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I am grateful to all of our sponsors, as well. Their generosity helped make the player experience special.

Finally, a big thank you goes to the ACBL staff, especially Wendy Sullivan, the League’s meeting services manager, who is such a professional in making everything happen. And the ACBL’s tournament directors are the best.

Thank you so much for coming to Kansas City!

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Goodwill MessageAs we fold up our bid boxes and

prepare to leave, let’s again thank our hosts for their hard work and gracious hospitality.

Sandy DeMartino, ChairAileen Osofsky ACBL Goodwill Committee

Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 19, 2017 Volume 60, Number 10

60th Spring North American Bridge Championships [email protected] Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Chip Dombrowski

ATTENDANCE through Saturday

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Washingtonians on the pole in Fast Pairs

Stanford Christie of Kirkland WA and Dave Westfall of Spokane WA set the pace in the NABC+ Fast Pairs, scoring a slim lead in Satuday’s qualifying sessions. Going into today’s final, they have a carryover of 109.73, not quite 3 matchpoints ahead of May Sakr of Bryn Mawr PA and Kryzysztof Martens of Poland with 106.92. A 38 is top in the final sessions.

Christie and Westfall scored 59.10% in the first session and 60.48% in the second. The event runs with 11 minutes per two-board round.

Byrnes on top in Jacoby Swiss

qualifierDori Byrnes and company topped Saturday’s

qualifying round of the Jacoby Open Swiss Teams. Byrnes, playing with Will Ehlers, Iulian Rotaru, Radu Nistor, Owen Lien and Zachary Brescoll, led the very strong field, scoring 127.04 victory points.

In second with 108.68 VP is Team Lavazza. The squad’s roster is Norberto Bocchi, Alejandro Bianchedi, Agustin Madala, Dennis Bilde, Gorgio Duboin and Antonio Sementa.

Li leads Women’s Swiss

The squad led by Li Yiting topped the qualifying round of the Machlin Women’s Swiss Teams. Li, of Herndon VA, is playing with Wei Wang, Shuoyan Liu and Mei Xia of Shanghai, China. They scored 82.21 victory points in Saturday’s opening round.

In second is Barbara Ferm’s team who scored 79.94 VP in the qualifier. Playing with Ferm of Dallas TX, are Migry Zur Campanile and Judy Radin of New York City, Jill Meyers of Santa Monica CA and Jill Levin of Henderson NV.

Eight teams will play in today’s two-session final.

Nickell romps to Vanderbilt win

“Thank you for coming to the Kansas City NABC!”

By Tournament Chair Linda EakesOn behalf of the local NABC Committee, I

want to thank everyone for attending the Spring 2017 tournament in Kansas City. It was our pleasure to play host to all of our bridge-playing friends.

We are pleased that so many players came to visit us in Kansas City, and we hope that you return to play in our sectionals and regionals, as well. Our end-of-the-year regional is one of the best in the ACBL.

The Kansas City NABC would not have been possible without the hard work of the volunteers that make up the local committee. In addition to the members of the executive committee – Marti Malcolm, Vicki Muir, and Susan and Jim Urich – there were dozens of others who spent countless hours preparing for the tournament. I am so proud of them!

Get passports ready for TorontoThe Summer NABC this year

will be held in Toronto. Travel to Canada requires a valid passport. While the U.S. State Department advises to allow six to eight weeks for processing passport applications, delays can happen. Make plans now to apply for a passport or renew if your passport is expired, so that you can be assured of having it well in advance of the tournament, July 20-30. To get information or apply online for a passport, go to travel.state.gov.

Another factor to consider in making plans for the Toronto NABC is that Canada has its own currency, which is not the U.S. dollar. Plan to exchange currency upon arrival for whatever cash transactions you will conduct while in Toronto.

Nick Nickell’s team cruised to victory in the final of the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, defeating Richard Schwartz’s squad 142-56. A relatively close first quarter morphed into a lopsided contest by the end of the second quarter, with Nickell

2017 ACBL President Bob Heller presents the Vanderbilt Trophy to the winners of Vanderbilt Knockout Teams: Jeff Meckstroth, Steve Weinstein, captain Nick Nickell, coach Eric Kokish, Steve Katz, Robert Levin and Eric Rodwell.

sporting a 46-IMP lead. The third quarter did not improve Schwartz’s prospects, and Nickell’s lead ballooned by the end of the match to 86 IMPs.

Playing with Nickell were partner Ralph Katz

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Deep Finesse: another statistical anomaly

By Barry RigalNobody is vulnerable. The auction starts:

West North East South 1♣ Pass 2♥ (strong)

No one has psyched. North-South have no singletons, and no six-card suits. Each, in fact, has a 5-4-2-2 shape.)

And yet, par is a North-South contract on the deal. What is it?

The answer is Board 14 from the second final session of the Silodor Open Pairs:

♠ Q 4 ♥ Q 2 ♦ K Q 8 5 2 ♣ K J 7 6 ♠ A 8 2 ♠ J 10 9 5 ♥ K J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 ♥ — ♦ J ♦ A 4 ♣ — ♣ A Q 8 5 4 3 2 ♠ K 7 6 3 ♥ A 3 ♦ 10 9 7 6 3 ♣ 10 9

4NT doubled by North-South makes eight tricks against any defense. That’s minus 300 compared to 4♥ by East-West, minus 420.

A memorable dealThis deal comes from the second round of the

Vanderbilt in which Johan Sylvan and Frederic Wrang of Hemant Lall’s team faced Tor Helness and Geir Helgemo of Pierre Zimmermann’s squad. ♠ Q 9 ♥ Q 10 5 ♦ Q 6 4 2 ♣ A K J 5 ♠ K J 8 6 4 2 ♠ A 10 7 5 3 ♥ J 4 3 2 ♥ 9 7 6 ♦ K 7 ♦ A ♣ 4 ♣ Q 10 6 2 ♠ — ♥ A K 8 ♦ J 10 9 8 5 3 ♣ 9 8 7 3 West North East South Sylvan Helness Wrang Helgemo 1♣ 1♠ 2♦ 4♠ 5♦ All Pass

West lead the ♠K, ruffed. Declarer Helgemo crossed to the ♥Q, ruffed dummy’s remaining spade, and cashed the ♥A K. When both defenders followed, declarer crossed to dummy’s ♣ A and played dummy’s ♦Q to East’s ace.

At this point, East is down to all black cards, so he decided to exit with a spade. Helgemo ruffed in dummy and carefully cashed a second club before playing another trump. West was endplayed whether he ruffed the ♣K or not.

This pretty line has only one possible defect. If East had started with four hearts (giving West a 5=4=2=2 pattern), East could defeat the contract by playing the last heart when in with the trump ace: West can ruff with the ♦K and exit a club.

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More Do’s and Don’ts to help your game – Part 10

By Brent ManleyTake more tricks as declarer with these tips.DOLearn about safety plays. Consider this

situation: You are in 6♥ with no losers outside the trump suit, which is configured like this: ♥9 5 4

♥A Q 10 8 7 2At matchpoints, you might consider playing

a heart to the queen, hoping the king is onside doubleton. The extra trick could be worth a lot to your score. If you are playing in a team game, your goal is to make your contract – period.

Say you play a heart to the queen and it loses to the king. Back in dummy, you play another heart and RHO follows low. Do you go up with the ace, hoping LHO started with ♥K J doubleton? Or do you finesse the 10?

To avoid having to make such a guess, play a heart to the ace first. If the jack comes down, simply drive out the king – you have good spots – and claim. If it’s your lucky day and LHO plays the king, return to dummy and finesse against RHO’s now-doubleton ♥J. If both opponents follow low, return to dummy and play a second heart. If RHO started with a low singleton, you never had a chance for 12 tricks. If RHO started with ♥K J x, he will get only the trump king. You can also handle a 4-0 split if LHO has the void. This will be revealed, of course, when you play the ♥A. Simply lead towards your hand twice to hold your losers to one.

There are other layouts that lend themselves to careful play. Here’s one: ♠K Q 10 9 2

♠A 6 4 3If you cash the ace and LHO discards, you

JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS

Thinking bridgeBy Eddie Kantar

Dlr: East ♠ A K 4 3 Vul: N-S ♥ Q ♦ Q J 10 3 2 ♣ Q J 10 ♠ 8 6 ♠ 5 2 ♥ 9 4 ♥ K 8 7 6 3 2 ♦ 8 5 4 ♦ A K 9 ♣ K 9 8 7 6 3 ♣ A 5 ♠ Q J 10 9 7 ♥ A J 10 5 ♦ 7 6 ♣ 4 2 West North East South 1♥ 1♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass

Opening lead: ♥9.Bidding commentary: North, with 16

support points (not counting the ♥Q), should venture game opposite a 1♠ overcall.

Defensive commentary: East must decide what partner’s is leading from to determine what declarer has in the suit. The lead is a likely top of a doubleton. With 9-x-x-(x) in an unsupported suit, partner leads low. If partner has a doubleton, declarer has the A-J-10-x. If you cover, declarer will eventually be able to discard two clubs from dummy on the ♥J and ♥10. If partner has the

♣K, your cover costs a club trick – the setting trick! When partner’s lead shows no honor cards, dummy has a singleton honor and you have a higher honor than dummy, cover only if you can promote a second- or third-round trick for yourself. For example, cover holding the K-J or the K-10-x. If you can’t promote at least a third-round trick, play low.

Play commentary: If South does hold four hearts to the A-J-10, he will be very pleased to see East cover dummy’s ♥Q. Declarer will win, draw trumps and cash his two heart winners, pitching clubs from dummy.

Defensive commentary #2: If East plays low on the ♥Q and declarer pulls trumps before leading a low diamond from hand, East will be relying on West to play a card indicating how many diamonds he has. Say West plays the ♦4. Looking at the ♦3 and ♦2 in dummy, East will know West has an odd number of diamonds, certainly three. That will mean South started with two, so both of East’s high diamonds will cash. East can then play the ♣A and hope for an encouraging signal from West. On this deal, the defenders will take the four tricks in the minors they are due.

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will lose a trick to the jack. Play to dummy’s king first and you can pick up four to the jack in either opponent’s hand. Try this one: ♦K Q 9 8 3

♦A 5 4 2If RHO has four to the J-10, you will always lose

a trick in the suit. Guard against J-10-x-x with LHO by playing the ace first. If RHO shows out, the ♦9 8 are the cards that will allow you to bring in the suit with no losers. If LHO plays the 10 when you lead low from hand, win the king, return to hand and play another diamond. Dummy has the Q-9 over LHO’s J-7.

DON’TTake finesses that can’t win. Say this is your

trump suit:

♥A Q 7 6 5

♥J 10 9 8LHO, a passed hand, leads the top three

clubs against your 4♥ contract. You ruff the third round and must address trumps. In a vacuum, you would run the ♥J, hoping LHO has the king. LHO, however, has shown up with 9 high-card points in clubs (A-K-Q). If he held the ♥K, he would have opened the bidding. You must play a heart to the ace, hoping RHO has a singleton king.

There are many similar situations. Sometimes you will locate a missing queen because one of your opponents has shown up with 13 HCP and a balanced hand but did not open 1NT. Work on your concentration to heighten your awareness of what’s happening at the table.

Write to me: [email protected]

Allison Ryan and Yan Drabek of Northampton MA have placed in almost every 299er game they’ve played in Kansas City, taking first in C four times in a row on Thursday and Friday and first overall on Thursday morning. They began playing at the 2014 Fall NABC in Providence, starting with BridgePlus+ after taking Audrey Grant’s class there. They won that day. “It was our first time playing in a real duplicate game,” Drabek said. “We said, ‘This is not so hard.’”

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TIM HAYS FRIDAY ZIP KO 6 Tables 3.73 1 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesville VA; Jenni Carmichael - Thomas Carmichael, Mill Creek WA; Peter J. Boyd-Bowman, Greensboro NC; Yoko Glubok Sobel, Brooklyn NY 2.61 2 Connor Havens - Cindy Havens, Riverview NB; Alexander Kolesnik, Los Angeles CA; Lewis Gamerman, Randolph MA

JEANNE ACKERMAN SATURDAY MORNING SWISS TEAMS 6 Tables A B C 2.99 1 1 Jeanie Brown, Lake Quivira KS; Kristi Fjare, Ponca City OK; Ellen D’Amato, Kansas City MO; Becky Lowe, Bartlesville OK 51.00 2.24 2 2 1 Deepak Dighe, West Bloomfield MI; Latika Mangrulkar, Farmington Hills MI; Chelane Priller, Mason MI; Hong Liu, Frontenac MO 46.00

SATURDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS 10.5 Tables A B C 3.98 1 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 67.32% 2.99 2 John Dickenson, North Wales PA; David Cohan, Doylestown PA 63.48% 2.24 3 Veronica McMurdie, Sacramento CA; Carrie Touslee, Roseville CA 61.93% 1.72 4 Marilyn Adams, Beaumont TX; Anton (Tony) Haddad, Houston TX 60.56% 1.26 5 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Buddhadeb Biswas, San Jose CA 58.99% 3.41 6 1 Romeo Bodrogi-Podoaba, Houston TX; Dennis Schultz, Harrison OH 52.08% 2.56 2 Diane Warren - Joe Warren, Wichita KS 51.85% 1.92 3 Jerry Nakamura, El Dorado Hills CA; Michael Hughes, Jefferson City MO 51.54% 1.44 4 Joseph Verdirame - Karen Verdirame, Omaha NE 51.07% 1.08 5 Susan Atteridge, Livingston NJ; Wendy Lee, East Hanover NJ 50.05%

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Vanderbilt

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TOURNAMENT APPEALS

APPEAL CASE 0901MisinformationBaldwin North American PairsFirst FinalMarch 9, 2017DiC: Kevin Perkins

Dlr: North Rick Zucker Vul: N–S ♠ K J 9 8 Bd: 5 ♥ K 10 9 5 3 ♦ 10 4 2 ♣ 6 Brian Ellis Bernie Greenspan ♠ A 7 5 ♠ 3 2 ♥ Q J 7 6 2 ♥ A 8 4 ♦ J 7 3 ♦ A 6 ♣ J 3 ♣ A K Q 9 7 4 Ethan Stein ♠ Q 10 6 4 ♥ — ♦ K Q 9 8 5 ♣ 10 8 5 2

West North East South Pass 1♣ (1) 1♦ 2♦ (2) 2♥ 3NT All Pass

(1) Strong, artificial, forcing (Precision), Alerted.

(2) At least 8 HCP with five or more hearts, not Alerted.

The Result: 3NT by East, making five, E–W plus 460. The opening lead was the ♦Q.

The Facts: The director was called before the opening lead was made. The table director indicated that no Alert was due as 2♦ was a cuebid. Further review was requested, and the DiC of the tournament was asked about the Alertability of 2♦. He indicated that in our Alert procedure 2♦ is Alertable – the 2♦ bid was not chosen because it was the opponents’ suit, but because it was a transfer to hearts. The table director then gave the North hand to several players. They considered different calls over 2♦, but all of them asked what 2♦ was before answering.

The Ruling: Staff determined that although there was misinformation from the failure to Alert, it did not cause the damage. Alert procedures state that an opponent who actually knows or suspects what is happening, even though not properly

informed, may not be entitled to redress if he or she chooses to proceed without clarifying the situation. All of this player’s peers asked about 2♦; staff decided this player needed to ask as well. Law 40B4 says that a side that is damaged as a consequence of failure to explain a call or play is entitled to an adjusted score; staff concluded that the source of the damage was a player of this level not asking a question when he needed the answer to make his decision.

The Review: N–S requested a review of the ruling. North was the only player who spoke to the reviewer. He felt he had been misinformed, and that with the proper information he would have bid a lead-directing 2♠ rather than 2♥, planning to raise diamonds later.

The reviewer spoke to six national-champion level players. He gave the North hand as a bidding problem. All six asked what 2♦ was; two were vehement that it was critical, as it could be nearly anything. They suggested Pass, 2♠ and 3♦ were among the calls they would consider.

When the reviewer asked how much sympathy they would have for a player who did not ask about 2♦, two said that they could sympathize, although at the table they themselves would always ask. One of those two indicated that it never would have occurred to him that 2♦ was hearts. The other four had no sympathy at all; one suggested that over natural or artificial 1♣, so many pairs play transfer structures in competitive auctions that it would never occur to him to proceed without clarifying the situation.

The Decision: The reviewer concluded that the above-cited provision in the Alert procedure did indeed cover this situation – even if this player did not suspect that this auction was anything special, all his peers did. He was expected to protect himself. Law 21A says no redress is due a player who acts on the basis of his own misunderstanding; there was no legal basis to apply Law 40B4 (see above). The table result was allowed to stand. As the initial ruling was delivered on an incorrect application of the Alert rules, this review was deemed to have merit.

Reviewer: Matt KoltnowPlayers consulted: Billy Miller, Chris Moll,

Jerry Helms, Bob Hamman and two others.

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TULSA UNIT 158 SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS 22.0 Tables / Based on 59 Tables A B C 30.19 1 Swadesh Mahajan - Kalpana Sutaria, Austin TX 58.06% 22.64 2 Rajan Mehta, Salina KS; Ronald Traudt, Wichita KS 58.01% 16.98 3 1 1 Thomas McDow V, Bexley OH; Thomas McDow, Rock Hill SC 57.84% 12.74 4 2 2 Robert Olson - Geoffrey Friedman, Leawood KS 56.54% 10.06 5 Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Ed Howard, Lawrence KS 56.48% 8.63 6 Laurie Rowe, Eugene OR; Irva Neyhart, Corvallis OR 55.99% 7.55 7 Mark Ehret - Nancy Keefer, St. Louis MO 55.23% 8.65 8 3 Edward Rubac, Oklahoma City OK; Stephen Swatek, Platte City MO 54.14% 6.04 9 Jim Urich, Shawnee Mission KS; Robert Williamson, Kansas City MO 54.03% 6.48 10 4 Steven Goodman, Overland Park KS; Jim Wattenbarger, Kansas City MO 53.76% 5.03 11 Timothy Flaherty, San Diego CA; Yang Xu, New York NY 53.21% 5.12 5 3 Lucy Stinson, Shawnee Mission KS; Jean Howard, Prairie Village KS 52.45% 4.39 6 4 Todd Stimmel, New York NY; John Stimmel, Miami Beach FL 52.07% 3.84 7 5 William Cook, Twin Falls ID; Clyde Coon, Boise ID 51.80% 3.42 8 Paul Bennett, Brandon MN; Gregory Jecker, Stilwell KS 51.42%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS 6.0 Tables A B C 1.63 1 1 1 Trisha Pitts, Kansas City MO; Judith McKarnin, Overland Park KS 64.25% 1.22 2 2 2 Lisa Mantini - Nina Williams, Stillwater OK 60.67% 0.92 3 3 3 Ward Katz, Prairie Village KS; Allan Katz, Kansas City MO 59.65% 0.69 4 4 Sandy Palmer - Elizabeth Allen, Kansas City MO 58.83%

and teammates Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, Robert Levin and Steve Weinstein.

Schwartz played with partner Daniel Korbel, and teammates David Gold, David Bakhshi, Boye Brogeland and Epsen Lindqvist.

This is the fourth Vanderbilt win for captain Nickell and Weinstein, the fifth for Katz, the sixth for Levin, and the seventh for Meckstroth and Rodwell.

For the runners-up, it was Schwartz’s sixth appearance in the final (he’s won three times), but the first for each of his teammates.

Nickell’s run in the 2017 contest was marked by many decisive victories. In the 24 quarters of play over six rounds, they were outscored in four only.


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(For multi-session team events of three sessions or more, the entry fee is $64, $80 or $96 for teams of four, five or six, respectively. For team events of one or two sessions, the entry fee is $64.)

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SILODOR OPEN PAIRS - REVISED 78.0 Tables / Based on 146 Tables125.00 1 Mikael Rimstedt, Halmstad Sweden; Zachary Grossack, Newton MA 2798.76 93.75 2 Dror Padon - Alon Birman, Tel Aviv Israel 2605.37 70.31 3 Ola Rimstedt, Halmstad Sweden; Adam Grossack, Newton MA 2523.99 55.56 4 Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY 2493.99 50.00 5 Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; C. Ganzer, Brooklyn NY 2493.82 45.45 6 Miriam Harris-Botzum - John Botzum, Orefield PA 2488.78 41.67 7 Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Jourdain Patchett, Sarasota FL 2469.71 38.46 8 Fu Zhong - Jie Li, Beijing People’s Republic of China 2460.31 35.71 9 Franklin Merblum, Bloomfield CT; Jeffrey Juster, New Orleans LA 2454.87 33.33 10 Paul Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Gavin Wolpert, Palm Beach Gardens FL 2412.69 31.25 11 Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Ed Howard, Lawrence KS 2409.51 29.41 12 John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY 2378.41 27.78 13 Robert Bjorge, Bellingham WA; Thomas Devine, Ferndale WA 2376.56 26.32 14 Sheri Winestock - Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV 2337.14 25.00 15 Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON; Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC 2336.99 23.81 16 Robert Schachter, Eden Prairie MN; Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN 2331.26 22.73 17 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 2324.56 21.74 18 Victor Chubukov, Somerville MA; Eric Mayefsky, San Francisco CA 2314.56 20.83 19 Francisco Bernal, Miami FL; Carlos Hoyos, Bogota Colombia 2312.63 20.00 20 Xiaoqian Liu - Maxim Siline, Hudson MA 2302.19 19.23 21 Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON 2299.35 18.52 22 Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA; William Harker, Santa Fe NM 2297.73 17.86 23 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN 2292.10 17.24 24 Marty Nelson, Annapolis MD; Gil Cohen, Ashburn VA 2285.03 16.67 25 Sam Dinkin, Austin TX; Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA 2280.19 16.13 26 Ida Groenkvist, Bromma Sweden; Haig Tchamitch, Paradise Valley AZ 2271.98 15.63 27 Jay Segarra, Ocean Springs MS; Allan Siebert, Little Rock AR 2266.24 15.15 28 Kamel Fergani, Montreal QC; Frederic Pollack, Laval QC 2253.87 14.71 29 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Igor Savchenko, Morris Plains NJ 2253.84 14.29 30 Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Adam Wildavsky, Dillon CO 2251.39 13.89 31 Thomas Paske, London England; Alexander Hydes, Zagreb Croatia 2248.69 13.51 32 William Braucher, Billerica MA; Daniel Braucher, Brighton CO 2235.72 13.16 33 Jack Spear, Shawnee Mission KS; Stephen Stewart, Overland Park KS 2233.73 12.82 34 Olin Hubert, Atlanta GA; Hugh Brown Jr., Greenwood SC 2232.85 12.50 35 Robert Bitterman, Sarasota FL; Robert Cappelli, Sanibel FL 2225.41 12.20 36 Fred King, McLean VA; Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD 2225.40 11.90 37 Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 2225.01 11.63 38 Jim Munday, Southaven MS; Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL 2220.49 11.36 39 Jon Bartlett, Portland OR; Roger McNay, Beaverton OR 2216.48 11.11 40 Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon, Monaco 2209.95 10.87 41 Marty Seligman, Philadelphia PA; Mark Lair, Canyon TX 2207.57 12.31 42 Brian Glubok, New York NY; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL 2206.43 10.42 43 Robert Munson, Danville CA; Bruce Tuttle, Berkeley CA 2204.59 10.20 44 Jo Anna Stansby - Lew Stansby, Dublin CA 2204.34 17.30 45 Alan Kudisch, East Norwich NY; Tom Trachuk, Walnut Creek CA 2199.91 9.80 46 Joe Grue - Martin Fleisher, New York NY 2194.90 9.62 47 Serdar Ogut, Darien IL; Joseph Stokes, Chicago IL 2194.79 9.43 48 James Milne, Parkville MO; Terry Crabbs, Kansas City MO 2194.40 9.26 49 Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA; Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA 2193.61 9.09 50 Mitch Towner, Tucson AZ; John Ramos, Los Angeles CA 2192.70

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH PAIRS 26.0 Tables 7 5 2 8.27 1 1 Irene Jasper - Carol Miller, Omaha NE 61.69% 6.20 2 2 Sharon Berglund, Anthem AZ; Arjun Singh, Lakewood CO 60.02% 4.65 3 3 Terry Martin, Mission Hills KS; Victoria Billard, Kansas City MO 59.82% 3.49 4 4 1 David Goodwin - Rose Goodwin, Austin TX 59.38% 2.76 5 Ernest Rosenthal, Overland Park KS; Robert Tung, Leawood KS 57.59% 2.36 6 Tracey Ball, Urbandale IA; Janee Oleson, Evansdale IA 56.40% 2.48 7 5 Steven Brodmerkle, Neosho Falls KS; Charles Carlson, Savonburg KS 56.17% 2.37 8 6 2 Donna Katz, Prairie Village KS; Sharon Cormack, Olathe KS 55.36% 1.96 9 Connie Van Patter - Karen Roland, McKinney TX 54.98% 1.86 10 7 Jan Summers, Aurora IL; Jeanne Kowalski, Brookfield IL 54.32% 1.65 11 8 Lisa Hadar, Woodbury NY; Susan Eisner, Huntington Bay NY 54.17% 1.49 12 9 Barbara Williford, Raleigh NC; Richard Dixon, Frontenac KS 53.57% 1.78 13 10 3 John Klingner, Quincy IL; Lee Greif, Prairie Village KS 53.42% 1.39 11 George Steele, Austin TX; Sharyn Pyrz, Bonita CA 53.27% 1.14 12 Rebecca Walker, Pleasant Hill MO; Jack Caughran, Independence MO 53.13% 1.33 4 Robert Bradford - Bennet Goeckner, Lawrence KS 51.79% 1.05 5 Mareke Campbell, Overland Park KS; Nancy Fishback, Edisto Island SC 51.19%

GREATER KANSAS CITY REALTY SATURDAY AFTERNOON SIDE PAIRS 10.5 Tables A B C 3.98 1 Suanne Blair, Morehead KY; John Jensen, Maysville KY 63.20% 3.22 2 1 1 Arnold Nelson Jr. - Mary Alice Nelson, Kansas City MO 57.56% 2.24 3 Nancy Strohmer - Hans Strohmer, Houston TX 54.95% 2.42 4 2 George Parkins, Vienna VA; Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA 54.73% 1.81 5 3 Ellen D’Amato, Kansas City MO; Jeanie Brown, Lake Quivira KS 54.19% 1.57 6 4 2 Michael Hughes, Jefferson City MO; Hong Liu, Frontenac MO 53.38% 1.02 5 Joseph Verdirame - Karen Verdirame, Omaha NE 51.75%

Double stepping stoneChris Willenken pointed out a neat ending on

this deal played by his partner Jan Jansma from the round of 16 in the Vanderbilt. Their opponents were Roger Lee and Michael Rosenberg. ♠ A J 3 ♥ 7 5 ♦ J 9 7 5 4 ♣ K 8 4 ♠ 5 ♠ 8 7 6 2 ♥ 10 9 2 ♥ K J 6 3 ♦ A K Q 6 2 ♦ 10 ♣ 9 6 3 2 ♣ A J 10 5 ♠ K Q 10 9 6 ♥ A Q 8 4 ♦ 8 3 ♣ Q 7 West North East South Lee Willenken Rosenberg Jansma 1♦ Pass 1♥ 1♠ Dbl 2♦ Pass 2NT Pass 3♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass

West led the ♦A and switched to a trump, won in dummy. Declarer took the heart finesse, cashed the ♥A and ruffed a heart in dummy. When he exited with a low club, East rose with the ace to play another trump. Declarer drew all the remaining trumps and cashed the ♣Q to reach this ending: ♠ — ♥ — ♦ J 9 ♣ K ♠ — ♠— ♥ — ♥ K ♦ K Q ♦ — ♣ 9 ♣ J 10 ♠ 9 ♥ 8 ♦ 8 ♣ —

Jansma then played the last trump. No matter how the opponents discarded in this ending, they could not avoid being endplayed, allowing declarer access to the good ♣K in dummy. If West sheds a diamond, a diamond exit will force him to lead a club to dummy at trick 13. If West discards his remaining club, a diamond is pitched from dummy, and East is on the hook. A heart discard makes declarer’s 8 good, while a club discard allows declarer to exit with the heart, forcing East to play a club to dummy for the game-going trick. Both opponents act as stepping stones for declarer to reach dummy at trick 13.

Notice to playersEach 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.

Smoking PolicySmoking is not permitted in the playing area

during any bridge playing event at an NABC. This includes electronic smoking devices.


The Search is on Chief Executive Officer

The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and sustain the game of bridge and to serve the bridge-related needs of our members. We have approximately 168,000 members and generate approximately $17 million in annual revenue.

About 60 employees work out of our Headquarters office in Horn Lake MS (Desoto County), a suburb of Memphis TN. We also have 160 employees in the field – 37 full-time tournament directors and 123 part-time TDs. We support a network of more than 3000 clubs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Bermuda, and there are more than 6000 ACBL-accredited teachers.

The Chief Executive Officer is a full-time position, hired by, and directly accountable to, the ACBL Board of Directors. The CEO is responsible for the overall management and leadership of the ACBL, including services, programs and business operations. Areas of responsibility include planning and implementing strategic goals, policy development and day-to-day operations.

QualificationsHere’s what we’re looking for:

Executive management experience – a minimum of 10 years experience in senior management (nonprofit sector preferred)

Strong technology background to meet the organization’s strategic objectives A bridge player who understands the game’s competitive and social culture and is committed

to promoting and expanding its popularity Ability to grow a revenue-generating membership program and build and motivate a high-

performance team Demonstrated experience in public speaking and interacting with large volunteer groups Willing to relocate to ACBL Headquarters

CompensationSalary will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application processTo apply, send an email to [email protected] with a cover letter detailing

qualifications, resume and salary requirement. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The ACBL is an equal opportunity employer.

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Don’t give upAhmed Hussein shared this deal, played by

Egypt’s Tarek Sadek, from an early round of the Vanderbilt. ♠ A 9 8 3 ♥ 5 ♦ Q 9 8 4 ♣ K Q 7 2 ♠ K 10 ♠ Q 6 ♥ 10 9 8 7 3 2 ♥ J 4 ♦ A 10 2 ♦ K 7 6 5 ♣ J 8 ♣ A 9 6 5 4 ♠ J 7 5 4 2 ♥ A K Q 6 ♦ J 3 ♣ 10 3 West North East South 1♠ Pass 3NT (1) Pass 4♠ All Pass

(1) Four-card support, 9-12 HCP, unspecified singleton.

Agianst 4♠, West led the ♥10 to Sadek’s king. The contract appears hopeless: Declarer is booked to lose (at least) one trump, two diamonds and a club. Sadek persevered, playing a trump to the ace and a low trump to West’s king. On the heart continuation, Sadek won the ace (pitching a diamond from the dummy) and tried a club to the king and East’s ace. The club exit went to the 10, jack and queen, and declarer returned to his hand with a club ruff. After playing another trump to dummy’s 9, Sadek ruffed the last club in hand.

“So what?” you may ask. “There are still two diamond losers.” Well, consider the position from West’s point of view. Here’s the ending: ♠ 8 ♥ — ♦ Q 9 8 ♣ — ♠ — ♠ — ♥ 9 7 ♥ — ♦ A 10 2 ♦ K 7 6 5 ♣ — ♣ — ♠ — ♥ Q 6 ♦ J 3 ♣ —

Yes, West has five cards left in this position while the other hands have four. If you were West, what would you have discarded on the previous round? Double-dummy, a heart is fatal, so a diamond is the clear choice. But imagine if declarer’s remaining cards were the ♥Q and the ♦K x x. If West switched to a diamond, declarer could play a low diamond to the queen and another diamond to the closed hand, ducking.

The expert West player, noticing that declarer didn’t try to ruff any potential heart losers in dummy, eventually decided to let go of a heart. Sadek then cashed the ♥Q and ♥6, pitching diamonds, to make his contract.

Appealing a ruling Players in NABC+ events who want to appeal

a director’s ruling initiate the process by speaking with the director who delivered the original ruling. The table director will fill out paperwork regarding the appeal, and the appellants will explain what they believe to be wrong with the initial ruling. From there, the case may be handled by a variety of means. When the appeals reviewer receives the case, the circumstances of that particular case will determine whether the case can be resolved by the original staff (in the case of misapplication of Law or regulation, for instance), a panel of directors, or even a committee-type hearing which could include bridge experts.

CHARLOTTE WEIDMAN SATURDAY OPEN PAIRS 11.0 Tables A B C 9.19 1 Veronica McMurdie - John Chan, Sacramento CA 61.23% 6.89 2 Shelba Parmley, Oklahoma City OK; Bill Ream, Burleson TX 60.76% 5.51 3 1 Sabrina Miles, Mansfield MA; Robert Huber, Minneapolis MN 55.09% 3.88 4 Mary Vickers, Apex NC; Doree Sobel, Fair Lawn NJ 54.75% 4.13 5 2 1 Elizabeth Herbert - Robert Herbert, Kansas City MO 54.17% 3.10 6 3 Romeo Bodrogi-Podoaba, Houston TX; Dennis Schultz, Harrison OH 54.05% 2.32 4 Jordan Kaye, West Bloomfield MI; Jin Hu, New York NY 53.70% 3.18 5 2 Duddow Cooney, Regina SK; Stephen Li, Winston-Salem NC 53.59%

GREATER KANSAS CITY REALTY SATURDAY EVENING SIDE PAIRS 6.0 Tables A B C 3.03 1 1 1 Claudia Broaddus, Overland Park KS; Rob Lee, Kansas City MO 65.83% 2.27 2 2 2 Yan Zhang, Jersey City NJ; Won Yang, Clermont FL 58.33% 1.70 3 3 Barbara Smith, Dallas TX; Beth Castleberry, Richardson TX 57.92% 1.31 4 Toby White, Des Moines IA; Richard Newell, West Des Moines IA 54.58%

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS 4.0 Tables A B C 1.84 1 1 1 Mark Denker, Garland TX; Nina Williams, Stillwater OK 61.81% 1.38 2 Martin Mueller - Rodney Anderson, Omaha NE 58.33% 1.21 3 2 2 Robbie Lloyd, Silver Spring MD; Carole Stringer, Bethesda MD 56.94%

JACK & JUDY REVARE SATURDAY EVE SWISS TEAMS 17 Tables A B C 6.30 1 1 Davis Heussler, East Aurora NY; Linda Burroughsford, Fort Erie ON; Leif Bjorn Odden, Drangedal Norway; Alex Khrakovsky, Columbus OH 64.00 4.73 2 2 Murali Nair - Rodney Bias, Phoenix AZ; John D Aguiar - Abdul Fakih, Calgary AB 55.00 3.10 3/4 3/4 Jim Murphy - Chris Murphy - Murray Haggins - Marilyn Haggins, Calgary AB 51.00 3.10 3/4 3/4 David White, Lancaster CA; Pat Larin, Rancho Mirage CA; Leo Cardillo, Clifton VA; Hong Chen, Overland Park KS 51.00 1.99 5 5 Kathy Bergman, Goodyear AZ; Joy McKenzie-Smith, Chapel Hill NC; Millie Garrison, Riverside CA; Sudhakar Divakaruni, Scottsdale AZ 50.00 1.93 1 Burt Echtenkamp - Linda Echtenkamp, Boise ID; Valarie Remmers - Dale Remmers, Plano TX 38.00 1.45 2 Kenneth Geisler - Arlene Geisler, Clarkston MI; Lucy Morini, Warren VT; Sue Bailey, Stockport 36.00


Some of the biggest names in the bridge world today started as the

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Recent Kings/Queens of bridge include Burke Snowden, Adam

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Go to www.acbl.org/kingofbridge to

read more about the program, see other previous winners and download

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Are you a graduating high school senior and ACBL member

who loves bridge? If so, you could be the 2017 King or

Queen of bridge. Apply now to earn the title and a

scholarship (up to $2000).

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bridge royalty!

Electronic Devices PolicyExcept for health-related equipment, or

by permission of the Director-in-Charge, any electronic equipment or device capable of receiving or sending an electronic signal, or capable of communicating in any way, may not be operated or functioning in any manner in the playing area during a session of play. Any such equipment must not be visible during the session and must remain off at all times.

The above restrictions apply to all players, captains, coaches, kibitzers and play recorders, except those persons granted permission by the ACBL, and are in force throughout any playing session or segment of play. Further restrictions and requirements apply in events involving live internet and/or vugraph coverage.

A violation of any of the above restrictions will result in an automatic penalty, pursuant to Law 91 of the Laws of Duplicate Bridge, as described below:

In NABC+ events: First offense of any kind, in a session: one full board, 12 IMPs or 20% of the maximum available VPs per match, at the respective form of scoring.

Second offense, in the same session or third offense within the event: Disqualification of the pair or team from the event.

In other events: First offense, in the same session, ringing only: one-quarter board, 3 IMPs or 1 VP, at the respective form of scoring. First offense, in the same session, answering or initiating a call, texting or browsing: one-half board, 6 IMPs or 2 VPs, at the respective form of scoring. Second offense, in the same session: two full boards, 20 IMPs or 50% of the maximum available VPs per match, at the respective form of scoring.

Third offense, in the event: disqualification of the pair or team from the event.

Kibitzers violating this policy will be removed from the playing area for the remainder of the session.

This policy applies to all events at NABCs effective Jan. 1, 2017.

QUALIFIERS IN THE JACOBY SWISS TEAMS 54 Tables / Based on 105 Tables Carryover 1 Dori Byrnes, Morris Plains NJ; Will Ehlers, Madison NJ; Iulian Rotaru, New York NY; Radu Nistor, Sunnyside NY; Owen Lien, Oak Park MI; Zachary Brescoll, Charlotte NC 30.00 2 Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Alejandro Bianchedi - Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina; Dennis Bilde, Aarhus Denmark; Giorgio Duboin - Antonio Sementa, Italy 18.27 3 Paul Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Gavin Wolpert, Palm Beach Gardens FL; John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Vincent Demuy, Palm Beach Gardens FL; John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV 17.57 4 Barbara Sonsini, Woodside CA; Huub Bertens - Jeff Roman, Bend OR; Curtis Cheek, Las Vegas NV; Simon De Wijs, Doorn Netherlands; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands 17.49 5 Gaylor Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Oren Kriegel, Chicago IL; Simon Hult, Wastervik Sweden; Simon Ekenberg, Kalmar Sweden; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX 16.46 6 Kirubakara Moorthy, Chennai India; Krishnan Ramaratnam, Jersey City NJ; Sumit Mukherjee - Debabrata Majumder, Kolkata India 15.24 7 Martin Fleisher - Joe Grue - Roy Welland, New York NY; Brad Moss, Denver CO; Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Chip Martel, Davis CA 14.16 8 John Schermer, Seattle WA; Neil Chambers, Schenectady NY; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI; Diego Brenner, Barcelona Spain 13.59 9 Sylvia Moss, Boca Raton FL; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK; Tom Van Overbeeke - Maarten Schollaardt, Netherlands; Piotr Jurek - Lukasz Witkowski, Poland 12.91 10 Massimiliano Di Franco, Italy; Andrea Manno, Palermo Italy; Adam Grossack - Zachary Grossack, Newton MA 12.60 11 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Sam Lev, New York NY; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie Poland; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA; Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV 12.37 12 Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Justin Lall, Charlotte NC; Howard Weinstein, Rancho Mirage CA; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Ross Grabel, Palm Desert CA 11.68 13 Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Cornelis Van Prooijen - Louk Verhees Jr., Netherlands; Dennis Clerkin - Jerry Clerkin, Bloomington IN 10.67 14 Chen Zhao, College Park MD; Jing Liu, Minneapolis MN; Hua Poon - Choon Chou Loo, Singapore; Yu Zhang, Hang Zhou China; Hongli Wang, China 10.50 15 Jacek Pszczola - Josef Blass, Chapel Hill NC; Bartosz Chmurski - Piotr Tuczynski - Piotr Nawrocki - Piotr Wiankowski, Poland 10.09 16 Kent Goulding, Germantown MD; Robert Hopkins Jr., Arlington VA; Bernie Greenspan, Beachwood OH; John Miller, Discovery Bay CA 9.78 17 Bernardo Biondo, Rome Italy; Christina Madsen, Hellerup Denmark; Valerio Giubilo, Rome Italy; Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Belgium 9.34 18 Roger Bates - Ken Bercuson, Las Vegas NV; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel; Boguslaw Gierulski, Elblag Poland; Jerzy Skrzypczak, Mragowo Poland; Piotr Pawel Zatorski, Gdaa Sk Poland 8.67 19 Thomas Paske, London England; Alexander Hydes, Zagreb Croatia; Fu Zhong - Jie Li, Beijing China; Michael Polowan, New York NY; Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY 8.31 20 Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam Netherlands 8.27 21 Michael Becker - Aubrey Strul, Boca Raton FL; Richard Coren, Aventura FL; Michael Kamil, Spartanburg SC; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 8.11 22 Dawei Chen - Tadashi Teramoto - Hiroki Yokoi, Tokyo Japan; Kazuo K. Furuta, Kanagawa-Ken Japan 8.09 23 James Cayne, Boca Raton FL; Allan Graves, St. Johnsbury VT; Mustafa Cem Tokay - Giovanni Donati, Roma Italy; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy 7.98 24 Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Reese Milner, Sarasota FL; Frederic Wrang - Johan Sylvan, Stockholm Sweden; Eldad Ginossar, Chicago IL; Jack Zhao, Boca Raton FL 7.89 25 Ron Zambonini - Nader Hanna - John Rayner, Toronto ON; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC; Michael Roche, Victoria BC; Jurek Czyzowicz, Gatineau QC 7.66 26 Robert Hollman, Santa Barbara CA; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA; Joris van Lankveld, - Berend Van Den Bos - Richard Ritmeijer - Magdalena Ticha, The Netherlands 7.50 27 Erez Hendelman - Kelley Hwang, New York NY; Mark Leonard, Long Beach CA; Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA; Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX 6.70 28 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Thomas Bessis - Jean Quantin, Paris France; Frederic Volcker, Issy Les Moulin France; Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France 6.10 29 Hope Ellis, Beachwood OH; Harold Antonson, Olympia WA; Tor Helness - Geir Helgemo, Monaco 5.74 30 Jeffrey Wolfson - Ron Smith - Steve Garner, Chicago IL; Neil Silverman, Fort Lauderdale FL; Gary Cohler, Delray Beach FL; Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA 5.68 31 Thomas Carmichael - Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Mark Feldman, Austin TX; Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; William Pollack, New York NY; David Caprera, Denver CO 5.60 32 Tim Hays - Chad Fisher, Kansas City MO; Shawn Tate, Belton MO; Jesse Bowe, Chillicothe MO 5.44 33 Stan Tulin, Boca Raton FL; Kevin Dwyer, Melbourne FL; Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Michal Nowosadzki, Wroclaw Poland; Alon Birman - Dror Padon, Tel Aviv Israel 5.24 34 Drew Becker, Chicago IL; Sheldon Natenberg, Glenview IL; Stephen McConnell, Evanston IL; Richard Reitman, Los Gatos CA 4.72 35 Joseph Rich, Philadelphia PA; Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa, Argentina; Hansa Narasimhan, Mountain View CA; Maximo Crusizio, Argentina; Serge de Muller, Switzerland 4.68 36 Dean Panagopoulos, Lynn MA; Richard Freedman, Urbandale IA; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ann Borgschulte, San Francisco CA 4.46 37 Dan Morse, Houston TX; John Sutherlin, Dallas TX; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Adam Wildavsky, Dillon CO 3.25 38 Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA; William Watson, Sunnyvale CA; James Griffin - Patricia Griffin, Sausalito CA 2.98 39 Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA; Andrew Chesterton, Winchester MA; Michael D Alioto, Birmingham MI; Robert Cappelli, Sanibel FL 2.85 40 Mike Rippey, Orinda CA; Benito Garozzo, Wilmington DE; Przemyslaw Janiszewski, Warsaw Poland; Woaciech Strzemecki, Poland; Kamil Nowak, Kielce Poland; Franco Masoero, Roma Italy 2.82 41 Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL; Robin Taylor, Gaithersburg MD; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA; Sondra Schubiner, Franklin MI 2.67 42 Maxim Siline - Xiaoqian Liu, Hudson MA; Bo Liu, Irvine CA; Weidong Pei, Brea CA 2.47 43 Francisco Bernal, Miami FL; Carlos Hoyos, Bogota Colombia; Frederic Pollack, Laval QC; Kamel Fergani, Montreal QC; Adolfo Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina 2.40


SATURDAY COMPACT KO 1 6 Tables 7.53 1 Edward White, Grand Blanc MI; Ken Gee, Regina SK; Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Ed Lazarus, Baltimore MD 5.27 2 Suzanne Siebert, Little Rock AR; Jacqueline DeRouin, Okemos MI; Barbara Doran, Silver Spring MD; Lily Johannessen, Honolulu HI

SATURDAY COMPACT KO 2 11 Tables 7.33 1 John Fittell - Grant Sutton, Lawrence KS; Shari Krentzel, Gardner KS; Klee Zaricky, Topeka KS 5.13 2 Samuel Lane, Overland Park KS; Bernie Fromm, Kansas City MO; Norman Kahn Jr., Prairie Village KS; Max Kahn, Shawnee Mission KS 3.30 3 Teresa McIntyre - Scott McIntyre, Omaha NE; Larry Yarger, West Point NE; Tim Jones, Overland Park KS

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44 Rahn Smith, Brandon FL; Gen Geiger - Terry McHenry, Sarasota FL; Sharon Horton, Lakeland FL 2.37 45 Don Stack, Kansas City KS; William Muir, Kansas City MO; Phillip Becker, Beachwood OH; Pierre Flatowicz, Omaha NE 2.21 46 Tim Verbeek, Netherlands; Danny Molenaar, Den Haag Netherlands; Bob Drijver, Rotterdam Netherlands; Bart Nab, Tilburg Netherlands; Dano De Falco, Rubano Italy; Patricia Cayne, Boca Raton FL 2.17 47 Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel Hill NC; Andrew Gromov - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow Russia 2.05 48 Lynn Baker - Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX; Karen McCallum, Exeter NH; Kerri Sanborn, Delray Beach FL; Irina Levitina, Hackensack NJ; Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL 1.94 49 Robert Guerard, Brossard QC; Andre Houde - Andre Blanchet - Jacques Beauregard, Montreal QC 1.59 50 Jeff Aker, Briarcliff NY; Barry Rigal, New York NY; Jo Anna Stansby - Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Allan Falk, Okemos MI; John Lusky, Portland OR 1.12 51 Craig Allen, Glen Ellyn IL; Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD; Fred King, McLean VA; Michael Huston, Joplin MO 0.98 52 Lou Ann O’Rourke, Portola Valley CA; Rafal Jagniewski, Legionowo Poland; Wojciech Gawel, Wroclaw Poland; John Mohan - Marc Jacobus - Joshua Donn, Las Vegas NV 0.95 53 Krishna Saha, Overland Park KS; Sitaraman Sathiamoorthy, Olathe KS; Gregory Barnes, Jefferson City MO; Mark De Garcia, Columbia MO 0.57 54 Hilda Setton, New York NY; Godefroy De Tessieres - Quentin Robert, Paris France; Pierre Franceschetti, Montigny-Le-Bre France; Nicolas Lhuissier, Rueil-Malmaison France; Romain Tembouret, France 0.00

QUALIFIERS IN THE MACHLIN WOMEN’S SWISS TEAMS 8 Tables / Based on 10 Tables Carryover 1 Li Yiting, Herndon VA; Wei Wang - Shuoyan Liu - Mei Xia, Shanghai China 35.00 2 Barbara Ferm, Dallas TX; Migry Zur Campanile - Judi Radin, New York NY; Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Jill Levin, Henderson NV 32.98 3 Joanne Weingold - Ellen Kozlove, Boca Raton FL; Shannon Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Sally Meckstroth, Clearwater Beach FL 30.87 4 Pamela Nisbet, Thunder Bay ON; Leigh Anne Shafer, Winnipeg MB; Betsy Downs, Chicago IL; Ru Hong Terajewicz, Newton MA 20.72 5 Loretta Rivers, Monroe LA; Nina Taselaar - Sandra Rimstedt, New York NY; Cecilia Rimstedt, Onsala Sweden; Ida Groenkvist, Bromma Sweden 17.59 6 Pat Levy - Georgiana Gates, Houston TX; Kyoko Shimamura, Tokyo Japan; Yasuko Shrenzel, Honolulu HI 15.60 7 Peggy Sutherlin - Joan Jackson, Dallas TX; Susan Picus - Gail Greenberg, New York NY; Petra Hamman, Carrollton TX; Nancy Passell, Plano TX 13.53 8 Ljudmila Kamenova, South Setauket NY; Pam Wittes, Venice CA; Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL; Rozanne Pollack, New York NY; Shawn Quinn, Sugar Land TX; Anam Tebha, Charlotte NC 0.00

SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO 7 TablesDawn Campbell, Portland OR; Jakob Kristinsson, Deerfield Beach FL; Margaret Peterson, Larkspur CA; Robert Thomson, San Rafael CA vsRichard Brummer, Effingham IL; Thomas Cox, Mount Juliet TN; Linda Dunn, Memphis TN; William Evans, Bonne Terre MO

ACBL seeks National Recorder

The ACBL is seeking a National Recorder to oversee the proper handling of disciplinary matters at all levels of the organization. Among other things, the National Recorder will:n Interpret the Code of Disciplinary Regulations,

the Codification and other ACBL rules and regulations as applied to disciplinary hearings at the Unit, District and national level.

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VANDERBILT KNOCKOUT TEAMS

1. Lavazza BYE

32. Goldberg 19 78 100 15133. Kasle 17 39 89 115

17. Levine 9 39 62 7148. Kolesnik 48 56 77 99

16. Berg 65 108 17349. McAllister 30 55 70 w/d

9. Cayne 17 62 80 11456. Smith 29 66 91 101

24. Wolfson 26 42 112 13241. Leong 30 107 121 148

25. Meltzer 23 24 33 6240. Zhao 14 24 47 95

8. Gupta 79 145 187 25557. Shafer 9 19 39 39

5. Zagorin 49 86 135 18560. Schireson 25 40 55 63

28. Lewis 38 57 60 9537. Chen 54 93 143 187

21. Lall 29 74 76 11144. Phyllis Fireman 40 74 92 105

12. Zimmermann 32 109 159 15953. Bell 19 19 27 80

13. Sonsini 37 44 79 10452. Collins 42 105 125 156

20. Schwartz 14 60 93 12345. Pavlicek 26 36 46 74

29. Hanlon 20 46 88 10036. Hollman 24 66 74 102

4. Diamond 51 94 150 21461. Dinkin 25 51 67 81

63 Tables250.00 1 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Beach FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL

180.00 2 Richard Schwartz, Aventura FL; Daniel Korbel, Rockville MD; Boye Brogeland, Flekkefjor Norway; Espen Lindqvist, Arendal Norway; David Gold, Reading Great Britain; David Bakhshi, London England

125.00 3/4 Andrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Chris Willenken, New York NY; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands

125.00 3/4 James Cayne, Boca Raton FL; Allan Graves, St. Johnsbury VT; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy; Mustafa Cem Tokay, Roma Italy; Giovanni Donati, Rimini Italy

80.00 5/8 Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Agustin Madala - Alejandro Bianchedi, Buenos Aires Argentina; Dennis Bilde, Aarhus Denmark; Antonio Sementa, Parma Italy

80.00 5/8 Bart Bramley - Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Howard Weinstein, Rancho Mirage CA; Ross Grabel, Palm Desert CA; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Michael Polowan, New York NY

80.00 5/8 John Schermer, Seattle WA; Neil Chambers, Schenectady NY; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI; Diego Brenner, Barcelona Spain

80.00 5/8 Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Reese Milner, Sarasota FL; Frederic Wrang - Johan Sylvan, Stockholm Sweden; Eldad Ginossar, Chicago IL; Jack Zhao, Boca Raton FL

50.00 9/16 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; Justin Lall, Charlotte NC; Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gardens FL

1. Lavazza 43 62 125 20132. Goldberg 16 25 55 58

17. (48.) Kolesnik 26 37 72 11016. Berg 30 101 127 151

9. Cayne 45 106 124 17124. (41.) Leong 4 33 73 100

25. (40.) Zhao 12 55 75 106 8. Gupta 30 41 57 100

5. Zagorin 15 65 101 11228. (37.) Chen 50 69 106 107

21. Lall 45 72 124 14212. Zimmermann 24 63 104 123

13. (52.) Collins 18 41 57 7820. Schwartz 17 59 105 126

29. (36.) Hollman 11 45 56 w/d 4. Diamond 54 87 152

1. Lavazza 31 69 102 15016. Berg 31 67 83 113

9. Cayne 18 33 54 87 8. (40.) Zhao 10 36 49 67

5. Zagorin 14 53 83 9012. (21.) Lall 24 66 89 130

13. (20.) Schwartz 36 75 109 127 4. Diamond 29 57 60 115

1. Lavazza 4 32 47 w/d

8. (9.) Cayne 34 74 136

5. (21.) Lall 7 13 48 49

4. (20.) Schwartz 26 58 105 149

1. (9.) Cayne 40 69 77 1084. (20.) Schwartz 19 55 114 135

2. Nickell 25 53 127 1356. Rosenthal 47 73 78 123

1. (20.) Schwartz 14 24 36 56


VANDERBILT KNOCKOUT TEAMS

2. Nickell 76 135 234 31263. Bolger 6 17 33 42

31. Rubin 23 63 74 10134. Baker 18 32 74 110

18. Tulin 61 75 109 144 47. Rippey 30 56 82 141

15. Street 13 33 68 12350. Lhuissier 40 83 100 114

10. Bramley 51 96 155 21755. Moss 35 67 78 113

23. Dunitz 10 39 86 12242. Hydes 21 47 54 85

26. Morse 31 95 108 13539. Pszczola 18 38 57 80

7. Strul 22 106 194 25158. Smoot 46 47 59 61

6. Rosenthal 84 95 125 20259. Frank 14 49 55 65

27. Bates 42 89 126 17638. Rigal 17 45 59 75

22. O’Rourke 12 35 59 9943. Hanna 29 55 94 100

11. Mahaffey 68 109 158 18954. Yiting 3 19 37 79

14. Paul Fireman 38 63 69 8751. Lo 28 52 73 79

19. Schermer 13 52 102 12546. Rogoff 32 45 78 93

30. De Falco 19 31 70 8935. Li 19 68 95 152

3. Fleisher 20 34 47 9462. Moorthy 31 59 76 104

50.00 9/16 Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam Netherlands; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands

50.00 9/16 Aubrey Strul - Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Richard Coren, Aventura FL; Michael Kamil, Spartanburg SC; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt

50.00 9/16 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Sam Lev, New York NY; Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie Poland

50.00 9/16 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Thomas Bessis - Jean Quantin, Paris France; Frederic Volcker, Issy Les Moulin France; Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France

50.00 9/16 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel Hill NC; Andrew Gromov - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow Russia

50.00 9/16 Chen Zhao, College Park MD; Jing Liu, Minneapolis MN; Hua Poon - Choon Chou Loo, Singapore Singapore; Yu Zhang, Hang Zhou China; Hongli Wang, China

50.00 9/16 Kirubakara Moorthy, Chennai India; Krishnan Ramaratnam, Jersey City NJ; Debabrata Majumder, Kolkata India; Sumit Mukherjee, Kolkata India

2. Nickell 20 67 116 16131. (34.) Baker 23 28 43 63

18. Tulin 26 56 71 8715. Street 21 29 52 113

10. Bramley 22 69 92 11823. Dunitz 21 39 91 113

26. Morse 27 50 71 93 7. Strul 16 41 52 119

6. Rosenthal 20 52 84 9827. Bates 45 54 74 97

22. (43.) Hanna 26 33 61 9211. Mahaffey 39 82 105 140

14. Fireman 12 32 74 9119. Schermer 37 69 111 146

30. (35.) Li 39 73 82 98 3. (62.) Moorthy 17 51 106 149

2. Nickell 30 72 96 14715. Street 41 60 79 92

10. Bramley 13 32 66 107 7. Strul 18 49 75 89

6. Rosenthal 19 55 83 13011. Mahaffey 22 29 53 58

14. (19.) Schermer 61 82 114 1573. (62.) Moorthy 18 41 87 110

2. Nickell 26 53 94 142

7. (10.) Bramley 19 40 63 82

6. Rosenthal 39 62 99 125

3. (19.) Schermer 54 59 76 124

1. (9.) Cayne 40 69 77 1084. (20.) Schwartz 19 55 114 135

2. Nickell 25 53 127 1356. Rosenthal 47 73 78 123

2. Nickell 25 70 95 142


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QUALIFIERS IN THE NABC+ FAST PAIRS 39.0 Tables Carryover 1 Stanford Christie, Kirkland WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 109.73 2 May Sakr, Bryn Mawr PA; Krzysztof Martens, Rzeszow Poland 106.92 3 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 101.73 4 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesville VA; Jennifer Chalfan, Bellevue WA 92.14 5 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 91.53 6 Richard Holmes - Harold George, Wichita KS 89.06 7 Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA; Christopher Gibson, Tigard OR 88.93 8 Robert Munson, Danville CA; Bruce Tuttle, Berkeley CA 88.77 9 Eric Mayefsky - Jennifer Lin, San Francisco CA 88.10 10 Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL; Jim Munday, Southaven MS 75.88 11 Robert Schachter, Eden Prairie MN; Paul Meerschaert, St. Paul MN 74.79 12 Saleh Fetouh, Buffalo NY; John Gilbert, Kitchener ON 71.18 13 Jeffrey Rothstein, New York NY; Russell Samuel, Coram NY 69.24 14 C. Valerie Gamio, Palos Verdes Peninsula CA; Miguel Reygadas, Tlalpan Mexico 65.68 15 Judy Zhu, Romeoville IL; Jack Snyder, Naperville IL 64.76 16 Mark Perlmutter, San Diego CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 64.20 17 Kenneth Titow, Scottsdale AZ; Bill Heid, Pacifica CA 61.77 18 Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Kurt Dasher, Petersburg MI 60.63 19 Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY 60.30 20 Leo Bell, Carlsbad CA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA 58.03 21 Ding-Hwa Hsieh - Lin-Huan Chen, Kirksville MO 55.10 22 Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX; Charles Durrin III, Madison AL 54.97 23 Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Douglas Kuschner, Valencia CA 53.39 24 Maritha Pottenger - Kent Hartman, San Diego CA 51.70 25 Eileen Paley, Scarsdale NY; Mimi Bieber, Hartsdale NY 50.79 26 Serdar Ogut, Darien IL; Joseph Stokes, Chicago IL 50.53 27 Robert Bjorge, Bellingham WA; Thomas Devine, Ferndale WA 49.55 28 Barbara Heller, Knoxville TN; David Rogers, Naples FL 48.31 29 Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN; Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA 45.48 30 Zhuo Wang, New York NY; Zihan Tan, Chicago IL 44.72 31 Gil Cohen, Ashburn VA; Marty Nelson, Annapolis MD 43.91 32 Lynne Rosenbaum, Glencoe IL; Valentin Kovachev, Las Vegas NV 43.80 33 George Klemic, Bensenville IL; Don Lussky, Elmhurst IL 42.91 34 Samuel Kuang, Elmhurst NY; Norman Beck, Dallas TX 42.44 35 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY 39.37 36 Sherwin Moscow - Connie Coquillette, Vancouver WA 37.60 37 Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ 33.78 38 Sylvia Shi, Rockville MD; Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 30.49 39 Harvey Brody, San Francisco CA; Sara Rothmuller, Occidental CA 28.50 40 Corey Krantz, Delray Beach FL; Bruce Lang, West Palm Beach FL 27.73 41 Hjordis Eythorsdottir - Magnus Olafsson, New York NY 26.82 42 Norman Schwartz, Carlsbad CA; Henri Farhi, Chula Vista CA 26.36 43 Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA; Robert Shore, Los Angeles CA 26.34 44 Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY; Pamela Furtsch, Armonk NY 25.85 45 Wei Tian, China; Bin Shi, Shanghai China 25.60 46 Michael Boreson, Kalispell MT; Jourdain Patchett, Sarasota FL 25.27 47 Samuel Marks, Atlanta GA; Jerry Helms, Charlotte NC 23.89 48 Ronald Kral, Reston VA; Kenneth Davis, Alexandria VA 23.63 49 Lorraine Cable, Elmhurst NY; Kerry Kappell, Astoria NY 23.30 50 Jeff McKee, Nevada TX; Greg Resz, Weatherford TX 22.97 51 Allison L. Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Gerrianne Mason, Crossville TN 22.28 52 Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Marty Seligman, Philadelphia PA 21.88 53 Steve Gross, Westlake Village CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA 21.01 54 Judith Argento - Raymond Depew, Naples FL 20.61 55 Jeffrey Kosnett, Gaithersburg MD; Eugene Fisher, Potomac MD 19.94 56 Maciej Klis, Krakow Poland; Piotr Kucharski, Krakow Poland 18.56 57/58 Cristal Nell, Seattle WA; Igor Savchenko, Morris Plains NJ 18.43 57/58 Mark Krusemeyer, Northfield MN; Randy Okubo, St. Paul MN 18.43 59 Bill Irvine - Joe Degaetano, Delray Beach FL 16.80 60 James Thurtell, Dallas TX; John Schwartz, Plano TX 16.44 61 Haig Tchamitch, Paradise Valley AZ; Robert Lebi, Toronto ON 15.96 62 G Thomas Rush, Houston TX; Christine Denny, Encinitas CA 14.60 63 John Glynn - Ellen Glynn, Annandale VA 14.25 64 Adam Parrish, Sandwich MA; McKenzie Myers, Irondale AL 13.26 65 Elizabeth Jankord - Amit Chakrabarti, Manhattan KS 12.04 66 Gary Morrison, Olathe KS; James Masilamani, Topeka KS 11.24 67 Martin Graf, Chevy Chase MD; Mark Shaw, Columbia MD 11.22 68 Tom Kniest, Brentwood MO; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL 10.91 69 Edward Zuckerberg, Los Altos Hills CA; Clifford Nebel, Hastings Hudson NY 8.47 70 James Melville, Springfield IL; Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria 7.55 71 George Krizel, Atlantic City NJ; Igor Milman, Brooklyn NY 7.11 72 Steven Schatzow, Washington DC; Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD 6.32 73 Richard Vatter - Jo Anne Vatter, Cadillac MI 4.79 74 Charlene Sands, Pflugerville TX; Virgil Massey, Driftwood TX 3.42 75 Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL; Michael Pitonak, Valley Park MO 3.26 76 Carrie Touslee, Roseville CA; Ann McClelland, Lincoln CA 1.89 77 Robert Barrington - Raluca Dobrescu, New York NY 0.95 78 Donna Swarthout - Dave Swarthout, San Antonio TX 0.00

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Masterpoint leaders through Saturday night

1 400.00 Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Beach FL

2 320.59 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL3 310.00 Steve Weinstein, Andes NY4 304.55 Robert Levin, Henderson NV5 280.00 Dennis Bilde, Aarhus Denmark6 251.99 Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL7 251.99 Frank Nickell, New York NY8 250.00 Justin Lall, Charlotte NC9 241.26 Daniel Korbel, Rockville MD10 223.43 Zachary Grossack, Newton MA11 214.03 Thomas Bessis, Paris France12 213.75 Dror Padon, Tel Aviv Israel13 210.94 Espen Lindqvist, Arendal 14 208.10 David Gold, Reading UK 15 206.11 Boye Brogeland, Flekkefjor

Norway16 203.28 David Bakhshi, London England17 203.13 Richard Schwartz, Aventura FL18 190.03 Zia Mahmood, New York NY19 178.80 Jing Liu, Minneapolis MN 178.80 Chen Zhao, College Park MD21 177.17 David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL 177.17 Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD23 176.24 Mikael Rimstedt, Halmstad

Sweden24 168.16 Bart Bramley, Dallas TX25 167.25 Adam Grossack, Newton MA26 157.53 Fredrik Nystrom, Stockholm

Sweden27 147.70 Peter Gill, Sydney Australia 28 146.65 Michael Polowan, New York NY29 144.30 Chris Willenken, New York NY30 143.96 Bob Hamman, Dallas TX31 142.98 Sylvia Shi, Rockville MD32 142.56 Bartosz Chmurski, Lomianky

Poland 142.56 Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan Poland34 139.86 Piotr Nawrocki, Warsaw Poland 139.86 Piotr Wiankowski, Gdansk Poland36 135.99 Josef Blass, Chapel Hill NC 135.99 Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC38 131.09 Lew Stansby, Dublin CA 131.09 Jo Anna Stansby, Dublin CA40 130.78 Aaron Silverstein, New York NY41 130.00 Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA42 127.84 Andrew Rosenthal, New York NY43 126.54 Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse

Netherlands44 125.00 Giovanni Donati, Rimini Italy 125.00 James Cayne, Boca Raton FL 125.00 Allan Graves, St. Johnsbury VT 125.00 Mustafa Cem Tokay, Roma Italy 125.00 Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy 125.00 Alfredo Versace, Rome Italy 50 123.86 Igor Savchenko, Morris Plains NJ51 123.26 Cristal Nell, Seattle WA52 119.29 Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD53 118.31 Ola Rimstedt, Halmstad Sweden 54 116.67 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL 116.67 Brian Platnick, Evanston IL56 111.82 Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden 57 111.60 Adam Wildavsky, Dillon CO58 109.75 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA59 102.75 Eddie Wold, Houston TX60 101.25 Alon Birman, Tel Aviv Israel 61 101.03 Gavin Wolpert, Palm Beach

Gardens FL62 100.78 David Hampton, Tulsa OK 100.78 B Marshall, Tulsa OK64 100.00 Steve Robinson, Arlington VA 100.00 Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France 100.00 Jean Quantin, Paris France67 99.01 Choon Chou Loo, Singapore 99.01 Hua Poon, Singapore69 98.27 Lee Bukstel, Boca Raton FL 98.27 Michael Wolf, Fort Lauderdale FL71 98.10 Justine Cushing, New York NY 98.10 Melih Ozdil, New York NY73 97.69 Eric Leong, Oakland CA


NABC+ FAST PAIRS 1ST QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS G H I J EAST-WEST 1 Serdar Ogut, Darien IL; Joseph Stokes, Chicago IL 63.46% 1 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesville VA; Jennifer Chalfan, Bellevue WA 62.00% 2 Judy Zhu, Romeoville IL; Jack Snyder, Naperville IL 62.23% 2 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 61.42% 3 May Sakr, Bryn Mawr PA; Krzysztof Martens, Rzeszow Poland 60.68% 3 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 59.99% 4 Kenneth Titow, Scottsdale AZ; Bill Heid, Pacifica CA 60.42% 4 Stanford Christie, Kirkland WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 59.10% 5/6 Samuel Marks, Atlanta GA; Jerry Helms, Charlotte NC 60.28% 5 Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Douglas Kuschner, Valencia CA 58.64% 5/6 Jeffrey Rothstein, New York NY; Russell Samuel, Coram NY 60.28% 6 Ronald Kral, Reston VA; Kenneth Davis, Alexandria VA 58.52% 7 Richard Holmes - Harold George, Wichita KS 59.79% 7 Robert Munson, Danville CA; Bruce Tuttle, Berkeley CA 58.50% 8 Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY 59.67% 8 Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA; Christopher Gibson, Tigard OR 56.57% 9 Harvey Brody, San Francisco CA; Sara Rothmuller, Occidental CA 59.62% 9 John Glynn - Ellen Glynn, Annandale VA 56.54% 10 Richard Vatter - Jo Anne Vatter, Cadillac MI 59.33% 10 Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Kurt Dasher, Petersburg MI 56.46% 11 Robert Bjorge, Bellingham WA; Thomas Devine, Ferndale WA 57.61% 11 Leora Dubrovsky - Richard Dubrovsky, Howell NJ 56.00% 12 Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ 56.86% 12 Martin Graf, Chevy Chase MD; Mark Shaw, Columbia MD 55.83% 13 Jeffrey Kosnett, Gaithersburg MD; Eugene Fisher, Potomac MD 56.57% 13 Tom Kniest, Brentwood MO; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL 55.40% 14 Barbara Heller, Knoxville TN; David Rogers, Naples FL 56.34% 14 Saleh Fetouh, Buffalo NY; John Gilbert, Kitchener ON 54.65% 15 George Klemic, Bensenville IL; Don Lussky, Elmhurst IL 55.74% 15 Ding-Hwa Hsieh - Lin-Huan Chen, Kirksville MO 54.25% 16 Eileen Paley, Scarsdale NY; Mimi Bieber, Hartsdale NY 55.05% 16 Sherwin Moscow - Connie Coquillette, Vancouver WA 53.50% 17 Eric Mayefsky - Jennifer Lin, San Francisco CA 54.42% 17 Haig Tchamitch, Paradise Valley AZ; Robert Lebi, Toronto ON 53.36% 18 Maritha Pottenger - Kent Hartman, San Diego CA 53.19% 18 James Melville, Springfield IL; Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria 53.27% 19 Mark Krusemeyer, Northfield MN; Randy Okubo, St. Paul MN 52.93% 19 Lynne Rosenbaum, Glencoe IL; Valentin Kovachev, Las Vegas NV 52.96% 20 Gil Cohen, Ashburn VA; Marty Nelson, Annapolis MD 52.84% 20 Lorraine Cable, Elmhurst NY; Kerry Kappell, Astoria NY 52.93% 21 Leo Bell, Carlsbad CA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA 52.44% 21 Charlene Sands, Pflugerville TX; Virgil Massey, Driftwood TX 52.87% 22 Mark Perlmutter, San Diego CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 52.32% 22 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY 52.76% 23 Donna Swarthout - Dave Swarthout, San Antonio TX 52.10% 23 Amy Rhodes, New York NY; Mark Blanchard, Bay Shore NY 52.73% 24 Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN; Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA 51.92% 24 Zhuo Wang, New York NY; Zihan Tan, Chicago IL 52.70%25/26 Robert Barrington - Raluca Dobrescu, New York NY 51.49% 25 Steven Schatzow, Washington DC; Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD 52.44%25/26 D. Lionel O’Young, Walnut CA; Kou-Ping Cheng, Saratoga CA 51.49% 26/27 Steve Gross, Westlake Vlg CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA 52.30% 27 G Thomas Rush, Houston TX; Christine Denny, Encinitas CA 51.38% 26/27 Charles Kelley - Jo Anne Kelley, Pacific Palisades CA 52.30%

Second in the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams: Boye Brogeland, David Gold, captain Richard Schwartz, Daniel Korbel, Epsen Lindqvist and David Bakhshi.

Use of the bidding box — Alerts and Announcements

When using bidding 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.


TULSA UNIT 158 SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS SESSION 1 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS M N EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Robert Olson - Geoffrey Friedman, Leawood KS 63.73% 1/2 1 1 Thomas McDow V, Bexley OH; Thomas McDow, Rock Hill SC 57.19% 2 Swadesh Mahajan - Kalpana Sutaria, Austin TX 60.68% 1/2 Rajan Mehta, Salina KS; Ronald Traudt, Wichita KS 57.19% 3 2 Steven Goodman, Overland Park KS; Jim Wattenbarger, Kansas City MO 57.73% 3 Laurie Rowe, Eugene OR; Irva Neyhart, Corvallis OR 55.99% 4 3 J. Ann Bouchard - Jeanie Pearson, Columbia MO 57.63% 4 2 Allen Rew, Independence MO; Keith Smith, Lees Summit MO 55.23% 5 Milt Van Reed, Terre Haute IN; Joanna Hebermehl, Paris IL 56.43% 5 3 2 Janine Gauthier, Briny Breezes FL; Robert Lyrette, Boucherville QC 54.79% 6 Timothy Flaherty, San Diego CA; Yang Xu, New York NY 55.12% 6 4 Chuck Ettelson - Jane Ettelson, St. Louis MO 54.68% 7 4 Paul Bennett, Brandon MN; Gregory Jecker, Stilwell KS 53.49% 7 5 Edward Rubac, Oklahoma City OK; Stephen Swatek, Platte City MO 53.92% 8 Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Ed Howard, Lawrence KS 53.05% 8 6 3 Todd Stimmel, New York NY; John Stimmel, Miami Beach FL 52.51% 9 5 Patty Riffel, Pocahontas AR; John Raffel, Raytown MO 51.96% 9 4 William Cook, Twin Falls ID; Clyde Coon, Boise ID 51.09% 6 2 Lucy Stinson, Shawnee Mission KS; Jean Howard, Prairie Village KS 51.63% 3 Sally Baird, Lenexa KS; James Feimster, Overland Park KS 51.31% 4 Luraette Tucker - Jim Tucker, Little Rock AR 49.56%

TULSA UNIT 158 SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS SESSION 2 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS M N EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Ed Howard, Lawrence KS 59.91% 1 Mark Ehret - Nancy Keefer, St. Louis MO 60.02% 2 1 1 Helene Siegfried - Judy Pass, St. Louis MO 59.69% 2 Jim Urich, Shawnee Mission KS; Robert Williamson, Kansas City MO 59.26% 3 Rajan Mehta, Salina KS; Ronald Traudt, Wichita KS 58.82% 3 Lisa Evans, Danville CA; Nancy Gunn, Santa Rosa CA 59.04% 4 2 2 Thomas McDow V, Bexley OH; Thomas McDow, Rock Hill SC 58.50% 4 Swadesh Mahajan - Kalpana Sutaria, Austin TX 55.45% 5 Laurie Rowe, Eugene OR; Irva Neyhart, Corvallis OR 55.99% 5 1 Edward Rubac, Oklahoma City OK; Stephen Swatek, Platte City MO 54.36% 6 Judith Wolf - Jessica Chance, West Des Moines IA 55.23% 6 2 1 Gene Brandl, Apple Valley MN; Del Swanson, Lakeville MN 54.14% 7 3 3 Lucy Stinson, Shawnee Mission KS; Jean Howard, Prairie Village KS 53.27% 7 3 Jay Shah, Saint Louis MO; R. Dian Barker, Alton IL 52.72% 8 4 4 William Cook, Twin Falls ID; Clyde Coon, Boise ID 52.51% 8 4 2 Alan Godes, Needham MA; Lisa Hebert, Ottawa ON 51.53% 9 5 Leia Berla, Old Greenwich CT; Louis Ray, San Antonio TX 52.18% 9 Timothy Flaherty, San Diego CA; Yang Xu, New York NY 51.31% 6 Todd Stimmel, New York NY; John Stimmel, Miami Beach FL 51.63% 5 3 Judy Brown - Ron Brown, Houston TX 51.20% 6 4 Katha Hurt - Linda Schottler, Manhattan KS 49.46%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH PAIRS SESSION 1 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION O EAST-WEST 7 5 2 7 5 2 1 1 1 Nancy Epoch - Betty Cleland, Topeka KS 57.74% 1 1 1 Donna Katz, Prairie Village KS; Sharon Cormack, Olathe KS 61.31% 2 2 David Goodwin - Rose Goodwin, Austin TX 57.44% 2 Tracey Ball, Urbandale IA; Janee Oleson, Evansdale IA 61.01% 3 Ernest Rosenthal, Overland Park KS; Robert Tung, Leawood KS 54.76% 3 2 George Schaefer - John Wening, Jefferson City MO 56.55% 4 3 Martin Mueller - Rodney Anderson, Omaha NE 53.87% 4 3 George Steele, Austin TX; Sharyn Pyrz, Bonita CA 51.49% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION P EAST-WEST 7 5 2 7 5 2 1 1 Patricia Mason, Kansas City MO; Marlene Jones, Overland Park KS 65.60% 1 1 Irene Jasper - Carol Miller, Omaha NE 66.24% 2 2 Steven Brodmerkle, Neosho Falls KS; Charles Carlson, Savonburg KS 57.58% 2 2 1 Mareke Campbell, Overland Park KS; Nancy Fishback, Edisto Island SC 57.44% 3 Henry Kingdon, San Rafael CA; Judy Kennedy, Omaha NE 54.00% 3 3 Steve Button, Wichita KS; Jesse Moore, Kechi KS 54.36% 4 3 Sharon Berglund, Anthem AZ; Arjun Singh, Lakewood CO 52.78% 4 Connie Van Patter - Karen Roland, McKinney TX 51.32% 1 Cheryl Diane Patrick - Margaret Randle, Kansas City MO 52.20% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION L EAST-WEST 7 5 2 7 5 2 1 1 Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX; Helen King, San Antonio TX 57.74% 1/2 1/2 Terry Martin, Mission Hills KS; Victoria Billard, Kansas City MO 61.90% 2 2 Jan Summers, Aurora IL; Jeanne Kowalski, Brookfield IL 55.65% 1/2 1/2 Deborah Reed, Sugar Land TX; Sheryl Thomas, Richmond TX 61.90% 3 3 Vera Miller, Naples FL; Barbara Chaffin, Climax Springs MO 50.89% 3 3 Lisa Hadar, Woodbury NY; Susan Eisner, Huntington Bay NY 56.25% 4 1 Judy Woodfill - John Woodfill, Leawood KS 50.60% 4 4 1 Robert Bradford - Bennet Goeckner, Lawrence KS 55.36%

NABC+ FAST PAIRS 2ND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS G H I J EAST-WEST 1 Maciej Klis, Krakow Poland; Piotr Kucharski, Krakow Poland 61.68% 1 Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL; Jim Munday, Southaven MS 62.10% 2 Stanford Christie, Kirkland WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 60.48% 2 Robert Schachter, Eden Prairie MN; Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN 61.70% 3 C. Valerie Gamio, Palos Verdes Pn CA; Miguel Reygadas, Tlalpan Mexico 60.33% 3 Eric Mayefsky - Jennifer Lin, San Francisco CA 61.10% 4 Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA; Christopher Gibson, Tigard OR 59.10% 4 Adam Parrish, Sandwich MA; McKenzie Myers, Irondale AL 60.06% 5 Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX; Charles Durrin III, Madison AL 58.32% 5 Samuel Kuang, Elmhurst NY; Norman Beck, Dallas TX 58.84% 6 Saleh Fetouh, Buffalo NY; John Gilbert, Kitchener ON 57.69% 6 Mark Perlmutter, San Diego CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 58.71% 7 Robert Munson, Danville CA; Bruce Tuttle, Berkeley CA 57.15% 7 May Sakr, Bryn Mawr PA; Krzysztof Martens, Rzeszow Poland 58.37% 8 Anthony Trebaol, Milpitas CA; Peter Cleaves, Sarasota FL 56.95% 8 Leo Bell, Carlsbad CA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA 57.43% 9 Michael Boreson, Kalispell MT; Jourdain Patchett, Sarasota FL 56.91% 9 Allison L Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Gerrianne Mason, Crossville TN 57.04% 10 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 56.17% 10 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA 56.65% 11 Richard Holmes - Harold George, Wichita KS 55.91% 11 Leonardo Fruscoloni - Claire Alpert, New York NY 56.20% 12 Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN; Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA 55.60% 12 Maritha Pottenger - Kent Hartman, San Diego CA 55.50% 13 Ding-Hwa Hsieh - Lin-Huan Chen, Kirksville MO 55.08% 13 Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Marty Seligman, Philadelphia PA 55.33% 14 Sylvia Shi, Rockville MD; Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 55.05% 14 Bill Irvine - Joe Degaetano, Delray Beach FL 54.84% 15 Norman Schwartz, Carlsbad CA; Henri Farhi, Chula Vista CA 54.91% 15 Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA; Robert Shore, Los Angeles CA 54.70% 16 Zhuo Wang, New York NY; Zihan Tan, Chicago IL 54.68% 16 James Thurtell, Dallas TX; John Schwartz, Plano TX 54.42% 17 Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL; Michael Pitonak, Valley Park MO 54.59% 17 Gil Cohen, Ashburn VA; Marty Nelson, Annapolis MD 54.38% 18 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesville VA; Jennifer Chalfan, Bellevue WA 54.28% 18 Corey Krantz, Delray Beach FL; Bruce Lang, West Palm Beach FL 53.53% 19 Lynne Rosenbaum, Glencoe IL; Valentin Kovachev, Las Vegas NV 54.25% 19 Eileen Paley, Scarsdale NY; Mimi Bieber, Hartsdale NY 53.46% 20 Jeff McKee, Nevada TX; Greg Resz, Weatherford TX 54.10% 20 Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY; Pamela Furtsch, Armonk NY 53.26% 21 Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Kurt Dasher, Petersburg MI 53.90% 21 David Sabourin, Ottawa ON; Mike Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL 53.00% 22 Hjordis Eythorsdottir - Magnus Olafsson, New York NY 53.70% 22 Sherwin Moscow - Connie Coquillette, Vancouver WA 52.54% 23 Allan Siebert, Little Rock AR; Jay Segarra, Ocean Springs MS 53.64% 23 Elizabeth Jankord - Amit Chakrabarti, Manhattan KS 52.48%24/25 Wei Tian, China; Bin Shi, Shanghai China 53.62% 24 Sun-O Ho, Redmond WA; Ronald Tracy, Edmonds WA 51.72%24/25 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY 53.62% 25 Barbara Heller, Knoxville TN; David Rogers, Naples FL 51.71% 26 Suman Agarwal - Brian Snell, Columbus OH 53.52% 26 Jeffrey Rothstein, New York NY; Russell Samuel, Coram NY 51.70% 27 Jay Kelkar, Oak Hill VA; Atul Rai, Wichita KS 53.04% 27 Gary Morrison, Olathe KS; James Masilamani, Topeka KS 51.55%

CHARLOTTE WEIDMAN SATURDAY OPEN PAIRS SESSION 1 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OO EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Mary Vickers, Apex NC; Doree Sobel, Fair Lawn NJ 60.88% 1 Shelba Parmley, Oklahoma City OK; Bill Ream, Burleson TX 64.58% 2 Veronica McMurdie - John Chan, Sacramento CA 60.42% 2 1 1 Duddow Cooney, Regina SK; Stephen Li, Winston Salem NC 59.26% 3 1 Romeo Bodrogi-Podoaba, Houston TX; Dennis Schultz, Harrison OH 56.25% 3 2 2 Rufus Cole - Silvia Szanto, Cos Cob CT 55.09% 4 2 1 Elizabeth Herbert - Robert Herbert, Kansas City MO 53.01% 4 3 Sabrina Miles, Mansfield MA; Robert Huber, Minneapolis MN 53.24% 3 Sohail Hasan, Forest Hills NY; Joann McDonald, Indianola IA 48.15%

CHARLOTTE WEIDMAN SATURDAY OPEN PAIRS SESSION 2 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OO EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Veronica McMurdie - John Chan, Sacramento CA 62.04% 1/2 Shelba Parmley, Oklahoma City OK; Bill Ream, Burleson TX 56.94% 2 1 Gina Austin Fresh - Robert Ellison, Wichita KS 56.48% 1/2 1 Sabrina Miles, Mansfield MA; Robert Huber, Minneapolis MN 56.94% 3 2 Shmuel Greenberg, Israel; Nathan Roser, Overland Park KS 53.01% 3 2 Jordan Kaye, West Bloomfield MI; Jin Hu, New York NY 56.02% 4 3 Chantal Dube - Josette Levesque, Montreal QC 52.55% 4 3 1 Elizabeth Herbert - Robert Herbert, Kansas City MO 55.32% 1 Duddow Cooney, Regina SK; Stephen Li, Winston-Salem NC 47.92%

GREATER KANSAS CITY REALTY SATURDAY EVENING SIDE PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION NN EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Yan Zhang, Jersey City NJ; Won Yang, Clermont FL 58.33% 1 1 1 Claudia Broaddus, Overland Park KS; Rob Lee, Kansas City MO 65.83% 2 2 Barbara Smith, Dallas TX; Beth Castleberry, Richardson TX 57.92% 2 Toby White, Des Moines IA; Richard Newell, West Des Moines IA 54.58% 2 Connie Davidson, Shawnee Mission KS; Sherry Greisen, Houston TX 53.33%

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS SECTION V A B C 1 1 1 Mark Denker, Garland TX; Nina Williams, Stillwater OK 61.81% 2 Martin Mueller - Rodney Anderson, Omaha NE 58.33% 3 2 2 Robbie Lloyd, Silver Spring MD; Carole Stringer, Bethesda MD 56.94%


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THURSDAY-SATURDAY MORNING SIDE SERIES - FINAL27.25 Tables / Based on 14 Tables 7.35 1/2 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA 124.17% 7.35 1/2 Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 124.17% 7.58 3/4 Romeo Bodrogi-Podoaba, Houston TX 120.23% 7.58 3/4 Dennis Schultz, Harrison OH 120.23% 4.89 5 Won Yang, Clermont FL 116.37% 3.38 6 Buddhadeb Biswas, San Jose CA 115.81% 4.93 7/8 Mary Ose, Sacramento CA 114.81% 4.93 7/8 Teri Smoot, Placerville CA 114.81%

NORTHEAST KANSAS FRIDAY B/C/D PAIRS SESSION 1 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION CCC EAST-WEST B C D B C D 1/2 Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Richard Leonardon, Santa Fe NM 59.78% 1 Michael Kelley - Martina Kelley, Lake Zurich IL 59.94% 1/2 Joy McKenzie-Smith, Chapel Hill NC; Millie Garrison, Riverside CA 59.78% 2 Linda Dunn, Memphis TN; Harold George, Wichita KS 57.05% 3 1 1 Marc Elster, Lawrence KS; Davis Bennett, Colorado Springs CO 57.53% 3 Chantal Dube - Josette Levesque, Montreal QC 56.09% 4 2 Dorothy Moore - Tom Moore, Keller TX 56.57% 4 Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA; George Parkins, Vienna VA 54.33% 5 Steve Graves - Brenda Thomas, Venice FL 55.13% 5 1 Irene Reiter, Pine Brook NJ; Stephanie Austin, West Caldwell NJ 53.69% 6 3 Lisa Hebert, Ottawa ON; Jim Hutter, Ames IA 53.69% 6 2 Sohail Hasan, Forest Hills NY; Robert Huber, Minneapolis MN 53.37% 4 2 Donna Katz, Prairie Village KS; Patricia Chasnoff, Fairway KS 51.28% 3 Donna Barbian - Cameron Barbian, Springfield IL 52.40% 4 1 Jack Hawks, Walnut Creek CA; Cyndi Sauvage, Englewood CO 51.44% 2 Beverly Wedel, Bartlesville OK; Mark Boucher, Centennial CO 44.87%

SATURDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OO EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 67.32% 1 John Dickenson, North Wales PA; David Cohan, Doylestown PA 63.48% 2 Veronica McMurdie, Sacramento CA; Carrie Touslee, Roseville CA 61.93% 2 Marilyn Adams, Beaumont TX; Anton (Tony) Haddad, Houston TX 60.56% 3 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Buddhadeb Biswas, San Jose CA 58.99% 3 1 Jerry Nakamura, El Dorado Hills CA; Michael Hughes, Jefferson City MO 51.54% 4 1 Romeo Bodrogi-Podoaba, Houston TX; Dennis Schultz, Harrison OH 52.08% 4 2 Joseph Verdirame - Karen Verdirame, Omaha NE 51.07% 2 1 Diane Warren - Joe Warren, Wichita KS 51.85% 3 Susan Atteridge, Livingston NJ; Wendy Lee, East Hanover NJ 50.05% 3 Robert Adam - Patricia Adam, Huntington Beach CA 45.86%

SATURDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS SECTION VVV

A B C 1 1 Terri Jackson, Kansas City MO; Gaylen Mast, Gladstone MO 67.08% 2 2 Joyce Jonik, Ypsilanti MI; Larry Wood, 65.00% 3 3 1 Robbie Lloyd, Silver Spring MD; Carole Stringer, Bethesda MD 56.82% 4 4 2 Rita Clark - Paula Sauder, Emporia KS 56.25% 5 5 3 Kathleen Parkins, Vienna VA; Theresa Raines, Fort Washington MD 52.28% 6 6 4 Brad Wertz - Lynette Forbes, Lawrence KS 50.91%

SATURDAY MORNING 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UUU EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 David Cliff - Helen Cliff, Wayland MA 59.50% 1 1 1 Beth Malone - Mary Barickman, Overland Park KS 65.00% 2 2 1 Judith McKarnin, Overland Park KS; Trisha Pitts, Kansas City MO 53.00% 2 2 2 Nina Williams, Stillwater OK; Zachery Ayers, Overland Park KS 63.00% 2 Jeff Mermin, Stillwater OK; Mark Denker, Garland TX 50.50%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH PAIRS SESSION 2 OF 2 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION O EAST-WEST 7 5 2 7 5 2 1 1 1 John Klingner, Quincy IL; Lee Greif, Prairie Village KS 58.93% 1 1 Barbara Williford, Raleigh NC; Richard Dixon, Frontenac KS 57.44% 2 2 James Rader, Joint Base M-D-L NJ; Lloyd Alan Hubbard, Princeton MO 56.85% 2 2 Michele Neylon, Leawood KS; Geraldine Grady, Overland Park KS 53.57% 3 3 George Steele, Austin TX; Sharyn Pyrz, Bonita CA 55.06% 3 Karen Sturgeon, Lees Summit MO; Carolyn Bond, Shawnee Mission KS 53.27% 4 Tracey Ball, Urbandale IA; Janee Oleson, Evansdale IA 51.79% 4/5 3/4 1 Ken Deutch - Diane Deutch, St. Louis MO 52.98% 4/5 3/4 Jan Summers, Aurora IL; Jeanne Kowalski, Brookfield IL 52.98% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION P EAST-WEST 7 5 2 7 5 2 1 Connie Van Patter - Karen Roland, McKinney TX 58.63% 1 1 1 David Goodwin - Rose Goodwin, Austin TX 61.31% 2 1 Irene Jasper - Carol Miller, Omaha NE 57.14% 2/3 2/3 Rebecca Walker, Pleasant Hill MO; Jack Caughran, Independence MO 60.71% 3 2 1 Robert Vilyus - Marilyn Gale Vilyus, Houston TX 56.25% 2/3 2/3 Jett Elmer - Jan Benson, Topeka KS 60.71% 4 3 Willa King, San Clemente CA; May Mengstab, Laguna Woods CA 52.98% 4 Ernest Rosenthal, Overland Park KS; Robert Tung, Leawood KS 60.42% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION L EAST-WEST 7 5 2 7 5 2 1 1 Terry Martin, Mission Hills KS; Victoria Billard, Kansas City MO 57.74% 1 1 Sharon Berglund, Anthem AZ; Arjun Singh, Lakewood CO 67.26% 2 2 Richard Holzman, Olathe KS; Jeanne Hanrahan, East Norwich NY 57.14% 2 2 Steven Brodmerkle, Neosho Falls KS; Charles Carlson, Savonburg KS 54.76% 3 3 Lisa Hadar, Woodbury NY; Susan Eisner, Huntington Bay NY 52.08% 3 3 1 Joyce Riley, Prairie Village KS; Rick Bond, Kansas City MO 53.27%

GREATER KANSAS CITY REALTY SATURDAY AFTERNOON SIDE GAME NORTH-SOUTH SECTION NN EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Suanne Blair, Morehead KY; John Jensen, Maysville KY 63.20% 1 1 1 Arnold Nelson Jr. - Mary Alice Nelson, Kansas City MO 57.56% 2 1 Ellen D’Amato, Kansas City MO; Jeanie Brown, Lake Quivira KS 54.19% 2 Nancy Strohmer - Hans Strohmer, Houston TX 54.95% 3 2 1 Michael Hughes, Jefferson City MO; Hong Liu, Frontenac MO 53.38% 3 2 George Parkins, Vienna VA; Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA 54.73% 4 Darlene Shirey, Fort Worth TX; Royce Herndon Jr., Oklahoma City OK 51.16% 4 Joseph Verdirame - Karen Verdirame, Omaha NE 51.75% 3 Christie Thomas-Collier, Overland Park KS; Aref Rasheed, 48.50%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VVV EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Damon Suden - Anthony Chiocchi, New York NY 66.67% 1 1 1 Rita Clark - Paula Sauder, Emporia KS 57.40% 2 2 2 Allison Ryan - Yan Drabek, Florence MA 60.94% 2 2 2 Robbie Lloyd, Silver Spring MD; Carole Stringer, Bethesda MD 57.17%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UUU EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Trisha Pitts, Kansas City MO; Judith McKarnin, Overland Park KS 64.25% 1 1 1 Lisa Mantini - Nina Williams, Stillwater OK 60.67% 2 2 David Cliff - Helen Cliff, Wayland MA 54.42% 2 2 2 Ward Katz, Prairie Village KS; Allan Katz, Kansas City MO 59.65%


Today’s Bridge EventsSunday, March 19, 10 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherStrati-Flighted A/X/Y Swiss Teams (unlimited/5000/3000) 1-2 Century B, Ballroom Level, Westin $16 $20 Playthrough with half-hour break.Bracketed Flight B Teams 1-2 Liberty Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $16 $20 No player over 2500. Brackets of 8 teams by average MPs, 3 teams in each bracket earn gold. Playthrough with half-hour break.Greater Kansas City Realty Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 5th single session East Pershing, Ballroom Level, Westin $16 $20 (unlimited/2500/750)299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Mission Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Mission Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $15 $15Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Mission Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $15 $19

Sunday, March 19, 10 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.Ruth Deuschle Fast Open Pairs (unlimited/2500/750) 1-2 North Pershing, Ballroom Level, Westin $16 $20

Sunday, March 19, 10 a.m. Saturday-Sunday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 East Pershing, Ballroom Level, Westin $16 $20

Sunday, March 19, 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.NABC+ FAST PAIRS 1-2 F Century A, Ballroom Level, Westin $25

Sunday, March 19, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.JACOBY OPEN SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Century C, Ballroom Level, Westin $25MACHLIN WOMEN’S SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Meeting Rooms, Fifth Floor, Westin $25

Sunday, March 19, 2:30 p.m.Greater Kansas City Realty Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 6th single session East Pershing, Ballroom Level, Westin $16 $20 (unlimited/2500/750)299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Mission Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Mission Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $15 $15Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Mission Room, Ballroom Level, Westin $15 $19

Unless otherwise noted: The three-flight events (two-session) are divided: A/X (unlimited/5000) separate from B/C (2500/1500) and the Gold Rush (750/300). Two-flight events are divided: A/X/Y (Unlimited/5000/3000), B/C/D (2500/1500/500) if no Gold Rush; A/B/C (Unlimited/2500/1500), Gold Rush (750/500/200). Open events: A (Unlimited), B (750–2500) and C (0–750). In B/C and B/C/D events, no single player may be over 2500. In Gold Rush events, no single player may be over 750. 299er and lower events are stratified at the discretion of the director. BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events. UPPER CASE = NABC events. *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.

See you in Toronto ONfor the Summer NABC July 20–30and the Youth NABC July 27–29.

2016 Summer NABCWashington, DCJuly 21–31, 2016

All events will be played at theMetro Toronto Convention Centre

225 Front St. West • Toronto ON$164 CAD/night plus tax

Other accommodations:Fairmont Royal York100 Front St. West

$164 CAD/night plus tax

Westin Harbour Castle 1 Harbour Square

$164 CAD/night plus tax

Don’t forgetyour passport

U.S. Players are reminded to obtain a passport and should do so well in advance of the tournament to allow sufficient time for their applications to be processed.

Reservations can be made through ACBL’s website or call

855-992-3353Summer NABC ♥ Toronto ON

July 20–30, 2017

Documents

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