Breaking LM news Jan Tucker stopped by the Daily Bulletin office

yesterday to share the good tidings—she made the leap to Life Master when her team finished second in a compact KO event. Tucker is from Newburgh IN. Her partner was Kay Fuchs, also from Newburgh and they played with teammates Patti Lodato and Phyllis Kincaid from Evansville IN. Congratulations Jan!

Patsy Baker of Prospect KY collected her gold card, too, won her teams won its bracket in a three-day morning knockout event.. She played with Jean Donoho from Louisville KY. Their teammates were Marilyn Lewis, Glen Ellyn IL and Mary Berg, River Forest IL.


JUST FOR NEW PLAYERSCommon errors – and how

to avoid themBy Brent Manley

Failing to countFamiliar saying: There are three kinds of

bridge players – (1) Those who can count and (2) Those who can’t.

Bridge can be a mysterious game, and sometimes it seems impossible to find the right path. In many cases, however, it doesn’t have to be that way.

On virtually every deal, the bidding and play offer clues to the right line of play or defense. If you are paying attention, guesses can become certainties.

For example, say your contract depends on finding a queen when you have a two-way guess – with A 10 5 opposite K J 4. You can go either way, so you look for clues from the layout of the cards or from the high-card points the opponents have revealed.

Sometimes the opponents help you with their bidding. Say you are playing 6♥ after your left-hand opponent opens the bidding with 3♣, showing a seven-card suit. LHO takes the first trick with a high club and you ruff the second one. When you pull trumps, lefty shows out after two rounds. Now you know nine of his cards. You have to find the queen in a two-way guess, but you are lucky to be able to cash three winners in a third suit. When LHO follows to all three, you have a lock for the contract. You know that LHO has only one card – maybe none – in the key suit. With A 10 5

in dummy and K J 4 in your hand, all you have to do is cash dummy’s ace. If LHO does not follow with the queen, you can play low to your jack with complete confidence – all because you were counting the cards that the opponents played. Opener’s preempt made it easy for you.

Sometimes your counting exercise is more focused on high-card points.

You find yourself in a contract of 4♠ with these two hands on view

♠ A Q 9 8 7 ♥ Q 10 5 ♦ J 7 6 ♣ 7 3

♠ J 10 4 2 ♥ A K J 2 ♦ Q 5 4 ♣ A 9

This is the biddingWest North East SouthPass Pass Pass 1NTPass 2♥ Pass 2♠Pass 3NT Pass 4♠

West leads the ♦A, on which East plays the 10. The ♦K is next, 3 from East. West continues with the ♦2, a clear suit preference for clubs, and after East ruffs, he plays back the ♣Q. You win the ace as West signals with the ♣10. Now what?

If you can pick up trumps, dummy’s losing club can go on one of your high hearts. The normal play, in a vacuum, is to finesse against West for the ♠K. If you are counting, however, you know that play cannot work.

West has shown up with the ♦A K and, based on the play, also has the ♣K. If West has the ♠K,

that would give him 13 high-card points, enough to open the bidding – and he passed as dealer. You must hope that East started with a doubleton ♠K and that he is now down to a singleton. Your only hope, based on the count you have obtained, is to play a spade to dummy’s ace. If the king falls, you will have found your reward for paying attention. Even if it doesn’t, you will have the satisfaction of knowing you gave it your best shot.

Thinking bridgeBy Eddie Kantar

Extra chances in the play, preemptive bidding, safe exit cards.

Dlr: South ♠ 7 6 3 Vul: N-S ♥ Q 10 8 ♦ A Q 3 2 ♣ A Q J ♠ 10 9 8 ♠ A K Q 2 ♥ 3 2 ♥ 5 ♦ 10 8 7 6 5 ♦ K J 9 ♣ 10 8 4 ♣ K 9 7 6 5 ♠ J 5 4 ♥ A K J 9 7 6 4 ♦ 4 ♣ 3 2 West North East South 3♥ Pass 4♥ Dbl All Pass

Opening lead: ♠10. Bidding commentary: As South, you have a

maximum vulnerable preempt. As North, you have to decide between responding 3NT, gambling on the spade position, or raising to 4♥, exposing your A-Q combinations to an immediate attack from West. As it happens, the opponents can run only four spades, so 3NT would have been okay. As East, you have too much not to act over 4♥. Your double is for takeout. As West, even though partner’s double is for takeout, with a weak balanced hand, take your chances and pass.

Defensive commentary: As East, cash three spades and exit safely with a heart.

Play commentary: As South, after East exits with a trump, it appears that you have to guess which minor-suit finesse to take, fearing from the bidding that neither is going to work. However, you have an extra chance.

Play the ♦A and ruff a diamond. Return to dummy with a trump and ruff another diamond. If the ♦K appears (it does!), there is no need to take the club finesse. You can discard a club on the ♦Q. If the ♦K does not make a royal appearance, take the club finesse, but don’t hold your breath.

When missing two kings and having to decide which finesse to take, check to see if one of the suits includes a singleton (diamonds). If it does, try to ruff out the king of that suit. If that doesn’t work, take the finesse in the other suit (clubs).

Top I/N leaders 1. 15.32 Joseph Butkiewicz, Chesterfield MO 2. 11.03 Jim Postudensek, Duluth MN 3. 11.03 Norma Postudensek, Duluth MN 4. 10.22 Daniel Ohman, Ames IA 5. 10.22 Beverly Ruth Ohman, Ames IA 6. 9.31 Mike Murphy, Kirkwood MO 7. 9.18 Aloys Faenger, St Louis MO 8. 9.05 Lale Broderson, Lee’s Summit MO 9. 9.05 Sevinch Sokullu, Lee’s Summit MO 10. 8.82 Melda Richardson, Orange CA 11. 8.82 Sheri Lindauer, Yorba Linda CA 12. 8.63 William Lobdell, Des Peres MO 13. 8.32 Conrad Larkin, Santa Rosa CA 14. 8.26 Charlene Richardson, Moorefield ON 15. 8.26 Darlene Scott, Oakville ON 16. 8.12 J im Bowers, St. Louis MO 17. 7.89 Frank Lemp, St. Louis MO 18. 7.89 Ann Lemp, St. Louis MO

19. 7.43 Robert Street, Chesterfield MO 20. 7.43 Bob Gulovsen, Alton IL 21. 7.34 Irene Hommert, Kirkwood MO 22. 7.32 Debbie Lane, St. Louis MO 23. 7.32 Mary Strebeck, St. Louis MO 24. 7.13 Regina Schlueter, Ferguson MO 25. 7.13 Ken Schlueter, Ferguson MO 26. 6.88 Richard Messinger, Alton IL 27. 6.88 Toni Messinger, Alton IL 28. 6.88 Judy Zimmermann, Fulton MO 29. 6.88 Linda Litton, Columbia MO 30. 6.87 Tim Collopy, Millbrook NY 31. 6.69 Ulrike Schlafly, St Louis MO 32. 6.69 Isabelle Montupet, St Louis MO 33. 6.45 Richard Krueger, Milwaukee WI 34. 6.45 Thomas Krueger, Shorewood WI 35. 6.40 Martha Ludewig, St. Louis MO 36. 6.39 Raymond Laythe, St. Louis MO 37. 6.22 Lynn Craft, Huntsville AL 38. 6.21 Patricia Rodilosso, Fair Haven NJ 39. 6.17 David Dierkes, St. Louis MO 40. 6.10 L Keith Graves, St. Charles MO 41. 6.10 Karen Graves, St. Charles MO 42. 6.08 Timothy Curtis, Ho-Ho-Kus NJ 43. 6.02 Hope Wood, Clarkson Valley MO 44. 6.00 Cecilia Collopy, Millbrook NY 45. 5.98 Jane Herman, Effingham IL 46. 5.98 William Herman, Effingham IL 47. 5.95 Marie Allison, Las Vegas NV 48. 5.95 Donna Grassi, Palatine IL 49. 5.84 Lucy Sinopole, Huntsville AL 50. 5.83 Delaine Boyd, Manchester MO 51. 5.79 Bill Silky, Syracuse NY 52. 5.79 Mary Silky, Syracuse NY 53. 5.78 Joan Wentz, Brighton MI 54. 5.78 Constance Jones, Brighton MI 55. 5.75 Catherine Geraghty, Spokane WA


Bart BramleyCity of residenceDallas TX

Place of birthPoughkeepsie NY

Date of birthJan. 6, 1948

What is your favorite color?Blue

What kind of food makes you happy?Pasta

And what drink?Scotch

Who is your favorite author? Favorite book?Patrick O’Brian – Aubrey/Maturin series. Also the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

What are your all-time favorite movies?Pulp Fiction, Some Like It Hot

Do you have a favorite actor?Steve Buscemi

What kind of music do you listen to?Blues, classic rock

Do you have a favorite painter or artist?Magritte

What do you do when you’re not playing bridge?Golf badly, follow sports, play other games

What do you see as your best bridge result?My favorite is winning the 2002 Blue Ribbon Pairs with Sidney Lazard

Who is your favorite bridge player?Sidney Lazard

What is your favorite bridge convention?Key card Blackwood, Flannery

Is there a book that had a significant influence on you?S.J. Simon’s Why You Lose at Bridge

What are bridge players good at (besides playing bridge)?Just about anything

What jobs have you had?Progammers, options trader, technical analyst

Do you have any bridge superstitions?I sit East

If you could invite any three people, past or present, to dinner, who would they be?Sorry, four: Mickey Mantle, Jerry Garcia, Albert Einstein, my father

Is there something you would love to learn?Foreign languages, piano

Tell Me MoreThe Insider

We all know bridge is much more than a game. The Insider has observed many other games that bridge players play when not playing bridge (if a woodchuck could chuck wood).

The Daily Bulletin featured chess, a second favorite among bridge players. Then there are backgammon, poker, Go and other card games. But the really fun games are the ones with ever-changing rules and strategies.

The Insider has written about a popular game with the directors, Hide the Side Game, where they change the room and even the building where the side game is played every session. Escalator roulette is popular with the players. This is where the first player riding up or down stops three paces from the end of the escalator to read the Daily Bulletin cover-to-cover while less fortunate players pile up behind. Snack Bar tag is another. In this game, two players each offer to pay for the other’s coffee. Of course, neither reaches into their pocket for cash as the line for the register strings out longer than the one for the Gold Rush Pairs.

Yesterday morning, the Insider observed a new game–Bulletin Delivery Slalom. The goal of this game is to place as many inert bodies, suitcases, backpacks and scooters as possible between the elevator and the front door in order to force the Bulletin delivery boy to negotiate a series of twists and turns while pushing a 450-pound cart. The delivery boy receives bonus style points if he is able to reach the finish line while fending off opponents who try to rip a Bulletin out of the unopened bundle.

But, the only game that really matters at an NABC is bridge. With games running non-stop from 9 a.m. until 2 a.m., we have bridge. With events designed for everyone from the greenest BridgePlus+ beginner to the finest world-class player, we have bridge. From the ultra-serious, vugraphable Vanderbilt to the who-cares-pass-the-wine-bottle Midnight Game, we have bridge. From the practice games upstairs in hotel rooms to talking about hands in the restaurant, bar, restroom, lobby, hallways and everywhere else within 14 blocks of the tournament site, we have bridge. And, given the talent and imagination of our players, we will always have “other” games, too.

Good turnout for women’s reception

More than 60 women attended the women’s reception hosted yesterday by the ACBL. The debate was lively as guests deliberated the reasons for the decline in participation in the women’s NABC+ Swiss and knockout teams. They also brainstormed ways to bring women back to the table, and pondered whether it was even worth it to try to build up these games that are running at less than what the ACBL considers an acceptable level. The discussion was moderated by Beth Palmer, who heads up the USBF’s Women’s Team Trials Committee.

Both pros and non-pros spoke up. Professional Kerri Sanborn offered two suggestions that received a collective nod of approval: Stratifying the women’s teams, and/or limiting the number of playing professionals on a team to two.

Monique Smith from Arlington VA drew attention to the lack of young women playing women’s events. “The men have had no problem drawing young men into the open games,” she said. She also suggested that a reception or “something to make it more fun” regularly be scheduled between sessions to give participants a chance to relax, meet each other and talk away from the card table.

Many agreed that the demise of women’s team event originated when the League made men’s events open. Others also cite bracketed knockouts (and other scheduling conflicts) as the culprit. More than a few mentioned the off-putting temperament of players at the table.

CORRECTION: The article about women’s team games that was published on Wednesday incorrectly stated the number of teams entered in the last couple of Machlin Swiss Team events. The contest at the 2012 Memphis NABC attracted 28 teams; the same event in Louisville KY drew 25 teams in spring 2011.

Kerri Sandborn

Beth Palmer

MonitoringAt this and future North American

Championships, ACBL will be monitoring NABC+ events with visible, real-time cameras. The images will be recorded and will be available for later official inspection and review.

By general monitoring of the session and participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source of information that may be useful in determining facts and settling issues arising from some types of ethical and behavioral complaints or actions. Please summon a director if a problem occurs at the table.

This procedure is intended to assure everyone that the playing field is level and that misbehavior will not be tolerated.

Bid Box Alerts and Announcements

When using bid boxes, the ACBL requires that players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the same time.

When making an Announcement, use the Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the Alert strip at the same time.

A player who Alerts or Announces a bid must make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or Announcement has been made.


Winners can declare and defendBy Phillip Alder

It is well known that top bridge players must be good at all aspects of the game.

First, try this declarer-play problem: Dlr: North ♠ A J 8 7 5 Vul: Both ♥ J 6 4 ♦ J 7 3 ♣ 7 2

♠ Q ♥ A K 9 8 5 ♦ K 8 4 ♣ A 10 6 4 West North East South Pass Pass 1♥ Pass 2♦ (1) Pass 2NT (2) Pass 3♥ (3) Pass 4♥ All Pass

(1) Constructive three-card heart raise(2) In principle, natural and forcing(3) A minimum, but promising a ruffing value

somewhereWest leads the ♣Q. What would be your plan?We will return to that in a moment.This winners of the Norman Kay Platinum Pairs

were Martin Fleisher and Michael Kamil. They defended perfectly on Board 23 from the first final session (this deal first appeared in my New York Times column on Thursday). Dlr: South ♠ 8 4 3 2 Vul: Both ♥ 10 6 4 ♦ 8 7 3 ♣ 10 6 5 ♠ A 9 5 ♠ J 10 7 6 ♥ K 9 8 3 ♥ A J 2 ♦ K 10 ♦ Q 5 4 ♣ A 9 7 4 ♣ Q J 3 ♠ K Q ♥ Q 7 5 ♦ A J 9 6 2 ♣ K 8 2

South opened 1NT and played it there. Kamil, West, led the ♥3. Fleisher did well when

he won with his ace and shifted to a low spade. West took this trick and returned the ♠9.

South won, cashed his ♦A, and played another diamond to West’s king. On the spade to East’s 10, South correctly discarded a diamond. But on the last spade, declarer erred by throwing a low club. If he had pitched another diamond, he could have “escaped” for down four.

Now East led the ♣J, a deceptive play that did not fool his partner. When declarer covered with his king, West won with his ace and continued with

the ♣9 to pin South’s 8. East took dummy’s 10 with his queen, cashed the ♦Q (on which West discarded his last low heart), and West took the last three tricks with the ♥K, ♣7 and ♣4.

The defenders had taken three spades, two hearts, two diamonds and four clubs for down five. Plus 500 was a top, gaining all 13 matchpoints. Plus 400 would have been worth “only” 11.5.

The initial declarer-play problem came from the first final session of the Lebhar IMP Pairs, won by Kent Mignocchi and Joel Wooldridge. This was Board 7, rotated to make South the declarer:

Dlr: North ♠ A J 8 7 5 Vul: Both ♥ J 6 4 ♦ J 7 3 ♣ 7 2 ♠ K 10 9 4 ♠ 6 3 2 ♥ Q 2 ♥ 10 7 3 ♦ A 9 2 ♦ Q 10 6 5 ♣ Q J 9 8 ♣ K 5 3 ♠ Q ♥ A K 9 8 5 ♦ K 8 4 ♣ A 10 6 4In 4♥, Wooldridge ducked the first trick (the ♣Q was led), took West’s club continuation, and led the ♠Q, which was covered by the king and ace. Declarer discarded a diamond on the ♠J, ruffed a spade in his hand, ruffed a club in the dummy, ruffed another spade (East threw a diamond) and cashed the ♥A (South’s seventh trick) to give this position: ♠ 8 ♥ J ♦ J 7 3 ♣ -- ♠ -- ♠ -- ♥ Q ♥ 10 7 ♦ A 9 2 ♦ Q 10 6 ♣ J ♣ -- ♠ -- ♥ K 9 ♦ K 8 ♣ 10

Declarer ruffed the ♣10 with dummy’s ♥J and led the last spade. If East had ruffed, South would have discarded his ♦8 and taken two more tricks in trumps.

When East pitched a diamond, declarer did also. West ruffed with his ♥Q and cashed the diamond ace, but now, at Trick 12, South had the ♥ K 9 over East’s ♥10 7, a textbook trump coup.

That brilliant piece of declarer play was worth 9.31 IMPs.

who speculated that instead of selling rugs, he might be playing poker for a living.

Justin Lall, too: “Poker player.”Fulvio Fantoni, part of the Monaco team put

together by Pierre Zimmermann, has a degree in accounting and trade and ran his own accounting firm for many years before giving it up to play bridge full time.

Marion Michielsen of the Netherlands has a law degree. “I’d be an attorney,” she says.

Lynn Deas says she was in medical school when she started playing bridge. “I guess I’d be a doctor.”

Calling herself a “fulltime wife and mother,” Shawn Quinn relates how once she was in sales and marketing. “Yes, I would probably be doing that.”

Geoff Hampson says he’d probably be “doing hard time.”

Kerri Sanborn laments, “I’m not a good enough golfer to do that, and I’ve already shopped too much in my life and I have too much junk.” She pauses. “Maybe decorating.”

Barry Rigal, player and writer extraordinaire, was

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Occupations

Marion Michielsen Lynn Deas (and Trixie) Shawn Quinn

Geoff Hampson

Barry Rigal Candy Kuschner

Betty Ann Kennedy


Johnson

involved with tournament bridge at the Wittenberg University Bridge Club. Retired from a management position with the state of Ohio, Johnson played and taught bridge full time.

An Emerald Life Master, Johnson won the Blue Ribbon Pairs in 1985 playing with Eric Rodwell, and the Grand National Teams Championship Flight in 1990 and 2010. Other high finishes include runner-up in the Reisinger, third place in the Vanderbilt and numerous top-10 finishes in NABC pair events. He has also played bridge internationally, with his best finish reaching the round of 32 in the 1994 Rosenblum Teams.

He is survived by his wife, Terri, and their three sons: Bryn, Hunter and Tyler. A more complete obituary will appear in the May issue of the Bridge Bulletin.

a CPA working for a U.S. oil company in the U.K. “They were among the most interesting years of my life,” he recalls. “Every transaction ended in five zeroes. I had a fair amount of power and no responsibility.”

Candy Kuschner, who lives in Reston VA, says it’s likely she would be a teacher if she wasn’t working for the ACBL full time as a tournament director. She taught fourth grade for many years and worked for a private reading center helping to prepare student to take SATs.

So, then, Betty Ann Kennedy—if you were not able to play bridge professionally, what would you be doing?

“Playing bridge!” she laughs.

The electronic device policy at NABCs has been revised to allow players to bring electronic devices such as cell phones into the playing area provided that such devices are turned off.

Further, any such equipment must not be visible during the session

The policy applies to all pairs, team members, captains, coaches, kibitzers and play recorders, except those designated by the ACBL and are in force throughout any actual playing session or segment of play.

A violation of the policy will result in an automatic disciplinary penalty of one full board (or 12 IMPs at that form of scoring) for the first offense. A second offense will result in disqualification from the event for the pair/team. Kibitzers violating this policy will be removed from the playing area for the remainder of the session.

New Electronic Device Policy


68 TablesNick Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Eric Rodwell - Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL vsAndrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Fredrik Nystrom, 11427 Stockholm Sweden; Johan Upmark, 115 58 Stockho Sweden

Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon - Tor Helness - Geir Helgemo - Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes, Monaco Monaco vsLes Amoils, Toronto ON; Joe Grue - Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Brad Moss, Denver CO; Thomas Bessis, Paris 75015 France; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden

Ricco Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands; Louk Verhees, 2215 Sh Voorhou Netherlands; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gdns FL; Dan Zagorin, Chicago IL; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan DenNetherlands; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam 3 Netherlands vsShan Huang, Toronto ON; Yan Wang, Scarborough ON; Jianfeng Luo, North York ON; Fu Zhong - Jie Li, Beijing People’s Republic of China

Marty Fleisher - Zia Mahmood - Chris Willenken, New York NY; Mike Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA vsDavid Grainger, Roseville CA; Roger Lee, Pasadena CA; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX; Josh Donn, Las Vegas NV

50.00 9/16 James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon, Dania FL; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Antonio Sementa, Parma PR 43100 Italy 50.00 9/16 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Aleksander Dubinin - Andrew Gromov, Moscow Russia; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice 40-479 Poland 50.00 9/16 Lou Ann O’Rourke, Scottsdale AZ; Marc Jacobus - Roger Bates - Curtis Cheek, Las Vegas NV; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Ish Delmonte, New South Wales Australia 50.00 9/16 Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina; Mustafa Cem Tokay - Gur Okay, Istanbul Turkey 50.00 9/16 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Roy Welland, New York NY; Dennis Bilde, Aarhus Denmark; Morten Bilde, Hovedgaard Denmark 50.00 9/16 John Mohan, Las Vegas NV; Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; Diego Brenner, L’Eixample Barc Spain; Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Miguel Villas-Boas - Joao Paulo Campos, Sao Paulo Brazil 50.00 9/16 Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Dennis McGarry, Stuart FL; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Jon Wittes - Ross Grabel, Palm Desert CA 50.00 9/16 Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON; Bob Todd - Douglas Fisher, Winnipeg MB; Tom Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Drew Hoskins, Burlingame CA 25.00 17/32 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA; Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV

1. Nickell 57 102 150 16032 . Hadzhiev 39 68 73 95

17. Gupta 6 28 55 8216. Norby 47 97 140 145

9. Rosenthal 26 95 135 18924. Tulin 64 80 93 121

25. Kasle 14 60 103 1088. Lynch 38 61 113 172

5. Amoils67 104 127 15728. Moss 31 54 83 107

21. Mohan 32 71 74 11512. Gordon 6 45 90 139

13. Berg 16 34 81 9220. (45.) Auken 60 100 117 174

29.(36.) Cronier 13 41 72 1054. Monaco 41 84 133 155

PAIRINGS IN TODAY’S VANDERBILT KO TEAMS

1. Nickell 24364. Ryan 97

33.Lall 5532. Hadzhier 180

17. Gupta 14548. Tucker

49. Brzuska 6716. Norby 193

9. Rosenthal 17656. Gipson 25

41. Saxe 5924. Tulin 175

25. Kasle 13240. Joel 131

57. Camberos 1198. Lynch 152

5. Amoils 23460. Shekhter 96

37. Barrett 9528. Moss 159

21. Mohan 13644. Goldstein 121

53. Krantz 13212. Gordon 185

13. Berg 17752. De Falco 144

45. Auken 18620. Lillevek 145

29. Konkret 8436. Cronier 110

61. Thompson 594. Monaco 179

1. Nickell 1 66 119 132

16. Norby 56 99 101 131

9. Rosenthal 26 89 129 171

8. Lynch 59 61 78 118

5. Amoils 48 92 128 196

12. Mohan 50 72 97 131

13. (45.) Auken 5 11 60 131

4. Monaco 37 94 127 137

1. Nickell

8. (9.) Rosenthal

5. Amoils

4. Monaco


25.00 17/32 Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL; Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Steve Garner, Chicago IL; Howard Weinstein, Omaha NE; Walid Elahmady - Tarek Sadek, Cairo Egypt 25.00 17/32 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin Poland 25.00 17/32 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Huub Bertens, Bend OR; Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn 304G Netherlands; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands 25.00 17/32 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Tony Forrester, Herefordshire England; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany; Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany; Sam Lev, New York NY; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland 25.00 17/32 Vinita Gupta, Woodside CA; Billy Miller, Las Vegas NV; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands; Gert Jan Paulissen, Breda Netherlands 25.00 17/32 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ; Chris Compton, Dallas TX; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; Jim Krekorian, Pensacola FL 25.00 17/32 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Steve Landen, Ellicott City MD; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC; Jurek Czyzowicz, Gatineau QC 25.00 17/32 Stan Tulin, Highland Beach FL; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Alon Birman - Dror Padon, Tel Aviv Israel; Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; Ron Smith, Las Vegas NV

25.00 17/32 Gaylor Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Larry Kozlove, Louisville KY; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 25.00 17/32 Michael Moss, New York NY; Tom Hanlon - Adam Mesbur - Nicholas Fitzgibbon, Dublin Ireland 25.00 17/32 Alexander Hadzhiev - Kalin Karaivanov, Varna Bulgaria; George Mittelman, Toronto ON; Jack Zhao, Boca Raton FL; David Bakhshi, London England; John McAllister, Charlottesville VA 25.00 17/32 Barry Rigal, New York NY; Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY; Joshua Parker, Briarcliff NY; Bruce Rogoff, river vale NJ; John Lusky, Portland OR; Allan Falk, Okemos MI 25.00 17/32 Philippe Cronier, Paris France; Adam Wildavsky - Michael Polowan, New York NY; Doug Doub, W Hartford CT; Frank Merblum, Bloomfield CT; Nik Demirev, Arlington Hts IL 25.00 17/32 Reese Milner, Los Angeles CA; Lars Blakset, Denmark; Martin Schaltz, Odense Denmark; Kasper Konow - Anders Hagen, Copenhagen Denmark; Jaggy Shivdasani, New York NY 25.00 17/32 Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA; Chris Larsen, Laguna Woods CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA; Robert Lebi - David Lindop, Toronto ON

PAIRINGS IN TODAY’S VANDERBILT KO TEAMS

7. Fleisher 40 99 142 14226. (39.) Dunitz 19 34 43 WD

23. Beatty 32 42 75 10210. O’Rourke 37 65 102 145

15. Mahaffey 23 30 51 9018.(47.) Grainger 31 66 121 134

31.(34.) Rigal 5 21 53 86 2. Cayne 27 68 95 121

3. Diamond 29 81 101 11930. (35.) Huang 64 72 88 128

19. Onstott 36 62 93 13714. (51.) Korbel 65 107 133 187

11. Spector 41 58 90 11822. Levine 31 80 95 137

27.(38.) Milner 17 32 53 746. Van Prooijen 41 83 124 154

7. Fleisher 18058. Fu Zhong 81

39. Dunitz 13026. Street 126

23. Beatty 13242. Brod 99

55. Agica 10510. O’Rourke 119

15. Mahaffey 15350. Narasimhan 134

47. Grainger 15518. Hamman 105

31. Hollman 9034. Rigal 158

63. Moorthy 972. Cayne 122

3. Diamond 16762. Hall 165

35. Huang 12430. Sutherlin 103

19. Onstott 24446. Schaffer 132

51. Korbel 10214. Schwartz 92

11. Spector 16454. Parrish 43

43. Sprung 7322. Levine 141

27. Fireman 11438. Milner 183

59. Vidigal 946. Van Prooijen 181

7. Fleisher 48 87 135 172

10. O’Rourke 9 46 50 101

15. (47.) Grainger 35 116 128 146

2. Cayne 46 64 100 136

3. (30.) Huang 20 72 129 153

14. (51.) Korbel 55 74 100 130

11. (22.) Levine 2 33 60 WD

6. Van Prooijen 60 121 152 152

7. Fleisher

2. (47.) Grainger

3. (30.) Huang

6. Van Proojen


The ACBL is the inaugural partner of The Longest Day, a sunrise-to-sunset team event to raise funds that fuel the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. This event challenges participants to push their limits and complete approximately 16 hours of a consecutive activity. The theme for The Longest Day is “do something you love” – like play bridge!

When you register to participate in The Longest Day at thelongestday.alz.org you will receive a registration kit with:• Flyers to advertise your event to the community• Publicity tools to maximize your exposure• Items to decorate your club/event on The Longest Day• Giveaways for your participating players/team members

There is a whole host of online tools to help you recruit team members and fundraise virtually.

Here are some ideas for your fundraising team’s activity on The Longest Day:• Play marathon bridge games. The ACBL is relaxing the rules so all sanctioned clubs can hold as many special games as

desired on June 21, 2013. *Special game fees and upgraded masterpoints apply. All sanction fees collected will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association.

• Teach free beginner bridge lessons all day. It’s a great way to find new players and meet social/former college bridge players in your community, all while supporting the Alzheimer’s Association.

• Stage a bridge exhibition where members of your team play bridge in different public locations over the course of the day. You’ll get a lot of attention and even more donations for your team’s cause.

Approximately 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer’s, but by 2050, nearly 16 million people could be affected. There is no cure, but some research indicates that playing mentally challenging games such as bridge may help keep your brain healthy. So do something you love on The Longest Day that might actually slow the onset of Alzheimer’s – play bridge!

Visit thelongestday.alz.org for more information.

The Longest Day will be here June 21st

Free ParkingNABC guests enjoy free parking at the Renaissance. The garages are located

at 9th and St. Charles and 9th and Olive. Players must have a validated pass to exit each time. Passes are available at the information desk at the America’s Center and at the registration desk across from the Landmark Ballroom at the Renaissance.

WEDNESDAY MIDNIGHT KNOCKOUTS 14 Tables 3.64 1 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesvle VA; Robert Brady, McLean VA; Alexander Prairie, Washington DC; Sylvia Shi, Baltimore MD 2.55 2 Barry Margolin, Arlington MA; Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Kimberly Gilman, Carlisle MA; Kathy Gilman, Shoreline WA 1.46 3/4 Jill Marshall, Port Chester NY; Lorraine Cable, New York NY; Mike Cappelletti Sr, Alexandria VA; Jack Waller, Ridgecrest CA 1.46 3/4 Michael Lieberman, Cambridge MA; Reid Barton, Arlington MA; Jonathan Forde, Geneva NY; Doug Anderson, Quincy MA

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY MORNING KNOCKOUT I 6 TablesKen Gee, Regina SK; Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; Diyan Danailov, Sofia 1799 Bulgaria; Jerry Stamatov, Sofia Bulgaria; Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Ed Lazarus, Baltimore MD vsZizhuo Wang, Minneapolis MN; Erli Zhou, Arcadia CA; Qian Wang - Yi Cao, Shanghai Chad; Songhe Zhou,

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY MORNING KNOCKOUT II 6 TablesJoseph Browan, Maplewood MN; Elaine Prebonich, New Brighton MN; Carrie Kaplan, Hudson WI; Judith Holderbach, Stillwater MN vsKeith Meyer - Marci Meyer, Long Beach IN; Ken Cornelius - Mary Cornelius, Portland OR

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY MORNING KNOCKOUT III 7 TablesMary David, Clive IA; Dianne Swieskowski, Des Moines IA; Claudia Blackman - Marilyn Jones, West Des Moines IA vsBernia Brandstaedter - Anne Bigelow - Larry Phillips, Winnipeg MB; Eileen Tranquilla, Millville NB

THURSDAY/FRIDAY MORNING COMPACT KNOCKOUT I 9 TablesWilliam Cummings, Monticello MN; Greg Caucutt - Carol Mahoney - Lance Chamberlain, Rochester MN vsFay Teal, Mesa AZ; Barry Harper, Regina SK; Pamela Nisbet, Ottawa ON; Michael Gamble, Shawnigan Lake BC

Brian De Long, Kingston NS; Lars Moquist - Anderson, Nybro Sweden; Denis Murphy, Port Williams NS vsG S Jade Barrett - Karen Lee Barrett, Elk Point SD; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw 0 Poland

THURSDAY/FRIDAY MORNING COMPACT KNOCKOUT II 9 TablesZachary Madden - Kevin Choi - Yan Zhang - Jared Bass, Chicago IL vsDonald Power - Karen Allen, Kalamazoo MI; Anita Carlson, Hickory NC; Jane Champion, Naples NC

Robert Kruger, Elgin IL; Randall Roberts, Chicago IL; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL; Won Yang, Clermont FL vsPaul Zatulove - Carl Spencer, Phoenix AZ; Gene Friedman, Scottsdale AZ; Joyce Richards, Skokie IL

ROCKWELL MIXED PAIRS 91.0 Tables100.00 1 Paul Lewis - Linda Lewis, Las Vegas NV 2975.98 75.00 2 Barbara Lehman, Glenview IL; Craig Jacobson, Skokie IL 2945.14 56.25 3 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesvle VA; Jenni Carmichael, Kennesaw GA 2933.97 44.44 4 Asla Ronnaug, SKIEN Niger; Svein Markussen, Skien Niger 2927.42 40.00 5 Sylvia Shi, Baltimore MD; Alexander Prairie, Washington DC 2899.19 36.36 6 Marion Michielsen, 3024 AM Rotterd Netherlands; Richard Zeckhauser, Cambridge MA 2879.04 33.33 7 Zachary Grossack, Newton MA; Kimberly Gilman, Carlisle MA 2871.96 30.77 8 David Caprera - Anne Brenner, Denver CO 2823.00 28.57 9 Ron Smith - Linda Smith, Hixson TN 2812.01 26.67 10 G. Margie Gwozdzinsky, Aventura FL; Michael Gamble, Shawnigan Lake BC 2777.75 25.00 11 Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN; Carole Miner, Rochester MN 2773.17 23.53 12 Alan Schwartz - Annie Schwartz, Fairfax VA 2772.57 22.22 13 Jessica Piafsky, New York NY; Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland 2769.56 21.05 14 Randall Rubinstein, Brooklyn NY; Dana Berkowitz, New York NY 2743.81 20.00 15 Sheila Gabay, Newton MA; Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA 2741.75 19.05 16 Ken Monzingo, San Diego CA; Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Spgs CO 2728.61 18.18 17 Michael Roche, Victoria BC; Pamela Nisbet, Ottawa ON 2726.75 17.39 18 Joann Glasson - Bob Glasson, Pennington NJ 2712.12 16.67 19 Diane Travis, Cincinnati OH; Frank Treiber III, Toledo OH 2699.28 16.00 20 Robert Gordon, Northport NY; Dori Cohen, Woodbury NY 2694.81 15.38 21 Rebecca Rogers, Las Vegas NV; John Grantham, Bentonville AR 2693.21 14.81 22 Erez Hendelman, New York NY; K Fung, Edmonton AB 2689.63 14.29 23 Paul Ivaska, Las Vegas NV; Carol Stewart, Henderson NV 2687.23 13.79 24 Allison Howard, Cookeville TN; Bryan Howard, Nashville TN 2673.94 13.33 25 Kathy Baum - Jay Baum, Germantown TN 2665.08 12.90 26 Alan Watson, Lexington MA; Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL 2663.23 12.50 27 Linda Eakes, Leawood KS; Don Stack, Overland Park KS 2654.39 12.12 28 Michael Strizhevsky, Dunwoody GA; Irina Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL 2653.75 11.76 29 Marc Nathan - Cathy Nathan, New York NY 2648.30 11.43 30 John Maki, Bothell WA; Amy DeShaw, Seattle WA 2648.08 11.29 31 Cecilia Rimstedt, 43335 Partille Sweden; Eric Leong, Oakland CA 2646.19 10.81 32 Yukiko Tokunaga, 1800002 Japan; Kenji Miyakuni, Tokyo 167-004 Japan 2638.49 10.53 33 John Zilic, Houston TX; Pam LaShelle, Round Rock TX 2638.47 10.26 34 Phillip Alder, Hobe Sound FL; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 2631.42 10.00 35 Ed Ulman, Portland OR; Toby Bassett, Lafayette LA 2630.56 9.76 36 Georgia Heth, Morton IL; Jim Reiman, Mansfield OH 2623.75 9.52 37 Karen Walker, Champaign IL; Jordan Chodorow, Los Angeles CA 2619.39 9.30 38 James Senter - Gale Senter, San Clemente CA 2617.41 12.96 39 Si Dombu - Adis Dombu, Las Vegas NV 2616.46 8.89 40 Freerk Polling - Betty Parker, Palm Beach Gdns FL 2608.06 8.70 41 Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL; Scott Levine, New York NY 2602.52 10.41 42 Alison Wilson, New York NY; Wilfried Librecht, 2601.43 8.33 43 Sally Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL; Thomas Turgeon, Memphis TN 2599.98 8.16 44 Dan Parish - Elise Parish, Omaha NE 2598.92 8.00 45 Adam Grossack, Newton MA; Ljudmila Kamenova, South Setauket NY 2597.62 7.84 46 Les Bart - Gloria Bart, Bradenton FL 2591.90


THURSDAY/FRIDAY MORNING COMPACT KNOCKOUT III 12 TablesKyle Olson - Eric Genheimer, Mustang OK; Donald Davis - Janet Davis, Norman OK vsHarry Alferink,Jr - Anne H.R. Alferink - Nancy Golden, Richmond VA; William Belanich, Sandston VA

Jim Goza - Kay Bickham, Edmond OK; Joan Bornstein, Avon CO; Judy Yordi, Cordillera CO vsKenneth Geisler - Arlene Geisler, Clarkston MI; P Oates - W Oates, Brighton MI

THURSDAY AFTERNOON SIDE GAME (TUESDAY-THURSDAY SIDE SERIES GAME

16.5 Tables A B C 4.10 1 Robert Teel Jr - Jane Teel, Birmingham AL 73.96% 3.08 2 Sarah Wiener, Fort Lee NJ; Doree Sobel, Fair Lawn NJ 64.58% 2.31 3 Estelle Margolin, Rego Park NY; Arlyne Shockman, Philadelphia PA 60.42% 3.34 4 1 1 Elizabeth Stephen, Eastport MI; Patricia Berger, Chesterfield MO 57.21% 2.51 5 2 2 Mary Fort - Susan Hall, Saint Louis MO 57.05% 1.26 6 Terry Crabbs - Paula Crabbs, Kansas City MO 56.60% 1.96 3 Elaine Prebonich, New Brighton MN; Judith Holderbach, Stillwater MN 55.29% 1.27 4/5 3/4 Carol Layton, Saint Louis MO; Richard Booker, Columbia MO 54.17% 1.27 4/5 3/4 Dee Craft - Russell Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda 54.17% 1.37 6 Suanne Blair, Morehead KY; John Jensen, Maysville KY 51.39% 1.24 5 Mary Lattan, Carlinville IL; Joanne Bird, Atoka TN 50.70%

THURSDAY MORNING 49ER PAIRS 10.0 Tables A B C 2.10 1 1 Cynthia Fahs - Theodore Fahs, Manchester MO 67.26% 1.58 2 2 1 Irene Hommert, Kirkwood MO; Susan Lloyd, St Louis MO 60.42% 1.18 3 Robert Sutton - William Hirtz, Poplar Bluff MO 59.82% 0.89 4 Marilyn Reznik, St. Louis MO; Gail Fischmann, Frontenac MO 56.25% 0.74 5 3 Barb Liberman - Mary Beth Rodgers, St Louis MO 53.87% 0.55 6 4 Jana Dabney, Chickasha OK; Karen Birck, Wilton CT 53.57% 0.57 2 Jacqueline Keenan, Manhattan Beach CA; Carolyn Auge, Jackson WY 49.40%

THURSDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS 25.5 Tables A B C 5.09 1 1 Lale Broderson, Lees Summit MO; Sevinch Sokullu, Lee’s Summit MO 63.04% 3.82 2 2 1 Jane Herman - William Herman, Effingham IL 62.80% 2.86 3 3 Joseph Butkiewicz, Chesterfield MO; James Nash, Saint Louis MO 62.16% 2.15 4 4 Jeanne Netherton, Ballwin MO; Constance Wilson, St Petersburg FL 61.94% 2.33 5 5 2 Dorothy Schainker, Creve Coeur MO; Hope Wood, Clarkson Valley MO 61.26% 1.74 6 6 3 Judith Lynch, Sarasota FL; Kathy Furgason, O’Fallon MO 58.95% 1.31 4 Michael Chien - Joan Chien, Lincoln CA 57.74% 0.98 5 Nancy Burke, Saint Louis MO; Katy Mullins, St. Louis MO 55.96% 0.74 6 Patricia Ducayet - Edwin Ducayet Jr, Dallas TX 55.78%

THURSDAY MORNING SIDE GAME 18.0 Tables A B C 4.25 1 Bob Dale, Pensacola FL; Richard Higgins, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 69.17% 3.19 2 Robert Korten, Frankfort MI; Dennis Carman, Plainwell MI 67.36% 3.64 3 1 1 John Bowen - Frank Bowen, Charlestown IN 59.44% 2.73 4 2 2 Sheryl McEwan, Reston VA; Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA 58.89% 1.83 5 Kerry Holloway, Bloomington MN; Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 57.22% 2.24 6 3 3 Robert Vernia - Janice Vernia, Carmel IN 56.53% 1.54 4 Jeroen Swinkels, Evanston IL; Charles Alexander, Northbrook IL 55.28% 1.57 5 Kim Brinkman, Highland Villge TX; Jan Miyake, Oberlin OH 54.86% 1.15 6 4 David Maze - Emily Marcus, Somerville MA 54.44% 0.86 5 Sue Lan Ma, Kirtland Hills OH; Chang-Li Lu, Strongsville OH 51.94%

Gitelman founded BBO in 2001 after 10 years of producing educational software, including two Learn to Play Bridge programs, which can be downloaded for free from the ACBL website (www.acbl.org). His Bridge Master CD for teaching declarer play technique is considered one of the best bridge programs available.

Although his BBO title is president, Gitelman says he spends most of his time programming and lending bridge expertise to the staff. “Uday Ivatury runs the company,” he says.

In recent months, Gitelman says, he has been working on creating a now-available mobile version of BBO (for smart phones and pads).

Gitelman says he doesn’t plan to boycott the NABCs during his sabbatical. He and Winestock will attend to play in a pairs event occasionally – and he may show up for business reasons. He says he intends to spend leisure time away from serious bridge competition and all that it entails.

He says he has become interested in playing pool and may work on getting better at that, plus he and Winestock like to travel and enjoy downhill skiing. “Or I will just relax,” he says. “I like to read.”

Fans of BBO – by far the most popular site for online bridge play – will be encouraged to read that Gitelman plans to focus more on improving the product. “Sometimes,” he says, “it feels like we have created a monster, but it’s a pretty friendly monster.”


Gitelman

Check Cashing and Bridge Bucks

Check-cashing services for ACBL members only will rotate between the Renaissance and the America’s Center. There is a limit of $500 per day. Members must provide their ACBL number.

Bridge bucks are available for purchase at the check-cashing desk. Visa, Mastercard and Discover can be used only to purchase bridge bucks.

The check-cashing desk will be open from noon to 1 p.m.:

Friday, March 22 at the America’s Center outside Room 224

Saturday, March 23 at the Renaissance on the Landmark Ballroom level

Sunday, March 24 at the America’s Center outside Room 224

THURSDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS 11.0 Tables A B C 2.29 1/3 1/2 1 Jacqueline Keenan, Manhattan Beach CA; Carolyn Auge, Jackson WY 57.44% 2.29 1/3 1/2 Ballard Simmons, Jr - Marilyn Simmons, Fulton MO 57.44% 2.29 1/3 Elizabeth Rice, Madison MS; Helen Taylor, Jackson MS 57.44% 1.25 4 Bill Orrick, House Springs MO; William Lobdell, Des Peres MO 56.25% 1.20 5 3 Beverly Wedel - John McReynolds, Bartlesville OK 55.06% 0.74 6 Sallie Dillian - Monika Senf, Scottsdale AZ 53.57% 0.90 4 Mary Tweedie - Julia Bruner, Bloomington IL 52.68% 1.03 5 2 Patricia Clark, Villa Ridge MO; Debb Keniley, St Louis MO 52.38%

THURSDAY EVENING 299ER SWISS 6 Tables A B C 2.26 1 1 Richard Messinger - Toni Messinger, Alton IL; Mary Lattan, Carlinville IL; Jay Winter, Highland IL 53.00 1.49 2/3 2/3 1/2 David Dierkes - Vicky Stringer, St Louis MO; Delaine Boyd - Dennis Whitmore, Manchester MO 52.00 1.49 2/3 2/3 1/2 Edwin Ducayet Jr - Patricia Ducayet - Jerry McClurg - Marcia McClurg, Dallas TX 52.00


In order to keep the bridge public informed of appeal results in a timely fashion, the NABC Daily Bulletin staff publishes write-ups. Every effort is made to ensure that these reports are accurate and complete. Before they are published in the NABC Appeals Casebook, however, revisions may be made.

TOURNAMENT APPEALS

APPEAL CASE 5Event: Silver Ribbon PairsSession: First QualifierSubject: Disputed Claim

Bd: 2 Michael Cassel Vul: N–S ♠ A Q 4 2 Dlr: East ♥ 3 2 ♦ A 10 9 5 ♣ 10 9 3 Richard Zucker Scott Levine ♠ K 9 5 ♠ 10 8 ♥ J 8 ♥ Q 10 9 7 5 4 ♦ K Q 8 4 2 ♦ J 7 3 ♣ A Q 5 ♣ J 8 Kenneth Shatoff ♠ J 7 6 3 ♥ A K 6 ♦ 6 ♣ K 7 6 4 2 West North East South 2♥ Pass Pass Pass

Contract: 2♥ by EastOpening lead: ♦6Table result: Director ruling: Down one, N–S plus 50Committee ruling: Down one, N–S plus 50The facts: With six cards left, East claimed. The play up

until that point was as follows:Trick 1: ♦6 won by ♦KTrick 2: ♥J won by ♥KTricks 3–5: spades, declarer ruffing in at trick 5Trick 6: ♥Q won by ♥ATrick 7: Low club won by ♣JAfter playing to the first seven tricks, East

exposed his cards and North and South said, ‘Don’t we get a diamond trick?’ East confirmed that they

did. Neither North nor South heard East say anything about pulling the last trump, so the director was summoned. When asked by the director, West was not sure that East had said anything about pulling trump either.

Director’s ruling: Law 70.C.3 says that the director will award a trick to the defense if declarer fails to mention an outstanding trump at the time of his claim if it is at all likely that he is unaware of it and a trick can be lost to that trump through normal play. Accordingly, the director ruled that the declarer loses the ♦A and a diamond ruff, 2♥ by East, down 1, North–South plus 50.

The appeal: East–West appealed the ruling and all four players attended the hearing. East felt that his pulling the last trump was obvious even though he failed to mention it during the claim. The non-offending side maintained that East failed to mention the outstanding trump during the claim.

The decision: The awarding of a trick to an unmentioned outstanding trump during a claim is not automatic. The declarer played the hand in a way that appeared he was conscious of the outstanding trump until the very end. When declarer was last in his hand, he claimed the remaining tricks. When told that the ♦A was still out and would win a trick he conceded the diamond trick but still failed to mention the outstanding trump.

The Appeals Committee felt that with the amount of time and confusion with the claim, East’s failure to mention the outstanding trump was a sign that he did not remember it. Accordingly, the committee upheld the director’s ruling that East–West was down one with the outstanding trump winning a trick. The appeal was found to have merit.

DIC: Richard BeyeChairperson: Jim ThurtellCommittee members: Craig Allen, Ed Lazarus,

E.J. Kales and Marc Rabinowitz

THURSDAY EVENING SIDE GAMETUESDAY/THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES

12.5 Tables A B C 3.49 1 1 Robin Ladin - Barbara Harberg, Houston TX 67.83% 2.62 2 2 Wayne Goddard, Clemson SC; Jaime Villanueva, Greer SC 66.67% 1.96 3 Peter Morse, North Vancouver BC; Barbara Mackay, Fredericton NB 61.74% 1.70 4 3 Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Senta Kurschellackner, Unterpremstätte Austria 59.09% 1.10 5 Carolyn Sprague - Walter Pease, Anchorage AK 57.58% 1.28 6 4 Kay Moran - Donna Compton, Dallas TX 57.52% 2.43 5 1 Dee Craft - Russell Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda 53.15% 1.24 6 Babak Shafii, Orlando FL; Hilda Fairweather, Niagara Falls ON 51.90% 1.82 2 Virginia Samaras, Red Bank NJ; Doris Woolfenden, Monmouth Beach NJ 51.33% 1.37 3 Nelson Daigle - Sharon Henry, Metairie LA 50.76% 1.03 4 Katherine Hawker - Stephen Hawker, Baltimore MD 49.30%

THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING OPEN PAIRS 22.0 Tables A B C 11.20 1 Robert Maier, Morgantown WV; Ala Hamilton-Day, Rose Valley PA 60.08% 8.40 2 Steven Picus, Mequon WI; William Malesevich, Mayville WI 59.91% 6.30 3 Richard Troth, Columbia MO; Ann Brinker Schwall, Houston TX 59.48% 4.73 4 James Senter - Gale Senter, San Clemente CA 58.17% 3.47 5/6 Michael Carmen - Norman Athy, Saint Louis MO 57.90% 6.20 5/6 1 Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL; William Evans, Bonne Terre MO 57.90% 2.80 7 Curtis Hastings, St Louis MO; Mark Boswell, Chesterfield MO 56.81% 4.65 2 Judy Cardin, Bonita Springs FL; Bruce Greenspan, Naples FL 56.37% 3.96 3 1 Susan Marshbanks - G Steve Wheeler, Castle Rock CO 55.39% 2.97 4 2 Thomas Aldrich III, Palatine IL; Gordon Parks, Long Grove IL 55.01% 3.11 5 Fred Clayton, Carol Stream IL; Gerald Levy, Hoffman Estates IL 54.68% 2.17 6 Susan Rechter, Saint Louis MO; Carolyn Lewis, Louisville KY 53.21% 2.61 3 Brian Rubenstein - Stewart Rubenstein, Newton MA 51.96% 1.67 4 Aaron Krieser, Saint Louis MO; Mark Behling, Fenton MO 50.54%

THURSDAY/FRIDAY BRACKETED KNOCKOUT I 13 TablesJeffrey Juster - Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; John Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Nicolas Hammond, Marietta GA; Steve Bloom - Betty Bloom, Duanesburg NY vsKasper Konow, Copenhagen 2100 Denmark; Anders Hagen, Copenhagen Denmark; Martin Schaltz, Odense 5000 Denmark; Jaggy Shivdasani, New York NY; Reese Milner, Los Angeles CA; Gigi Simpson, Sarasota FL

Allan Graves, Halifax NS; Jon Baldursson, Reykoavik 105 Iceland; Richard Schwartz, Aventura FL; Thorlakur Jonsson, 200 Kopavogur Iceland; Boye Brogeland, Norway; Espen Lindqvist, 0777 Oslo Norway vsGaylor Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Larry Kozlove, Louisville KY; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY

THURSDAY/FRIDAY BRACKETED KNOCKOUT II 14 TablesStephen Weiner - Renay Danto Weiner, Scottsdale AZ; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Wds MI; Phebe Packer, Phoenix AZ vsBarton Buffington, North Kingstown RI; David Binney, Seattle WA; Raymond Depew - Norman Dressler, Kingston PA

Adriana Salinas, Mexico Mexico; Miriam Rosenberg, Huixquilucan Mexico; C. Valerie Gamio, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA; Miguel Reygadas, Tlalpan Mexico vsPaul Trent - Sandra Trent, Port St Lucie FL; Bill Eisenberg, Perris CA; Martin Scheinberg, Riviera Beach FL; Gary Hann, Ann Arbor MI; Dave Fred, Interlochen MI

Cookie Potter - Kimberly Whipple, Boca Grande FL; Kevin Dwyer, Tampa FL; Tim Verbeek, 3971Ma Netherlands; Danny Molenaar, 2592 Bz Netherlands vsHansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Sandip Datta - Bhabesh Saha - Sumit Mukherjee - Kaustabh Nandi - Debabrata Majumder, Kolkata India

THURSDAY/FRIDAY BRACKETED KNOCKOUT III 15 TablesGeoff Bridges - Kendra Bridges, Carmel IN; John Cissel - Douglas Bullock, Boise ID vsMichael Clegg - Mary Lou Clegg - K Koorsen - Jennifer Koorsen, Fort Wayne IN

Ted Boyd, Cambridge ON; Edith Ferber - Moira Hollingsworth - Dianne Aves, Waterloo ON vsMark Ehret - Pat Bradley - Nancy Keefer, Saint Louis MO; Rosalie Corbett, Kirkwood MO

THURSDAY/FRIDAY BRACKETED KNOCKOUT IV 13 TablesZachary Madden - Robert Lass - Jared Bass - Kevin Choi, Chicago IL vsToby Kahn - Madeline Pfeiffer - Barbara Hulsmeyer, Louisville KY; Jacqualyn James, E Stroudsburg PA

David Bilek - Sharon Bilek, Independence OH; Gay Roach, Nacogdoches TX; David Hurst, Sydney Australia vsCamilla Rabjohns, Peoria Heights IL; Ann Schuyler - Cindy Moore - Lori Moore, Bloomington IL

THURSDAY/FRIDAY BRACKETED KNOCKOUT V 12 TablesLarry Phillips - Anne Bigelow - Keith Simm - W Finlay Brown, Winnipeg MB vsRodney Burnett - Marjorie Burnett, Ankeny IA; Ronald Nielsen - Carolyn Nielsen, Waukee IA

Annet Bonfanti, Redding CT; Carolyn Crabtree, Coronado CA; Mary Warren, Wheaton IL; Carolyn Satrum, Downers Grove IL vsEric Genheimer - Kyle Olson, Mustang OK; Donald Davis - Janet Davis, Norman OK

EntriesAll North American championships with no

upper masterpoint limitation ............................. $20(Note: only ACBL members are eligible to play in

NABC+ events. $1.50 per person per session benefits the International Fund.)

Other North American championships ....... $17(Note: only ACBL members are eligible to play

in these events.)Regional championships ............................. $16

for ACBL members, $18 for all othersAll other events .......................................... $15

for ACBL members, $17 for all others.


THURSDAY STRATIFIED SIDE SWISS 25 Tables A B C 5.31 1 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Tony Forrester, Herefordshire England; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Sam Lev, New York NY; Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany 109.00 3.98 2 Jacek Pszczola - Josef Blass - Jerzy Zaremba, Chapel Hill NC; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin 20-732 Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk 09-230 Poland; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland 96.00 2.99 3 Vinita Gupta, Woodside CA; Billy Miller, Las Vegas NV; Gert Jan Paulissen, Breda Netherlands; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Lew Stansby, Dublin CA 92.00 2.24 4 Gary Bernstein - Hayk Bosnakyan, Montreal QC; Roman Klein, Oakville ON; Henri Barki, Westmount QC 83.00 3.79 5 1 1 Richard Edwards Jr, Wildwood MO; Patricia Berger - Carole Burt, Chesterfield MO; Elizabeth Stephen, Eastport MI 79.00 1.26 6 Winthrop Allegaert - Judith Bianco, New York NY; Zeinab Lecuyer, Montgivray France; Hemant Lall, Dallas TX 78.00 2.84 2 Keith Meyer - Marci Meyer, Long Beach IN; Ken Cornelius - Mary Cornelius, Portland OR 72.00 2.13 3 2 Scott Weber - Marianna Weber - Harold Gebhardt, Edwardsville IL; Susan Pensoneau, Collinsville IL 70.00 1.40 4/5 Daniel Spangler, Saint Peters MO; David Drennan, Granite City IL; Edward Wang, Chesterfield MO; Mike Arnheim, St Louis MO 61.00 1.45 4/5 3 Karen Proetz - Patricia Phillips - Vicki Scanlon - Vickey Metrailer, Little Rock AR 61.00

THURSDAY STRATIFIED SWISS 46 Tables A B C 19.60 1 Dennis Dawson, Santa Fe NM; Leon Lowe, Fountain Hills AZ; Warren Oberfield, Pittsburgh PA; Greg Michaels, Cleveland OH; Ed Lazarus, Baltimore MD 182.00 14.70 2 Annette Clark - Donald Florida, Indianapolis IN; Joanna Hebermehl, Paris IL; Milt Van Reed, Terre Haute IN 181.00 9.65 3/4 James Melville, Springfield IL; Joshua Stark, Grayslake IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL; Suzanne Dunn, Crystal Lake IL; Dave Glen - Joan Brooke, La Quinta CA 175.00 9.65 3/4 Lloyd Arvedon, Woburn MA; Randolph Johnson, Suffield CT; Joe Degaetano, Atkinson NH; Nataly Goldin, Chestnut Hill MA 175.00 6.53 5 Rebecca Clough - Roger Clough, Culver City CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA; Steve Gross, Westlake Vilg CA 160.00 5.60 6 Carole Weinstein, Acton MA; Tony Petronella, Boca Raton FL; Mary Vickers, Apex NC; John Hogan Jr, Wayne NJ 158.00 4.90 7 Suman Agarwal, Hilliard OH; Robert Current Jr, Toledo OH; Harjinder Ajmani, Kula HI; Albert Fultz, Ft Mitchell KY 152.00 4.36 8 Dennis Carman - Susan Bailey Carman, Plainwell MI; John Molt Jr - Joanne Molt, Grand Rapids MI 150.00 3.92 9 Nancy Ogreenc, Wautoma WI; Robert Webster, Ripon WI; Joyce Richards, Skokie IL; Carl Spencer, Phoenix AZ 149.00 11.51 10 1 1 Janet Vontz, Lake St Louis MO; Mark Brightfield - Veena Uberoi, St Louis MO; Barbara Macpeek, Ballwin MO 145.00 3.27 11 John Dicks - Shirley Dicks - Carol Hamilton, Saint Charles MO; Jennifer Luner, St Louis MO 143.00 3.02 12 Justine Cushing - Melih Ozdil, New York NY; Adam Kaplan, New Port Richey FL; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; Xiaodong Shi, Naperville IL 141.00 2.80 13 Jill Wooldridge - Powhatan Wooldridge, Buffalo NY; Herbert Fallin Jr - La Quitta Talbot, Keller TX 134.00 7.55 2/3 2/3 Herbert Rosen, Overland Park KS; Patricia Birbiglia - Carol Fridlin, Carmel IN; Jules Moskowitz, Shawnee Mission KS 132.00 7.55 2/3 2/3 Robert Clarke - Alma Farley, Richardson TX; Bill Nussbaum, Pompano Beach FL; Kim Brinkman, Highland Villge TX 132.00 4.86 4 4 George Parkins, Vienna VA; Dennis Sponholtz, Chantilly VA; Sheryl McEwan, Reston VA; Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA 130.00 3.84 5 Bruce Stroud - Suzanne Bellamy - Deanna Nesbit, Indianapolis IN; Wanda Cole, Greenfield IN 128.00 3.29 6 Isaac Stephani - A J Stephani, Cincinnati OH; David Cordon, Warwick Bermuda; Julia Lunn, Southampton Bermuda 125.00 2.88 7 5 Lois Frank - Mary Dolan, Saint Louis MO; Susan Shogren, Clayton MO; Ann Gruver, Ballwin MO 124.00 2.56 8 Lee Steinmeier - Dianne Carr - Norma Postudensek - Jim Postudensek, Duluth MN 123.00 2.19 6/7 Milt Epstein, Urbana IL; Aravind Alwan, Champaign IL; Elizabeth Meteer, Wildwood MO; Martha Hanley, Chesterfield MO 117.00 2.19 6/7 Yvonne Quintal - Ginny Macey, Cheyenne WY; Guy Gundaker, Scottsdale AZ; Linda McDaniel, Williamsburg VA 117.00

TUESDAY/THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES101.50 Tables / Based on 31 Tables 11.48 1 Randy Okubo, Saint Paul MN 123.31% 7.54 2/3 Paula Crabbs, Kansas City MO 118.14% 7.54 2/3 Terry Crabbs, Kansas City MO 118.14% 4.84 4 Carolyn Sprague, Anchorage AK 115.42% 3.83 5 Rita Kothari, Des Moines IA 114.87% 4.67 6/7 Edward Banta, Spruce Pine NC 114.17% 4.67 6/7 Katherine Trubey, Spruce Pine NC 114.17% 2.55 8 Charlene Hendryx, Ankeny IA 112.90% 4.64 9 Donald Prior, Key Biscayne FL 112.76%

Slow play regulationsA. Slow Play Regulations

Slow play, especially habitual slow play, is a violation of law and subject to penalty. Law 81C1 instructs the director of his duty to ensure that slow play does not disrupt the game. Law 90A and Law 90B2 specifically provide for procedural penalties to be given in cases of undue slow play, and Law 91A empowers the director at his discretion to make such penalties disciplinary and therefore not subject to being overruled by an appeal committee (same as with Zero Tolerance penalties). Further, Law 12C2 permits the director to award an artificial adjusted score when slow play prevents a board from being played.

The preceding paragraph applies to all events. The following paragraph addresses pairs-type movements specifically but applies conceptually to all events.

When a pair has fallen behind it is incumbent on them to make up the time lost as quickly as possible whether at fault or not. All players are expected to make a concerted effort to catch up when they have fallen behind, regardless of the reason for their lateness. In the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, the director should presume that a pair finishing a round late by more than two or three minutes on more than one occasion during a session is responsible for the lateness. There is a strong expectation that the director will penalize such a pair. The size of a penalty will tend to increase for subsequent instances of slow play and for chronic or egregious slow play. While warnings typically will be given before a penalty is assessed, failure to do so in no way limits the director’s authority to issue a penalty.

An appeal of an action taken by a TD with regard to time may be taken to the Director in Charge of the tournament, and no further.

This regulation is not intended to override specific event conditions regarding slow play.

B. Slow Play Appendices for NABC+ KO Events

Appendix E (VS) and Appendix E (S&W) are replaced with the following:

The tournament director is charged with the responsibility to ensure that each KO match segment finishes within the allotted time. While a time monitor may be employed, the lack of a monitor in no way limits the TD’s authority to apply one or more of the remedies listed below. Discretion is expected, in that the TD may choose to ignore an occasional minor late finish.

Players are expected to be aware, in a general sense, of time used and remaining in a segment in which they are playing regardless of whether a clock is in use or a time announcement has been made. An excuse of “no announcement” or “no clock immediately visible” will not be considered persuasive.

The TD may remove one or more boards from a segment. According to Laws 12 and 86 the TD may award no score (when neither team is more at fault than the other), an assigned score (when a result already exists at one table which the TD wishes to preserve) or an artificial score in IMPs. Every effort should be made to remove boards before they can be played at either table, but not having done so does not preclude removing one or more later.

In consultation with the Director in Charge of the tournament, the TD may require that a particular pair not play in a specified segment, not play against a specified pair or not play together as a pair. The foregoing is expected to be applied only due to egregious circumstances or to unduly repetitious offenders.

The foregoing is intended to make clear the intent that the TD is expected and empowered to take action as deemed necessary to ensure the timely finish of KO segments (and matches).

An appeal of an action taken by a TD with regard to time may be taken to the Director in Charge of the tournament, and no further.


RED RIBBON PAIRS QUALIFIERS 39.0 Tables / Based on 83 Tables 1 Andrea Kutscher - Paul Flanders, Longmont CO 76.00 2 David Loeb - Maureen Loeb, Heathrow FL 69.26 3 Joanne Merry - John Jefferson, Davis CA 63.27 4 Robert Cundall, Collinsville IL; Barbara Simpson, Godfrey IL 62.69 5 Phil Michaelson - Denny Penticoff, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 56.51 6 John Krueger - Melvin Rueppel, Estes Park CO 56.07 7 Justin Graver, Omaha NE; Jeffrey Buckwalter, Papillion NE 55.50 8 Jeff Dater, Dallas TX; Rich Brandenburg, Coppell TX 54.87 9 Laurie Carr - Robert Liu, Honolulu HI 54.57 10 Mary Allen, Peoria IL; Eunice Patton, Bloomington IL 48.92 11 Steve Ramos, Jr, Seal Beach CA; John Petrie, Long Beach CA 47.05 12 Joyce McMonagle - Lelvin Crowe, Cordova TN 46.29 13 Aaron Mohrman, Seattle WA; Gregory Herman, Bellevue WA 45.86 14 Ryan Connors - Randi Adelman, New York NY 45.25 15 Robert Hope, Honolulu HI; Bryant Town, Edmonton AB 44.88 16 Charles Ladiha, Vermilion OH; Philip MacFarlane, Parma OH 41.84 17 Jeroen Swinkels, Evanston IL; Charles Alexander, Northbrook IL 41.41 18 Chuck Ettelson - Jane Ettelson, Saint Louis MO 39.31 19 Jess Jurkovic - Peter Clark, New York NY 39.27 20 Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Willie Baker Jr, Guthrie OK 38.77 21 Marie Smerjac, Castle Rock CO; Douglas Dorland, Palmer AK 36.74 22 Carol Frank, Burbank CA; James Berglund, Okemos MI 36.31 23 Robert Shore - Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 35.99 24 Jonathan Cohn, Omaha NE; Andrew Clements, La Vista NE 34.91 25 Frank Bowen - John Bowen, Charlestown IN 34.60 26 Grace Charron, Bradenton FL; Albert Votolato, Attleboro MA 34.14 27 Frederick Upton, Van Nuys CA; Stephen Woelfer, West Hills CA 34.02 28 David Dodgson, Lansdale PA; Thomas Salter, Hatfield PA 33.97 29 Frank Amrine - Jo Ellen Amrine, Louisville KY 33.64 30 William Howard, Green Valley AZ; Edward Helpert, Tucson AZ 33.35 31 Michael Lieberman, Cambridge MA; Reid Barton, Arlington MA 31.19 32 Yan Zhang, Chicago IL; Michael Thvedt, Minneapolis MN 30.30 33 Stephen Zenk, Maryland Hts MO; Thomas Shedlock, Danville IL 29.98 34 Brian Zaugg - Liliana Diaconescu, Burien WA 29.58 35 Vladimir Oudalov, Waukesha WI; Stanley Weiss, Livingston NJ 29.52 36 Brian Weikle, Robbinsdale MN; William Cummings, Monticello MN 29.21 37 Martina Kelley - Michael Kelley, Lake Zurich IL 28.69 38 Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY; Richard Bobilin, Fonda NY 27.17 39 Brian Cummins, Cordova TN; Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR 27.04 40 Michael Boreson, Missoula MT; Terry Wolfe, Clinton MT 24.92 41 Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA; Kevin Schoenfeld, Pleasanton CA 23.54 42 Robert Fisk, Cincinnati OH; Steve Callaham, Woodstock GA 22.85 43 Pawel Hanus, Carrollton TX; Bogumil Knypinski, N Richland Hill TX 22.33 44 Toni Kimmel - Chris Kimmel, Vincennes IN 22.26 45 Steve Hubbell, Mountain View CA; Michael Hughes, San Jose CA 21.80 46 Kay Jones, The Villages FL; Geoff Jones III, Orlando FL 20.94 47 Gloria Tsoi, Somerville MA; Kim Eng, Issaquah WA 20.91 48 Katelin Yates, Erie CO; Paul Haynes, Boulder CO 20.71 49 James Nunn, Chesterfield MO; Jerome Shen, Saint Louis MO 20.53 50 J Ann Bouchard - Jeanie Pearson, Columbia MO 20.51 51 Fred Johnston - Cory Perkers, Chicago IL 20.05 52 Stephen Birnbaum - Bob Butterfield, Dallas TX 19.83 53 Allen Rew, Independence MO; Keith Smith, Lees Summit MO 18.13 54 Kimberly Music, Lewis Center OH; Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA 17.74 55 Ben McKown Jr - Stephen Kishner, Metairie LA 15.85 56 Mark Blanchard, Bay Shore NY; Susan Scheinerman, Melville NY 15.42 57 Francine Moring, Columbia SC; Betsy Stanton, Hartsville SC 14.76 58 Arthur Giovannangeli, Dublin NH; Lawrence Cheetham, Bedford NH 14.59 59 Michael Shaw - Terry Visentin, Winnipeg MB 14.26 60 Regina Sooey - Bill Page, Jacksonville FL 12.80 61 Genadiy Hirscht, Albion MI; Stephen Rosenquist, Homer MI 12.60 62 Michael Creager, Brecksville OH; John Bacon, Shaker Heights OH 12.55 63 Dave Chipman - Jerry Sloan, Lawrence KS 12.30 64 Valerie Vaughan - Martin Deneroff, New York NY 11.11 65 Ulla Sattinger - Michael Sattinger, Slingerlands NY 10.26 66 Kerry Cotterell, Clifton Park NY; Bruce Williams, Medford Lakes NJ 8.93 67 Michael Saltzman, Naperville IL; Donald Prior, Key Biscayne FL 8.78 68 David Stevens - Mark Daily, Charleston IL 8.29 69 Renae Gunstone-White - Tim White, Mercer Island WA 7.76 70 Charles Young - Patrick Moos, Peoria IL 7.40 71 Trevor Lumb, Atlanta GA; Ronald Francey, Corpus Christi TX 3.71 72 Larry Kaddatz - Linda Smith, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 3.65 73 Craig Snowden, Fort Collins CO; Thomas Didelot, Hartford WI 2.55 74 E Hale, Rolla MO; Leslie Powell, South Hill VA 2.04 75 Ann Morin, Park City UT; Max Aeschbacher, Salt Lake City UT 1.61 76 Julian Wachs - Elizabeth Wachs, Chapel Hill NC 1.21 77 Alan Hierseman, Prairie Village KS; Ellen D’Amato, Kansas City MO 0.91 78 Howard Balfour, Park Forest IL; Claire Murvihill, Chicago IL 0.00

Tournament Terminology 101

If you’re confused by the terms used to describe the different types of bridge events played at clubs and tournaments, you’re not alone. Here’s a list of common bridge events with explanations.

Knockout Teams: an event in which a team of four, five or six players (with four playing at a time) plays another team. The losers are eliminated or “knocked out” while the winners play other winners until only one winning team remains.

The length of a KO match may vary from a single session to a full day (the Vanderbilt and Spingold) to a multi-day event (the Bermuda Bowl).

Bracketed Knockout Teams: a KO event in which teams are divided into groups, usually of eight, 16 or 32 teams, based on their masterpoint holdings. The top group (Bracket I) and all other groups compete in a separate event with their own set of winners.

Compact Knockout Teams: a shorter version of Bracketed KO teams.

Swiss Teams: an event in which a team of four, five or six players (with four playing at a time) plays other teams in seven-, eight- or nine-board matches. Team A sits North-South at Table 1 and East-West at Table 2 while Team B sits East-West at Table 1 and North-South at Table 2. The results are compared and scored by International Match Points (IMPs).

Pairings for the first round are random. Pairings for succeeding rounds are determined by a team’s win-loss record or Victory Point total.

International Match Points (IMPs): the most common method of scoring Swiss Team matches. Scoring example: if Team A scores plus 620 for bidding and making 4♠ on a particular deal and Team B scores only plus 170 (they didn’t bid the game), the difference is 450, which converts to 10 IMPs. The IMP chart is shown on the inside of your convention card.

Victory Points (VPs): a method of scoring Swiss Team matches. After the scores are compared and converted to IMPs, the IMP total is converted to Victory Points. A team’s VP total may be used to determine its next opponents and its final standing.

Side Game Series: a series of single-session pair games that pay red points. These series include at least three sessions and may have as many as six. You may play in as many sessions as you like, but only pairs who play in at least two sessions are eligible for overall gold points. Your best two sessions are used for determining overall winners.

Flighted pairs: When flighting is used, the field is divided by expertise or experience or both into several separate games. Flight A (“unlimited masterpoints”) will be open to all players while the remaining flights will be limited. Flight B might be 0-500 MPs or 0-1000 MPs while Flight C might be 0-300 or 0-500.

Each flight is scored individually, and masterpoint awards are made for each flight.

The masterpoint holdings of the players determine their flight. If one player is quite expert while his partner is new to the game, the pair must compete in Flight A.

In flighted events, you may play up but not down. That means you may play in Flight A or Flight B even if your masterpoint holding qualifies you for Flight C. Conversely, you may not play in Flight B or Flight C if you are a Flight A player.

Stratified pairs: The idea is to compete against everyone but to be ranked only with your peers.

Each pair is assigned a stratum or “strat” based on the masterpoint holding of the partner with more masterpoints.

Example: A = 1000+ masterpoints; B = 300-1000; C = 0-300.

Thus, the most experienced players are placed in Strat A, intermediate players in Strat B and less experienced players in Strat C. Masterpoints are awarded for placings in all strats but gold points are awarded only in A and B.



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WHITEHEAD WOMENS PAIRS 26.0 Tables 1 Yiji Starr, Wayland MA; Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 1497.00 2 Nancy Passell, Plano TX; Peggy Sutherlin, Dallas TX 1409.50 3 Irina Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL; Kamla Chawla, Longmeadow MA 1383.10 4 Cindy Bernstein, Matthews NC; Sally Wheeler, The Woodlands TX 1362.87 5 K Fung - Susan Culham, Edmonton AB 1332.00 6 Beth Palmer, Chevy Chase MD; Shawn Stringer, Silver Spring MD 1321.12 7 Mildred Breed, Austin TX; Karen Snyder, Spicewood TX 1317.14 8 Lynne Feldman, San Diego CA; Chris Benson, Le Roy IL 1313.60 9 Carole Miner, Rochester MN; Cynthia Balderson, Eden Prairie MN 1312.00 10 Kathy Baum, Germantown TN; Peg Waller, Eden Prairie MN 1307.87 11/12 Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL; Valerie Westheimer, New York NY 1298.87 11/12 Mary Savko - Ellie Hanlon, Tequesta FL 1298.87 13 Leora Dubrovsky, Howell NJ; Donna Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL 1288.00 14 Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Carlyn Steiner, Seattle WA 1286.00 15 Sylvia Shi, Baltimore MD; Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY 1284.37 16 Kerri Sanborn, Stony Point NY; Rhoda Kratenstein, Delray Beach FL 1272.78 17 Gail Bell, King of Prussia PA; Rhoda Prager, Boca Raton FL 1270.00 18 Terry Currie, Houston TX; Shawn Quinn, Sugar Land TX 1269.00 19 Joanne Weingold, Boca Raton FL; Jan Assini, Aurora OH 1260.02 20 Gerrianne Mason, Crossville TN; Dot Blue, Nashville TN 1260.00 21 Linda McGarry, Stuart FL; Sally Woolsey, Kensington CA 1256.00 22 Barbara Sartorius, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL 1247.50 23 Heather Cutting, Portola Valley CA; Kathleen Harper, Woodside CA 1240.41 24 Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX; Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA 1234.00 25 Susan Picus - Gail Greenberg, New York NY 1232.97 26 Carolyne Fox, Manvel TX; Georgiana Gates, Houston TX 1229.00 27/28 Cecilia Rimstedt, 43335 Partille Sweden; Sally Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL 1220.50 27/28 Marsha McElroy, Davenport IA; Margi Dyer, Mayfield KY 1220.50 29 Dana Berkowitz, New York NY; Bronia Jenkins, Vero Beach FL 1218.50 30 Tania Reyes Hiller, Shrub Oak NY; Nancy Molesworth, White Plains NY 1217.60 31 Stella Rainey - Libby Fernandez, Tuscaloosa AL 1216.10 32 Diane Shannon, Saratoga CA; Lynn Shannon, Los Gatos CA 1215.50 33 Debra Romero, Clarkson Valley MO; Peggy Wald, Chesterfield MO 1213.72 34 Theresa Venhuis, Denver CO; Meg Myers, Beaverton OR 1210.78 35 Jo Anne Newby, Knoxville TN; Patricia Jankovic, Alcoa TN 1209.00 36 Chantal Dube - Josette Levesque, Montreal QC 1207.50 37 JoAnn Sprung, Las Vegas NV; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 1203.87 38 Rozanne Pollack, New York NY; Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL 1202.50 39 Vonnie Lavender, Burke VA; Ann Lindley, Gaithersburg MD 1200.00 40 Linda Leedy, Zionsville IN; Charlene Lutz, Indianapolis IN 1199.28 41 Anne Brenner, Denver CO; Kitty Cooper, Lakeside CA 1193.36 42 Toby Bassett, Lafayette LA; Jean Talbot, Metairie LA 1190.99 43 Ljudmila Kamenova, South Setauket NY; Sylvia Caley, Montreal QC 1188.00 44 Karen McCallum, Exeter NH; Lynn Baker, Austin TX 1173.78 45 Cheryl Schneider, Westerville OH; Anita Torrence, Bexley OH 1171.50 46 Gloria Spitzer - Linda Leinicke, Saint Louis MO 1170.00 47 Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD; Pam LaShelle, Round Rock TX 1168.09 48 Kathy Rolfe, Lake Winnebago MO; Phyllis Siegel, Ballwin MO 1167.00 49 Pamela Nisbet, Ottawa ON; Mickie Chambers, Atlanta GA 1162.00 50 Terry James, Upper Arlington OH; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH 1160.37 51 Linda Spangler, Ft Worth TX; Carol Schoenhals, Lubbock TX 1158.20 52 Carol Schaffer, Saint Louis MO; Nell Schneider, Chesterfield MO 1155.50

Rookie, masterpoints, stratified pairs -- these terms may be confusing to new members of the American Contract Bridge League. Here’s a list of terms and their meanings:

Masterpoints: the unit which measures bridge achievement in competition. Masterpoints are awarded at ACBL clubs and tournaments in amounts proportional to the size and classification of the event and the rating of the club or tournament.

Black points: awarded at club games. Some special club games award red, gold or silver points.

Silver points: awarded for sectional firsts and overall placing at sectional tournaments. Also awarded at Sectional Tournaments at Clubs (STaC).

Red points: awarded for section placements at regional tournaments and NABCs. Also awarded at clubs for special events such as the qualifying rounds of the North American Open Pairs and the Grand National Teams.

Gold points: awarded for section firsts and overall placing in regionally rated events that have no upper masterpoint restrictions.

Gold points are also awarded for sectional firsts and overall placing in regional events of two or more sessions that have a masterpoint limit of 750 or more points.

One gold point is awarded to section winners in the annual ACBL Instant Matchpoint Game in sections of seven or more tables.

In addition, new players may now win gold points in their own NABC events: 1.50 gold in the National 199er Pairs at the Summer NABC and 1.00 gold in the National 99er Pairs at the Fall NABC (the remainder of the award is in red points).

A major source of gold points is the Bracketed Knockout Teams. The overall awards for the top

The game proceeds normally; the difference comes when the scores are tabulated and ranked.

In a three-strat game, the scores are ranked three times. The first ranking is done as in a regular open game. These are the Strat A results.

If a B or C pair does well in this ranking, they receive full credit for that performance. It is not all that uncommon for a Strat C pair to place first overall, and they receive the full masterpoint award for that game.

Note: A pair is eligible for only one set of masterpoint awards and automatically receives the highest award.

The second ranking compares the scores of only the B and C pairs; the scores of the Strat A pairs are eliminated. Once again, if a C pair does well, they receive points for their finishing position in the Strat B results.

The third and final ranking compares the scores of only the C pairs; all the scores of the Strat A and B pairs are eliminated.

Strati-flighted pairs: The top group plays in a game of their own (Flight A). The rest of the field in divided into strats and plays as in a regular stratified pairs.

There can even be stratification within Flight A, frequently called Flight A/X. Flight A may be listed as 3000+ MPs while Flight X may be listed as 0-3000 MPs.


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Fresh from the spa comes our new Vanderbilt pickers, Flora and Fauna. They may be a little baudy, but they sure know their teams:

Flora: My Goodness, all of my Girls went south, so I have to look north. Lots of Canadian boys still left, starting with Grainger. There is that cute Lee boy on the team; but Fleisher, while boring, will prevail.

Fauna: You want cute, I have all sorts of Dutch boys and that very eligible Zagorin boy. I do not know what to make of those other Canadians on the Huang team. They keep defying the odds. Maybe they just do not know they are supposed to lose. The Chinese pair is strong and is motivating them. But I love those Dutch boys and their little caps so I must be true to them.

Flora: Amoils vs Monaco. Monaco is awfully good and playing well, but that is offset by that sweet Bessis boy on Amoils. My heart says yes, but my soul says no. Au revoir, Thomas. Til we meet again. Another Canadian goes with him.

Fauna: I am crushed by 1 IMP. My heart is shattered. Oh, Norby, I needed you. Alas, Rosenthal awaits Nickell, the victor of this brutal match. If Rosenthal can stay in the boat for the first half, those Swedes will have their way with the Empire. Doesn’t that Johan boy have the prettiest smile? With a Canadian coach, all matches have a Canadian rooting interest

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38 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO 71.78 39 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 71.63 40 Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA; Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT 69.81 41 John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 69.39 42 Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Jessica Piafsky, New York NY 69.10 43 Sharon Meng-Horton, Dade City FL; Wayne Eggers, Woodridge IL 68.76 44 Toby White, Des Moines IA; Richard Newell, West Des Moines IA 64.64 45 Dori Cohen, Woodbury NY; Robert Gordon, Northport NY 62.99 46 Ronald Powell, Santa Clara CA; Greg Loran, Lubbock TX 61.95 47 Eugene Saxe, Briarcliff NY; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY 61.46 48 Jim Russell, Bradenton FL; Edward Spear, Bangor ME 59.55 49 Randall Rubinstein, Brooklyn NY; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 57.20 50 Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC; Les Fouks, Vancouver BC 56.80 51 Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA; Christopher Gibson, Beaverton OR 55.91 52 George Krizel, Fstrvl Trvose PA; Albert Shekhter, Brooklyn NY 53.23 53 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Stephen Landen, Ellicott City MD 53.18 54 David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD 51.88 55 Richard Ferrin, Washington DC; Eugene Kales, Arlington VA 51.82 56 Patrick White, Kirkland WA; Chris Pesce, Seattle WA 51.08 57 Alfred Duncker, Gaithersburg MD; Steven Schatzow, Washington DC 49.77 58 Stephen Stewart, Overland Park KS; Jack Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 49.04 59 Jim Reiman, Mansfield OH; Jay Baum, Germantown TN 48.83 60 Susi Ross, Winter Spgs FL; David Rogers, Pinehurst NC 47.68 61 George Klemic, Bensenville IL; Danning Dong, Chicago IL 47.24 62 Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 46.80 63 John Zilic, Houston TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 46.52 64 Jurek Czyzowicz, Gatineau QC; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 44.25 65 Mark Leonard, Long Beach CA; Kevin Fay, Columbia MO 43.16 66 Jay Whipple III, Boca Grande FL; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL 42.14 67 Kenneth Bland, Saint Louis MO; Richard Haacke, Olivette MO 41.27 68 Bar Tarnovski, Rishon Lezion Israel; Melanie Tucker, New York NY 41.20 69 Carolyn Bryan - H Wendell Williams, Oklahoma City OK 39.81 70 Gabrielle Sherman, W Long Branch NJ; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 39.74 71 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; Jim Munday, Southaven MS 39.46 72 Earl Glickstein, Gaithersburg MD; Robert Levey, Bethesda MD 39.04 73 Erez Hendelman, New York NY; Herbert Jordan, Miami FL 35.56 74 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 34.61 75 John Lusky, Portland OR; Allan Falk, Okemos MI 34.24 76 David Dalrymple, Casper WY; Bryan Howard, Nashville TN 32.76 77 Zizhuo Wang, Minneapolis MN; Zhuo Wang, Philadelphia PA 31.81 78 John Moser, St Agatha ON; David Baker, Kitchener ON 31.37 79 Jean Barry, Livermore CA; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA 31.29 80 David Coles - Dan Parish, Omaha NE 30.50 81 Justin Lall - Sheri Winestock, Las Vegas NV 30.43 82 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Barry Rigal, New York NY 29.93 83 Subba Ravipudi, Downey CA; B Horiguchi, Gardena CA 29.74 84 Don Piafsky, Toronto ON; Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC 29.50 85 Marvin King, Creve Coeur MO; Arbha Vongsvivut, Godfrey IL 29.48 86 Ann Borgschulte, Lexington MA; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 28.29 87 David Rosenberg, Jackson Heights NY; Allen Kahn, New York NY 27.63 88 Alan Kleist, Cheverly MD; Stephen McConnell, Evanston IL 25.20 89 Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY; Jeffrey Rothstein, New York NY 24.20 90 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL 24.04 91 Krzysztof Jassem, Puszczykoud Poland; Marcin Mazurkiewicz, Poland 23.66 92 Ron Ashbacher, Lead Hill AR; Gen Geiger, Sarasota FL 22.70 93 John Russell, North Barringto IL; Tadashi Yoshida, Tokyo Japan 21.96 94 Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC; Robert Cappelli, Bloomfield MI 21.82 95 Karl Zaman, Strongsville OH; Bernie Greenspan, Beachwood OH 21.35 96 Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; Mark Gordon, Purchase NY 21.29 97 Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY; Joan Brody, Morristown NJ 20.72 98 Bin Liang, Fremont CA; Richard Chan, Markham ON 18.84 99 Jim Johnsen - Paul Darin, San Diego CA 18.71 100 Charles Malcolm - Marti Malcolm, Topeka KS 18.35 101 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA 16.93 102 Roger Johnson, Sarasota FL; Natalie Bassil, Boston MA 16.44 103 Franklin Merblum, Bloomfield CT; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY 15.70 104 Douglas Doub, W Hartford CT; Jay Borker, Greenwich CT 15.44 105 Roger Lord, Saint Louis MO; Chester Johnson, Chicago IL 14.70 106 Daniel Neill, Lexington KY; Jason Rotenberg, Ridgefield CT 13.72 107 Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX 13.63 108 Runar Lillevik - Ovind Ludvigsen, Oslo Norway 13.25 109 William Arlinghaus, Ann Arbor MI; Dave Swarthout, San Antonio TX 11.69 110 Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA; Chris Larsen, Laguna Woods CA 8.54 111 Donald Croysdale, Menomonee Falls WI; Maya Altarac, Teec Nos Pos AZ 8.00 112 Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA; Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA 7.23 113 Stephen Goldstein, Anaheim CA; Zane Gary Brown, San Francisco CA 7.17 114 Dennis Newman, Scarsdale NY; Donald Spaulding, Mountain View CA 6.89 115 Dan Morse, Houston TX; John Sutherlin, Dallas TX 6.81 116 Michael McNamara, White Plains NY; William Ehlers, Madison NJ 6.76 117 Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL 6.13 118 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA 5.86 119 Weishu Wu, Irvine CA; Bo Liu, Santa Ana CA 5.72 120 En Xie, Saint Louis MO; Randy Baker, St Louis MO 3.84 121 Randy Corn, Kirkland WA; Donald Mamula, Mill Creek WA 3.57 122 Martin Hirschman, Southfield MI; Norman Bolton, Beverly Hills MI 3.21 123 Paul Wright Jr, Mount Pleasant SC; Martin Johnson Jr, Folly Beach SC 3.10 124 William Pollack, New York NY; Mark Feldman, Austin TX 2.78 125 Lorraine Cable, New York NY; Matthew Dyer, Chicago IL 2.41 126 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY 2.24 127 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 1.16 128 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Sun-O Ho, Redmond WA 0.43 129 Hector Camberos, Charlotte NC; Pablo Lambardi, Buenos Aires 10 Argentina 0.21 130 Michael Richey, Springfield VA; James Geist, Olney MD 0.00

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Vanderbilt

No. 2 James Cayne trailed original No. 47 David Grainer by 28 with a set to go and mounted a rally in the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late and the underdogs advanced with a 146-136 win.

Original No. 35 Shan Huang, upset winners over No. 3 John Diamond on Tuesday, clipped the Daniel Korbel squad 153-130.

The other matches were runaways as teams led by Les Amoils (captain of the winning squad in 2012), Ricco van Prooijen, Martin Fleisher and Andrew Rosenthal advanced.

See Flora and Fauna predictions on page 13.


THURSDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION BBB EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1/2 1/2 1 Jacqueline Keenan, Manhattan Beach CA; Carolyn Auge, Jackson WY 57.44% 1 Elizabeth Rice, Madison MS; Helen Taylor, Jackson MS 57.44% 1/2 1/2 Ballard Simmons, Jr - Marilyn Simmons, Fulton MO 57.44% 2 Bill Orrick, House Springs MO; William Lobdell, Des Peres MO 56.25% 3 3 Beverly Wedel - John McReynolds, Bartlesville OK 55.06% 3 Sallie Dillian - Monika Senf, Scottsdale AZ 53.57% 4 Charles Shoham, Madison WI; Michael Reedy, Stoughton WI 52.98% 4 1 1 Patricia Clark, Villa Ridge MO; Debb Keniley, St Louis MO 52.38% 2 Christy Schafly, St Louis MO; Peggy Dozier, St Louis MO 49.40% 3 Ann Lemp - Frank Lemp, St Louis MO 49.11%

TUESDAY/THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES 6 OF 6 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION U EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Wayne Goddard, Clemson SC; Jaime Villanueva, Greer SC 66.67% 1 1 Robin Ladin - Barbara Harberg, Houston TX 67.83% 2 Peter Morse, North Vancouver BC; Barbara Mackay, Fredericton NB 61.74% 2 2 Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Senta Kurschellackner, Unterpremstätte Austria 59.09% 3 Carolyn Sprague - Walter Pease, Anchorage AK 57.58% 3 3 Kay Moran - Donna Compton, Dallas TX 57.52% 4 2 Babak Shafii, Orlando FL; Hilda Fairweather, Niagara Falls ON 51.90% 4 Paula Crabbs - Terry Crabbs, Kansas City MO 54.72% 5 3 1 Virginia Samaras, Red Bank NJ; Doris Woolfenden, Monmouth Beach NJ 51.33% 5 4 1 Dee Craft - Russell Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda 53.15% 4 2 Nelson Daigle - Sharon Henry, Metairie LA 50.76% 2 Katherine Hawker - Stephen Hawker, Baltimore MD 49.30%

THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING OPEN 2ND OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS JJ KK EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Judy Cardin, Bonita Springs FL; Bruce Greenspan, Naples FL 65.58% 1 Bob Gruber - Linda Gruber, Camarillo CA 61.44% 2 Steven Picus, Mequon WI; William Malesevich, Mayville WI 61.44% 2 1 1 Brian Rubenstein - Stewart Rubenstein, Newton MA 58.71% 3 2 1 Thomas Aldrich III, Palatine IL; Gordon Parks, Long Grove IL 59.04% 3 Robert Maier, Morgantown WV; Ala Hamilton-Day, Rose Valley PA 58.28% 4 Brian Trent, Fullerton CA; Penny Wentworth, Villa Park CA 57.84% 4 Jacqueline DeRouin, Okemos MI; William Northrop, Schoolcraft MI 56.75% 5 Jim Wattenbarger - Carroll Frogge, Kansas City MO 57.73% 5 Jackie Thompson, Silver Spring MD; Atsuko Nakamura, Pearland TX 56.10% 6 James Senter - Gale Senter, San Clemente CA 57.63% 6 Curtis Hastings, St Louis MO; Mark Boswell, Chesterfield MO 55.77% 7 Richard Troth, Columbia MO; Ann Brinker Schwall, Houston TX 55.66% 7 2 Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL; William Evans, Bonne Terre MO 55.56% 8 Michael Carmen - Norman Athy, Saint Louis MO 54.14% 8 3 Fred Clayton, Carol Stream IL; Gerald Levy, Hoffman Estates IL 54.36% 9 Lance Chamberlain - Greg Caucutt, Rochester MN 53.59% 9 4 Susan Rechter, Saint Louis MO; Carolyn Lewis, Louisville KY 54.03% 3 Steven Goodman - Carol Frana, Overland Park KS 52.61% 2 Aaron Krieser, Saint Louis MO; Mark Behling, Fenton MO 52.51% 4 Steven Early, Newburgh IN; Gloria Bridges, Mount Vernon IN 50.87% 2 Jane Pendley, Tuscon AZ; Kathleen Essma, Kirkwood MO 47.93%

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Bid ‘em up, play ‘em up (2007)By Barry Rigal

Board 3 of the afternoon Silodor Open Pairs saw a deal (here rotated) where North–South would appear to be due to get in trouble: Dlr: West ♠ 10 7 3 Vul: N–S ♥ A 4 ♦ A J 9 5 4 2 ♣ Q 6 ♠ J 8 ♠ Q 6 4 2 ♥ 7 6 ♥ Q 9 3 2 ♦ K Q 10 7 3 ♦ 6 ♣ J 10 9 2 ♣ 8 7 5 3 ♠ A K 9 5 ♥ K J 10 8 5 ♦ 8 ♣ A K 4

Notrump plays only for 11 tricks, though slam is not without play. Pamela Granovetter (an apostle

of sound bidding) found a way to avoid trouble; she passed the North hand! Partner Dick Katz found a way to get back in trouble. (Reader, add your own parenthesis here about bidding styles.) He opened the South hand 1♥ and the auction proceeded:

Granovetter Katz Pass 1♥ 2♦ 2♠ 3♥ 4NT 5♥ 6♥

Katz had gotten himself into an awkward spot, but the advantage of playing hearts as opposed to notrump was that a black loser could be ruffed in dummy. How should 6♥ be played on the ♣J lead? Declarer wins in hand and plays the ♦A and ruffs a diamond. East pitches a club, and now declarer needs to commit himself to the ♥Q being with East (clearly, the odds favor this given the diamond break).

He leads a club to the queen, a low heart to the

10, cashes the ♣K, pitching a spade from dummy. Next comes the ♠A K and a spade ruff with dummy’s ♥A. Now he ruffs another diamond to hand with the ♥8, and in the three-card ending, he exits with his losing spade. With the ♥K J left, he can claim the last two tricks. This line requires nothing more than the ♥Q onside.

At the table I was watching, I saw Giorgio Duboin and Roy Welland defending 4♥ on the auction 1♦–1♥; 2♦–2♠; 3♥–4♣; 4♥–Pass. Minus 680 was going to be a very poor score for them, but Duboin led the ♥7. Declarer made the mistake of going up with the ♥A. (There are positions where you want to retain high trumps in hand, but this is not one of them.)

Declarer ruffed a diamond to hand and cashed the top clubs and spades, but when he led a third spade Duboin ruffed in front of dummy’s ♥4 with the ♥6, and now declarer could only get 11 tricks, and that was an average result.

A look back


THURSDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Missy Ramey - Karen Crebs, St Louis MO 54.58% 1 1 1 Ormond Fleming - Tyler Fleming, Richmond BC 59.17% 1 1 1 Mary Joan Woods, St Louis MO; Nancy Labrier, Saint Louis MO 54.17% 2 Dennis Whitmore - Delaine Boyd, Manchester MO 56.25% 2 2 Heather Harmeyer, Indianapolis IN; Dave West, Winnipeg MB 51.25% 3 2 2 Werner Dresler - Gloria Viverais-Dresle, Sudbury ON 47.92% 3 Linda Myers, Ballwin MO; Kathy Foresman, Saint Louis MO 49.17%

THURSDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION BBB EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Lale Broderson, Lees Summit MO; Sevinch Sokullu, Lee’s Summit MO 66.67% 1 1 1 David Dierkes, St Louis MO; Thomas Stringer, Saint Louis MO 60.42% 2 2 1 Conrad Larkin, Santa Rosa CA; Janet Chapman, Montreal QC 56.25% 2 2 Bill Orrick, House Springs MO; William Lobdell, Des Peres MO 58.04% 3 3 2 Douglas Golden, Severna Park MD; Ruth Shilkret, Arnold MD 52.68% 3 3 2 Judith Wagner - Barbara Constance, Belleville IL 55.65% 4 Linda Langsdorf - Laurie Stern, St Louis MO 52.38% 4 4 Ann Lemp - Frank Lemp, St Louis MO 49.40% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION DDD EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Irene Hommert, Kirkwood MO; Marcee Silverstein, Clayton MO 61.37% 1 1 1 John Hindle - Jeff Gosman, Winnipeg MB 56.24% 2 2 2 Beverly Wedel - John McReynolds, Bartlesville OK 55.01% 2 2 Trella Bromley, Jacksonville FL; Jeff Jackson, White Bear Lake MN 56.12% 3 3 Raymond Laythe - Penny Williams, Saint Louis MO 54.10% 3 3 2 Regina Schlueter - Ken Schlueter, Ferguson MO 53.09% 4 Meredith Schainblatt, Clearwater FL; Joan Barzilai, Cleveland Hgths OH 51.19% 4 Diane Cohen, McLean VA; Hank Lavender, Burke VA 52.26%

THURSDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS AFTERNOON SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS X Y Z EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Michael McGuire, Hernando MS 67.92% 1 Claudette Roush - Barbara Grantham, Houston TX 61.24% 2 Robert Lavin, East Longmeadow MA; Patricia Wright, Charlotte NC 63.62% 2 Elizabeth Percich, Saint Louis MO; Tom Oppenheimer, Ballwin MO 58.39% 3 1 Laurence Mayer, Overland Park KS; Jack Mayer, Shawnee Mission KS 60.46% 3 Judy Wirtenberg, East Brunswick NJ; Irwin Klugler, Montclair NJ 58.38% 4 2 Susan Pringle - John Pringle, Rio Verde AZ 60.44% 4 William Esberg, Long Branch NJ; Albert Shrive, Dalton PA 58.14% 5 Suzanne St Thomas, Salem OR; C Joan Green, Springfield IL 59.36% 5 Karen Coe, Ewing IL; Susan Davis, Marion IL 56.53% 6 David Drennan, Granite City IL; Gail Hawkins, Ballwin MO 58.27% 6 1 1 Catherine Wright, Rockford IL; Robert Larson, Roscoe IL 56.24% 7 Ned Irving - Greg Frank, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 55.78% 7 2 2 Dinesh Gupta, South Windsor CT; Louis Kaminski, Litchfield IL 56.23% 8 3 Hall Whitaker - William Morgan, Rolla MO 55.24% 8 Sadik Arf, Saratoga CA; Sharon Goldman, New York NY 55.74% 9 Mike Albert - Kathleen Owen, Omaha NE 54.52% 9 3 3 John Maloney, Mahomet IL; Melissa Fitton, Urbana IL 53.88% 10 4 1 Barbara Williford, Raleigh NC; Richard Dixon, Frontenac KS 52.42% 10 4 4 John Peer - James Rowen, Indianapolis IN 51.94% 11 5 2 Jenny Widmer - La McLeod, Charlotte NC 51.84% 11 5 5 Virginia Samaras, Red Bank NJ; Doris Woolfenden, Monmouth Beach NJ 51.72% 12 6 Egon Diekhoff, Maryland Hts MO; Linda Powers, Chesterfield MO 51.61% 12 6 6 Stanley Berkowitz, Delray Beach FL; Diane Berkowitz, Hawley PA 51.59% 13 Lorrie Schramm, Anaheim CA; Verna Baccus, Los Alamitos CA 50.16% 13 7 7 Lynn Vogel - Lynn Smith, Knoxville TN 51.49% 7 3 G. Eric Shugart - Becky Shugart, Lakewood OH 49.09% 8 Joe Black - Lawton Hutchison, Austin TX 51.48% 8 4 Ted Peck, La Crosse WI; Thomas Olson, Madison WI 48.72% 9 Linda Branum - Cookie Spiceland, Loudon TN 50.94% 9 5 Danielle Tremblay, Outremont QC; Denise Roy-Letourneau, Lasalle QC 48.52% 10 D Abraham, Windsor ON; Edmond Douville, Hobart IN 50.45% 6 Karen Land, Keokuk IA; Dixie Horsey, Salem IA 48.50% 7 Melissa Georges, St Louis MO; Anne Albrecht, Saint Louis MO 48.01%

SILODAR OPEN PAIRS SECOND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS I J K L O EAST-WEST 1 John Hurd, New York NY; Spencer Hurd, Meigs GA 59.50% 1 Mark Leonard, Long Beach CA; Kevin Fay, Columbia MO 63.91% 2 Marin Marinov, New York NY; David Yang, Darien IL 59.35% 2 Danny Sprung - Paul Lewis, Las Vegas NV 63.37% 3 Brad Carmichael, Kansas City MO; Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL 59.29% 3 Victor King, Hartford CT; Geoffrey Brod, Avon CT 61.27% 4/5 Allan Stauber, Palm Bch Grdns FL; Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX 59.11% 4 Patrick White, Kirkland WA; Chris Pesce, Seattle WA 59.67% 4/5 Sharon Meng-Horton, Dade City FL; Wayne Eggers, Woodridge IL 59.11% 5 Michal Nowosadzki, Weyheriwi 84-20 Poland; Pawel Jassem, Poland 59.50% 6 Scott Levine, New York NY; Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY 57.90% 6 Alan Kleist, Cheverly MD; Stephen McConnell, Evanston IL 58.79% 7 Larry Mori, Clearwater FL; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX 57.84% 7 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 58.49% 8 John Moser, St Agatha ON; David Baker, Kitchener ON 57.69% 8 Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; Mark Gordon, Purchase NY 57.07% 9 George Krizel, Fstrvl Trvose PA; Albert Shekhter, Brooklyn NY 56.51% 9 Gabrielle Sherman, W Long Branch NJ; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 57.04% 10 Eric Reiher, Longueuil QC; Stephane Reiher, Beloeil QC 56.01% 10 Richard Weiss, Swampscott MA; Robert Lurie, Wayland MA 56.51% 11 Ovunc Yilmaz, Chapel Hill NC; Omer Ekinci, Astoria NY 55.80% 11 David Coles - Dan Parish, Omaha NE 56.30% 12 Jurek Czyzowicz, Gatineau QC; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 55.27% 12 Earl Glickstein, Gaithersburg MD; Robert Levey, Bethesda MD 56.21% 13 Krzysztof Jassem, Puszczykoud Poland; Marcin Mazurkiewicz, Poland 55.21% 13 Marion Michielsen, 3024 AM Rotterd Netherlands; Meike Wortel, Amsterdam Netherlands 56.18% 14 Stephen Stewart, Overland Park KS; Jack Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 53.76% 14 Ann Borgschulte, Lexington MA; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 55.06%15/16 Karl Zaman, Strongsville OH; Bernie Greenspan, Beachwood OH 53.67% 15 Roger Johnson, Sarasota FL; Natalie Bassil, Boston MA 54.91%15/16 Rod Van Wyk, Alton IL; Milton Zlatic, Saint Louis MO 53.67% 16 Franklin Merblum, Bloomfield CT; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY 54.82% 17 Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX 53.64% 17 Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL 54.53% 18 Adam Parrish, Sandwich MA; Alexander Prairie, Washington DC 53.14% 18 Dori Cohen, Woodbury NY; Robert Gordon, Northport NY 53.82% 19 Kenneth Bland, Saint Louis MO; Richard Haacke, Olivette MO 52.54% 19 Randall Rubinstein, Brooklyn NY; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 53.49% 20 Kirubakara Moorthy, Chennai India; Rajeswaran Rajkumar, Germantown MD 52.51% 20 Stephen Goldstein, Anaheim CA; Zane Gary Brown, San Francisco CA 53.40% 21 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL 52.31% 21 George Klemic, Bensenville IL; Danning Dong, Chicago IL 53.34% 22 John Zilic, Houston TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 52.13% 22 Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 52.87% 23 Steve Shirey, Fort Worth TX; Don Lussky, Elmhurst IL 51.92% 23 Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; David Bakhshi, London England 51.95% 24 Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA; Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA 51.80% 24 John Hrones Jr, Needham MA; Bill Irvine, Quincy MA 51.92%25/26 Douglas Doub, W Hartford CT; Jay Borker, Greenwich CT 51.66% 25 Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Jessica Piafsky, New York NY 51.78%25/26 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Barry Rigal, New York NY 51.66% 26 Mike Marlin - Sandra Marlin, Versailles KY 51.18% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS F G H M N EAST-WEST 1 Michael Moss, New York NY; Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland 65.56% 1 Nicholas Fitzgibbon, Dublin 24 Ireland; Adam Mesbur, Dublin 14 Ireland 62.78% 2 Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL; Jim Foster, Birmingham AL 64.53% 2 Marvin King, Creve Coeur MO; Arbha Vongsvivut, Godfrey IL 60.98% 3 Eileen Cripps, Madison WI; Steven Reuschlein, Middleton WI 60.03% 3 David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD 60.86% 4 Don Stack, Overland Park KS; Mike Aliotta, Edmond OK 59.70% 4 Dale Johannesen - Lynn Johannesen, Saratoga CA 58.43% 5 Craig Ganzer, Brooklyn NY; Ludmila Antonova, San Francisco CA 59.50% 5 Alfred Duncker, Gaithersburg MD; Steven Schatzow, Washington DC 57.63% 6 Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA; Leo Bell, Long Beach CA 59.47% 6 Don Piafsky, Toronto ON; Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC 57.60% 7 Frank Bakkeren - Laura Dekkers, Netherlands 59.29% 7 Ray Miller, Seattle WA; Chris Moore, Bellevue WA 57.54% 8 Susi Ross, Winter Spgs FL; David Rogers, Pinehurst NC 59.14% 8 Burke Snowden, Fort Collins CO; Carl Jones, Chicago IL 57.31% 9 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 58.55% 9 Paul Munafo, Huntsville AL; Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN 57.22% 10 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Stephen Landen, Ellicott City MD 58.14% 10 Jenny Wolpert, Jupiter FL; Jill Levin, Henderson NV 56.57% 11 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY 58.08% 11 Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA; Christopher Gibson, Beaverton OR 56.48% 12 Jay Whipple III, Boca Grande FL; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL 57.72% 12 Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Ahmed Hussein, Cairo Egypt 55.92% 13 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO 57.46% 13 Paul Wright Jr, Mount Pleasant SC; Martin Johnson Jr, Folly Beach SC 55.89% 14 John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 57.28% 14 Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA; Chris Larsen, Laguna Woods CA 55.86% 15 Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Shelly Dunietz, New York NY 57.10% 15/16 Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY; Jeffrey Rothstein, New York NY 55.74% 16 Jesus Arias - Michael Polowan, New York NY 56.57% 15/16 Jim Reiman, Mansfield OH; Jay Baum, Germantown TN 55.74% 17 Robert Giragosian, Bakersfield CA; Larry Robbins, Deerfield IL 56.51% 17 Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC; Les Fouks, Vancouver BC 55.65% 18 Michael Cassel II, Roseville MN; Andy Kaufman, Fort Washington PA 55.65% 18 Weishu Wu, Irvine CA; Bo Liu, Santa Ana CA 55.03% 19 Robert Sartorius, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Rick Roeder, La Mesa CA 55.36% 19 Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Stan Tulin, Highland Beach FL 54.73% 20 Brian De Long, Kingston NS; Denis Murphy, Port Williams NS 55.21% 20/21 Jim Russell, Bradenton FL; Edward Spear, Bangor ME 53.58% 21 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 54.73% 20/21 Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA; Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT 53.58% 22 Ronald Powell, Santa Clara CA; Greg Loran, Lubbock TX 54.62% 22 Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; David Neuman, San Francisco CA 53.52% 23 Leah Newell, Springfield IL; Terry Goodykoontz, Champaign IL 53.14% 23 Stephen McDevitt, Medford MA; Doug Anderson, Quincy MA 53.22% 24 Patrick Dunn, Bellevue WA; Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC 53.02% 24/25 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA 53.17% 25 Alejandro Bianchedi, Buenos Aires Argentina; Joaquin Pacareu, Santiago Chile Chile 52.96% 24/25 Judy Hummel - John Dukellis, Colorado Spgs CO 53.17% 26 Corey Krantz, Philadelphia PA; Meyer Kotkin, Cherry Hill NJ 52.60% 26 Paul McDaniels, Richmond CA; Ben Bomber, Vancouver WA 51.75%

RED RIBBON PAIRS 2ND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS MM NN OO PP QQ RR EAST-WEST 1 Justin Graver, Omaha NE; Jeffrey Buckwalter, Papillion NE 63.86% 1 David Loeb - Maureen Loeb, Heathrow FL 64.08% 2 Robert Cundall, Collinsville IL; Barbara Simpson, Godfrey IL 63.80% 2 Andrea Kutscher - Paul Flanders, Longmont CO 61.54% 3 Marie Smerjac, Castle Rock CO; Douglas Dorland, Palmer AK 61.22% 3 Phil Michaelson - Denny Penticoff, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 59.63% 4 Brian Weikle, Robbinsdale MN; William Cummings, Monticello MN 59.64% 4 Michael Lieberman, Cambridge MA; Reid Barton, Arlington MA 59.41% 5 Charles Ladiha, Vermilion OH; Philip MacFarlane, Parma OH 59.28% 5 Ben McKown Jr - Stephen Kishner, Metairie LA 59.02% 6 Pawel Hanus, Carrollton TX; Bogumil Knypinski, N Richland Hill TX 59.17% 6 Joyce McMonagle - Lelvin Crowe, Cordova TN 58.90% 7 Frank Amrine - Jo Ellen Amrine, Louisville KY 58.71% 7 Regina Sooey - Bill Page, Jacksonville FL 58.43% 8 Joanne Merry - John Jefferson, Davis CA 58.70% 8 Arthur Giovannangeli, Dublin NH; Lawrence Cheetham, Bedford NH 57.73% 9 Carol Frank, Burbank CA; James Berglund, Okemos MI 57.69% 9 Mary Allen, Peoria IL; Eunice Patton, Bloomington IL 57.28% 10 Robert Shore - Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 57.21% 10 Valerie Vaughan - Martin Deneroff, New York NY 56.99% 11 Mark Blanchard, Bay Shore NY; Susan Scheinerman, Melville NY 56.94% 11 John Krueger - Melvin Rueppel, Estes Park CO 56.87% 12 Laurie Carr - Robert Liu, Honolulu HI 56.56% 12 Gloria Tsoi, Somerville MA; Kim Eng, Issaquah WA 56.83% 13 William Howard, Green Valley AZ; Edward Helpert, Tucson AZ 56.04% 13 Robert Hope, Honolulu HI; Bryant Town, Edmonton AB 56.66% 14 Grace Charron, Bradenton FL; Albert Votolato, Attleboro MA 56.03% 14 Frank Bowen - John Bowen, Charlestown IN 56.63% 15 Vladimir Oudalov, Waukesha WI; Stanley Weiss, Livingston NJ 55.94% 15 Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY; Richard Bobilin, Fonda NY 55.73% 16 Kimberly Music, Lewis Center OH; Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA 55.78% 16 Fred Johnston - Cory Perkers, Chicago IL 55.66% 17 Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA; Kevin Schoenfeld, Pleasanton CA 55.58% 17 Brian Zaugg - Liliana Diaconescu, Burien WA 55.63% 18 Chuck Ettelson - Jane Ettelson, Saint Louis MO 55.23% 18 Charles Young - Patrick Moos, Peoria IL 55.55% 19 Aaron Mohrman, Seattle WA; Gregory Herman, Bellevue WA 55.18% 19 Jeff Dater, Dallas TX; Rich Brandenburg, Coppell TX 55.38% 20 Jess Jurkovic - Peter Clark, New York NY 54.61% 20 Steve Hubbell, Mountain View CA; Michael Hughes, San Jose CA 55.37% 21 Jonathan Cohn, Omaha NE; Andrew Clements, La Vista NE 54.60% 21 Julian Wachs - Elizabeth Wachs, Chapel Hill NC 54.81% 22 Francis Tseng - Jim Davis, Erie PA 54.21% 22 Jeroen Swinkels, Evanston IL; Charles Alexander, Northbrook IL 54.68% 23 Stephen Birnbaum - Bob Butterfield, Dallas TX 53.97% 23 Steve Ramos, Jr, Seal Beach CA; John Petrie, Long Beach CA 54.45% 24 Robert Fisk, Cincinnati OH; Steve Callaham, Woodstock GA 53.94% 24 J Ann Bouchard - Jeanie Pearson, Columbia MO 54.28% 25 Kay Jones, The Villages FL; Geoff Jones III, Orlando FL 53.85% 25 William Hoffman, Irvington NY; Paul Lewis, White Plains NY 54.12% 26 Toni Kimmel - Chris Kimmel, Vincennes IN 53.77% 26 Craig Snowden, Fort Collins CO; Thomas Didelot, Hartford WI 54.07% 27 Renae Gunstone-White - Tim White, Mercer Island WA 53.65% 27 Frederick Mason - Douglas Dyer, Beckley WV 53.69% 28 Ronnie Frank, Saint Louis MO; Judith Inker, Wellesley Hills MA 53.57% 28 Anant Rathi - Dennis Kriventsov, Austin TX 53.63% 29 Z Kadah, Seattle WA; Randy Field, Dallas TX 53.33% 29 Ryan Connors - Randi Adelman, New York NY 53.61% 30 Frederick Upton, Van Nuys CA; Stephen Woelfer, West Hills CA 53.27% 30 David Dodgson, Lansdale PA; Thomas Salter, Hatfield PA 53.60% 31 Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Willie Baker Jr, Guthrie OK 52.56% 31 Leon McCarty - Chris Buck, Hurdland MO 53.22% 32 Martina Kelley - Michael Kelley, Lake Zurich IL 52.07% 32 Francine Moring, Columbia SC; Betsy Stanton, Hartsville SC 53.06% 33 Howard Balfour, Park Forest IL; Claire Murvihill, Chicago IL 51.69% 33 Stephen Zenk, Maryland Hts MO; Thomas Shedlock, Danville IL 52.83%

WHITEHEAD WOMENS PAIRS 2ND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS X Y Z EAST-WEST 1 Rozanne Pollack, New York NY; Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL 63.85% 1 Yiji Starr, Wayland MA; Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 66.92% 2/3 Barbara Sartorius, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL 59.91% 2 Beth Palmer, Chevy Chase MD; Shawn Stringer, Silver Spring MD 60.73% 2/3 Leora Dubrovsky, Howell NJ; Donna Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL 59.91% 3 Kathy Baum, Germantown TN; Peg Waller, Eden Prairie MN 60.64% 4 Gerrianne Mason, Crossville TN; Dot Blue, Nashville TN 59.57% 4 Lynne Feldman, San Diego CA; Chris Benson, Le Roy IL 60.60% 5 Linda McGarry, Stuart FL; Sally Woolsey, Kensington CA 57.99% 5 Mildred Breed, Austin TX; Karen Snyder, Spicewood TX 58.12% 6 K Fung - Susan Culham, Edmonton AB 57.61% 6 Cindy Bernstein, Matthews NC; Sally Wheeler, The Woodlands TX 57.78% 7 Nancy Passell, Plano TX; Peggy Sutherlin, Dallas TX 57.09% 7 Irina Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL; Kamla Chawla, Longmeadow MA 57.05% 8 Sylvia Shi, Baltimore MD; Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY 56.50% 8 Joanne Weingold, Boca Raton FL; Jan Assini, Aurora OH 56.50% 9 Jo Anne Newby, Knoxville TN; Patricia Jankovic, Alcoa TN 55.85% 9 Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD; Pam LaShelle, Round Rock TX 54.83% 10 Terry Currie, Houston TX; Shawn Quinn, Sugar Land TX 54.91% 10 Carolyne Fox, Manvel TX; Georgiana Gates, Houston TX 54.44% 11 Gloria Spitzer - Linda Leinicke, Saint Louis MO 54.53% 11 Debra Romero, Clarkson Valley MO; Peggy Wald, Chesterfield MO 53.89% 12 Carol Schaffer, Saint Louis MO; Nell Schneider, Chesterfield MO 54.23% 12 Mary Savko - Ellie Hanlon, Tequesta FL 53.85% 13 Sandra DeMartino, Riverside CT; Joyce Stiefel, Wethersfield CT 53.59% 13/14 Nancy Wittwer, Falls City NE; Elise Parish, Omaha NE 53.68% 14 Carole Miner, Rochester MN; Cynthia Balderson, Eden Prairie MN 53.03% 13/14 Heather Cutting, Portola Valley CA; Kathleen Harper, Woodside CA 53.68% 15 Cecilia Rimstedt, 43335 Partille Sweden; Sally Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL 52.99% 15 Suzanne Siebert - Jane Dickey, Little Rock AR 53.42% 16 Ljudmila Kamenova, South Setauket NY; Sylvia Caley, Montreal QC 52.69% 16 JoAnn Sprung, Las Vegas NV; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 52.91% 17 Dana Berkowitz, New York NY; Bronia Jenkins, Vero Beach FL 51.79% 17 Gail Bell, King of Prussia PA; Rhoda Prager, Boca Raton FL 52.65% 18 Linda Spangler, Ft Worth TX; Carol Schoenhals, Lubbock TX 51.75% 18 Brenda Bryant, Ferndale MI; Sylwia McNamara, White Plains NY 52.14%


SILODOR OPEN PAIRS FIRST QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS E J I K L EAST-WEST 1 Sabino Blujas, Buenos Aires Argentina; Pablo Ravenna, Buenos Aires 14 Argentina 64.90% 1 Larry Mori, Clearwater FL; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX 63.99% 2 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 62.34% 2 John Hurd, New York NY; Spencer Hurd, Meigs GA 62.51% 3 Robert Morris, Houston TX; Bob Etter, Sacramento CA 61.67% 3 Toby White, Des Moines IA; Richard Newell, West Des Moines IA 61.33% 4 Marion Michielsen, 3024 AM Rotterd Netherlands; Meike Wortel, Amsterdam Netherlands 61.53% 4 Howard Parker III, Clements CA; Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA 59.01% 5 Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Stan Tulin, Highland Beach FL 61.04% 5 Hector Camberos, Charlotte NC; Pablo Lambardi, Buenos Aires 10 Argentina 58.72% 6 Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; David Bakhshi, London England 59.65% 6 Carolyn Bryan - H Wendell Williams, Oklahoma City OK 57.63% 7 Michael Richey, Springfield VA; James Geist, Olney MD 58.08% 7 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Barry Rigal, New York NY 57.18% 8 David Goldfarb, Houston TX; Jonathan Goldberg, Saint Louis MO 57.42% 8 Marin Marinov, New York NY; David Yang, Darien IL 56.86% 9 Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA; Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT 56.98% 9 Scott Levine, New York NY; Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY 56.59% 10 Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY; Joan Brody, Morristown NJ 56.82% 10 Paul Munafo, Huntsville AL; Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN 56.43% 11 Jenny Wolpert, Jupiter FL; Jill Levin, Henderson NV 55.89% 11 Ron Ashbacher, Lead Hill AR; Gen Geiger, Sarasota FL 56.17% 12 Jim Russell, Bradenton FL; Edward Spear, Bangor ME 55.74% 12 Lewis Gamerman, Westwood MA; Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY 56.12% 13 John Russell, North Barringto IL; Tadashi Yoshida, Tokyo Japan 55.71% 13 Erez Hendelman, New York NY; Herbert Jordan, Miami FL 55.91% 14 Randall Rubinstein, Brooklyn NY; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 55.49% 14 Subba Ravipudi, Downey CA; B Horiguchi, Gardena CA 55.65% 15 Nicholas Fitzgibbon, Dublin 24 Ireland; Adam Mesbur, Dublin 14 Ireland 55.42% 15 John Zilic, Houston TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 55.26% 16 Zizhuo Wang, Minneapolis MN; Zhuo Wang, Philadelphia PA 55.24% 16 Brad Carmichael, Kansas City MO; Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL 55.20% 17 Daniel Neill, Lexington KY; Jason Rotenberg, Ridgefield CT 54.45% 17 Kenneth Bland, Saint Louis MO; Richard Haacke, Olivette MO 54.21% 18 Jim Johnsen - Paul Darin, San Diego CA 54.31% 18 Stephen Stewart, Overland Park KS; Jack Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 54.03% 19 George Klemic, Bensenville IL; Danning Dong, Chicago IL 54.29% 19 Lorraine Cable, New York NY; Matthew Dyer, Chicago IL 53.63% 20 Paul Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Gavin Wolpert, Jupiter FL 53.85% 20 Randy Corn, Kirkland WA; Donald Mamula, Mill Creek WA 53.25% 21 H Gordon - Susan Bullard, Lexington KY 53.64% 21 Loretta Rivers, Monroe LA; Mike Cappelletti, Winter Park FL 53.00% 22 Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC; Les Fouks, Vancouver BC 53.19% 22 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL 52.11% 23 Roger Lord, Saint Louis MO; Chester Johnson, Chicago IL 52.89% 23 Dennis Spencer, Saint Louis MO; Sanford Becker, Chesterfield MO 52.04% 24 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA 52.52% 24 Allan Stauber, Palm Bch Grdns FL; Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX 51.87% 25 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 52.40% 25 George Krizel, Fstrvl Trvose PA; Albert Shekhter, Brooklyn NY 51.83% 26 Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA; Christopher Gibson, Beaverton OR 52.30% 26 Jurek Czyzowicz, Gatineau QC; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 51.83% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS F G H M N EAST-WEST 1 Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; John Diamond, Boca Raton FL 65.57% 1 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 63.12% 2 Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Ahmed Hussein, Cairo Egypt 65.14% 2 Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL; Jim Foster, Birmingham AL 59.99% 3 Dale Johannesen - Lynn Johannesen, Saratoga CA 59.42% 3 Stephen McDevitt, Medford MA; Doug Anderson, Quincy MA 59.68% 4 Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; David Neuman, San Francisco CA 59.25% 4 Patrick Dunn, Bellevue WA; Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC 59.52% 5 Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Jessica Piafsky, New York NY 58.84% 5 Jesus Arias - Michael Polowan, New York NY 59.50% 6 Michal Nowosadzki, Weyheriwi 84-20 Poland; Pawel Jassem, Poland 58.66% 6 Richard Ferrin, Washington DC; Eugene Kales, Arlington VA 59.25% 7 Eugene Saxe, Briarcliff NY; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY 58.48% 7 Victor King, Hartford CT; Larry Robbins, Deerfield IL 59.04% 8 Jean Barry, Livermore CA; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA 58.16% 8 Frank Bakkeren - Laura Dekkers, Netherlands 58.82% 9 Charles Malcolm - Marti Malcolm, Topeka KS 56.63% 9 Alejandro Bianchedi, Buenos Aires Argentina; Joaquin Pacareu, Santiago Chile Chile 58.55% 10 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL; Shane Blanchard, New York NY 56.01% 10 Robert Sartorius, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Rick Roeder, La Mesa CA 58.23% 11 Dori Cohen, Woodbury NY; Robert Gordon, Northport NY 55.87% 11 Bar Tarnovski, Rishon Lezion Israel; Melanie Tucker, New York NY 57.64% 12 David Rosenberg, Jackson Heights NY; Allen Kahn, New York NY 55.55% 12 Craig Ganzer, Brooklyn NY; Ludmila Antonova, San Francisco CA 56.95% 13 John Lusky, Portland OR; Allan Falk, Okemos MI 55.53% 13 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; Jim Munday, Southaven MS 56.81% 14 Don Stack, Overland Park KS; Mike Aliotta, Edmond OK 55.46% 14 Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Shelly Dunietz, New York NY 56.15% 15 Ray Miller, Seattle WA; Chris Moore, Bellevue WA 55.46% 15 Michael Moss, New York NY; Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland 55.88% 16 Eileen Cripps, Madison WI; Steven Reuschlein, Middleton WI 55.44% 16 Mark Shaw, Columbia MD; Martin Graf, Chevy Chase MD 55.03% 17 Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 54.83% 17 Ronald Powell, Santa Clara CA; Greg Loran, Lubbock TX 55.00% 18 David Dalrymple, Casper WY; Bryan Howard, Nashville TN 54.69% 18 Lynne Schaefer, Ellicott City MD; Martha Katz, Burr Ridge IL 54.24% 19 Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC; Robert Cappelli, Bloomfield MI 53.68% 19 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO 53.49% 20 Bryan Delfs, Horn Lake MS; Todd Fisher, Chicago IL 53.20% 20 Valentin Kovachev, Glencoe IL; Henry Nelson, Zelienople PA 53.43% 21 Donald Croysdale, Menomonee Falls WI; Maya Altarac, Teec Nos Pos AZ 52.95% 21 Mark Laken, Glyndon MD; Barry Bragin, Silver Spring MD 53.41% 22 Samantha Punch, Stirling Fk United Kingdom; Stephen Peterkin, Stirling United Kingdom 52.09% 22 John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 53.29% 23 Danny Sprung - Paul Lewis, Las Vegas NV 52.01% 23 Justin Lall - Sheri Winestock, Las Vegas NV 53.11% 24 Michael McNamara, White Plains NY; William Ehlers, Madison NJ 51.63% 24 Bin Liang, Fremont CA; Richard Chan, Markham ON 53.08% 25 David Fleischer, Alexandria VA; Carole Banks, Silver Spring MD 51.45% 25 Gary Macgregor, Portola Valley CA; Jim O’Neil, Cupertino CA 52.96% 26 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 51.23% 26 Jon Nance, Springfield MO; Paul Ross, Fair Grove MO 52.78%

RED RIBBON PAIRS 1ST QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS MM NN OO PP QQ RR EAST-WEST 1 Andrea Kutscher - Paul Flanders, Longmont CO 61.41% 1 Katelin Yates, Erie CO; Paul Haynes, Boulder CO 60.61% 2 Jeff Dater, Dallas TX; Rich Brandenburg, Coppell TX 61.20% 2 Joanne Merry - John Jefferson, Davis CA 60.41% 3 Michael Boreson, Missoula MT; Terry Wolfe, Clinton MT 60.54% 3 Laurie Carr - Robert Liu, Honolulu HI 59.93% 4 Ulla Sattinger - Michael Sattinger, Slingerlands NY 60.15% 4 Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Willie Baker Jr, Guthrie OK 59.15% 5 John Krueger - Melvin Rueppel, Estes Park CO 60.07% 5 Brian Cummins, Cordova TN; Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR 58.91% 6 Ryan Connors - Randi Adelman, New York NY 60.07% 6 Aaron Mohrman, Seattle WA; Gregory Herman, Bellevue WA 58.67% 7 Dave Chipman - Jerry Sloan, Lawrence KS 60.00% 7 Carol Foster - Gary Waldron, Laguna Beach CA 57.83% 8 Steve Ramos, Jr, Seal Beach CA; John Petrie, Long Beach CA 59.77% 8 Phil Michaelson - Denny Penticoff, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 57.45% 9 Yan Zhang, Chicago IL; Michael Thvedt, Minneapolis MN 59.26% 9 Jess Jurkovic - Peter Clark, New York NY 57.26% 10 Jeroen Swinkels, Evanston IL; Charles Alexander, Northbrook IL 57.84% 10 Frederick Upton, Van Nuys CA; Stephen Woelfer, West Hills CA 57.01% 11 Mary Allen, Peoria IL; Eunice Patton, Bloomington IL 57.50% 11 Allen Rew, Independence MO; Keith Smith, Lees Summit MO 56.80% 12 James Nunn, Chesterfield MO; Jerome Shen, Saint Louis MO 57.46% 12 Chuck Ettelson - Jane Ettelson, Saint Louis MO 56.65% 13 Robert Hope, Honolulu HI; Bryant Town, Edmonton AB 56.90% 13 Martina Kelley - Michael Kelley, Lake Zurich IL 56.60% 14 David Loeb - Maureen Loeb, Heathrow FL 56.85% 14 Jonathan Cohn, Omaha NE; Andrew Clements, La Vista NE 55.96% 15 David Dodgson, Lansdale PA; Thomas Salter, Hatfield PA 56.67% 15 Michael Shaw - Terry Visentin, Winnipeg MB 55.51% 16 Stephen Zenk, Maryland Hts MO; Thomas Shedlock, Danville IL 56.23% 16 Robert Cundall, Collinsville IL; Barbara Simpson, Godfrey IL 55.14% 17 Andris Strauss, Abingdon MD; Robert Veidt, Bel Air MD 55.78% 17 Bruce Bengtson, Park Ridge IL; Donald Schramek, Chicago IL 54.98% 18 Joyce McMonagle - Lelvin Crowe, Cordova TN 55.09% 18 Richard Bargar - Terry Kay Bargar, Andover MA 54.95% 19 Alan Hierseman, Prairie Village KS; Ellen D’Amato, Kansas City MO 54.93% 19 Grace Charron, Bradenton FL; Albert Votolato, Attleboro MA 54.28% 20 Genadiy Hirscht, Albion MI; Stephen Rosenquist, Homer MI 54.44% 20 William Howard, Green Valley AZ; Edward Helpert, Tucson AZ 54.04% 21 David Maze - Emily Marcus, Somerville MA 54.07% 21 Penny Lepp - Ray Lepp, Bellevue WA 53.74% 22 Frank Bowen - John Bowen, Charlestown IN 53.82% 22 Robert Shore - Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 53.67% 23 Rick Holcomb, Malden MA; Alix Taylor, Lincoln MA 53.39% 23 Michael Bodell, Santa Clara CA; Kathryn Shannon, North Vancouver BC 53.66% 24 Brian Zaugg - Liliana Diaconescu, Burien WA 53.31% 24 W Multack, Miami Beach FL; Berton Solomon, Edwards CO 53.42% 25 Larry Kaddatz - Linda Smith, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 53.12% 25 Charles Ladiha, Vermilion OH; Philip MacFarlane, Parma OH 53.37% 26 Bernia Brandstaedter, Winnipeg MB; Eileen Tranquilla, Millville NB 53.00% 26 Carol Frank, Burbank CA; James Berglund, Okemos MI 53.28% 27 Vladimir Oudalov, Waukesha WI; Stanley Weiss, Livingston NJ 52.98% 27 Charles Kelley - Jo Anne Kelley, Pacific Plsades CA 53.19% 28 Ron Combs, Ballwin MO; George Hawley, Florissant MO 52.97% 28 Robert Fisk, Cincinnati OH; Steve Callaham, Woodstock GA 52.97% 29 Toni Kimmel - Chris Kimmel, Vincennes IN 52.96% 29 Justin Graver, Omaha NE; Jeffrey Buckwalter, Papillion NE 52.91% 30 Catherine Gay, Kalamazoo MI; Robert Korten, Frankfort MI 52.52% 30 Margot Stockie, Waterloo ON; Larry Rotman, Ancaster ON 52.72% 31 Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY; Richard Bobilin, Fonda NY 52.48% 31 Kay Jones, The Villages FL; Geoff Jones III, Orlando FL 52.49% 32 Martha Jo Jones - Irby Jones, Gonzales LA 52.33% 32 David Stevens - Mark Daily, Charleston IL 52.27% 33 Kerry Cotterell, Clifton Park NY; Bruce Williams, Medford Lakes NJ 52.16% 33 Stephen Birnbaum - Bob Butterfield, Dallas TX 52.03%

THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING OPEN PAIRS 1ST OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS JJ KK EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Robert Maier, Morgantown WV; Ala Hamilton-Day, Rose Valley PA 61.87% 1 Richard Troth, Columbia MO; Ann Brinker Schwall, Houston TX 63.29% 2 Alvin Stone - Dee Adams, Memphis TN 61.55% 2 Michael Carmen - Norman Athy, Saint Louis MO 61.66% 3 1 Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL; William Evans, Bonne Terre MO 60.24% 3 Steven Picus, Mequon WI; William Malesevich, Mayville WI 58.39% 4 2 1 Susan Marshbanks - G Steve Wheeler, Castle Rock CO 60.02% 4 Richard Brummer, Effingham IL; Thomas Cox, Mount Juliet TN 57.73% 5 James Senter - Gale Senter, San Clemente CA 58.71% 5 Chetan Mody, Greenville PA; Brenda Merkich, Cortland OH 57.30% 6 Curtis Hastings, St Louis MO; Mark Boswell, Chesterfield MO 57.84% 6 1 Fred Clayton, Carol Stream IL; Gerald Levy, Hoffman Estates IL 55.01% 7 Skip Carson, Denver CO; Joan Kushner, Conifer CO 53.38% 7 D Keith Henderson, Birmingham AL; Don Haney, Trussville AL 54.79% 8 3 2 Pat Barnett, Glen Allen VA; Douglas Snow, Paducah KY 52.94% 8 Jim Wattenbarger - Carroll Frogge, Kansas City MO 52.61% 9 Jackie Thompson, Silver Spring MD; Atsuko Nakamura, Pearland TX 51.09% 9 2 Susan Rechter, Saint Louis MO; Carolyn Lewis, Louisville KY 52.40% 4 Aaron Krieser, Saint Louis MO; Mark Behling, Fenton MO 48.58% 3/4 Jan Loftin - William Smith, Lincoln NE 51.31% 3/4 1 Patsy Howell - Anne Knott, Houston TX 51.31% 2 Thomas Aldrich III, Palatine IL; Gordon Parks, Long Grove IL 50.98%

THURSDAY AFTERNOON (TUESDAY-THURSDAY SIDE SERIES GAME 5 OF 6 SESSION) NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UU EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Robert Teel Jr - Jane Teel, Birmingham AL 73.96% 1 Sarah Wiener, Fort Lee NJ; Doree Sobel, Fair Lawn NJ 64.58% 2 Estelle Margolin, Rego Park NY; Arlyne Shockman, Philadelphia PA 60.42% 2 1 1 Elizabeth Stephen, Eastport MI; Patricia Berger, Chesterfield MO 57.21% 3 Terry Crabbs - Paula Crabbs, Kansas City MO 56.60% 3 2 2 Mary Fort - Susan Hall, Saint Louis MO 57.05% 4 1 Elaine Prebonich, New Brighton MN; Judith Holderbach, Stillwater MN 55.29% 4/5 3/4 3/4 Carol Layton, Saint Louis MO; Richard Booker, Columbia MO 54.17% 5 Kay Cohen - Rose Morrison, Saint Louis MO 52.08% 4/5 3/4 3/4 Dee Craft - Russell Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda 54.17% 6 2 Suanne Blair, Morehead KY; John Jensen, Maysville KY 51.39% 6 Elizabeth Ghrist - Lucy Terrill, Houston TX 52.72% 7 Richard Friedman, Greenwood Vill CO; Jan Ratliff, Highland Park IL 51.12% 7 5 Bill Carson, Ltl Switzrlnd NC; B Susan Crutchfield, Burnsville NC 49.84% 3 1 Mary Lattan, Carlinville IL; Joanne Bird, Atoka TN 50.70% 4 Katherine Trubey - Edward Banta, Spruce Pine NC 47.05% 2 Carol Lindholm - Kenneth Lindholm, Lakewood Ranch FL 46.53%


Saturday, March 23, 9 a.m.Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherFriday-Saturday Morning Compact KO Teams 3-4 Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $16 $18St. Louis Bridge Center Side Game 3rd single session Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $16 $18 Part of the Thursday-Saturday Morning Side Game Series

Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m.299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $170-20, 0-5 Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $15

Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 Renaissance, Landmark 3 $16 $18

Saturday, March 23, Noon & 7 p.m.VANDERBILT KNOCKOUT TEAMS Semifinals Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $20

Saturday, March 23, 1 p.m.Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 3rd single session America’s Center, Room 232 $16 $18

Saturday, March 23, 1 & 7:30 p.m.JACOBY OPEN SWISS TEAMS 1-2 Q Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $20 2 qualifying, 2 final sessionsMACHLIN WOMEN’S SWISS TEAMS 1-2 Q Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $20 2 qualifying, 2 final sessionsGOLDER NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS, FLIGHT B 1-2 Q America’s Center, Room 240 No fee Pre-qualification required. 2 qualifying, 2 final sessionsPRESIDENT’S CUP NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS, FLIGHT C 1-2 Q America’s Center, Room 240 No fee Pre-qualification required. 2 qualifying, 2 final sessionsStratified Open Pairs 1-2 America’s Center, Room 222 $16 $18 (2500+; 0-2500)Gold Rush 750/300 Pairs 1-2 America’s Center, Room 221 $16 $18 Gold points for 0-750Don S. Hilleary Memorial Saturday-Sunday Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 America’s Center, Room 224 $16 $18 Continues Sunday at 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 23, 3 p.m.299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $170-20, 0-5 Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $15

Saturday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.Stratified Side Swiss Teams single America’s Center, Room 224 $15 $17Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 4th single session America’s Center, Room 232 $16 $18Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $17299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $170-20, 0-5 Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $15

Saturday, March 23, 11:30 p.m.Zip KO Teams single Renaissance, Landmark 5 $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, Strati-Flighted and Strati-Flighted Senior events are divided: A/X (3000+, 0-3000); separate from B/C/D (1000-2000, 500-1000, 0-500). Strata breaks for Stratified and Stratified Senior events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750).*Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.

Tomorrow’s Bridge Events

THURSDAY MORNING0 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Irene Hommert, Kirkwood MO; Susan Lloyd, St Louis MO 60.42% 1 1 Cynthia Fahs - Theodore Fahs, Manchester MO 67.26% 2 2 Barb Liberman - Mary Beth Rodgers, St Louis MO 53.87% 2 Robert Sutton - William Hirtz, Poplar Bluff MO 59.82% 3 Jana Dabney, Chickasha OK; Karen Birck, Wilton CT 53.57% 3 Marilyn Reznik, St. Louis MO; Gail Fischmann, Frontenac MO 56.25% 4 Steve Litwicki, Chesterfield MO; Barrett Taussig, St Louis MO 53.27% 4 Dennis Whitmore - Delaine Boyd, Manchester MO 51.79% 2 1 Jacqueline Keenan, Manhattan Beach CA; Carolyn Auge, Jackson WY 49.40%

THURSDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION BBB EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Lale Broderson, Lees Summit MO; Sevinch Sokullu, Lee’s Summit MO 63.04% 1 1 Judith Biondo, Ballwin MO; Blythe Meisinger, Chesterfield MO 57.99% 2 2 1 Jane Herman - William Herman, Effingham IL 62.80% 2 2 1 Michael Chien - Joan Chien, Lincoln CA 57.74% 3 3 Joseph Butkiewicz, Chesterfield MO; James Nash, Saint Louis MO 62.16% 3 3 Mary Gaines - Debbie Sutton, Saint Louis MO 55.95% 4 4 2 Beverly Wedel - John McReynolds, Bartlesville OK 53.87% 4 4 2 Patricia Ducayet - Edwin Ducayet Jr, Dallas TX 55.78% 5 5 3 Marcia McClurg - Jerry McClurg, Dallas TX 49.74% 5 5 3 Robin Spaulding, Cascade CO; Annette Fudemberg, Saint Louis MO 53.99% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION DDD EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Jeanne Netherton, Ballwin MO; Constance Wilson, St Petersburg FL 61.94% 1 1 1 Dorothy Schainker, Creve Coeur MO; Hope Wood, Clarkson Valley MO 61.26% 2 2 1 Judith Lynch, Sarasota FL; Kathy Furgason, O’Fallon MO 58.95% 2 2 2 Judith Wagner - Barbara Constance, Belleville IL 53.99% 3 3 2 Nancy Burke, Saint Louis MO; Katy Mullins, St. Louis MO 55.96% 3 3 Judith Argue - Margaret Lichty, Rochester MN 53.95% 4 4 3 Linda Langsdorf - Laurie Stern, St Louis MO 54.09% 4 4 3 Lou Anne Winters, Clayton MO; Ruth Sobel, Olivette MO 53.90% 5 5 4 Meredith Schainblatt, Clearwater FL; Joan Barzilai, Cleveland Hgths OH 52.14% 5 Wyn Seeley, Iowa City IA; Martha Peterson, Nicholas IA 52.24%

THURSDAY MORNING SIDE GAME 1ST OF 4 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS O P EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Bob Dale, Pensacola FL; Richard Higgins, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 69.17% 1 Robert Korten, Frankfort MI; Dennis Carman, Plainwell MI 67.36% 2 Kerry Holloway, Bloomington MN; Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 57.22% 2 1 1 John Bowen - Frank Bowen, Charlestown IN 59.44% 3 1 1 Robert Vernia - Janice Vernia, Carmel IN 56.53% 3 2 2 Sheryl McEwan, Reston VA; Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA 58.89% 4 2 Kim Brinkman, Highland Villge TX; Jan Miyake, Oberlin OH 54.86% 4 3 Jeroen Swinkels, Evanston IL; Charles Alexander, Northbrook IL 55.28% 5 3 2 David Maze - Emily Marcus, Somerville MA 54.44% 5 4 Ben Finegold, Saint Louis MO; Wes Burgar, Ann Arbor MI 53.06% 6 4 Phyllis Siegel, Ballwin MO; Jay Shah, St Louis MO 53.75% 6 Peter Cleaves, Sarasota FL; Gay Roach, Nacogdoches TX 52.22% 7 5 3 Pat Barnett, Glen Allen VA; Aloysius Zupancic, Joliet IL 50.83% 7 5 3 Sue Lan Ma, Kirtland Hills OH; Chang-Li Lu, Strongsville OH 51.94% 6 Polly Schoning, Manhattan KS; Dianne Childs, Wamego KS 50.69% 6 Darlene Londeree - Susan Soha, Columbia MO 51.81%

THURSDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS MORNING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS X Y Z EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Marie Sander - Mic Weiss, Saint Louis MO 62.11% 1 David Drennan, Granite City IL; Gail Hawkins, Ballwin MO 61.79% 2 Paul Ivaska, Las Vegas NV; Carol Stewart, Henderson NV 61.79% 2 1 Laurence Mayer, Overland Park KS; Jack Mayer, Shawnee Mission KS 61.75% 3 1 1 Linda Branum - Cookie Spiceland, Loudon TN 59.62% 3 Ned Irving - Greg Frank, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 60.83% 4 2 Joe Black - Lawton Hutchison, Austin TX 58.33% 4 2 Hall Whitaker - William Morgan, Rolla MO 60.33% 5/6 Robert Lavin, East Longmeadow MA; Patricia Wright, Charlotte NC 57.34% 5 3 Susan Pringle - John Pringle, Rio Verde AZ 59.44% 5/6 3 2 Danielle Tremblay, Outremont QC; Denise Roy-Letourneau, Lasalle QC 57.34% 6 Paul Chan - Lily Chan, Columbia MO 58.30% 7 4 3 Catherine Wright, Rockford IL; Robert Larson, Roscoe IL 55.41% 7 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Michael McGuire, Hernando MS 57.69% 8 Sadik Arf, Saratoga CA; Sharon Goldman, New York NY 54.84% 8 4 1 Bob Borengasser, Tempe AZ; Betty Ponzar, Barnhart MO 56.77% 9 5 4 John Maloney, Mahomet IL; Melissa Fitton, Urbana IL 54.77% 9 Lorrie Schramm, Anaheim CA; Verna Baccus, Los Alamitos CA 55.91% 10 6 Colleen McCabe - William Higbee, Madison WI 54.45% 10 5 2 G. Eric Shugart - Becky Shugart, Lakewood OH 54.63% 11 Judy Wirtenberg, East Brunswick NJ; Irwin Klugler, Montclair NJ 53.63% 11 6 3 Ted Peck, La Crosse WI; Thomas Olson, Madison WI 53.88% 12 7 5 Stanley Berkowitz, Delray Beach FL; Diane Berkowitz, Hawley PA 53.53% 12 Mike Albert - Kathleen Owen, Omaha NE 53.35% 13 8 6 Wayne Bardsley - Catherine Bardsley, McLean VA 51.64% 13 7 4 Dinesh Gupta, South Windsor CT; Louis Kaminski, Litchfield IL 52.92% 9 Susan Seitz - Michael Smith, Des Moines IA 49.89% 8 Barbara Harberg - Robin Ladin, Houston TX 52.07% 7/8 D Abraham, Windsor ON; Edmond Douville, Hobart IN 49.64% 9 5 Shirley Ringland, Chesterfield MO; Katie Klingler, Saint Louis MO 51.03% 7/8 Dianne Glick, Saint Louis MO; Doris Schwartz, Chesterfield MO 49.64% 10 6 Reid Fleming, Arlington MA; B Fleming, Independence MO 50.64% 7 Karen Land, Keokuk IA; Dixie Horsey, Salem IA 50.18%


Today’s Bridge EventsFriday, March 22, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherFriday-Saturday Morning Compact KO Teams 1-2 Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $16 $18Thursday-Friday Morning Compact KO Teams 3-4 Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $16 $18Wednesday-Friday Morning Bracketed KO Teams 3rd Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $16 $18St. Louis Bridge Center Morning Side Game 2nd single session Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $16 $18 Part of the Thursday-Saturday Morning Side Game Series

Friday, March 22, 10 a.m.299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $170-20, 0-5 Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $15

Friday, March 22, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 Renaissance, Landmark 3 $16 $18

Friday, March 22, Noon & 7 p.m.VANDERBILT KNOCKOUT TEAMS Quarterfinals Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $20

Friday, March 22, 1 p.m.Friday-Saturday Side Game 1st single session America’s Center, Room 232 $16 $18

Friday, March 22, 1 & 7:30 p.m.SILODOR OPEN PAIRS 1-2 F Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $20WHITEHEAD WOMEN’S PAIRS 1-2 F Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $20BEAN RED RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 F Renaissance, Majestic Ballroom $17Ron Smith Stratified Open Pairs 1-2 America’s Center, Room 221 $16 $18Friday Compact Bracketed KO Teams 1-4 America’s Center, Room 224 $16 $18Thursday-Friday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 America’s Center Room 240 $16 $18

Friday, March 22, 3 p.m.299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $170-20, 0-5 Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $15

Friday, March 22, 7:30 p.m.A/X Side Swiss Teams single America’s Center, Room 224 $15 $17B/C/D Side Swiss Teams single America’s Center, Room 224 $15 $17Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 2nd single session America’s Center, Room 232 $16 $18Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $17299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $170-20, 0-5 Pairs single America’s Center, Room 230 $15 $15

Friday, March 22, 11:30 p.m.Zip KO Teams single Renaissance, Landmark 5 $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, Strati-Flighted and Strati-Flighted Senior events are divided: A/X (3000+, 0-3000); separate from B/C/D (1000-2000, 500-1000, 0-500). Strata breaks for Stratified and Stratified Senior events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750).*Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.

Ron Smith burst onto the national bridge scene in 1973 as part of the runner-up squad in the Grand National Teams, Championship Flight. He solidified his place among the ACBL’s top players in 1979, winning the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs in impressive fashion with Bobby Levin.

Today’s Stratified Open Pairs is named in Smith’s honor. The two-session event is scheduled for 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

In more than 30 years of competing at high levels, Smith has won six North American championships and has 12 seconds.

He and regular partner Billy Cohen were part of a unique foursome that won the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams in 1987. The team was composed of a gentile (Smith), a Jew (Cohen), a Pakistani (Zia Mahmood) and an Indian (Jaggy Shivdasani).

Smith is a Grand Life Master with more

than 27,000 masterpoints to his credit. In addition to his skill as a bridge player, Smith is an accomplished pianist who has entertained tournament goers for years in informal between-sessions performances.

Originally from St. Louis, Smith was a longtime resident of San Francisco before moving to Las Vegas NV.

ST. LOuIS’S RON SMITH HONOREDNotice to players

Each player must have an ACBL convention card filled out and on the table. Please note that other types of convention cards, such as the WBF convention card or homemade cards that do not sufficiently resemble the ACBL convention card, are not acceptable substitutes.

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