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Congratulations to the winners of the Rochester Winners of the Rochester KOs Bracket 2 are: KOs: E Davis, Bob Bambrick, Douglas Dolbear Dennis Glazebrook, Christine Pentesco, Maureen and Keith Heckley. Clark and Sandra Smee. Congrats!!

Kudos to Alan Lee, Richard Chan, Bill Koski and Congrats to the Goldrush Swiss Team winners: Edmund Fok for winning the Open Swiss Teams Max Rutherford, Liz Bryers, Janet Glazebrook on Thursday. and Allen Wirch. Tournament News Hospitality Speakers (all sessions are at 9:15am) There will be hospitality every night in Room 518 from • Friday: Joann Glasson Who’s Got What? (You make an 5:45pm. Beverages and snacks will be available. Each night opening lead against a NT contract will feature a special menu. On Friday we are offering Sloppy and your partner plays the perfect Joes, Macaroni Salad, Pistachio Salad and Dessert. card; so who’s got what?) Fast Results • Saturday: Dan Boye Jump In - the water's fine! Preempts Tournament results will be available through Fast Results. made easier - offensively and If you do not have a free subscription, instructions can be found defensively at the bottom of page 3 of this bulletin telling you how you can get results sent directly to your phone, pad or computer. Novice/Intermediate Players Pick up a copy of the Intermediate/Novice Flyer which pro - vide greater detail on activities and events. You can also find the Table Count flyer on the web. Instructions are at the bottom of page 3 of this bulletin. We are pleased to announce that as of For players in the Gold Rush games and the 99 er , there will be prizes for section tops and above. Please don't forget to stop Wednesday evening our table count is: at the information desk to pick up those prizes. Gold Rush Games are limited to players with under 750 masterpoints. All players placing will be awarded either red or gold points, 590 depending on where they place.

THURSDAY OPEN SWISS 29 Tables / Based on 65 Tables A B C 25.43 1 William Koski, King City ON; Alan Lee, Willowdale ON; Richard Chan, Markham ON; Edmund Fok, Scarborough ON 98.00 19.07 2 Walter Galloway - Janet Galloway, Willowdale ON; Wendy Krause - Arnold Krause, East York ON 86.00 14.30 3 Mary Poplawski - Harry Nuckols, Vestal NY; Susan Hill, Rochester NY; Martin Caley, Montreal QC 81.00 10.44 1 B Gayle Phillips - William Foster, Rochester NY; Alex Booke - Sandy Booke, The Villages FL 68.00 7.83 2 1 Edythe Krauss - Stephen Pope - Courtenay Footman, Ithaca NY; Gary Amundson, Fayetteville NY 67.00 5.87 3 Jerry Manioci, Rochester NY; Joan Renzoni, Toronto ON; Barbara Phillips, Stuart FL; Dian Petrov, Buffalo NY 65.00 4.40 4 2 Shakeel Ahmad - Manju Ceylony, Clarence Center NY; Ken Meier, Orchard Park NY; Gaurang Sheth, Williamsville NY 60.00 3.26 3 Joan Dunbar, S-Mountain ON; Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Lorraine Garvin, Toledo ON; Linda Roach, Smiths Falls ON 56.00 Congrats to B Gayle Phillips, Jonathan Forde and Stanca Winning their strat in the William Foster, Alex Booke and Ciupe finished second overall Goldrush Teams are: Coby Sandy Booke for their Strat win but won their strat in Thursday Valensa, Luke Valensa, Carol in Thursday’s Swiss Teams. evening’s sidegame Congrats!! Schilling and Robert Valensa. WED/THURS KO TEAMS 9 Tables 24.40 1 Robert Bambrick - E Davis, Ottawa ON; Keith Heckley - Douglas Dolbear, Hamilton ON 17.08 2 Martin Hunter, Mississauga ON; John Duquette, Oshawa ON; Douglas Ross, Pittsford NY; Daniel Boye, Farmington NY; Sam Maitra, Rochester NY 9.76 3/4 Sally Hill, Webster NY; Jerome Weiss, Penfield NY; Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY; John D'Errico, Acton NY 9.76 3/4 Donald Dalpe - Barry Ko, Baldwinsville NY; Thomas Andrews, Utica NY; Robert Simard, East Syracuse NY; John Hemmer, Syracuse NY WED/THURS KO TEAMS - BRACKET 2 10 Tables 11.22 1 Dennis Glazebrook - Christine Pentesco - M Maureen Clark - Sandra Smee, St Catharines ON 7.85 2 Dick Rohrberg, Rochester NY; Robert Howell - Jo Ann Filipe, Fairport NY; Michele Griffin, Penfield NY 4.49 3/4 Barbara Pieterse - Martin Pieterse, Lancaster NY; Arthur Matthies - Joyce Greenspan, East Amherst NY 4.49 3/4 E Meacham, Warsaw NY; Richard Muse, Arkport NY; Valarie Davidsen, Canisteo NY; Susan Randall, Chocton NY THURSDAY MORNING SIDE GAME 8.0 Tables A B C 3.41 1 1 Norma Deambra - Diana Laurent, Oswego NY 61.90% 2.56 2 John Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Lloyd Arvedon, Woburn MA 61.61% 2.42 3 2 1 Anna Gray - Bruce Bowden, Port Hope ON 57.74% 1.47 4 Evelyn Stateler - Jack Stateler, Rochester NY 55.06% 1.08 5 Helen Pawlowski, Westfield MA; Karen McCallum, Exeter NH 53.57% 1.81 3 Richard Furlow - Sarah Furlow, Skaneateles NY 50.89% 1.36 4 Joseph Hruschak, Webster NY; Arlene Clarkson, Ontario NY 50.30% 1.61 5 2 Christine Malarkey, Fort Myers FL; Pawan Matta, Williamsville NY 49.40% 1.20 3 Margaret Symington, Rochester NY; Marie Kilian, Pittsburgh PA 49.11% Trump coup makes slam Here was a fun slam we had in the Wednesday knock-out at the club at trick one. Play a trump to the ace, then cash the ♠A, the regional. It is sort of a trump coup, but a typical trump coup and return to hand with the ♦Q. Cash the ♠K, and pitch the club involves a high trump that iyou cannot finesse. Here we will see in dummy. some little trumps to coup away. Here are your hands at this point. The lead is in the South.

Dlr: East ♠ A ♠ - Vul: Both ♥ ΑK103 ♥ K103 ♦ AKJT94 ♦ AKJT9 ♣ ♣ 104 - ♠ ?? ♥ Q87 ♦ ?? ♠ K10 ♠ - ♣ ?? ♥ J9654 ♥ J965 ♦ Q ♦ - ♣ AJ653 ♣ J653 Wˇ est North East South If you try to draw those trumps while ending in the dummy, pass 1♥ East can force you to ruff a club when she gets in with her queen. 1♠ 2♠1 pass 3♣ This is the position that you feared, but you had no real choice pass 3♦ pass 3♠2 in the play. pass 4♠3 pass 4NT 4 Have no fear however, as this is the position you saw early pass 5♣5 pass 5♥6 in the hand, now come to life. Just lead a trump to the 10 in pass 6♥7 all pass dummy. Suppose that East wins the queen, and then returns a club to force a ruff in dummy. You ruff with the 3 spot. Then just 1: Good hand, usually a limit raise or better in hearts, but may start to play diamonds. sometimes be just a strong game forcing hand Those diamonds are all good now. What can east do? She 2: A stall, since South still does not know where the hand is remains with two trumps, the 87, but if she ever ruffs, you will going overruff. You also have two trumps, the J9. So if she ruffs, then 3: Roman Keycard Blackwood for hearts, 1430 responses you overruff, and play your last trump to dummy. That will draw 4: 1 or 4 keycards her remaining trump, and you have only good diamonds left in 5: Ask for the ♥Q dummy. 6: No ♥Q Now, think about what happens if earlier, East ducks the 7: If we’ve got six footnotes why not have a seventh? heart when you played to the 10 before. This would leave her with Q8. You start playing diamonds with the K3 remaining in If I had been able to show the ♥Q then I would do so by dummy. If East ever ruffs a diamond, then she can do no more bidding 5 ♠, which would show the ♠K as well. Now partner than to get her one trump trick, but that is the end for her again. could visualize 13 tricks, because he can see a club pitch com - No matter what East does, you will spirit those long trumps ing on the spade. However, in a team game, do not bid a grand away in her hand. It is a trump coup, but not the classical trump slam if you are off the queen of trumps. coup you see in the books. It is a trump coup you can visualize The play is the interesting part though. In fact, just ignore as soon as you see the poor trump split. the bidding if you don't like it, and play the hand in 6 ♥ by South. As it turns out, this hand is probably crucial. You gain 17 West leads the ♣K. IMPs on the board, since they went down in the heart grand You win the ♣A, then play a heart towards the ace. If both slam. They went to 7 ♥, which never had a chance to make, opponents follow suit in trumps, you can virtually claim 12 because they never bothered to find out about the missing trump tricks because you can discard the club in dummy on the ♠K. queen. If you essentially push the board, that might let them But to do that, you need to use that diamond queen as an entry sneak past you in the knock-out. to your hand. All of this is no problem as long as trumps are no Submitted by John D’Errico worse than 3-1. However, it turns out that West discards a spade when you lead towards dummy at trick two. So East has all four trumps, the Q872. Your fear is that when East wins the ♥Q, they can force dummy to ruff a club. This will leave dummy with one Hospitality Menu fewer trump than East holds. You can then get your pitch of the Friday, May 15 Sloppy Joes, Macaroni Salad, Pistachio Salad, club in dummy and try to draw trumps, but you will have no re- Dessert entry to the long diamonds. The answer is simple. But you absolutely need to think this Room 518 5:45 pm through, to visualize what happens, and why it works. So win Winners of Thursday evening’s The Hospitality Hostesses respon - It’s not too late to join the crowd side game are: Douglas Dolbear sible for arranging the wonderful enjoying the hospitality at the and Keith Heckley. food are Sandy and Kathy. tournament. Stop by later today!! THURSDAY AFT SIDE GAME 9.5 Tables A B C 3.79 1 1 Richard Hurd - Eleanor O'Connor, Trumansburg NY 60.59% 2.84 2 2 1 Morag Horsman, Ancaster ON; Faye Baker, Hamilton ON 59.12% 2.13 3 3 Barry Ko, Baldwinsville NY; Thomas Andrews, Utica NY 58.53% 1.60 4 Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY; John D'Errico, Acton NY 54.99% 1.63 5 John Hemmer, Syracuse NY; Robert Simard, East Syracuse NY 51.54% 1.49 6 4 2 Barbara Fallone, Lady Lake FL; Vince De Pasquale, Niskayuna NY 50.85% 1.02 5 Christine Malarkey, Fort Myers FL; Pawan Matta, Williamsville NY 50.72% THURSDAY EVE SIDE GAME 6.0 Tables A B C 3.03 1 1 Douglas Dolbear - Keith Heckley, Hamilton ON 71.25% 2.27 2 2 1 Jonathan Forde, Geneva NY; Stanca Ciupe, Blacksburg VA 55.42% 1.70 3/4 3 Craig Duncan, Rochester NY; James Sakr, Pittsford NY 52.08% 1.49 3/4 Dick Wilson, Delray Beach FL; Ronald Mittleman, Pittsford NY 52.08% 1.49 4/5 2 Beverly Torraville, Toronto ON; Shirley Towers, Pickering ON 51.67% 1.12 4/5 Leo Birmingham, Whitney Point NY; Joan Dunbar, S-Mountain ON 51.67% District 4 Website The place to get important info such as : I/N Players Info Sheet Daily Bulletins on the Web

http://district4.info/Rochester/ bulletins2015.htm THURSDAY GOLD RUSH SWISS 38 Tables A B C 8.82 1 Liz Bryers - Janet Glazebrook, St Catharines ON; Max Rutherford, Mississauga ON; Allen Wirch, Fort Erie ON 89.00 6.62 2 1 Kay Richardson - Brian Richardson, Ottawa ON; Jo Wilson - Barbara McIver, Rochester NY 84.00 4.96 3 Roger Newell, Pittsford NY; Robert Dewey - Gary Gottermeier, Fairport NY; Graham Holroyd, Webster NY 83.00 3.72 4 Mary Ann Morrow, Fairport NY; Marshall Atwell - Edmund Reppert, Rochester NY; Nancy Mason, Pittsford NY 81.00 4.25 5 2 Roberta Burkell - Keith Burkell, St Catharines ON; Beverly Torraville, Toronto ON; Shirley Towers, Pickering ON 79.00 2.52 6 John Noronha, Pittsford NY; Murray Scott, Raymond NH; Nelson Mathias - William Wooster, Fairport NY 77.00 3.19 7 3 Betty Marshall, Orillia ON; Brenda Moffatt, Coldwater ON; Paul Pointet, Mississauga ON; Carolyn Overland, Toronto ON 75.00 1.96 8 Ann Wilkinson - Sharon Richardson, Oakville ON; Mary Lyke - Gerry Ride, Rochester NY 74.00 1.76 9 Audrey Natoli - Elaine Brigman, Webster NY; Norma Mooney, Pittsford NY; Joyce Groth, Palm Bch Gdns FL 73.00 2.39 10 4 1 Coby Valensa - Luke Valensa - M Carol Schilling, Fairport NY; Robert Valensa, Webster NY 72.00 1.76 5/6 Kathy George - Sheila O'Donnell - Vinod Patel, Rochester NY; Nancy Koch, Pittsford NY 68.00 1.79 5/6 2 Mariann Glynn - Lezlie Cullen, Toronto ON; Raymond Mitchell - Nancy Lucas, Etobicoke ON 68.00 1.34 7/8 Julianne Huse - Patsy Beers, Pittsford NY; Elaine O'Brien, Sun Lakes AZ; Mary Ann Hargrave, Rochester NY 66.00 1.34 7/8 Pat Smith - Gary Smith, Rochester NY; Gary Conners - Gwenyth Conners, Pittsford NY 66.00 1.34 3 Shirley Miller - Deborah Price, Canandaigua NY; Jane Iannello - Ken Winkler, Farmington NY 43.00 Big Thank You Regional. And a thank you to the teachers, who helped to get the attendees there. It was wonderful to have such a large class. I hope that all of the attendees enjoyed it as much as I did. And another big thank you to all of the attendees and others, who made donations to support our projects. $1,900 was raised - enough to pay for a teacher for a year and a half at one of our schools in Cambodia. The playing site for the Rochester Regional was excel - lent and the hospitality was superb. Congratulations to Mary and all of the organizing team for making the tournament so delightful. Thanks again to Mary and to the bridge players of Rochester and area for their generous support of our schools in Cambodia. Please see my website (www.pattilee.ca) for A huge thank you to Mary Miller for the opportunity to more information about what we are doing in Cambodia. teach a lesson on Defense, as a fund raiser for our schools in With gratitude Cambodia, on Monday morning, just before the start of the Patti Lee

Masterpoint Race 1 49.89 Richard Chan 35 17.98 Mary Poplawski 2 49.89 William Koski 36 17.98 Harry Nuckols 3 49.89 Edmund Fok 37 17.98 Susan Hill 4 49.89 Alan Lee 38 17.82 Stewart Cramer 5 38.08 Roger Woodin 39 16.75 Carol Boyer 6 37.63 Corey Krantz 40 16.41 Gerald Hitt 7 37.63 Rhoda Kratenstein 41 15.08 Lewis Rothberg 8 28.65 Sally Hill 42 15.08 Douglas Spiker 9 27.98 Richard Briggs 43 14.83 James Carroll 10 26.22 Liz Bryers 44 14.37 Edythe Krauss 11 26.22 Janet Glazebrook 45 14.37 Stephen Pope 12 25.47 Arnold Krause 46 14.29 Joseph Hruschak 13 25.47 Walter Galloway 47 13.99 Dick Tuttle 14 24.39 Andrew Firko 48 13.99 Ronald Dewey 15 24.39 Jack Shinehoft 49 13.95 Lyn Stevens 16 24.39 Roger Snowling 50 13.95 Betty Youmans 17 24.39 Gary Westfall 51 13.95 Charlotte St Amant 18 24.11 Michael Carney 52 13.95 Judith Elliott 19 23.67 Lois Sanders 53 13.83 Robert Bambrick 20 21.92 Wendy Krause 54 13.83 E Davis 21 21.92 Janet Galloway 55 12.93 Michele Griffin 22 20.13 Dick Wilson 56 12.40 Robert Simard 23 19.95 Guy Arie 57 12.07 Joan Viidik 24 19.75 Martin Hunter 58 12.07 James Bridges 25 19.75 Douglas Ross 59 12.07 Tony Viidik 26 19.75 John Duquette 60 11.89 John Noronha 27 19.75 Daniel Boye 61 11.83 Stephen Snell 28 19.75 Sam Maitra 62 11.83 Richard Folwell 29 19.42 Douglas Dolbear 63 11.83 Donald Jones 30 19.42 Keith Heckley 64 11.66 Judy Overland 31 18.45 Barbara McIver 65 11.66 Wendy Dooley 32 18.39 Brian Richardson 66 11.66 Bev Ross 33 18.39 Kay Richardson 67 11.66 Eva Upper 34 17.98 Martin Caley 68 11.57 Eugene Nawotniak How to play trump ♠ before reading on. (Yes you can guess that East should have the Dlr: North AJ92 ♠ Vul: Both ♥ Α Q because West’s takeout double implies spade shortness but K65 can you come up with a play whihc guarantees the contract ♦ 4 ♣ against any lay of the cards. Afterall, our opponents don’t 9875 always make perfect takeout doubles and West may have the ♠Q. This is a trick question as declarer’s best play is to delay drawing trump. Look what happens when declarer goes about taking a few tricks and ruffing a few others. ♠ Start by playing a diamond to the ♦A and ruffing a dia - K10876 ♥ ♥ 7 mond in dummy. Now cash the K and ruff a heart. Follow by 2 ruffing a diamond in dummy and another heart in hand. You ♦ AQ7 ♣ now have seven tricks. K62 Dummy has the ♠AJ and you have the ♠K108. Exit a club and wait patiently for your three spade tricks. This brings your West North East South trick total to 10 and your contract is safely home. 1♣ pass 1♠ The actual hands were. dbl 2♠ pass 4♠ pass pass pass Dlr: North ♠ AJ92 Opening lead: ♥Q Vul: Both ♥ ΑK65 ♦ 4 You are declarer on the above auction in yesterday’s Swiss ♣ 9875 Teams. There is nothing unreasonable in the action at the table but you have to play the hand correctly as you are in a team ♠ event and misplaying this hand may cost the match. Q ♠ 543 It appears that you have three club losers. (West did double ♥ QJ108 ♥ 943 ♦ for takeout and should have some values in clubs.) KJ1085 ♦ 9632 ♥ ♣ ♠ You win the opening lead with dummy’s A. The ques - AQ4 K10876 ♣ J103 tion is how to play trump. On the auction, West may have a sin - ♥ 72 gleotn spade. Other days West will have two spades. ♦ AQ7 Take a minute to decide how you would play the trump suit ♣ K62

Tournament Schedule Friday, May 15 Sunday, May 17 • Binghamton KOs (1 st & 2 nd Rnds) 10 am & 2:30 • Stratiflighted Swiss Teams 10 am • Stratiflighted Open Pairs 10 am & 2:30 • Goldrush Swiss Teams (2 Sessions) 10 am • Keuka Lake Sidegame Series 10 am & 2:30 • Goldrush Pairs (2 Sessions) 10 am & 2:30 • Evening KOs 7:30 • Watertown Compact KOs (1 st Rnd) 7:30 Masterpoint Stratification • Evening Sidegame Series 7:30 Top KO Bracket may be handicapped Saturday, May 16 Stratified Events • Binghamton KOs (3 srd & 4 th Rnds) 10 am & 2:30 A 2000+, B 750 - 2000, C 0 - 750 • Stratiflighted Open Pairs 10 am & 2:30 • Ithaca Compact KOs (2 sessions) 10 am & 2:30 Goldrush Games • Keuka Lake Sidegame Series 10 am & 2:30 A 300 - 750, B 100 - 300, C 0 - 100 • Goldrush Pairs (2 Sessions) 10 am & 2:30 Stratiflighted Open Pairs/Swiss • Evening KOs 7:30 A 2500+, B 1500 - 2500, C 0 - 1500 • Watertown Compact KOs (2 nd Rnd) 7:30 • Evening Sidegame Series 7:30