Saturday, July 19, 2008 Volume 80, Number 2 Daily Bulletin

80th Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Putnam earns ACBL

service award California Roger Putnam, one of ACBL’s most popular Institute of tournament directors – with his peers as well as Technology with players – has been named as the 2008 won the recipient of the Jane Johnson Award for Collegiate Team outstanding service. Championship. The award is Team members named in honor of the are Cheng late head of ACBL’s William Hong , Member Services Hsi-Chun Liu, Department. Roger Lee and Earlier this year, Chien-Yao Patty Taylor in Member Tseng. Services and Dana Norton in Education received the Jane Johnson Award given to Headquarters employees. Putnam has many friends and admirers in the ACBL ranks. Cal Tech takes Collegiate “Roger is a very good role model as a floor TD,” said Rick Beye, ACBL’s chief tournament Championship director. “He knows how to talk to the players. Twenty-eight teams began play online last For the winning team, Roger Lee is a senior When I first started out, I liked the way he worked February and now there is one. California Institute who is math and economics major; Chien Yao is a and I wanted to be like him. When I worked on of Technology is the 2008 Collegiate Champion. physics A major from Taiwan; Hsi-Chun Liu is an his team I always learned something.” The top eight teams from the online electrical engineering major from Taiwan; and Putnam, who lives in Redmond WA near qualification round played here in a round robin. Cheng William Hong is a computer science major Seattle, worked his first tournament in 1967 and Harvard advanced to play Princeton, and Michigan from Singapore. has plied his trade at NABCs three times a year played Cal Tech. Princeton and Cal Tech won their The second-place Princeton team was Peter since 1969. He achieved national rank as a TD in matches and played in the final in which Cal Tech Diao, Nathan Savir, Jonathan Ullman and James 1985. won by a score of 144—25. Sundstrom. “You have to be very lucky for your avocation to turn into your vocation,” he said, noting that he is going on part-time status as of the first of next GNTs now in English-Irish duo month. He and his wife, Margo, a former TD herself, plan to play more bridge and do some semifinals lead LM Pairs traveling. Four flights of the are Tom Hanlon of Ireland and Paul Hackett of “I have always enjoyed playing and the down to the round of four as teams that began at England hold a narrow lead heading into the challenge of the game,” Putnam said. the grass roots level strive for national semifinal round of the Von Zedtwitz Life Master National TD Patty Johnson remembers the championships. Pairs today. help she received from Putnam when she first Competitors are doing battle in the Their carryover score of 1302.96 was just started as a TD. “He was one of those who wanted Championship Flight, plus Flights A, B and C. ahead of the 1292.14 posted by Walt and Kathie to help you make it,” she said. “He was always The event will conclude on Sunday. Walvick of McLean VA. more interested in others than in himself.” In the top flight, last year’s winners – Mike In the Bruce LM-5000 Life Master Pairs, the Matt Smith, of Victoria BC, has worked many Becker, Warren Spector, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric leaders, also by a narrow margin, are Bill tournaments with Putnam because they live in the Rodwell, David Berkowitz and Larry Cohen – are McKenna of Darien IL and Frank Pancoe of Glen Northwest. “Roger is always up and helpful to still playing. Ellyn IL, just ahead of Roger Snowling of people – and he has always been that way,” Smith The defending champs, from District 9, trailed Hamilton ON and Gary Westfall of Brampton ON. said. at the halfway point of their match with the In the Young LM-1500 Life Master Pairs, Putnam said that his going on part-time status District 12 squad captained by Perry Johnson. The James Wang of Tempe AZ and Min Xu of Oxnard doesn’t mean NABC regulars have seen the last of Becker team took the lead after three quarters and CA were in first after two qualifying sessions, him. He might still work at the big tournaments, won the match 99-81 to advance to the final followed by Charles Riffle of Emerald Hills CA or “I may show up to play.” against District 16. and J Beck of Millbrae CA.

They won the Junior Goodwill Message Team Trials in Las Today is Junior Day, the day Vegas earlier this we salute and celebrate our younger week and will represent the U.S. in players. Encourage these players as they are the future of ACBL. the Patino Cup (for players 26 and Aileen Osofsky, Chairman younger) in Beijing, National Goodwill Committee China, this fall: Eric Mayefsky, Stanford CA; Victor 2008 Summer NABC Chubukov, San Francisco; Roger 24,222 Lee, Arcadia CA, and Kevin Fay, Ann Arbor MI. - 2,602.5

Photo by Jonathan 21,619.5 to go Stienberg Page 2 Daily Bulletin SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS

Saturday, July 19 5 - 7 p.m. Junior Reception. All Junior players are invited to attend. 9 a.m. - Noon Teacher Accreditation Program (TAP). First session of Conference Rooms 12—14. the ACBL’s popular 10-hour seminar for people interested in learning how to teach bridge successfully. Pre- Sunday, July 20 registration required. Room: Pavilions 1 & 6. TBA . Conference Rooms 8 & 9. 9:30 a.m. - ACBL Educational Foundation meeting. Conference 9 a.m. - Noon Teacher Accreditation Program (TAP). Second session. Noon Room 10. Pre-registration required. Room: Pavilion 1 & 6. 9:30 a.m. - ACBL Laws Commission meeting. Conference Room 8. 9:30 a.m. - of Governors/ACBL Membership Meeting. This Noon Noon meeting is open to all members. Ballroom A. 9:45 a.m. - Free Bridge Lesson with Jerry Helms. Helms, well- 9:45 a.m. - Free Bridge Lesson with Barbara Seagram. Seagram, Noon known teacher and Bridge Bulletin columnist, presents a Noon one of ACBL’s well-known teachers and Bridge Bulletin fun bridge lesson for intermediate and newer players. His columnist, presents a fun bridge lesson for intermediate topic is “How to Make Your Partner’s Bad Bids Look and newer players. Her topic is “Do’s and Don’ts in Play Good: Suit Contracts.” Room: Pavilion 10 & 11 and Defense.” Room: Pavilion 9. 10 a.m. - Noon ACBL Hall of Fame Committee meeting. Conference 10 a.m. - Noon Reception for Bridge Teachers of Junior Players. Room 7. Interested in teaching bridge to Juniors? Currently 10:30 a.m. - Coffee with Carol. Join Carol Robertson, director of club teaching Juniors? Meet officials from Atlanta Junior Noon and member services, and the ACBL staff for an update on Bridge, the School Bridge League and the ACBL what’s new with clubs and marketing programs. Network Education Department to exchange ideas and find others with other club managers. Find out what motions were interested in pursuing Junior bridge activities in their passed at the Summer meeting of the ACBL Board of areas. Conference Room 7. Directors. Free. Conference Rooms 13 & 14. Noon - 5 p.m. Happy Bridge. Special game for new players. Room: 10:30 a.m. - ACBLscore Seminar. Join ACBL Chief TD Rick Beye Pavilion 1. Noon and TD Dan Plato for an informative seminar on the 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. ACBL Patron Member Reception. Room: TBA. ACBLscore program. Free. Conference Rooms 13 & 14. 11:30 p.m. - Women’s Team Trials meeting. Conference Room 7. 1 - 3 p.m. Bridge Plus+. Special game for new players. 14 boards, 2 a.m. no card fee. Room: Pavilion 9. 5 - 6:30 p.m. Intermediate/Newcomer Reception. New players are invited to attend. Room: Pavilion 10 & 11. CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Be sure to hear these free expert lectures in Las Vegas daily in Pavilion 1. 6:45 p.m. Peg & Dewy Cundiff Ever-Changing Hands Saturday, July 19 12:15 p.m. Barbara Seagram Common Errors in Bidding Monday, July 21 6:45 p.m. Harriette Buckman The Rule of 14 12:15 p.m. Mel Colcharmio How to Play Like An Expert (Without Being One) Sunday, July 20 6:45 p.m. Norma Sands Bidding Over 12:15 p.m. Ed McPherson The & Other Improbable Feats LATE NIGHT/ENTERTAINMENT On Friday, July 25, be sure to wear your Hawaiian shirts, in honor of Good Rockin’ Tonight Betty Bratcher’s West Coast tradition, “Hawaii Day.” Don’t forget to wear Tonight will be special as Elvis — yes, Elvis! — will perform for us. your floral shirt! Get ready to sing along with the King! During your visit, check out Teatro Elvis, our DVD movie theater, Nightly, in our very own late-evening dance hall, we’ll feature a steady playing a non-stop showing of dynamic Las Vegas concerts, including stream of classic Fifties and Sixties sock hop music, soft rock and slow those by Elvis, Barry Manilow, Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand. There’ll dance tunes . . . dance hosts included! You’ll sway to the mellow tones of even be an Elvis photo-op with autographed CDs. the Platters, rock to Bill Haley and twist to Chubby Checker. Delicious light Later in the week, there’ll also be a Las Vegas showgirls photo-op. refreshments will be served. Bring your digital, enjoy a cup of java on us, and get a memento of yourself and a sensational showgirl in full regalia to show the grandkids!

ACBL bans electronic devices in national events NABC Insider We at the NABC Insider are gratified and The ACBL Board of Directors approved a The Summer North American Bridge humbled to find you have read the Insider’s tips comprehensive ban on electronic devices for all Championships in Las Vegas will be the first online and yesterday’s Daily Bulletin missive. national level events, but not to regional or NABC impacted by the new policy. And, you listened; you brought your own coffee Intermediate Newcomer contests: Participants in the following contests will be makers (and tea pots), you are checking your cell Electronic devices, excluding health related reminded not to approach the playing area with a phones and you are stopping the “ask me girl” to equipment, capable of sending or receiving personal electronic device in their possession, even ask questions – even in the ladies’ room. communication, including but not limited to, if the device is turned off: all flights of the Grand Elvis was in the building last night; we hope headphones, earphones, cellular phones and National Teams, the von Zedtwitz, Bruce and you enjoyed the show. Word is he’ll make a brief minicomputers: (1) shall not be allowed in the Young Life Master Pairs, the Knockout return tonight. Check out the on-going movies in playing areas, adjacent hallways, restrooms or Teams, both Mini-, the Wagar Women's the Ethel’s theater (as we enjoyed a few of the accessible break areas; and (2) shall not be used Knockout Teams, the Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Ethel’s chocolates that somehow didn’t make it to during a session. Teams, the , the NABC+ Fast the registration bags.) These restrictions shall apply to all pairs, Pairs, the Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, the Open The bridge looks like it is going well; we team members, captains, coaches, recorders and Swiss Teams and the National 199er Pairs. know there will be some great play not only in the kibitzers and shall apply throughout any actual named events but in the BIG room, as well. Brent playing session or segment. Masterpoint disclaimer has told us we need to cut our notes short to make A violation of this policy shall result in a room for the results, so, we’ll just ask that you disciplinary penalty of one full board (or 12 IMPs Scores as reported in the Daily Bulletin are thank the Memphis staff you may see today and at that form of scoring) for the first offense. A subject to change because of score changes or tomorrow – a lot of them go home on Sunday. second offense shall result in disqualification from corrections. Therefore, the masterpoint awards as They have been a great help getting things started the event for the pair/team. shown are also subject to change. just as they and all the other folks in Memphis Kibitzers violating this policy shall be removed make our jobs easier and more enjoyable. Give from the playing area for the remainder of the them a smile and a big thanks before they leave. session. Daily Bulletin Page 3 JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS or pleasure trip, ma’am?” Dear New Players: as he looked us, our By Marti Ronemus passports and the car contents over. “Both.” Today I’m going to With one final look, he tell you the True Story said, “Okay, ma’am. of how I tried my level Have a good day.” best to get arrested at “Wait! Don’t you the Canadian border. want to look under that This was the year blanket? You didn’t ask the NABC was held in what was in all the bags!” Toronto. What a great “It’s okay, ma’am, tournament! Great you can be on your way.” bridge, great food, great I tried again, but the shopping. I was traveling with my friend, Tenna, guard was having none of and we had an especially good vacation, but alas, it it, and eventually he told was time to leave. me he could tell I was not You can tell how long we’ve been away from a criminal but that I was home by how much stuff is in the back seat of our “just too boring. Now car. We don’t believe in littering, so all trash is please move along.” tossed into the back seat. We had our special Boring? Did he say pillows and a couple lap robes back there, as well boring? Obviously he had as assorted carry-ons, plunder from various shops, never seen me play maps we couldn’t get back into their original folds, bridge. emergency food rations, bottles of water. Why, just that We were crossing back into the States at morning I had gotten my Niagara Falls, and there was a long wait to get Cartoons Jude Goodwin, from the book Go Ahead Laugh, published by poor partner into a 6NT . through border crossing. At first, we didn’t mind, contract, off two aces, never played hearts or spades again and made as the people-watching and activity level made it thanks to my confusion about whether we play seven. interesting. Eventually though, we got bored and Roman Key Card Blackwood 1430 or 0314. She Boring? Ha! wanted some action. And we got it. made it, too. The car in front of us reached the guard She had all the tricks except the two major-suit station. Something about it must have interested aces. Neither opponent had doubled, so she knew the guards, because they were tearing the car apart the aces were split. Break number one, LHO didn’t – dogs sniffing, stuff being taken out of the car, lead her ace. My partner took the first trick and led mirrors searching underneath. Wow – action. up to my seven-card heart suit on the board, topped Neato. Tenna and I felt like we were watching with K-J-10-9, etc. Break number two, RHO did Miami Vice. Those people had almost as much some counting and realized she needed to stuff in their car as we did. Look! Blankets, trash, on her heart ace once. There were no other entries pillows and bags. Just like us! Ultimately, the to my wretched hand and she didn’t want my people were allowed to drive off. Now it was our partner to be able to run the suit. turn. On that first heart trick, LHO revoked! Break We were excited, thinking the guards would number three! She played a low spade. My partner clean out our car for us too! What a story to tell realized that if LHO had the spade ace, she could Photo by Elaine Woodruff everyone at home this was gonna be! make her contract. Pard had the ♠K Q doubleton. Partners: Jeff Schwartz of Fairfax VA and The guard stuck his head in the car: “Business LHO indeed had the ♠A, pard made one good, Kevin Rosenberg of New Rochelle NY hooked up for a game in the 0-100 game on Friday.

Blackwood (RKB) and the 5♠ response shows ♠Q remain as “late” dummy entries. Next, cash Thinking Bridge two keycards (the and the king the ♥K and play a heart to the ace, ruffing a Long suit establishment are key cards) plus the ♠Q. A 5♥ response also heart with the ♠J in case West is out of hearts. shows two key cards but denies the ♠Q. As He is! There is still one higher heart outstanding Dlr: South ♠ Q 5 2 South, though you can only count 12 sure tricks, (you are counting hearts, of course). Not to Vul: Both ♥ A 7 6 4 3 heart establishment plus at worst the club worry, you have two dummy entries. Cross to the ♠ ♦ A6 make bidding a grand slam odds on. Q, drawing West’s last trump and a heart. ♣ 9 6 4 Play commentary: As South, in order to Don’t look now, but you have established ♠ 10 8 6 ♠ 9 avoid the club finesse, you must try to set up at dummy’s fifth heart for your 13th trick! Cross to ♦ ♣ ♥ J 9 ♥ Q 10 8 5 least one of dummy’s hearts for a club discard. the A and discard the J on the long heart. ♦ Q J 9 8 4 ♦ 10 7 3 2 When setting up a long suit in dummy, keep as Well done. ♣ Q 10 5 ♣ 8 7 3 2 many late entries to dummy as possible. Win the When setting up a long suit, use trump ♦ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♦ ♠ A K J 7 4 3 K and play the A and K, East discarding a entries before side-suit entries ( Q before A). ♦ ♥ K 2 club or a diamond. Notice that the A and the ♦ K 5 ♣ AK J

West North East South The Intermediate- 2♣ Newcomer Pass 2♥ Pass 2♠ section has its Pass 3♠ Pass 4NT own partnership Pass 5♠ Pass 7♠ desk. Jan Condit All Pass and Judy Alpert : ♦Q. assist Marilyn Bidding commentary: As North, your 2♥ Sorkin. The desk is located in the response is natural and positive. Some play a lobby just positive response guarantees two of the top three outside the IN honors, a bit restrictive. Agreeing the trump suit playing area. at the three level (3♠) facilitates slam bidding. Also, two aces plus the queen of partner’s suit facing any sane 2♣ opening should be more than enough for slam. 4NT was Roman Keycard Page 4 Daily Bulletin

Poker players gamble GNT: Flights B and C on slam Qualifications for teams participating in the Arthur Haley, Bert Kulic; 2. Nielih Steve Zolotow and Phil Gordon are famous Grand National Teams Flights B and C were Cheng, Peter Kalat, Jeffery Allen, Carlos poker players who are also good bridge players. earned in local-level events earlier this year. Munoz, Lp. P. Calahan, Bruce Platt The number 13 is considered unlucky by some Flight B winners will have their names 1993 1. Eric Greco, Philip Greco, Kefer Xu, gamblers, but not these two. They bid slam on engraved on the Sheinwold Trophy while the Harry Zhou, David Better; 2. Jack Jessop, board 13 in the first qualifying session of the Von names of Flight C winners will be engraved on the Morrie Kleinplatz, Barry Onslow, Elaine Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs. The hands are rotated. Mac Nab Trophy. Morrison Dlr: East ♠ Q 2 1994 1. Larry Crevier, Sylvain Descoteaux, Vul: Both ♥ J 10 9 8 6 3 Alfred Sheinwold Marc-Andre Fourcaudot, Frederic Pollack; ♦ K 3 Alfred Sheinwold (1912-1997) was one of the 2. Glen Holman, Eric Sutherland, Darren ♣ K 10 3 greatest bridge writers in the history of the game. Wolpert, Hazel Wolpert ♠ J 10 ♠ K 9 8 7 5 He was inducted into the Bridge Hall of Fame in 1995 1. Larry Crevier, Frederic Pollack, Sylvain ♥ 7 5 ♥ —- 1996. Descoteaux, Marc-Andre Fourcaudot; 2. ♦ 8 4 ♦ Q 10 9 6 5 His syndicated bridge column was considered Darren Wolpert, Hazel Wolpert, Gordon ♣ Q J 9 6 5 4 2 ♣ A8 7 by many to be the best —- he had a knack for Brown, Sam Yoga ♠ A 6 4 3 getting his point across to even the least 1996 1. David Green, Edward Lee, Chien ♥ A K Q 4 2 experienced players. He managed this by making Huang, Robert Johnson; 2. David Walker, ♦ A J 7 2 sure that every column had only one main point, Roberts Moore, Jim Hawkins, Geoffrey ♣ —- marking it easier for his readers to focus. Mallette West North East South “You could read a Sheinwold column and 1997 1. Harold Jordan, Sigridur Kristjansdottir, Gordon Zolotow know in an instant that nobody else could have Andy Kaufman, Greg Burch; 2. Steve Pass 1♥ written it,” said Frank Stewart, co-author of the Albin, Elaine Pittius, Julia Ehlers, Mike 2♣ 3♣ 3♠ 6♥ column. “He enlightened and entertained players McNamara All Pass through seven decades and earned millions of 1998 1. Robert Latulippe, Rene Pelletier, Gordon cuebid 3♣ to show a limit raise or fans.” Jocelyn Bernier, Richard Wildi, Jacques better. Players who instead jumped to 4♥, Sheinwold was an editor of Carel, Herve Chatagnier; 2. Richard preempted their partner. Over East’s 3♠ bid, from 1934 to 1963 and editor of The Bridge Wegman, Kefu Xu, Yi Zhong, Weizhong Zolotow jumped directly to 6♥. He didn’t want to Bulletin from 1953 to 1958. He was also the Bao cuebid, reasoning that doing so would likely help author of perhaps the most successful bridge book 1999 1. Henry Caspar, Tom Buttle, Claude the opponents with their opening lead. ever written, 5 Weeks to Winning Bridge, a book King, Ringo Chung, Helen DeWild, Vinay Zolotow ruffed the ♣Q opening lead and drew that sold in the millions. Sarin; 2. Dennis Thompson, Steve Albin, trumps. The contract was secure, but how to make Sheinwold served as chairman of the ACBL David Liss, Jack Brauner an overtrick? Declarer went to the board with the Laws Commission from 1964 to 1975, as 2000 1. Michael Moffatt, Tai Eng, Insa Fricker, ♦K and led another, finessing the jack. This was a chairman of the appeals committees at NABCs Gilbert Lambert; 2. John Turner, Ralph no-risk play; if the finesse lost, he could discard a and as chairman of the ACBL Board of Governors Russo, Mark de Garcia, David Shipman spade loser from the board on his ♦A and still from 1970 to 1973. He was named ACBL 2001 1. Gary Moore, Chris Lubesnik, Kevin make six. Honorary Member of the Year in 1983. Bathurst, Lisa Liberati, Randolph Bidding six and making seven was worth 19.5 Hammock, Ari Greenberg; 2. Michael matchpoints. Bidding and making only six scored Robin Mac Nab Alioto, Robert Cappelli, Frank Sensoli, 13.5 Robin Mac Nab (1915-1985) served as a Deborah DeWitt member of the ACBL Board of Directors from 2002 1. Gary McDole, Fred Dischman, Chad 1956 to 1981. He was ACBL president in 1965. Fisher, Larry Weatherholt; 2. Barry Cohen, Just like Zia He was a past president of the Western Nick Straguzzi, Bill Grosnick, Everett Steve Nellison of Ramsey NJ was impressed Conference, a member of the ACBL Laws Young with his partner’s initial shot on this deal from the Commission and a member of the executive 2003 1. (District 6) Hailong Ao, Jian-Jian Wang, Grand National Teams, Flight A. “It was a Zia council of the . Huailin Chen, Yi Zhong; 2. (District 1) lead,” said Nellison of the trick-one play by Victor Mac Nab, a graduate of Cornell University, Ovidiu Stanica, Rick Soderstrom, Jack Hsu of Waldwick NJ. was a member of the U.S. Olympic track and field Brown, Ron Zambonini Dlr: South ♠ J 9 5 4 squad in 1936. 2004 1. (District 21) Sathya Bettadapura, Jim Vul: E—W ♥ A 8 7 6 4 Leuker, Bruce Tuttle, Shelley Lapkoff, ♦ —- Flight B winners and runners-up: Tanakorn Lavanakul; 2. (District 14) ♣ K Q 7 4 1985 1. Irving Goodman, Floyd Dyson, Leo Jonathan Cohen, Charles Nauen, Mark ♠ K 10 6 2 ♠ Q 8 3 Takelfman, Tim McPhail, Louis Krusemeyer, Patti Stuhlman ♥ K J 10 5 3 ♥ 9 Richardson; 2. Sally Grace, Linda 2005 1. (District 21) Li-Chung Chen, Chuck ♦ 10 9 8 ♦ Q J 7 6 5 2 Weinstein, Sharon Meng, Jennifer James, Wong, Clark Millikan, Alex Staykov, ♣ 6 ♣ 5 3 2 Jerry Poliquin, Robert Buchner Samuel Ieong, Tanakorn Lavanakul; 2. ♠ A7 1986 1. Paul McGowan, George Towner, (District 8) Jim Hudson, Meyer Abarbanel, ♥ Q 2 Winston Edwards, Regena Jones (replaced Arbha Vongsvivut, Mike Giacaman ♦ A K 4 3 Lizzie Hepburn); 2. Ken Connell, Linda 2006 1. (District 25) Bernard Schneider, Frances ♣ A J 10 9 8 Connell, Carla Eisenhauer, S. K. Schneider, Allan Wolf, Russell Friedman; West North East South Carruthers, Claire Jones, Dennis Nelson 2. (District 5) Dan Roseberry, John Bacon, Hsu Nellison 1987 1. Dwight Hunt, Ed Horwitz, Ken Kadish, John Tscholl, Jim Overcasher 1♣ Claude LeFeuvre; 2. Bob Webb, Pat 2007 1. (District 21) John Barth, Jiang Chen, Pass 1♥ Pass 2♦ Webb, Kevin Chen, Joseph Blalock Mike Develin, Nongyu Li; 2. (District 25) Pass 3♣ Pass 3NT 1988 1. Steven Beck, Michael Camp, Win Robert McCaw, Florin Constantin, Pass 4♦ Pass 4♠ Allegaert, Fred Chang; 2. Jean Molnar, Gregory Ingolia, Lewis Gamerman Pass 6♣ All Pass Michael Weber, Down Holmer, Walter Hsu listened to the bidding and selected the Riddle, Joseph Rubin Flight C winners and runners-up ♠K for his opening shot. Declarer could still have 1989 1. George Runyan, Tim Joder, Iype Koshy, 1991 1. Bob Faskingbauer, Kenneth Wolf, made the contract after ruffing a couple of Robert Dupont; 2. Paul Nickerson, Thomas Dressing, David Marker; 2. diamonds in dummy and pulling trumps if he had William Goldsmith, Denise Goldsmith, Albert Tom, Dennis Erani, Valentin played spade to dummy’s 9, but the lead of the Cheryl Porter Carciu, David Marker ♠K gave declarer the impression that Hsu had 1990 1. Judy Hughes, Karen Miller, Robert 1992 1. Richard Unger, Charles Morrin, started with the ♠Q as well. Seaholm, John Morano, Goutam Andrew Ware, Martin Weiverka; 2. J. The job for the defense was not done even Chakraborty, Krishnanand Maillacheruver; Michael Hill, Kevin Kadmus, Carol when Nellison took the ♠J with the queen, 2. Jim Adams, John Edmunds, Dan Wisemiller, Marty Lobdale however. A spade or diamond return would have Feldman, Larry Kahn, Usuf Ismail 1993 1. Stephen Arskan, Richard Ross, Feng subjected Hsu to a major-suit squeeze. Nellison 1991 1. Mary Poplawski, Stanley Poplawski, Liu, Steve Pessin, George Shamy; 2. was up to the task, switching to his singleton heart William Smith, Barrett Raff; 2. Bruce Sardarsink Gohel, Jack Shartsis, Joyce to break up the squeeze and earn his side a useful Norman, Fred Gitelman, Sheri Winestock, Bell, Nathan Banker swing. Geoff Hampson 1994 1. Jianbin Luo, Anil Kaushal, Sundar Atre, 1992 1. Otto Rothenberg, Richard Baumer, Zheng Zhang; 2. Greg Bieber, Art Daily Bulletin Page 5

Steinberg, Roman Shapiro, Betsy Wellington 1995 1. Nathaniel Thurston, Bill Chen, David Shao, Andrew Lewis; 2. Jeff Jacob, Judi Hager, David Rosenstein, Yiping Wang 1996 1. Mark Edeburn, Susan Ostrowski, Dan Berlowitz, Joseph Seo; 2. Mark DeGarcia, Marcus Rodhouse, Steven Erickson, Sheng-Hung Wang 1997 1. Tim Barrett, Joe Grue, Joe Barrett, Chengwei Lee, Tom Monikowski; 2. Curtis Ruder, Atul Rai, Dennis Affholter, Jonathan Davidson 1998 1. Jerzy Jelen, Marek Dalecki, Ted Ryll, Romuald Mindak, Wieslaw Kalita, Zbigniew Muszynski; 2. Ed Williams, Kurt Dasher, Thomas Reband, Bill Gliesman 1999 1. Dave Hemmer, Jon Kurasch, Robert Alps, Roger Solomon; 2. Bruce Scott, ABTA officers: front, Sandy Stevens, Deborah Murphy, treasurer, and Mary Angela Joseph; back, Tom Allen, Paul Hazzard, Jim Boardman Brenda Montague, Brenda Simpson, recording secretary; Joyce Penn, vice president, and Kris 2000 1. Zbigniew Musznyski, Marian Motoyoshi, president. Photo by Elaine Woodruff Kowalewski, Pavel Boruta, Robert Boruta, Michael Omielski, Eugenisz Babiarz; 2. Books, software earn ABTA awards Barry Margolin, Suresh Adina, Leo Zelevinsky, Otis Bricker The American Bridge Teachers’ Association Honorees this year: 2001 1. Mark MacKenzie, Ron Sloan, Deen recognized four new master teachers and handed Judy Shulman – the Applebasket Award for the Hergott, David Gordon; 2. David Ruppert, out various awards at the group’s 51st annual year’s outstanding teacher’s tip. Michael Pearlman, Dan Moore, Walter convention at the Hilton. Joan Anderson – Novice book of the year Mitnick Master teacher is the ABTA’s highest accolade. (Hands on Weak Two-Bids). 2002 1. Stephen Tu, Steve Chen, Shih-Ming Now among the master teacher ranks are Ron Kral Danny Roth – Intermediate book of the year Shih, Paul Cornelius, Rajeev Gupta; 2. (Virginia), Kathie MacNab (Nova Scotia), Sarah (How Good Is Your Bridge?). Rohan Coelho, Todd Zimnoch, Ralph Sentman (West Virginia) and Charles Williams Norma Sands and Jan Janitschke – CD-Rom Henderson, Maurice Henderson (Maryland). of the year for their edition of BridgeMaster 2000. 2003 1. (District 20) Rohan Coelho, Ralph This year’s convention featured talks by a Edward MacPherson – special award for best Henderson, Danny McGurl, David variety of bridge celebrities, plus the annual book teachers’ aid (The Backwash Squeeze and Other Castles; 2. (District 13) Tadeusz Szych, and software awards. Improbable Feats). Jerzy Jelen, Wlodzimierz Lopalewski, Klaudsiusz Warbinski, Mike Potoczak, Lech Brzozowski Second in the Collegiate 2004 1. (District 12) Grigoriy Blekherman, Team Amy Kiefer, David Harty, Han Peters; 2. Championship (District 24) Ryan Connors, Mark Dean, were Princeton Daniel Wilderman, Helena McGahagan students: Peter 2005 1. (District 2) Bob Defreyne, Milt Payne, Diao, Nathan Paul Beischlag, Reginald Smith; (District Savir, Jonathan 14) Andy Caranicas, Jeremy Martin, Ullman and Daniel Barrett, Shela Kim James 2006 1. (District 19) Kam Tang, Samuel Lai, Sundstrom. Tao Feng, Jack Lee; 2. (District 20) Ivan Jen, Veronica Mathis, John Cissel, Daniel Rothwell 2007 1. (District 16) John Heath, Alan Dennis, bid slam. Partner will bid on with the ♣Q (or George Keiller, Don Morgan; 2. (District Pearls before swine? perhaps the ♦Q) and/or an eighth spade, right? 19) Long Xie, Roy Li, Kai Zhou, By Barry Rigal Wrong! Partner re-corrects 5NT to 6♠, down a Baixiang Liu We won’t name the East and West players, but trick, and that turns 25 out of 25 matchpoints to .5 here is a tale of woe. You hold, as East, MPs. The full deal: ♠ New Life Masters J 4 Dlr: North ♠ 8 6 5 3 ♥ Lenard Lakofka of Hill CA earned K 3 Vul: None ♥ J 10 9 6 4 ♦ Life Master ranking in the Grand National Teams, 10 9 5 ♦ 7 6 ♣ Flight C. His teammates were Alan Flower, Kevin A K 10 8 4 2 ♣ 9 5 Lane and Aaron Craig. This is the auction ♠ A K Q 10 9 7 2 ♠ J 4 Belinda Gu of Stanford CA is another new West North East South ♥ Q 7 ♥ K 3 ♣ ♦ Life Master. She went over in the Education 1 1 ♦ A8 3 ♦ 10 9 5 ♠ ♣ ♥ Foundation Swiss Teams. 1 Pass 2 2 ♣ 6 ♣ A K 10 8 4 2 ♦ ♥ Lora Woodbury advanced to Life Master 3 3 3NT Pass ♠ —- ♠ playing in the Knockout Teams on Thursday. She 5 Pass ? ♥ A 8 5 2 needed 2.44 gold points and earned 3.5. She was Assuming partner is sane, you can give him ♦ K Q J 4 2 ♠ ♦ playing with Nancy Roberts. A K Q x x x x, the A (he could not risk the ♣ Q J 7 3 If you achieve Life Master rank here, the Daily five level without it) and one more card. If you Yes, on a diamond lead 5NT looks precarious, Bulletin wants to recognize you. Information needed had just a little more in clubs, you could bid 6NT. but if you a diamond and South does not is your name, hometown, which event you made it As it is, do you pass or bid slam? switch to a club, you can run seven rounds of in and your partners or teammates names. The Daily Neither option is correct. The right call is 5NT, spades and make plus 490 on a triple squeeze. Bulletin office is located in Conference Room 2. improving the contract but denying the ability to

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY COMPACT KO FRIDAY-SUNDAY AM SIDE SERIES 12 Teams 27.0 Tables Martin Robins, Coral Springs FL; Jay Cohodes, Sunrise FL; Julie ABC Zhu, Vero Beach FL; Jason Chiu, San Jose CA vs 5.61 1 1 Donald Weiss, Mashpee MA; Harold Jaffee, Boynton Beach FL 72.35% David Maidman - Marin Marinov, New York NY; Rumen 4.21 2 2 David Vine, Chattanooga TN; William Adams Jr, Hixson TN 64.96% Trendafilov - Kalin Karaivanov, Varna Bulgaria 3.16 3 Yoon Kim, San Diego CA; Yas Takeda, Hacienda Hgts CA 63.26% 2.37 4 Robert Levey, Chevy Chase MD; Jay Levy, Amherst NY 60.61% Leonard Ernst - Tom Grue, Las Vegas NV; Steve Bruno - Darrell 1.78 5 G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Diana Marquardt, Del Mar CA 60.42% Keel, Peoria AZ 2.02 6/7 3/4 Donna Wood, Vista CA; Janet Dunlap, Rancho Santa Fe CA 60.35% vs Reiko Raese, Boulder CO; Gary Brown, San Francisco CA; Hank 2.02 6/7 3/4 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Paul Wolf II, Shrewsbury MA 60.35% Youngerman, Jacksonville FL; Robert Durbrow, Fresno CA 1.30 5 Glenn Young, Buffalo NY; Dennis Cogan, Roswell NM 60.16% 1.11 6 John Loney, Laguna Woods CA; Landon Blair, Amarillo TX 57.77% FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM COMP KO BRACKET II 2.43 1 Jesse Stern, Lutz FL; Jourdain Patchett, Sarasota FL 56.94% 12 Teams 1.82 2 Edward Kelley IV - Benjamin Kelley, Federal Way WA 56.70% Linda Luther, N Charleston SC; Shirley Salvo, Kiawah Island SC; Lynn Bayman - Constance Sackville, Vero Beach FL 1.37 3 Rajeev Bansal, Overland Park KS; James Gross, Lees Summit MO 53.22% vs 1.03 4 Dennis Waniolek, Shelby Township MI; Richard Cantley, Birmingham MI 51.33% Douglass Hoadley, Bessemer AL; John Whitcomb, Sarasota FL; Jan Steele, Camarillo CA; Gerald Beaubien, Birmingham AL 1ST FRIDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS 49.0 Tables Judith Hecktman, Northbrook IL; Leslie Strong, Santa Ynez CA; ABC Phil Clayton, San Juan Capo CA; Brian Gilbert, Irvine CA vs 20.65 1 Judi Radin - Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY 63.20% Charles Williams, Port Angeles WA; Anton Habash, Oxford OH; 15.49 2 Joan Ivey - Ernie Ivey, Surprise AZ 61.65% Cameron Shunta, Grand Haven MI; Merle Stetser, Honolulu HI 11.62 3 Matt Granovetter - Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 60.73% 8.71 4 Laura Brill - Rick Goldstein, White Plains NY 60.32% FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM COMP KO BRACKET III 6.88 5 Judy Wirtenberg, East Brunswick NJ; Irwin Klugler, Montclair NJ 60.04% 14 Teams 5.90 6 Gertrude Ebesu, Honolulu HI; Floyd Tsuchida, Henderson NV 59.98% Ginny Fadel - Gabriel Fadel, Duluth GA; Fei Dong, Peoria IL; Paul Holmes, Champaign IL 11.51 7 1 Ann Allen - Anne Marie Harrington, Scottsdale AZ 59.66% vs 4.59 8 Mitsuko Suyama, Tokyo Japan; Sachiho Ueda, Chiba-Ken Japan 58.05% Betty Griffis - Roberta Kauss - Robert Hinkle, Tucson AZ; 4.13 9 Kumiko Matsuo, Yokohama-Shi Japan; Misuzu Ichihashi, Tokyo Japan 57.10% Prudence Cain, Oro Valley AZ 3.75 10 Bob Luebkeman, Walnut Creek CA; Anita Burgis, Santee CA 56.91% 3.44 11 Charlton Buckley, Glenbrook NV; Audrey Rennels, Pleasanton CA 56.47% Patricia Drummond, Davidsonville MD; Iris Alberts, Pasadena MD; Pamela Schaffer, Annapolis MD; Diane Lucci, Chester MD 8.63 12 2 Glenn London - Wesley Wu, Las Vegas NV 56.25% vs 2.95 13 Richard Cutler, Beverly Hills CA; Jeri Berger, Marina Del Rey CA 56.15% Tammy Pepper, Lavonia GA; Donna Bell, Thousand Oaks CA; 6.47 3 T P Goyal, Las Vegas NV; Charlyn Johnson, Henderson NV 56.06% Judy McDonald - Ronald McDonald, Henderson NV 5.93 4 1 Hortensia Azerraf, Bal Harbour FL; Sara Kuperstein, Caracas Venezuela 55.97% FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM COMP KO BRACKET IV 4.45 5 2 Peter Sager, San Rafael CA; Alan Jacobs, Boca Raton FL 55.64% 16 Teams Marilyn Beiting - Suzanne Sale, Cincinnati OH; Mary Lou 3.29 6 Elliot Slavis, West Palm Bch FL; John Roller, No Palm Beach FL 54.92% Moore, Grosse Pte Park MI; Michael Moore, Grosse Pointe MI 4.02 7 3 Alan Malloy, Santa Clara CA; Laura Rassbach, Boulder CO 54.84% vs 2.81 8 Elise Hunziker - Camil Hunziker, Longueuil QC 54.70% Donald Brown - Paula Polsyn, Sunrise FL; Mary Hilman, Mt 3.39 4 Robert Hinrichs, Corona del Mar CA; Ron Pennington, Costa Mesa CA 54.48% Prospect IL; Barbara Harris, Riverwoods IL 2.02 5 Fred Nachman - James Hooker, Paradise Valley AZ 53.03% 1.69 6 Carol Clemenz - Fred Clemenz, Lexington SC 51.23% Norman Marks - Norman Marks II, Oakland CA; Edgar L’Heureux, White Rock BC; Jane Youngberg, Surrey BC vs 1ST FRIDAY AFTERNOON 0-5 PAIRS Brandon Harper - Alice Harper, Winter Park FL; Sandra 7.0 Tables Rosenblum - Ryan Miller, Tampa FL 0.99 1 Robert Colbourn - Sheridan Colbourn, Danville CA 65.00% 0.74 2 Nancy Thompson - Andrew Kerr, San Francisco CA 63.75% FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM COMP KO BRACKET V 16 Teams 0.56 3 Sandra Wright, Baton Rouge LA; Sandi Proctor, Johns Creek GA 63.13% Kurt Simmons - Sally Ann Rhea - Michael Lee Stabler, Boulder 0.42 4 Nicholas Moreles - Jameson Painter, Henderson NV 61.88% CO; Ole Nordhild, Firestone CO 0.31 5 Jeff Swazlund - Mark Jenkins, Henderson NV 56.88% vs Larry Scites - Linda Scites, Indianapolis IN; Judith Dvorkin, 1ST FRIDAY AFTERNOON 50/20 PAIRS North Las Vegas NV; Ann Hung, Vancouver BC 12.0 Tables Samuel Litzenberger, Hellertown PA; Peter Stoyanov, Emmaus AB PA; Ronald Hutchinson, Nazareth PA; Amal Chatterjee, 2.31 1 Nancy Habbas, Las Vegas NV; Kalpana Parikh, San Diego CA 61.37% Bethlehem PA 1.73 2 1 Alice Bales - Doris Greenroos, Henderson NV 60.58% vs 1.30 3 2 Dennis Waniolek, Shelby Township MI; Richard Cantley, Birmingham MI 57.54% Mark McKechnie - Leah McKechnie, Medford OR; Angie 0.97 4 3 Eva Berlin - Carol Kenney, Scottsdale AZ 57.01% Knight - Donald Walker, Central Point OR 0.81 5 Lloyd Hankinson, Osprey FL; Gail Pirodsky, Sarasota FL 56.35% 0.58 6 4 Marc Bernstein, Leawood KS; Bernie Fromm, Kansas City MO 55.83%

1ST FRIDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS 28.0 Tables ABC 5.37 1 1 1 Jane Dadant - Andy Dadant, Orange CA 63.83% 4.03 2 2 2 Susan Angel, Greenbrae CA; Jean Marchant, Kentfield CA 62.69% 2.65 3/4 3/4 3/4 Kathleen Hathway, Lake Havasu Cty AZ; Warren Wolff, Lake Havsu City AZ 61.55% 2.65 3/4 3/4 3/4 Max Glick, Pittsburgh PA; Zachary Scherr, Ann Arbor MI 61.55% 1.51 5/6 5/6 5 Margaret Matheson - Robert Matheson, Glen Allen VA 60.23% 1.51 5/6 5/6 Robert Simony - Barbara Jensen, Pueblo CO 60.23% 0.89 6 Jean Symehowicz - Juliette Symehowicz, Aventura FL 58.14%

THURSDAY-FRIDAY AFT/EVE SIDE SERIES 48.0 Tables ABC 8.80 1 Andrea Finkel - Lewis Finkel, Jupiter FL 64.77% 6.60 2 Gary Ullman - Anne Ullman, Las Vegas NV 64.02% 6.37 3 1 1 Selim Benardete, New York NY; Meg Massie, Charlottesville VA 63.45% 3.71 4 Kathie Macnab, Halifax NS; Jo Ann Lynds, Truro NS 62.88% 2.78 5 Sandra Hammer, New Smyrna Bch FL; Courtney Nelson, Wells VT 62.12% 2.09 6 Sten Akerlund - Kent White, Lincoln CA 60.61% 4.78 2 2 Linda King, Hollister CA; Robert Lumbert, Severn MD 60.42% 3.58 3 Gerry Peck, Novato CA; Christina Verret, New York NY 58.52% 2.69 4 Karen Pickelsimer, Oakwood Hills IL; Lamar Marutani, Vallejo CA 57.95% 2.48 5 3 Amal Chatterjee, Bethlehem PA; Samuel Litzenberger, Hellertown PA 57.77% 1.87 6 Jack Berry - Sue Wessner, Hamburg PA 57.39% 1.86 4 Ronald Carlson, Ranch Pls Vrd CA; Jon Rankin, Nichols NY 53.60% 1.39 5 Michael Lieberman - Alya Asarina, Cambridge MA 53.22% 1.04 6 Donald Prior, Manasquan NJ; Conrad Staudacher, Thornton IL 53.03% Daily Bulletin Page 7

FRIDAY AM 299ER PAIRS FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM CONSOLATION I 18.0 Tables 6 Teams ABC Barbara Dunkley - Rebecca Rogers - Barbara Vasilevsky, Las Vegas NV; Mac Busby, San Diego CA 3.96 1 Iris Gregory, Starkville MS; James Wesson Gregory, Carthage MS 69.44% vs 2.97 2 1 John Simpson, Madera CA; Kevin Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY 67.06% Jon Downing, Solihull England; Liam Johnstone, Birmingham 2.23 3 2 Ann Grassi, Goleta CA; Rand Franklin, Santa Barbara CA 61.17% England; Tom Nault, Calgary AB; David Willmott, Folsom CA 1.67 4 Ken Koelling, Meridian MS; Jeanette Koelling, Starkville MS 59.92% 1.47 5 3 Warren Wolff, Lake Havsu City AZ; Kathleen Hathway, Lake Havasu Marjorie Michelin - Jordan Chodorow, Los Angeles CA; Chester Cty AZ 58.73% Johnson - Herbert Taylor, Chicago IL vs 0.94 6 Connie O’Brien, Shreveport LA; Marvin Raines, Fort Washington MD 58.67% Sun-O Ho, Brookfield WI; William McFall, New Berlin WI; 1.11 4 Janet Young - Toni Sardisco, Baton Rouge LA 55.00% Michele Foran, Oconomowoc WI; William Malesevich, Mayville 0.83 5 Denis Wood, Elliot Lake ON; Claire Ridgley, Tehachapi CA 53.57% WI 0.67 6 Warren Smith - Gloria Smith, Wichita KS 52.84% 1.38 1 Sandra Wright, Baton Rouge LA; Sandi Proctor, Johns Creek GA 50.46% FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM CONSOLATION II 6 Teams 1.04 2 Judith Schaffenacker, San Leandro CA; Adrienne Angel, Greenrae CA 46.83% Eileen Easterling - James Easterling, Casselberry FL; Danijel 0.68 3/4 Nancy Thompson - Andrew Kerr, San Francisco CA 44.44% Zenko, Chevy Chase MD; Richard Wieland, Falls Church VA 0.68 3/4 Astrid Roy Clements - Nancy Neal, Baton Rouge LA 44.44% vs John Villman, Yorba Linda CA; John Ionescu, Irvine CA; John Cox, Kellogg ID; Ursula Brzuska, Kelowna BC My apologies – double! Rita Smith, Tucson AZ; Dolores Brenner, Santa Fe NM; Jack Waller, Ridgecrest CA; H Jay Sloofman, Ardsley NY Zia Mahmood is nothing if not a gentleman, On this deal, Zia made a bid many players vs Monica Mitchell - Doris Ham - William Bob Case - Verdie but he is also a competitor, and when the would not find to earn his side another good score. White, Hot Springs AR opponents got to a very bad contract against him Dlr: East ♠ K J 6 2 in the first session of the Von Zedtwitz Life Master Vul: E-W ♥ 3 FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM CONSOLATION III ♦ 7 Teams Pairs, he just had to express a bridge opinion. This K J 5 3 Sandra Gies, Okatie SC; Mary Townhill, Lexington SC; Bonnie was the deal. Zia, playing with Gary Cohler, was ♣ J 9 8 5 Hertzog - Nancy Perez, Richmond IN South. ♠ 10 7 3 ♠ A8 5 vs ♠ ♥ ♥ Claudette Roush - Susan Zane - Alan Zane - Wanda Meyer, Dlr: North 8 6 5 3 A 9 5 4 2 K Q 10 Houston TX Vul: None ♥ J 10 9 6 4 ♦ AQ ♦ 10 4 2 vs ♦ 7 6 ♣ K Q 3 ♣ 10 7 6 4 Shirley Eide, Bakersfield CA; Charlotte Blum, La Jolla CA; Rick ♣ 9 5 ♠ Q 9 4 Lepscier, Las Vegas NV; Nadia Nilsson, Santa Clara CA ♠ ♠ ♥ A K Q 10 9 7 2 J 4 J 8 7 6 FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM CONSOLATION IV ♥ Q 7 ♥ K 3 ♦ 9 8 7 6 8 Teams ♦ A8 3 ♦ 10 9 5 ♣ A2 Anna Grosso, Hauppauge NY; Saundra Jones, Brentwood NY; ♣ ♣ Lyle Wiedeman, Los Angeles CA; Jo Anne Nenni, West Palm 6 A K 10 8 4 2 West North East South Beach FL ♠ —- Pass Pass vs ♥ A 8 5 2 1♥ Dbl 2♥ 2♠ Robert Reiley - Susan Reiley, Great Falls MT; Patricia Lutes - ♦ K Q J 4 2 3♥ All Pass Ray Lutes, Sun City West AZ ♣ Q J 7 3 Cohler’s feather-light prompted Nancy Roberts - Lora Ann Woodbury, Pensacola FL; Olivia West North East South Zia to make the creative bid of 2♠ on his three- Brown, San Antonio TX; Susan Hernandez, Fair Oaks Ranch TX Pass 1♣ 1♦ card suit, encouraging Cohler to make what would vs ♦ ♣ John Renna - Christina Renna, Fresno CA; Doreen Olson - Karin 2 Pass 3 Pass turn out to be the best opening lead for his side. Gamble, Winnipeg MB 3♠ Pass 4♣ Pass As you can see, the lead of a club or a 4NT Pass 5♥ Pass diamond lead makes declarer’s task easy. Although FRIDAY-SATURDAY AM CONSOLATION V ♦ 8 Teams 5NT Pass 6 Pass West can always take nine tricks if he can see all Edward Kennedy, Wayne PA; Patrick Reilly, Springfield IL; 7♣ Pass Pass Dbl the cards, the spade lead from Cohler got the Monte Ziola, Mesa AZ; Art Linderman, Anaheim CA All Pass defense off to the best start. Declarer ducked to vs As you can see, the wheels came off early in Zia’s queen, won the spade continuation with the Bill Goodman - Marty Goodman, Troy MI; Randi Nulty - James Nulty, Sun Lakes AZ the auction. It was just one of those deals. As Zia ace, then played a club to his king. West returned vs made his opening lead, he said, “Sorry, ladies.” to dummy with a heart to lead another club. Zia Howard Nelson, Palm Springs CA; Mark Bramlette, Henderson When the carnage was complete – declarer won the ♣A perforce, put Cohler in with a third NV; Jay Hardy, Las Vegas NV; Tommie Kadotani, Denver CO was minus 1100 – Zia noted that had he been round of spades, then took a club ruff, getting out playing with film star and bridge aficionado Omar of his hand with the ♦9. Declarer had no choice Sharif, there would have been a reproof after the but to finesse, so he finished one down. Plus 100 play. “Omar thought it was bad manners to double was good for 19.5 out of 25 matchpoints for Zia BARON BARCLAY when you are winning the board anyway,” Zia and Cohler. said. “At matchpoints, though . . .” So, how does declarer make nine tricks even BRIDGE SUPPLIES Zia also recalled an occasion when he opposed after a spade lead? He wins the ♠A, plays a club Sharif in the invitational tournament in London from dummy, winning the king if South ducks. • Latest titles formerly sponsored by The Times newspaper. Declarer then plays to the ♥K, cashes the queen • Gift items At one point in the opponents’ auction, Zia and takes the marked trump finesse. If South made a psychic double of a call by Sharif, leading covers, West pulls the last trump and plays a low • Las Vegas NABC souvenir the Egyptian to take the wrong line of play. The club from hand. If South does not cover the ♥10, shirts and lapel pins result was that Sharif went down in a contract he declarer plays a diamond to the ace, cashes the ♥A • Come by the Baron Barclay would have made without Zia’s double. and plays a low club from hand. It’s easy when book desk to see a Said Zia of his friend Sharif: “He didn’t speak you can see all the cards. demonstration of to me for two years after that.” Back to the LM Pairs. Bridgemate electronic scoring system Notice to players who live Entries Book Signing outside North America All North American championships with no upper masterpoint limitation $18 Edward McPherson Participation in the von Zedtwitz, Bruce or (Note: only ACBL members are eligible to play in Author “Backwash Squeeze Young Life Master Pairs is limited to ACBL NABC+ events.) and other Improbable Feats” members who have achieved the rank of Life Other North American championships $16.50 Saturday, July 19 Master. (Note: only ACBL members are eligible to play in Players who reside outside North America and 12:15 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. these events.) who do not meet this criteria, but feel they are Regional championships $15.50 for ACBL otherwise eligible to participate, must receive a members, $17.50 for all others waiver in writing prior to the commencement of All other events $14.50 for ACBL the contest. Please contact ACBL Chief members, $16.50 for all others. Tournament Director Rick Beye in the Tournament Operations office or at the sale site. Please note Open from 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. that players who have been waived into previous Life Master Pairs do not have to re-apply. and 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. Page 8 Daily Bulletin

FRIDAY SIDE SWISS TEAMS 74 Tables ABC 11.53 1 Janet Colchamiro - Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY; Geoffrey Brod, Avon CT; Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT 67.00 8.65 2 Marilyn Loesberg, Rancho Mirage CA; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY; Jesus Arias - Susan Schnelwar, New York NY 66.00 5.00 3/5 Candace Griffey, Vero Beach FL; Mary Oshlag, Memphis TN; Kathy Baum, Germantown TN; Joan Eaton, North York ON 62.00 5.00 3/5 Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY; Jeffrey Starr, Las Vegas NV; Boris Baran, Cote Saint-Luc QC; Allan Cokin, Palm Beach FL 62.00 5.00 3/5 Mac Busby, San Diego CA; Rebecca Rogers, Las Vegas NV; Carreen Hinds, Bakersfield CA; Judy Pede, Grass Valley CA 62.00 2.40 6/7 Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD; Jess Stuart - Lois Stuart, West Chester PA; Lynn Jones, Timonium MD 56.00 2.40 6/7 Richard Higgins, Gallup NM; Bob Dale, Pensacola FL; Christie Sellers - Daniel Sellers, Jr, Jacksonville FL 56.00 Jenny Pinto will be manning the awards desk. 7.74 8/10 1 Fei Dong, Peoria IL; Paul Holmes, Champaign IL; Alan Malloy, Section tops and other prizes can be picked up Santa Clara CA; Laura Rassbach, Boulder CO 55.00 from her at 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 6 to 7:15 1.32 8/10 John Villman, Yorba Linda CA; John Ionescu, Irvine CA; John Cox, p.m. Kellogg ID; Ursula Brzuska, Kelowna BC 55.00 1.32 8/10 Mary Olson, Annandale MN; Shirley Scott - Judy Hummel - Jerry EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET I Curtright, Colorado Spgs CO 55.00 8 Teams 5.81 2 Norman Bloomfield - Carol Bloomfield, Encino CA; Tammy Purkin - Edward White, Grand Blanc MI; Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Barry Harper, Regina SK; N Purkin, Woodland Hills CA 54.00 Warren Foss, Omaha NE 4.35 3 Donald Brown - Paula Polsyn, Sunrise FL; Thomas Howell - James vs Paschal, Reno NV 52.00 Jan Janitschke - Bonnie Smith, Littleton CO; Kenneth Stuckey, 3.27 4 Jay Francis - Judy Bredall - Brian Hegarty, Colorado Spgs CO; Arvada CO; Garth Yettick, Denver CO Conrad Staudacher, Thornton IL 50.00 2.45 5 George Dragich - Rosemary Dragich - Bea Woodman, Windsor ON; Mike Bandler, Alamo CA; Ken White, Lafayette CA; Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Karl Hicks, Dominion NS; Michael Katz, Armeen Qayoom, Tecumseh ON 47.00 San Ramon CA 1.42 6/8 Everett Dyer, Huntersville NC; Christopher Mucha, Goodyear AZ; S vs Ganeshan, Mississauga ON; George Harman, Northridge CA 46.00 Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA; Joan Gerard, White Plains NY; 1.42 6/8 Susan Trimble - William Bob Case - Verdie White, Hot Springs AR; Jerry Fleming, Los Alamos NM; George Retek, Westmount QC; Jeanne Ingraham, Houston TX 46.00 Alvin Levy, Commack NY; Bill Parks, Macungie PA 1.42 6/8 Dennis Lytton - Suzanne Casey - Timothy Casey Jr, Tampa FL; EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET II Robert Manz, Odessa FL 46.00 8 Teams 3.64 1 Fran Bernstein, Leawood KS; Carol Lapin, Shawnee Msn KS; David Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Louis Ray - Dennis Scholl, Las Stoker, Twin Falls ID; Ronald Heath, Encinitas CA 43.00 Vegas NV; Kim Corbin, Scottsdale AZ 2.73 2 Benjamin Kelley - Edward Kelley IV, Federal Way WA; G Glenn vs Camerer, Scottsbluff NE; Fran White, Gering NE 38.00 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Ellis Feigenbaum, Petah Tikva 493 Israel; Norman Hogarth - Cam Meyer, Bend OR 2.05 3 Justin Cislaghi, Denver CO; EllaMargaret Cron, Centennial CO; Patricia Miller - Roger Miller, Aurora CO 34.00 EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET III 1.54 4 Laura Waisler, Santa Monica CA; Henryk Szejnwald, Los Altos CA; 8 Teams Rose Kaufmann - Rhoda Weisler, Los Angeles CA 33.00 Edwin Katten, Cave Creek AZ; Donald Sondergeld, Hubbardton 1.15 5 Robert Daniel, Gardena CA; Guy Brackett, Redondo Beach CA; Nancy VT; Carl Gueli - Lydia Betz, Great Neck NY Collinge, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA; Sara Dokter, Rncho Pls Vrd CA 32.00 vs Lawrence Gaunt - Jennifer Tauber, Bricket Wood United Kingdom; Darren Evetts, Warwickshire England; Margaret Wort, 1ST FRIDAY EVENING SIDE GAME Staffordshire United Kingdom 35.0 Tables ABC EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET IV 6.83 1 Philip Pearl, Fountain Valley CA; Mary Lou Kiley, Costa Mesa CA 67.39% 8 Teams 5.12 2 James Remy - Gregory Trautman, Olympia WA 66.37% Linda Harrison, Calgary AB; Rock Shi Yan, Richmond BC; Guoxu Zhang, Burnaby BC; Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA; Hao Ge, 3.84 3 Dennis O’Brien, Ambler PA; Joan Brandeis, Glenside PA 65.48% Bay Village OH 2.88 4 Judy Kay-Wolff, Las Vegas NV; Jane Segal, Villanova PA 65.18% vs 2.16 5 Bill Archambo - Jane McKinney, Springfield MO 63.99% Farley Mawyer, Plainview NY; Tania Reyes Hiller, Shrub Oak 4.70 6 1 John Gropp, Poughkeepsie NY; John Babb, New Paltz NY 62.50% NY; John Gropp, Poughkeepsie NY; Jill Marshall, Hopewell Jct 3.53 2 Marshall Frank - Rosanna Frank, Chappaqua NY 59.52% NY 2.64 3 Rene McFall, New Berlin WI; Donald Croysdale, Elm Grove WI 58.42% EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET V 1.98 4 Ronald Traudt - G Nelson Van Fleet, Wichita KS 57.70% 8 Teams 1.59 5 James Tanner, Highland CA; Millie Garrison, Riverside CA 56.85% Bob Dale, Pensacola FL; Richard Veach, Laurel MD; Zev 3.03 6 1 Barbara Rosenthal - James Overacker, Oro Valley AZ 55.87% Wajsman - Jane Weatherby, Gainesville FL 2.27 2 Robert Rickling - Ray Tolston, Sardinia OH 55.27% vs 1.70 3 Wanda Cavinder - Elizabeth Brown, Indianapolis IN 54.46% Robert Webster, Ripon WI; Nancy Ogreenc, Wautoma WI; Judith Lichter, Sparta WI; David Vaclavik, Appleton WI 1.28 4 Olga Burno, Vernon BC; Maggie Sparrow, Hillsdale ON 53.57% 0.96 5 Lester Kodama - Mitsuko Kodama, Mililani HI 51.79% EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET VI 0.99 6 Suzanne Mason, Vero Beach FL; Jennifer Larkin, Carpinteria CA 51.49% 8 Teams Rosemary Shaw, Silver Spring MD; Frimann Stefansson - 1ST FRIDAY 5/20/50 PAIRS Gabriel Gislason - Sigfus Orn Arnason, Akureyri Iceland 10.0 Tables vs Saeed Shah - Shahnaz Shah, Lahore Pakistan; Dilip Udeshi, ABC Bensalem PA; Anita Morse, North Vancouver BC 2.10 1 1 1 Mark Jenkins - Jameson Painter, Henderson NV 74.21% 1.58 2 2 2 James Holzhauer, Naperville IL; Nicholas Moreles, Henderson NV 67.06% EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET 1.18 3 3 3 Richard Carlson, Henderson NV; George Yanakiev, Potomac MD 64.68% VII 0.89 4 Nancy Habbas, Las Vegas NV; Kalpana Parikh, San Diego CA 59.13% 8 Teams Wayne Gergen, Minneapolis MN; Clifford Lundberg, Elk River 0.58 5/6 John Linskey, Houston TX; Bradley Etnyre, Las Vegas NV 53.97% MN; Phyllis Chambers, Winnetka IL; Colette Novich, Chicago IL 0.62 5/6 4 Uta Gertraud Fink - Betty Morrison, Thornhill ON 53.97% vs 0.51 5 4 David Choi - Suk Chiu Leung, 18 Pak Pat Shan Hong Kong 52.78% Oscar Johnson - Judith Johnson, Prattville AL; Suzanne Nichols - Grady Nichols, Diamondhead MS 1ST FRIDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS 19.0 Tables EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUT BRACKET VIII 8 Teams ABC Helen Nelson - Linda Madding - Mary Ellen Stanton, Grand 4.10 1 1 1 Pawel Hanus, Carrollton TX; Bogumil Knypinski, N Richland Hill TX 66.07% Prairie TX; Barbara Odom, Cedar Hill TX 3.08 2 2 Luigi Calicchia, Clearfield UT; Robert Poriss, So Ogdon UT 65.48% vs 2.02 3/4 Judith Dvorkin, North Las Vegas NV; Ann Hung, Vancouver BC 60.12% Wilfred Motokane Jr - Richard S H Wong, Honolulu HI; Robert 2.02 3/4 3 Mitchell Shapiro, Las Vegas NV; Terri Stitt, Oakhurst CA 60.12% Seaman, Palm City FL; Reza Khatib, Garden City NY 1.40 5 4 Warren Smith - Gloria Smith, Wichita KS 58.93% EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET IX 0.94 6/7 5/6 Gail Shaps - Bradley Shaps, Northbrook IL 57.74% 6 Teams 0.92 6/7 5/6 Charles Gaeth, Benicia CA; Roberta Le Feuvre, Van Nuys CA 57.74% William Kinneman - Beverly Kinneman - David Blanchard - Jo 1.52 2 Dianne Maffia - Joseph Kulesza, Las Vegas NV 55.36% Blanchard, Little Rock AR 1.14 3 John Simpson, Madera CA; Gwen Davey, Fresno CA 54.46% vs 0.75 4/5 Layne Onufer, Huntington Bch CA; Robert Onufer, Huntington Beac CA 52.98% Marvin Weitzenhoffer - Larry Lee - Ingrid Sturm - Geraldine Fischer, Las Vegas NV 0.77 4/5 Denis Wood, Elliot Lake ON; Claire Ridgley, Tehachapi CA 52.98% Daily Bulletin Page 9

1ST FRIDAY AFT/EVE STRATIFIED OPEN 44.0 Tables ABC 18.90 1 Ann Rickard, Simpsonville SC; Michael Oechsler, Charlottesville VA 62.59% 14.18 2 Jim Leuker, San Francisco CA; Tony Petronella, North Kingstown RI 60.12% 10.63 3 Thomas Corlett - Ethel Corlett, Waco TX 59.85% 7.97 4 Hirsh Schnayer, Laval QC; Michael Efraim, Mont-Royal QC 59.38% 6.30 5 Donald Blum, Atlanta GA; Joel Schwartz, Las Vegas NV 58.90% 5.40 6 Jared Fournier - Jeremy Fournier, Knoxville TN 58.62% 4.73 7 Rokyta, Vienna AS; Werner Hackl, Brunn Austria 58.31% 4.20 8 Harvey Ackerman, Las Vegas NV; Jack Rhatigan, Cottage Grove MN 58.14% 3.78 9 Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA; Jay Cohodes, Sunrise FL 57.58% 3.44 10 Norma Sands, Denver CO; Bonnie Smith, Littleton CO 56.91% 3.03 11/12 Stephen Lippmann - Janet Lippmann, Hartsdale NY 56.82% 3.03 11/12 Harold Farnsworth, Salt Lake City UT; John Landeryou, Lethbridge AB 56.82% 7.97 1 Sam Katz, Bloomington IL; Andre Asbury, Warner Robins GA 56.30% Registration desk open 5.98 2 1 Amanda Jeger, Frankfurt Am Ma Germany; Estera Lisker, East Alice Leicht is in charge of the Registration Quogue NY 54.45% Desk. Be sure and drop by to get you gift bag with 4.48 3 2 Hetty Kallman, Agoura CA; Jean Jolin, Westlake Vlg CA 53.25% Ethel’s gourmet chocolate and other goodies. 3.36 4 Mark Russell, Las Vegas NV; Gail Perry, Henderson NV 52.37% Hours are 8 to 10 a.m., 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. 2.66 5 Barbara Zeichik - Phyllis Norquay, Las Vegas NV 52.27% and 6 to 7:15 p.m. 2.78 6 3 Anne Schaeffer, Apple Valley MN; Monte Ziola, Mesa AZ 51.80% 2.09 4 Monica Jung - Donna Casey, Lake Barrington IL 49.24% 1.65 5 C Conrad - Ann Conrad, Castro Valley CA 49.00% Dress Up Night 1.48 6 Mark Murad - Susannah Murad, Dover NH 48.20% Players are encouraged to dress up for the evening session tonight. This is a regular feature SIDE SERIES I of all NABCs. 175.00 Tables 21.55 1/2 Nicolas Hammond, Atlanta GA 128.03% EDUCATION FOUNDATION KNOCKOUTS BRACKET X 21.55 1/2 Edward Foran, Marietta GA 128.03% 6 Teams 12.12 3/4 Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 126.71% Bill Chapo - Kathy Lippold, Omaha NE; Robert Dyer - Christine 12.12 3/4 Alison Wilson, New York NY 126.71% Dyer, Paradise Valley AZ 8.80 5 Selim Benardete, New York NY 124.06% vs 6.60 6/7 Gavin Wolpert, New York NY 122.73% John Peternell - Christopher Friday - Peter Colman - Kevin 6.60 6/7 Beverly Perry, New York NY 122.73% Burke, San Francisco CA; Paul Owen Hoge, Berkeley CA 13.84 8/9 Joelyn Shilliday, Marlton NJ 121.78% NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 1 13.84 8/9 Arnold Fisher, Clementon NJ 121.78% 16 Teams 4.48 10 Eric Sieg, Oklahoma City OK 121.02% James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon, Hollywood FL; 5.19 11/12 Robert Johnson, Las Vegas NV 120.65% Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria - Fulvio Fantoni, Rome Italy; 5.19 11/12 Harvey Ackerman, Las Vegas NV 120.65% Claudio Nunes, Roma Italy 4.62 13/14 Hy Chansky, Las Vegas NV 119.50% vs Romain Zaleski - Jean Quantin - Dominique Pilon - Albert 4.62 13/14 Molly Tinsley, Ashland OR 119.50% Faigenbaum, Paris France; Marc Bompis, Bourg La Reine France 4.76 15/16 Nancy Boothe, Houston TX 119.32% 4.76 15/16 Karin Griffin, Albuquerque NM 119.32% Piotr Tuszynski, Warsaw Poland; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw 5.12 17 Karen Pickelsimer, Oakwood Hills IL 117.23% 0 Poland; Farid Assemi, Fresno CA; Edward Wojewoda, Clovis 3.74 18/19 Steven Devico, Hendersonville NC 116.42% CA 3.74 18/19 Gayle Covey, Hendersonville NC 116.42% vs 6.44 20/21 Amal Chatterjee, Bethlehem PA 115.54% Lou Ann O’Rourke, Portola Valley CA; Guido Ferraro, Torino Italy; Marc Jacobus, Las Vegas NV; Antonio Sementa, Parma PR 6.44 20/21 Samuel Litzenberger, Hellertown PA 115.54%

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John Sutherlin LIFE MASTER PAIRS QUALIFYERS (PENDING APPEALS) has earned 25,000 117.0 Tables Carryover . 1 Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland; Paul Hackett, Manchester England 1302.96 Sutherlin, of 2 Kathie Walvick - Walt Walvick, Mc Lean VA 1292.14 Dallas TX, has 3 Stephen Sanborn, Poughkeepsie NY; Kerri Sanborn, Stony Point NY 1288.47 won many NABC 4 Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk Poland; Krzysztof Buras, Florianska C19 Poland 1284.49 titles and is a 5 Ross Grabel, Huntington Bh CA; Jon Wittes, Palm Desert CA 1278.99 Grand Life 6 Eldad Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba 44 Israel 1273.97 Master. In 7 Bill Kent, Iowa City IA; Peggy Kaplan, Minnetonka MN 1272.66 international play, 8 John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Buffalo NY 1264.65 he won the 9 Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY 1261.09 Senior Teams in 10 Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY; Robert Levin, Bronx NY 1254.64 2000 and has a 11 Rick Kaye, Bingham Farms MI; Beverly Gardner, Farmington Hls MI 1250.10 second- and two 12 Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Eddie Wold, Houston TX 1249.81 third-place 13 Ishmael Delmonte, Double Bay NSW Australia; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 1238.54 finishes in the 14 Dale Johannesen - Lynn Johannesen, Saratoga CA 1231.59 same event. 15 Russell Ekeblad, Providence RI; Peter Weichsel, Encinitas CA 1224.01 Sutherlin was 16 Michael Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; Richard Zeckhauser, Cambridge MA 1219.98 third in the World Open Teams in 1990. He is 17 Marc Levine, Lubbock TX; Mark Lair, Canyon TX 1219.40 ranked as a World International Master by the 18 Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Zia Mahmood, New York NY 1217.77 WBF. Sutherlin, along with wife Peggy, was 19 Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA; Russell Samuel, Glen Cove NY 1215.99 named Honorary Member of the Year for 2008, 20 Winthrop Allegaert - Jaggy Shivdasani, New York NY 1215.18 one of the ACBL’s top honors. The husband- 21 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook NY 1213.98 wife pair was second in the Mixed Pairs at the 22 Samuel Cohen, Lisle IL; Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA 1213.57 World Championships in 1980. Sutherlin is 23/24 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Sarasota FL 1212.77 retired from a vice presidency with Crocker 23/24 Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 1212.77 Bank (now merged with Wells Fargo). 25 Lewis Gamerman, Brookline MA; Robert McCaw, Sudbury MA 1211.77 26 Roy Welland - Brian Glubok, New York NY 1210.16 27 Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA 1210.13 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 2 16 Teams 28 Cheryl Mandala - Yul Inn, Cupertino CA 1208.90 Leonard Ernst - Jan George, Las Vegas NV; Rhonda Foster - 29 Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA; Tom Breed, Aurora CO 1203.70 Gerry McCully, New Westminster BC; Darrell Keel - Steve 30 Dan Morse, Houston TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 1201.95 Bruno, Peoria AZ 31 Karen Heath, Henderson NV; Ron Sukoneck, Wilmington NC 1201.83 vs 32 Jan Jansma, Malden Netherlands; Ricco Van Prooijen, Nicuw-Vennep Netherlands 1196.25 Kurt Schaeffer, Apple Valley MN; Bob Balderson Jr - Cynthia 33 Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY 1195.49 Balderson, Eden Prairie MN; Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN 34 Herbert Wilton, Fredericksburg TX; Maureen O’Rourke, Port Washington NY 1192.31 Craig Robinson - Elaine Landow, Lansdale PA; Peter Filandro - 35 Richard Meffley, Fresno CA; Warren Cederborg, Visalia CA 1191.63 Marie Filandro, Wilmington DE 36 Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; John Russell, North Barringto IL 1190.45 vs 37 Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Serge de Muller, Fribourg Switzerland 1188.90 Stacy Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Susan Picus, New York NY; Shannon 38 Michael Strebinger, Port Coquitlam BC; Les Fouks, Vancouver BC 1186.71 Cappelletti, Hollywood FL; Jenny Wolpert, New York City NY 39/40 Ya-Ian Zhang - Ling Gu, China 1186.21 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 3 39/40 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Larry Griffey, Vero Beach FL 1186.21 16 Teams 41 Kyoko Shimamura, Tokyo 136 Japan; Tadashi Teramoto, Tokyo Japan 1182.59 Mike Marlin - Sandra Marlin - Kurt Brescoll - Janet Brescoll, 42 Justin Lall - Kevin Bathurst, New York NY 1182.17 Versailles KY 43 Dennis Kasle, Bloomfield MI; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 1181.36 vs 44 James Thurtell, Dallas TX; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 1181.14 Tubby Stayman, New York NY; Michael Wilkinson, Denistone Australia; J Edgar Lillard, Southern Pines NC; Gary Helman, 45 Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD; Arnold Malasky, Longboat Key FL 1180.56 Syosset NY 46 Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 1179.86 47 Ralph Lind, Shoreline WA; William O’Brien, Mountlake Terr WA 1178.78 Joyce Hampton, Blythewood SC; Lucas Lebioda, Columbia SC; 48 Daniel Zagorin, Skokie IL; Michael Lawrence, Brentwood TN 1177.50 Jon Rice, Winston Salem NC; Mike Rice, Raleigh NC; David 49 Kiran Nadar, Portola Vally CA; B Satyanaraynan, New Delhi India 1176.94 Grainger, Etobicoke ON 50 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL 1176.91 vs Yas Takeda - Chizuko Yang, Hacienda Hgts CA; Yoon Kim, San 51 Walter Schafer Jr, Downey CA; Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 1175.28 Diego CA; Daniel Takahashi, Las Vegas NV 52 Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 1174.92 53 Adis Dombu - Si Dombu, Las Vegas NV 1174.50 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 4 54 Gail Greenberg - Jeffrey Hand, New York NY 1174.11 16 Teams 55 Abraham Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ 1171.49 Harold Binder, Dana Point CA; Teri Atkinson, Bakersfield CA; Janet Wickersham, Sierra Madre CA; Ann Cressman, Laguna 56 Jerry Helms - Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC 1169.00 Niguel CA 57 Subhash Gupta, New Delhi 11001 India; K Venkataraman, Chennal India 1168.57 vs Magdy Shohdy Mesdary, Cairo Egypt; Jerry Weinstein - Tom Grue - Chun Ling, Las Vegas NV 2008 COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP Sheryl Langner, Dublin OH; Shan Au, Westerville OH; Charles 4 Tables Kopp, Columbus OH; Gregory Potts, Portsmouth OH Alfred Lee, Rncho Pls Vrd CA; Robert Durbrow, Fresno CA; 6.00 1 Roger Lee, Arcadia CA; Chien-Yao Tseng - vs Peter Cheung, Fremont CA; Gregory Vernon, Ridgecrest CA; Hsi-Chun Liu - Cheng Hong, Pasadena CA Barry Lippitt, Southfield MI; Leonard Melander, West Gary Fan, Florence KY 4.50 2 Nathan Savir, Austin TX; Peter Diao, ; Bloomfield MI; Robert Katz, Ann Arbor MI; Mark Leonard, vs Jonathan Ullman, Stanford CA; James Sundstrom, Wyckoff NJ Ypsilanti MI; Robert Cappelli, Bloomfield MI; Michael D Alioto, Allen Reiter, Caesaria Israel; Narayan Iyer - Subrahmanyan 3.37 3 Sam Lichtenstein - David Roe, Cambridge Birmingham MI Sankaran, Chennai India; Teresa Macneil, Sydney NS MA; Constance Chao, Lincoln MA; Reid Barton, Arlington MA 2.70 4 Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; SHEINWOLD FLIGHT B GNT NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 5 Zachary Wasserman, Farmington MI; Brian Wyman - Benjamin 16 Teams 16 Teams Weiss, Ann Arbor MI Dian Petrov - Michael Ryan, Buffalo NY; Donna Steffan, East William Mannschreck - Beth Brown, Virginia Beach VA; Amherst NY; James Gullo, Silver Creek NY Jonathan Ferguson, Austin TX; Bill Ream, Burleson TX GNT CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT vs vs 16 Teams Arun Goyal - Vijay Vasudevan - Rachna Goyal, Cincinnati OH; Leo Hanley - Jacqueline Harrigan, Henderson NV; Patsy Michael Becker - David Berkowitz - Larry Cohen, Boca Raton Michael Purcell, Loveland OH; Lorna Davis - Stephen Moese, Huckabay, Las Vegas NV; Rosemary Hayden, Scottsdale AZ FL; Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch West Chester OH FL; Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL Douglass Hoadley, Bessemer AL; John Whitcomb, Sarasota FL; vs Darina Demirev, Arlington Hts IL; Rumen Georgieu, Mount Jan Steele, Camarillo CA; Gerald Beaubien, Birmingham AL Bart Bramley - Hemant Lall - Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Ira Prospect IL; Seth Pritikin - James Golden, Chicago IL vs Chorush, Houston TX vs Raymond Yuenger - Melinda Foos, Campbell CA; Michael Joseph Viola III, Altadena CA; Gerard Geremia, La Verne CA; Fleisher, Sunnyvale CA; Mansoor Gowani, San Jose CA John Rengstorff - Jim Krekorian - Franco Baseggio - John Fout - Matt Klimesh, Pasadena CA; David Kempe, Los Angeles CA Andrew Stark, New York NY; Michael Kopera, Brooklyn NY NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 6 vs MACNAB FLIGHT C GNT 16 Teams Franklin Merblum, Bloomfield CT; John Stiefel, Wethersfield 16 Teams John Cissel - Dean Pierose - Kendra Bridges - Douglas Bullock, CT; Lloyd Arvedon, Bedford MA; Victor King, Hartford CT; Thomas O’Reilly-Pol, St Louis MO; Debra Romero, Clarkson Boise ID Doug Doub, W Hartford CT; Sheila Gabay, Newton MA Valley MO; Jonathan Goldberg - Sandy Bigg, Saint Louis MO vs vs Susan Law - Michael Gray - Mark Steele - Richard Weigle, MOREHEAD FLIGHT A GNT David Warwick - J Kallenbach, Adrian MI; Walter Magee, Albuquerque NM 16 Teams Manitou Beach MI; Judi Trenton, Tecumseh MI; Michael Sears - Mark Laken, Glyndon MD; Harvey Charkatz, Pikesville MD; Debbie Sears, Boyne City MI Pam LaShelle, Round Rock TX; Jay Slesinger, Sharon MA; Lynn David Milton, Herndon VA; Stan Schenker, Reston VA Robert Block, Deerfield IL; Allan Sweet - William Anspach - Blanchard - Peter Bonfanti, New York NY vs Brian Newman, Chicago IL vs James Scott, Wilton CT; Harry Apfel - John Ramos - Kelley vs Charles Williams, Port Angeles WA; Rajesh Seth, Sarnia ON; Hwang, New York NY; Valentin Carciu, Glen Head NY; Sorin Lenard Lakofka, Signal Hill CA; Alan Flower - Kevin Lane, Don Morgan - Madhusudan Patel, Houston TX Pleacof, Rego Park NY Long Beach CA; 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58 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman, Atlanta GA 1167.96 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 7 59 Jack Spear - Nancy Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 1165.26 16 Teams 60 Allan Smith, Peterborough ON; Bill Kertes, Toronto ON 1163.96 Oscar Johnson - Judith Johnson, Prattville AL; Suzanne Nichols - Grady Nichols, Diamondhead MS 61 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Daniela von Arnim, D-68766 Hockenh Germany 1162.97 vs 62 Gene Freed, Los Angeles CA; Barry Schaffer, Frisco TX 1162.03 Michael Hancock, Little Gaddesde England; Martin Rodney - 63 Harvey Brody, San Francisco CA; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ 1159.99 Bobbie Rodney, London United Kingdom; A Flockhart, Aston 64 Onno Eskes, Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn 304G Netherlands 1159.46 Stevenage England 65 Cindy Bernstein, Matthews NC; Linda Lewis, Sioux Falls SD 1159.04 66 Tarek Sadek - Ahmed Hussein, Cairo Egypt 1159.00 Michaele Olesen, Scottsdale AZ; Ron Payton, Taos NM; Richard Kahn - Rita Kahn, Queensland Australia 67 Lou Reich, Wheaton MD; Jeff Roman, Alexandria VA 1158.01 vs 68 Erwin Bergsma - Marjorie Bicknese, Culemborg Netherlands 1157.61 Bonnie Hertzog - Nancy Perez, Richmond IN; Mary Townhill, 69 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; William Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ 1157.58 Lexington SC; Sandra Gies, Okatie SC 70/71 Martin De Knijtt, Swaziland; Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden 1157.20 70/71 Rob Crawford, Henderson NV; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 1157.20 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 8 16 Teams 72 Kasper Konow, Copenhagen Denmark; Michael Askgaard, Gentofle Denmark 1156.81 Prudence Cain, Oro Valley AZ; Betty Griffis - Roberta Kauss - 73 Gavin Wolpert, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL 1156.40 Robert Hinkle, Tucson AZ 74/75 Diane Shannon, Saratoga CA; Donald Rothschild, Sunnyvale CA 1155.59 vs 74/75 Kenneth Schutze, Austin TX; Bryan Maksymetz, Garibaldi Highl BC 1155.59 Noel Hanford, Rancho Mirage CA; Roz Kahn - Herb Wiltsek - 76 Peter Grover, Aurora OH; John Toy, Buffalo NY 1153.98 Bobbi Wiltsek, San Francisco CA 77 Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Alan Osofsky, Palm Beach FL 1152.43 Barry Segal - Casey Segal, Boynton Beach FL; Sandra Cropper, 78 Erla Sigurjonsd, 220 Hafnarfjord Iceland; Sigfris Thordarson, Iceland 1151.57 San Juan Capo CA; Teresa Thurman, Lakeport CA 79 Ralph Buchalter, South Orange NJ; Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 1151.44 vs 80 Chip Martel, Davis CA; Martin Fleisher, New York NY 1151.25 Larry Levine, Henderson NV; Mozelle Sopher - Al White - 81 Saul Gross, Miami Beach FL; Rick Norton Jr, Oceanside CA 1147.54 Gerald Rozek, Las Vegas NV 82 Lynn Baker, Austin TX; Karen McCallum, US 1147.35 83 David Yang, Chicago IL; Xiaodong Shi, Naperville IL 1146.24 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 9 16 Teams 84 Claude Garneau, Montreal QC; Charles Martineau, Brossard QC 1146.02 Robert Walton - Clarke Fairbrother, Santa Ana CA; Susan 85 Corinne Kirkham - Jim Kirkham, Leawood KS 1145.95 Johnson - John Johnson, Newport Beach CA 86 John Carruthers, Toronto ON; Anton Blagov, Richmond Hill ON 1144.93 vs 87 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; John Jones, Hacienda Hgts CA 1144.38 Kenneth Young, Las Vegas NV; Sue McHale - Phillip Rutkowski, 88 Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA; Georgiana Gates, Houston TX 1143.51 Huntington Bch CA; William Whittle, Jr, North Las Vegas NV 89 Alejandro Bianchedi, Buenos Aires Argentina; Perla Sultan Slimak, Caracas Venezuela 1142.77 Ken Boyd - Mary Boyd, Sun City West AZ; Rajeev Bansal, 90 Brett Kunin, West Orange NJ; Julian Heicklen, Teaneck NJ 1142.00 Overland Park KS; James Gross, Lees Summit MO 91 Victor Melman, Scarsdale NY; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam 5 Israel 1141.90 vs 92 Jon Baldursson, Hafnarfjordur Iceland; Thorlakur Jonsson, 200 Kopavogur Iceland 1141.48 Jason Larrivee - Fraser Brooks - Nelson Sunshine - S Brooks, 93 Barry Rigal, New York NY; Eric Leong, Oakland CA 1141.16 Regina SK 94 Varis Carey, Fort Collins CO; David Caprera, Evergreen CO 1139.45 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 10 95 Hoajun Shi, Shang Hai People’s Republic of China; Ze Jun Zhuang, China 1137.74 12 Teams 96 David Lindop, Toronto ON; Michael Cummings, Palm Beach Gdn FL 1137.72 Kay Olness, Billings MT; Betty Fernandez, Odessa TX; Ann 97 Lynne Feldman, Champaign IL; Ellen Crawford, Henderson NV 1137.49 Blohm - Faye Baker, Houston TX 98 Mike Develin, Mountain View CA; Ari Greenberg, San Francisco CA 1137.39 vs 99 James Murphy, Concord NC; Tim Crank, Cincinnati OH 1136.98 Jim Harp - Rolly Steen, Dallas TX; Bob Frink, Plano TX; Glenda 100 Kay Joyce - Randy Joyce, Raleigh NC 1136.04 Cooper, Irving TX 101 Carl Berenbaum, Elkins Park PA; Rich Rothwarf, Philadelphia PA 1135.46 Kathrine Loh, Vienna VA; Andrew Loh - Patricia Loh, Solana 102 Arend Bayer, Salt Lake City UT; Han Peters, Madison WI 1135.27 Beach CA; Edward Molnar, Fairfax VA 103 Zac Cohen, San Lorenzo CA; Evelyn Holtz, Santa Rosa CA 1134.75 vs 104 Brandon Sheumaker, Golden CO; Dom Di Felice, Denver CO 1134.04 Robert Reiley - Susan Reiley, Great Falls MT; Antonio Vila - 105/106 Eric Greco, Philadelphia PA; Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV 1133.85 Yayoun Zee, Aurora CO 105/106 Richard Potter, Black Mountain NC; John Potter, Panama City FL 1133.85 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 11 107 Chris Larsen, Costa Mesa CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 1133.23 12 Teams 108 Don Krauss, Beverly Hills CA; William Wickham, Los Angeles CA 1132.40 Christopher Chapin - Lynn Chapin, Manasquan NJ; Dorel 109 Glenn Robbins - Michael Rosen, New York NY 1132.24 Livescu, Marlboro NJ; Bill Opdyke Jr., Wall NJ 110 Sylvia Moss - Susan Wexler, New York NY 1131.85 vs 111 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 1131.43 Charles Schenck - Betty Cauthorne - Beatrice Daly - Joseph Bruno, Santa Fe NM 112 Meyer Abarbanel, Belvidere IL; James Hudson, DeKalb IL 1130.63 113 Donald Stack, Overland Park KS; Linda Eakes, Leawood KS 1129.53 William Kinneman - Beverly Kinneman - David Blanchard - Jo 114 Suzette Wynn - Steve Scott, Phoenix AZ 1129.07 Blanchard, Little Rock AR 115/116 Lyle Poe Jr, Ellicott City MD; Thomas Weik, Reading PA 1129.02 vs 115/116 Mike Cappelletti, Hixson TN; Mark Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ 1129.02 John Peternell - Christopher Friday, San Francisco CA; Paul 117 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Neal Satten, Wynnewood PA 1128.21 Owen Hoge, Berkeley CA; Richard Ziock, Carlsbad CA 118 David Sabourin, Ottawa ON; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 1127.94 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 12 119 Stu Swan - Hadi Allahverdian, Portland OR 1127.63 12 Teams 120 Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA 1126.35 Mary Tilden - Carol Doll, San Francisco CA; Allison Howard, 121 Helen Abbott, Mercer Island WA; Polly Dunn, Bellevue WA 1123.38 Knoville TN; Neil Goldstein, New York NY 122 Cathy Strauch - Riggs Thayer Jr, San Diego CA 1122.58 vs Ole Nordhild, Firestone CO; Kurt Simmons - Sally Ann Rhea - 123 Patricia Dovell, Gainesville FL; Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ 1121.77 Michael Lee Stabler, Boulder CO 124 Michael Ranis, Kenmore WA; Dan Botoaca, Glendale CA 1120.25 125 Gila Emodi, Kfar Shmaryhu Israel; Doron Yadlin, Petach-Tikva Israel 1120.14 Patti Poppell, Thomasville GA; Roy Forman - Raphael Schreiber, 126 Matthew Haag, San Francisco CA; Jason Chiu, San Jose CA 1119.35 Tallahassee FL; Ann Canterbery, Micosukee FL 127 Dick Benson, Le Roy IL; Eric Gettleman, New York NY 1116.78 vs 128 Gary Greene, Longmont CO; Tom Stack, Boulder CO 1116.55 Mark McKechnie - Leah McKechnie, Medford OR; Angie Knight - Donald Walker, Central Point OR 129 Irina Ladyzhensky - Alexander Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL 1116.13 130 Frank Aquila, Fairlawn OH; Jerome Rolnick, Lyndhurst OH 1115.94 NATIONAL ANTHEM KO BRACKET 13 131 Craig Huston, Portland OR; Christopher Young, San Diego CA 1114.85 13 Teams 132/133 Eugene Saxe, Briarcliff NY; Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL 1114.52 Randi Nulty - James Nulty, Sun Lakes AZ; Bill Goodman - 132/133 Allen Hawkins Jr - Jim Foster, Birmingham AL 1114.52 Marty Goodman, Troy MI 134 Hendrik Sharples, Brush Prairie WA; Gerry Marshall, Calgary AB 1113.72 vs Barbara Ritter - Paul Weader, Sun City AZ; David Sievers - 135 Gaylor Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ 1112.91 Margy Sievers, Encino CA 136 Barry Pritchard - Faith Pritchard, Edmonton AB 1112.11 137 Michael Gore, Brooklyn NY; Walter Schenker, Pine Brook NJ 1111.30 John Daniel, Palm Desert CA; Barbara Fenmore - Barton 138 Garry Karst, Edmonton AB; Ray Grace, Sherwood Park AB 1109.69 Fenmore, Rancho Mirage CA; Maureen Warman, Bellaire TX 139/140 Diana Schuld, Glen Head NY; Michael Abramson, Montclair NJ 1108.89 vs Charles Kelley - Jo Anne Kelley, Pacific Plsades CA; Garold 139/140 Martin Caley, Montreal QC; Frederic Pollack, Lasalle QC 1108.89 Adamson - Susan Adamson, Houston TX 141 Alexander Kolesnik, Calabasas CA; Bob Etter, Sacramento CA 1108.82 142 Martin Hunter - Ronald Wilson, Mississauga ON 1108.55 143 Les Bart - Gloria Silverman Bart, Bradenton FL 1108.08 Notice to players 144 Frederick Allenspach, Plantation FL; Michael White, Atlanta GA 1108.02 Each player must have an ACBL convention 145 Qing Yang, Cupertino CA; Bin Dai, Mountain View CA 1106.74 card filled out and on the table. Please note that 146 Arnie Frankel, Laurel MD; Russell Divvens, Silverthorne CO 1106.47 147 Jerry Keller - Jane Thurman, Laurel MD 1106.41 other types of convention cards, such as the WBF 148 Stephen Lucas - Lesley Decker Lucas, Woodbury NY 1105.66 or homemade cards that do not 149 Robert Hampton, Blythewood SC; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY 1105.40 sufficiently resemble the ACBL convention card, 150 Grace Jeklin, Surrey BC; Fredrik Nystrom, Stockholm Sweden 1105.16 are not acceptable substitutes. Continued on page 12 Page 12 Daily Bulletin

151 Mary Jane Farell, Los Angeles CA; Maria Pendergast, W Hollywood CA 1104.86 The rewards of virtue 152 Nadine Wood, Silver Spring MD; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 1104.05 By Barry Rigal 153 Paolo Pasquini - Jose Valdes, Caracas Venezuela 1102.92 154 Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON; Dwight Bender, London ON 1102.87 Virtue is its own reward . . . but occasionally 155 Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; Alan Schwartz, Fairfax VA 1102.44 something more. 156 Steve Clark, Carlsbad CA; Marshall Miles, Redlands CA 1101.67 157 Lew Stansby - JoAnna Stansby, Castro Valley CA 1101.12 Dlr: South ♠ 3 158 Omar Olgeirsson, Reykjzuik Iceland; Pall Thorsson, Reykjavik Iceland 1099.86 159 Sunit Chokshi, Ahmedabad India; Rajgsh Dalal, Bombay India 1099.22 Vul: None ♥ A 10 7 6 4 ♦ 160 Sathya Bettadapura, Campbell CA; Eddie Rose, Laguna Niguel CA 1098.00 7 6 5 161 Simon Kantor, Agawam MA; Murray Melton, Las Vegas NV 1097.67 ♣ J 5 3 2 162 S Kohan, Dallas TX; Mark Bumgardner, Carrollton TX 1097.46 ♠ A Q J 10 ♠ K 9 7 6 163 Stephen Landen, Ellicott City MD; William Pettis, Silver Spring MD 1095.42 ♥ Q 9 5 ♥ K J 8 2 164 Albert Shekhter - Oleg Rubinchik, Brooklyn NY 1095.21 ♦ J 10 8 3 ♦ K 9 2 165 Wolfe Thompson, Vancouver WA; Marc Zwerling, Portland OR 1095.20 ♣ Q 9 ♣ A6 166 Serge Chevalier, Laval QC; Andre Chartrand, Lery QC 1093.93 ♠ 8 5 4 2 167 William Muir - Victoria Muir, Kansas City MO 1093.78 ♥ 3 168 Rick Rowland, Wilmington DE; Martin Rabinowitz, Narberth PA 1093.50 ♦ AQ 4 169 Michael Moss - John Kranyak, New York NY 1092.78 170 Beverly Perry, New York NY; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA 1092.20 ♣ K 10 8 7 4 171 Joseph Machotka, Chicago IL; Florine Walters, Pittsburgh PA 1092.18 172 Ira Ewen, New York NY; Bob Gwirtzman, Brooklyn NY 1091.91 The field played game with the East-West 173 Andy Altay, Willowdale ON; Stephen Aarons, Toronto ON 1091.38 cards, and frankly it’s tough to stay low whatever 174 Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; Allan Falk, Okemos MI 1090.52 you do. 175/177 Geo Tislevoll, Trondheim Norway; Julie Zhu, Vero Beach FL 1090.36 Eric Leong as West elected to pass his 12- 175/177 Tanaka Shugo, Chiba Japan; Hiroki Yokoi, Tokyo Japan 1090.36 point hand on the logic that bidding bad suits in 175/177 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 1090.36 marginal openings is a losing action. 178 Bobbie Goerner, Riverside CA; Patricia Jay, Meadview AZ 1089.78 North, trying to be the hero, opened 2♥. That 179 Michael Sherman, Chickamauga GA; Jon Brandon, Denver CO 1089.56 was passed back to Leong, who elected to double. 180 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 1088.47 181 Samuel Ieong, Stanford CA; Adam Meyerson, Los Angeles CA 1088.20 East was pleased with the contract, so he 182 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Paul Morris, Brooklyn NY 1087.95 converted the double to penalty and led 183 Jon Bartlett, Portland OR; Hank Gagnon, Newberg OR 1087.14 a diamond. When declarer misguessed clubs, he 184 Karen Cumpstone, Nanaimo BC; Michael Roche, Victoria BC 1086.76 was minus 500, more than the value of the East- 185 Buddy Hanby - Sally Wheeler, Spring TX 1086.02 West game if it had been making. 186 Mark Ospeck, Memphis TN; Anton Tsypkin, Sharon MA 1085.67 On the next round, Leong was back on the hot 187 Josh Sher, Woodland Hls CA; Michael Crawford, San Diego CA 1084.73 seat. 188 Sun Ming, Beijing; Wang Hong Li, Xihn 1083.70 189/191 Ole Godefroy, Bellevue WA; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA 1083.12 Dlr: South ♠ A 10 7 6 3 2 189/191 Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL; Sangarapil Mohan, Oak Brook IL 1083.12 Vul: N-S ♥ J 5 3 189/191 Louk Verhees, 2215 SH Voorhou Netherlands; Jill Levin, Bronx NY 1083.12 192 Peter Bisgeier - Robert Gordon, Northport NY 1082.90 ♦ A6 5 ♣ 193/194 Terry Terzian, Castro Valley CA; Robert Munson, Danville CA 1082.64 K 193/194 R Jay Becker, New York NY; Steven Cooper, Ft Collins CO 1082.64 ♠ ♠ K Q 9 5 4 8 195 Brian Senior, Nottingham England; Jack Mizel, Coral Gables FL 1082.25 ♥ Q 6 ♥ AK 4 196 Donald Hennings - Margot Hennings, Annandale VA 1081.44 ♦ K 2 ♦ Q 8 7 4 3 197 Peg Waller, Eden Prairie MN; Keith Connolly, Minneapolis MN 1078.28 ♣ Q 4 3 2 ♣ A 10 8 7 198 Greg McKellar, Kingston ON; Arch McKellar, Dobbs Ferry NY 1077.61 ♠ J 199 Eric Debus, 3001 Heverlee Belgium; Rutger Van Mechelen, Heverlee Belgium 1077.48 ♥ 10 9 8 7 2 200 Spike Lay, Daytona Beach FL; Jay Baum, Germantown TN 1076.67 ♦ J 10 9 201 George Whitworth, Coarsegold CA; Alan Dankman, Sacramento CA 1076.25 ♣ J 9 6 5 202 Joel Hoersch, San Diego CA; William Hall, Thousand Oaks CA 1075.87 203 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA 1075.75 204 Richard Popper, Wilmington DE; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ 1075.09 At favorable vulnerability, he might have been 205 Victor Chernoff, Los Angeles CA; Paul Markarian, Lancaster CA 1075.06 the only West to pass. He was more than rewarded 206 Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA; Haisam Osman, Denver CO 1073.63 when North opened 2♠. No one could blame him, 207 John Hassett, Kennesaw GA; Charles Davis, Lilburn GA 1073.37 but when a takeout double was converted to 208 William Esberg, Long Branch NJ; Nan Wang, Eatontown NJ 1072.65 penalty again, the defense had plus 800 and 209 Thomas Greer, W Hollywood CA; Barbara Stewart, Victoria BC 1071.15 another top. 210/211 Steve Becker, Old Greenwich CT; Larry Bausher, West Haven CT 1071.04 Gee, maybe passing has more to recommend it 210/211 James Tritt, Fresno CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA 1071.04 that I thought. 212 Jim Linhart, Raleigh NC; Bert Newman, West Bloomfield MI 1070.72 213 Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 1069.74 214 Alan Watson, Lexington MA; David Becher, Danvers MA 1068.58 215 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; David Siebert, Little Rock AR 1065.42 216 Mark Dean, Fremont CA; Kenneth Zuckerberg, Chicago IL 1064.09 217 Paul Bethe, New York NY; Kitty Cooper, Fort Collins CO 1060.99 218 Jeff Olson, Dallas TX; Derrell Childs, Garland TX 1060.57 219 Mark Dahl, Richmond VA; David Butler, Keswick VA 1059.76 220 Daniel Levin, Aurora IL; Christopher Monsour, Chicago IL 1058.15 221 Jared Lilienstein, New York NY; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC 1058.00 222 Vince Oddy, Aurora ON; Dan Gerstman, Buffalo NY 1057.35 223 Richard Gross, Las Vegas NV; Paul Stern, Oak Creek WI 1056.71 224 Kenny Horneman, Charlottesville VA; William Seddon, Durham NC 1056.54 225 W Reynolds, South Pasadena CA; James Rosenstiel, Alhambra CA 1054.35 226 Shane Blanchard - Robert Blanchard, New York NY 1052.51 227 Kenneth Stuckey, Arvada CO; Brian McAllister, Gibbsboro NJ 1050.68 228 David Rosenberg, Jackson Heights NY; Allen Kahn, New York NY 1048.17 229 Mildred Breed - Anita Cokins, Austin TX 1042.64 230 Jeff Fang, Arcadia CA; Jack Chao, Oceanside CA 1040.44 231 Craig Ganzer, New York NY; Leo Bell, Long Beach CA 1037.96 232 Henry Moss, Glenview IL; David Moss, New York NY 1037.80 233 Richard Spitalnick, Sunnyvale CA; Steven Price, Mesa AZ 1031.25 234 Wojciech Kurkowski, Las Vegas NV; George Kovarik, Henderson NV 1012.96 Daily Bulletin Page 13

BRUCE LM-5000 LIFE MASTER PAIRS QUALIFIERS Do the right thing 65.0 Tables Carryover 1 Bill McKenna, Darien IL; Frank Pancoe, Glen Ellyn IL 683.29 By Barry Rigal 2 Roger Snowling, Hamilton ON; Gary Westfall, Brampton ON 672.57 3 Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 654.19 On this deal from the first qualifying session 4 Lawrence Lau, Westport CT; John Klayman, Haymarket VA 642.72 of the Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs, the field 5 Atam Lalchandani, Incline Village NV; Ravi Bhalla, Berkeley CA 628.89 defended spade contracts, with 4♠ requiring the 6 Barry Senensky, Thornhill ON; James Partridge, Birmingham AL 625.35 ♠Q onside, and rather more (hands rotated). 7 James Showalter, Prescott AZ; Geoff Stokes, Gardnerville NV 624.69 8 Dorothy Coakley, Elm Grove WI; Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI 619.84 Dlr: North ♠ J 10 8 5 9 Barry Purrington, Saint Paul MN; Mike Cassel, Roseville MN 619.82 Vul: Both ♥ J 6 10 Allen Bowman, Green Valley AZ; Bill Barkley, New Bern NC 614.47 ♦ 10 6 11 Paul Boudreau - Lucy Tredennick, Lomita CA 610.34 ♣ K Q J 5 4 12/13 Al Blinder, Torrance CA; Sanjeev Pathak, Roswell GA 609.93 ♠ ♠ 12/13 D. Lionel O’Young, Walnut CA; Kou-Ping Cheng, Saratoga CA 609.93 A7 Q 6 3 ♥ ♥ 14 Lee Bukstel, Boca Raton FL; Penelope Millar, Indianapolis IN 608.70 A 10 5 4 3 K 9 8 7 15 Rusty Krauss - John Miller, Vienna VA 603.59 ♦ Q J 9 4 2 ♦ 8 7 3 16 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 601.29 ♣ 9 ♣ 10 8 3 17 Barry Spector, Springfield VA; Randy Thompson, Albuquerque NM 600.96 ♠ K 9 4 2 18 John Maki, Bothell WA; Amy Deshaw, Seattle WA 600.87 ♥ Q 2 19 Richard Hyken, Morristown NJ; Julie Cohan, Montville NJ 600.62 ♦ AK 5 20 Richard Schmieder - Jyme Schmieder, Boerne TX 598.70 ♣ A 7 6 2 21 Mike Wilson, New Westminster BC; Dave Grubbs, Seattle WA 598.39 22 B Wayne Stuart III, Santa Cruz CA; Burton Stuart Jr, Chapel Hill NC 596.84 West North East South 23 William Allison, Decatur GA; Charles Galloway, Thornhill ON 593.50 24 Jack Frost - Kathryn Frost, Joliet IL 592.33 Pass Pass 1NT ♦ ♥ ♠ 25 Sharon Hammer, Huntington Bh CA; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH 591.39 2 (1) 2 Dbl 2 26 Susan Jackowitz - Nancy Turner, New York NY 590.97 All Pass 27 Jerrold Grossman, Rochester Hills MI; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Wds MI 589.16 28 Steven Devico - Gayle Covey, Hendersonville NC 588.50 (1) Diamonds and hearts. 29 Marcia Dean - Robert Dean, San Jose CA 588.09 At our table, we stopped in 2♠, which was a 30 Rodney Wilton, Port Carling ON; Brian Johnston, Toronto ON 587.78 good idea because West, Dick Hanna, led his 31 Tony Miller, Ridgecrest CA; Diane Miller, San Bernardino CA 587.35 singleton club. Declarer won in dummy to run the 32 Peggy Ware - Spencer Jones, Denver CO 586.03 ♠J. Dick now prevented his partner from error by 33 Pat Chambers - Robin Chambers, Palo Alto CA 584.79 immediately underleading the ♥A. If he had 34 Doug Herron - Bill Begert, New York NY 582.49 35 Xiaoxue Walker, Mission Viejo CA; Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA 582.16 cashed the ace before leading a heart to the king, 36 Rosemary Shaw, Silver Spring MD; Frimann Stefansson, Akureyri Iceland 582.02 partner might shift to a diamond. 37 Joyce Lelah, Los Angeles CA; Ruth Gittelman, Marina del Rey CA 581.91 The underlead left Larry Hanna on lead, and 38 Martha Young - Bob Scallan, Dallas TX 581.08 he knew what to do. A club return left declarer 39 Randall Dougherty - Lynne Newman, San Diego CA 580.59 needing to take the spade finesse to get back to 40 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Jerry Fong, Marianna AR 579.85 plus 140. 41 Scott Levine, New York NY; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL 579.14 42 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Cam Meyer, Bend OR 578.86 43 Linda Green - Sam Whitten, Scottsdale AZ 578.61 Monitoring 44 Andrew Firko, Oakville ON; Wendy Dooley, Mississauga ON 577.37 At this and future North American 45 Gregory Chaffee - Maritha Pottenger, San Diego CA 577.26 Championships, ACBL will be monitoring 46 Lu Kohutiak - Yvonne Hernandez, Murrieta CA 576.30 NABC+ events with visible, real-time cameras. 47 Russell Friedman, Wilton CT; Allan Wolf, Ridgefield CT 573.87 The images will be recorded and will be available 48 Merle Stetser, Honolulu HI; J B Nabors, Kempner TX 573.02 49 Bill Cook, Madison MS; Gerry Mindell, Chicago IL 572.26 for later official inspection and review. 50 Larry Harding, Hampstead NC; John Herriot, Los Angeles CA 571.70 By general monitoring of the session and 51 Sandy Denison - Maynard Denison, Bakersfield CA 571.31 participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source 52 Saul Agranoff, Newton MA; Joyce Pearson, Framingham MA 570.78 of information that may be useful in determining 53/54 Helga Solleder, San Carlos CA; John Stanczak, Sunnyvale CA 570.37 facts and settling issues arising from some types 53/54 Rhoda Kratenstein, Albany NY; Barbara Mackle, Boca Raton FL 570.37 of ethical and behavioral complaints or actions. 55 Roger Johnson, Sarasota FL; Rolf Paul, Needham MA 569.13 Please summon a director if a problem occurs at 56 Annette Caron - Sidney Caron, Northfield IL 569.02 the table. 57 Michael Andrews - Susan Johnston, Fremont CA 568.72 This procedure is intended to assure everyone 58 Thompson Jin, Northridge CA; Shiu-Ming Huang, San Marino CA 567.48 that the playing field is level and that misbehavior 59 Eileen Ojakangas - Leona Hanson, Davis CA 567.07 60 Stuart Goodgold, San Jose CA; Kevin Podsiadlik, Dallas TX 566.66 will not be tolerated. 61 Frank Moran - Peggy Moran, Santa Fe NM 566.64 62 Joerg Schneider, Vancouver BC; Christa Mead, New Westminster BC 565.37 Bid Box Alerts and 63 Doug Anderson, Quincy MA; Stephen McDevitt, Medford MA 565.11 64/67 Ellen Cherniavsky, Silver Spring MD; Barbara Ames, Bethesda MD 565.01 Announcements 64/67 Rachel Chittaro, Kildeer IL; Ed Nield, Naples FL 565.01 When using bid boxes, ACBL suggests that 64/67 Jeffrey McKee, Santa Clara CA; Greg Resz, Weatherford TX 565.01 players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the 64/67 Charles Manning, Concord CA; Thomas Franklin III, Martinez CA 565.01 same time. 68 Laura Lipman, Augusta ME; Allen McRae, Portland ME 564.76 When making an announcement, use the 69 Kuhlmann - Lacy Jennings, San Diego CA 562.79 announcement word —- such as “transfer” —- and 70 Phyllis Harlan - Bill Harlan, Oklahoma City OK 562.42 71 Kimberly Fanady - Steven Kipperman, San Francisco CA 562.23 tap the Alert strip at the same time. 72 Arif Shah, Granada Hills CA; Basant Shah, Valencia CA 561.63 A player who Alerts or announces a bid 73 Teresa Ozias, Dallas OR; Dick Mc Cluer, Vancouver WA 561.06 should make sure his opponents are aware that an 74 Diane Graese, Las Vegas NV; Ghassan Menachi, Fabreville QC 560.31 Alert or announcement has been made. 75 Steve Shaye, Slingerlands NY; Caroline Pascoe, Sarasota FL 560.18 76 S Fuhrmann, Madison WI; Glenna Shannahan, Fitchburg WI 559.65 77 Arnie Kohn, Monroe NJ; Charles Rosenblatt, Pompano Beach FL 559.26 Pre-Alert/ 78 Joe Monro - Rhonda Monro, Beverly Hills MI 559.06 Disclosure forms 79/81 Donna DePesa - Gene DePesa, Tucson AZ 558.83 79/81 Lynn Yokel, Campbell CA; Lynn Shannon, Los Gatos CA 558.83 If your partnership plays special , you 79/81 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Fred Chasalow, Millbrae CA 558.83 must fill out a pre-Alert/Disclosure form and make 82 Carl Wolinsky, Marietta GA; Rob Epstein, Atlanta GA 557.20 it available to your opponents when you play in 83 Estelle Ronderos - Al Ronderos, Plymouth Mtng PA 557.18 events that allow Mid-Chart and Super-Chart 84 Sara Rothmuller, Santa Rosa CA; Laurence Hansen, Healdsburg CA 556.77 conventions. 85 Harvey Jaffe, Huntington Bh CA; Mike Kerr, Irvine CA 556.59 This applies to NABC+, regional or higher 86 Steve Handley, Edmonds WA; Howard Epley, Kent WA 554.76 knockout and Flight A Swiss games. Look for the 87 Doug Levene - Mark Jones, Birmingham AL 554.05 light blue forms on the table where convention 88/89 John Lien - Liz Stoneman, Surrey BC 553.06 cards are available. 88/89 Charo Holdo - Jeanette Deverian, Pasadena CA 553.06 90 Jordan Chodorow, Los Angeles CA; Gary King, Hermosa Beach CA 552.65 Continued on page 14 Page 14 Daily Bulletin

91 Bob Wingeard - Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Springs CO 552.58 Las Vegas 2001: 92 RoseMarie Loughnane, Lafayette Hill PA; Steve Blomstedt, West Chester PA 548.82 A look back 93/94 Tom Edwards, Richland WA; Al Peters, Bellevue WA 548.53 93/94 Susan Ledford, Oakley CA; Pat Patrick, Pleasanton CA 548.53 The Las Vegas tournaments are heavily 95 Edward Layton - Alain Schreiber, San Diego CA 547.29 attended. The city holds the record for both Summer 96 Steven Reuschlein, Middleton WI; Eileen Cripps, Madison WI 546.88 and Fall NABC attendance. 97 Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Barbara McLendon, New York NY 546.24 The highest count for a Fall NABC (and the 98 Gay Parrish, Bellingham WA; Jay Brandt, Blaine WA 546.05 fifth largest ever) was Las Vegas in 2001 with 99 Sheila Sache, Delta BC; Peter Morse, North Vancouver BC 545.23 16,818 tables in play. The 1973 tournament was the 100 Ned Irving - Betty Schultz, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 545.11 fifth largest fall tournament. 101 Cookie Evans, Tucson AZ; Ellen Gabriel, Chicago IL 544.82 The Summer Las Vegas tournaments, however, 102 Andy Vinock, Woodland Hills CA; Marta Peltz, West Hills CA 544.17 are the blockbusters. The all-time record for an 103 Kyun Ja Chung - Libushe Zaporozec, Madison WI 543.99 104/105 Paul Sorensen - Allan Sorensen, Berwyn AB 542.76 NABC is 24,221 tables held here in 1991. The third 104/105 Vonnie Lavender, Burke VA; Jane Shaw, Hanover PA 542.76 largest and fourth largest also took place here (1985 106 Bill Schreiber, Van Nuys CA; David Sokolow, Austin TX 542.59 with 19,827.5 and 1979 with 18,517.5). Any bets on 107/109 Roberta Magnus - Anna Bromberg, Brooklyn NY 542.34 this year’s attendance setting another record? 107/109 Mark Teaford, Seal Beach CA; Steven Johnson, San Diego CA 542.34 Here’s a look back at some of the Las Vegas 107/109 Robin Taylor, Gaithersburg MD; Abby Heitner, Wheaton MD 542.34 bridge deals through the years beginning with 2001. 110 Ian Findlay - Paul Janicki, Markham ON 541.93 Some have been rotated for reading convenience. 111 Molly Tinsley, Ashland OR; Hy Chansky, Las Vegas NV 541.62 Eddie Kantar supplied a quiz each day. Here’s 112/113 Jim Elbogen, Mission Viejo CA; C. Buddy Carls, Huntington Bh CA 539.87 the first one: 112/113 Cordelia Menges, New York NY; Jay Baudler, Piedmont CA 539.87 Daily quiz #1 114 Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Kim Corbin, Scottsdale AZ 539.23 115 Elaine Erickson - Bill Erickson, Las Vegas NV 538.87 Dlr: South ♠ 7 6 5 4 3 ♥ 116 Hope Ellis, Beachwood OH; Rosalyn Sukenik, Cleveland OH 537.56 Vul: None 8 6 117 Robert Carroll - Sandra Carroll, Los Angeles CA 536.58 ♦ 10 5 4 118 Ron Kral, Reston VA; Livingston Johnson, Fairfax VA 536.16 ♣ K Q 10 119 Ann Lindley - Alfred Duncker, Alexandria VA 535.75 120/121 James Smith, Mapleton OR; John Weatherwax, Florence OR 535.34 ♠ — 120/121 John Cotty, McCormick SC; Don Kern, Bay Minette AL 535.34 ♥ K J 122 Martin Blain, Woodland Hills CA; Diane Audeon, Los Angeles CA 535.17 ♦ A K J 9 8 3 123 N Paasch, Moorhead MN; Linda Webb, Fargo ND 535.16 ♣ A J 9 8 7 124 Freda Thornbrough - Don Sloter, Omaha NE 532.29 West North East South 125 Susan Khanna - Deepak Khanna, Shillington PA 530.81 126 Larry Dunham, Tucson AZ; Adele Verkamp, Phoenix AZ 528.68 1♦ ♠ ♠ ♣ 127 Doug Cross - Gary Anziani, San Antonio TX 528.65 Pass 1 3 4 128 Mark Litterman - Kathy Litterman, Phoenix AZ 527.10 ♦ ♦ Pass 4 Pass 5 129 Owen Lynch - Cindy Sealy, Huntsville AL 526.62 All Pass 130 Jon Downing, Solihull England; Liam Johnstone, Birmingham England 523.29 West leads the ♠9. East overtakes with the 10 and you ruff. Everyone follows to the ♦A. Now YOUNG LM-1500 LIFE MASTER PAIRS what? Decide before reading on. 32.0 Tables Carryover Here’s Kantar’s answer: 1 James Wang, Tempe AZ; Min Xu, Oxnard CA 390.18 Enter dummy with a club and lead a diamond to 2 Charles Riffle, Emerald Hills CA; J Beck, Millbrae CA 378.31 the ♦J. If the finesse wins, the most you can 3 Daniel Thomsen, Westminster CA; Cathy Bauer, Orange CA 375.32 possibly lose is two heart tricks. If the finesse loses, 4 Sundra Malcolm - Laurie Rowe, Eugene OR 369.93 you will be able to discard dummy’s hearts on your 5 Christopher Gibson, Beaverton OR; Paul Craviotto, Eugene OR 368.28 clubs and ruff a heart in dummy. 6 Beverly Pogoda - Joseph Meyers, New York NY 362.52 The only way to lose the deal is to play off two 7 Cristal Nell, Woodinville WA; Patrick White, Bothell WA 361.80 8 Henry Nelson, Zelienople PA; Elliot Itkin, Lovettsville VA 361.67 top trumps and then start clubs. East ruffs early and 9 Grant Mackinnon, Burlington ON; Tom Shannon, Toronto ON 361.56 plays a heart, a most unhappy ending for you. 10 David Kawashima, Vancouver BC; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 359.17 ♠ 7 6 5 4 3 11 Walter Smith Jr, Washington DC; Robert Levey, Chevy Chase MD 358.43 ♥ 8 6 12 William Thorp, Dana Point CA; Dorothy Conway, Ottawa ON 358.10 ♦ 10 5 4 13/14 Erin Gove, Los Gatos CA; Janet Adamiak, Saratoga CA 357.21 ♣ K Q 10 13/14 Jack Verson, Los Gatos CA; Kent Jolley, Sandy UT 357.21 ♠ 9 2 ♠ A K Q J 10 8 15 Mick Friedberg, Aptos CA; Kenneth Llacera, Santa Cruz CA 355.59 ♥ A Q 5 4 3 2 ♥ 10 9 7 16 Patrick Corn - Megan McLemore, Athens GA 354.03 ♦ 7 ♦ Q 6 2 17/18 Jeff Ford, Redmond WA; Adam Ruprecht, Seattle WA 353.73 ♣ 6 5 4 2 ♣ 3 17/18 Laurie Shapka, Red Deer AB; Sondra Blank, Saint-Laurent QC 353.73 19 Kerry Hanlon, Duluth MN; Mark Hanlon, Bismarck ND 353.30 ♠ — ♥ 20 Charles Young - Rich Pestien, Peoria IL 352.47 K J 21 Jeffrey Brown, Highlands Ranch CO; Audrius Mizeikis, Denver CO 350.36 ♦ A K J 9 8 3 22 Landon Blair - Polly Hyatt, Amarillo TX 348.89 ♣ A J 9 8 7 23 Jim Kerr - Maarten Tjebbes, Vancouver BC 346.69 24 Keith Gunn, Orinda CA; Daniel Rubinfeld, Berkeley CA 346.53 25 Marshall Baum, Highland Park IL; Nancy Frank, Glencoe IL 346.20 Convention card reminder 26 Curtis Barbee - Pamela Barbee, Newnan GA 345.74 Each player is required to have a convention 27 Allan Tushman, West Bloomfield MI; Gerald Brown, Vancouver WA 343.72 card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a 28 John Scibelli - Thomas Shulman, Las Vegas NV 342.04 session. Both cards of a partnership must be 29 Stephen Becker, Hatfield PA; John Dickenson, North Wales PA 340.57 identical and include the first and last names of each 30 Marel Bates, Winnetka CA; Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 339.29 member of the partnership. 31 Laura Chaffee, San Diego CA; Mark Freundel, Encinitas CA 339.11 If a director determines that neither player has a 32/33 Bruce Burns, Lincoln NE; Jonathan Cohn, Sioux Falls SD 336.17 32/33 Elaine Misner - James Misner, Wilton CT 336.17 substantially completed card, the partnership may 34 Serge Aronovich - Marianne Aronovich, Tuxedo Park NY 335.92 play only the ACBL Yellow Card and may use only 35 Daren Kuo, Saratoga CA; Alex Lo, Gresham OR 335.68 standard carding. This restriction may be lifted only 36 Jack Alhale - Rozi Alhale, New York NY 335.28 at the beginning of a subsequent round after 37 Bijoy Anand, Jacksonville FL; Earl Brown Jr, St Augustine FL 334.95 convention cards have been properly prepared and 38 Weidong Pei, Brea CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 333.54 approved by the director. Further, the partnership 39 Robert Smink, Newtown Sq PA; Estelle Bogart, Penn Valley PA 332.98 will receive a 1/6-board matchpoint penalty for each 40 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Peter Manzon, Waltham MA 332.50 board played, commencing with the next round and 41 Daniel McGuire - Molly Hosford, Las Vegas NV 332.01 continuing until the restriction is lifted. 42 Jack Gross, Ocean NJ; Lisa Walsh, Eatontown NJ 331.28 If the director determines the partnership has at 43 Jerry Katz - Joann Katz, Cincinnati OH 331.03 44 Richard Underwood - Joanne Schlang, Voorheesville NY 329.56 least one substantially completed convention card 45 Robin Hillyard - Kimberly Gilman, Carlisle MA 328.16 but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, 46 Brian English - Eden English, Mableton GA 327.85 the director may give warnings or assign such 47 Jack Waller, Ridgecrest CA; H Jay Sloofman, Ardsley NY 326.14 penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the 48 Jess Jurkovic - Chaim Kozlovsky, New York NY 325.89 circumstances. 49 David Amsterdam, Wayne PA; Brad Barry, Phoenixville PA 325.17 Daily Bulletin Page 15

50 David Budd, Las Vegas NV; Alan Carpenter, San Francisco CA 325.16 51 Sue Gerard, Mexico Mexico; John Taylor, Lago Vista TX 323.45 52 Miles Thomson, Cape Coral FL; Keith White, Fort Myers FL 323.20 53 Steve Callaham - Jessica Callaham, Woodstock GA 321.82 54 Amy Staska, Saint Paul MN; Edie Siemens, Prior Lake MN 319.84 55 Kris Boswinkel, Duluth MN; Elaine Laurvick, Culver City CA 318.55 56 Lawrence Teitel - Sharon Teitel, Scottsdale AZ 317.57 57 Larry Swing - Sally Swing, Palm City FL 316.65 58 Anthony Toogood - Irene Toogood, Qualicum Beach BC 316.11 59 David Banh, Annandale VA; Ilene Markell, Memphis TN 315.27 60/61 Adam Parrish, Cincinnati OH; David Britt, Erlanger KY 314.88 60/61 Gail Schueler - Carroll Schueler, Bermuda Dunes CA 314.88 62 Margot Hirsch, Arlington TX; Edwina Corn, Hurst TX 313.42 63 Kathy Rolfe, Lake Winnebago MO; Mary Mertz, Overland Park KS 312.93 64 Belinda Ledgerwood, Walnut Creek CA; Ronald Kow, Concord CA 312.68

LIFE MASTER PAIRS - 2ND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS N Q EAST-WEST 1 Winthrop Allegaert - Jaggy Shivdasani, New York NY 60.54% 1 Ishmael Delmonte, Double Bay NSW Australia; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 62.08% 2 Paul Bethe, New York NY; Kitty Cooper, Fort Collins CO 57.85% 2 Justin Lall - Kevin Bathurst, New York NY 61.15% 3 Tanaka Shugo, Chiba Japan; Hiroki Yokoi, Tokyo Japan 56.92% 3 Stephen Sanborn, Poughkeepsie NY; Kerri Sanborn, Stony Point NY 60.46% 4 Jack Spear - Nancy Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 55.46% 4 Stephen Shane, White Plains NY; Eugene Davidson, Boynton Beach FL 56.85% 5 Richard Potter, Black Mountain NC; John Potter, Panama City FL 54.62% 5 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 55.31% 6 Joan Vigdor - Charles Wolpert, Boynton Beach FL 54.08% 6/7 Samuel Cohen, Lisle IL; Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA 54.85% 7 Sunit Chokshi, Ahmedabad India; Rajgsh Dalal, Bombay India 53.23% 6/7 Carol Kasle, Bloomfield MI; P Drew Cannell, Dol-D-Ormeaux QC 54.85% 8 Arnie Frankel, Laurel MD; Russell Divvens, Silverthorne CO 53.15% 8 Cathy Strauch - Riggs Thayer Jr, San Diego CA 54.69% 9 Les Bart - Gloria Silverman Bart, Bradenton FL 51.92% 9 Victor Chernoff, Los Angeles CA; Paul Markarian, Lancaster CA 53.77% 10 Claire Tornay - George Tornay Jr, Palm Beach Gdns FL 51.77% 10 Michael Sherman, Chickamauga GA; Jon Brandon, Denver CO 53.31% 11 Martin Caley, Montreal QC; Frederic Pollack, Lasalle QC 51.69% 11 Meyer Abarbanel, Belvidere IL; James Hudson, DeKalb IL 53.15% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS R S EAST-WEST 1 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; Paul Hackett, Manchester England 68.08% 1 Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 60.85% 2 Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Eddie Wold, Houston TX 65.69% 2 Michael Gore, Brooklyn NY; Walter Schenker, Pine Brook NJ 59.46% 3 Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 63.15% 3 Spike Lay, Daytona Beach FL; Jay Baum, Germantown TN 57.54% 4 Saul Gross, Miami Beach FL; Rick Norton Jr, Oceanside CA 58.54% 4 Diana Schuld, Glen Head NY; Michael Abramson, Montclair NJ 57.08% 5 Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY 58.38% 5 Stephen Lucas - Lesley Decker Lucas, Woodbury NY 56.69% 6 Aidan Ballantyne - Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC 55.92% 6 Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD; Arnold Malasky, Longboat Key FL 56.38% 7 Gene Freed, Los Angeles CA; Barry Schaffer, Frisco TX 55.85% 7 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 56.23% 8 Lou Reich, Wheaton MD; Jeff Roman, Alexandria VA 52.77% 8 Rob Crawford, Henderson NV; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 54.38% 9 Eric Debus, 3001 Heverlee Belgium; Rutger Van Mechelen, Heverlee Belgium 51.85% 9 Diane Shannon, Saratoga CA; Donald Rothschild, Sunnyvale CA 54.31% 10 Vince Oddy, Aurora ON; Dan Gerstman, Buffalo NY 51.46% 10 Dennis Kasle, Bloomfield MI; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 54.23% 11 Garry Karst, Edmonton AB; Ray Grace, Sherwood Park AB 50.92% 11 Irina Ladyzhensky - Alexander Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL 53.31% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS I K EAST-WEST 1 Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY; Robert Levin, Bronx NY 60.23% 1 Erla Sigurjonsd, 220 Hafnarfjord Iceland; Sigfris Thordarson, Hafnarfjordhur Iceland 58.69% 2 Martin De Knijtt, Swaziland; Johan Upmark, Stockho Sweden 58.08% 2 Eunice Rosen, Highland Park IL; Deborah Cohen, Lisle IL 58.31% 3 Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA; Georgiana Gates, Houston TX 57.23% 3 Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA; Russell Samuel, Glen Cove NY 57.38% 4 Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL; Sangarapil Mohan, Oak Brook IL 56.54% 4 William Esberg, Long Branch NJ; Nan Wang, Eatontown NJ 56.54% 5 Kenneth Schutze, Austin TX; Bryan Maksymetz, Garibaldi Highl BC 56.46% 5 Ole Godefroy, Bellevue WA; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA 55.08% 6 Gavin Wolpert, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL 56.15% 6 Allen Hawkins Jr - Jim Foster, Birmingham AL 54.62% 7 Peter Grover, Aurora OH; John Toy, Buffalo NY 53.38% 7 Victor Melman, Scarsdale NY; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam 5 Israel 53.77% 8 Helen Abbott, Mercer Island WA; Polly Dunn, Bellevue WA 52.08% 8 Lyle Poe Jr, Ellicott City MD; Thomas Weik, Reading PA 53.46% 9 Jon Bartlett, Portland OR; Hank Gagnon, Newberg OR 51.38% 9 Lance Malkind - Annette Malkind, Phoenix AZ 52.31% 10 Mike Cappelletti, Hixson TN; Mark Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ 50.92% 10 Clark Millikan, Mountain View CA; Steve Chen, Fremont CA 51.77% 11 Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC; Michael Takemori, Coquitlam BC 50.31% 11 Larry Mori, Clearwater FL; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX 51.62% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS L M EAST-WEST 1 Ross Grabel, Huntington Bh CA; Jon Wittes, Palm Desert CA 66.38% 1 Arend Bayer, Salt Lake City UT; Han Peters, Madison WI 67.77% 2 Subhash Gupta, New Delhi 11001 India; K Venkataraman, Chennal India 63.46% 2 Adis Dombu - Si Dombu, Las Vegas NV 58.85% 3 Kyoko Shimamura, Tokyo 136 Japan; Tadashi Teramoto, Tokyo Japan 61.46% 3 James Murphy, Concord NC; Tim Crank, Cincinnati OH 57.62% 4 Brandon Sheumaker, Golden CO; Dom Di Felice, Denver CO 59.38% 4 Roy Welland - Brian Glubok, New York NY 57.31% 5 W Reynolds, South Pasadena CA; James Rosenstiel, Alhambra CA 56.23% 5 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; John Jones, Hacienda Hgts CA 55.62% 6 Chuck Said, Nashville TN; Alan Wienman, Morton IL 55.77% 6 Lynn Baker, Austin TX; Karen McCallum, US 55.00% 7 James Thurtell, Dallas TX; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 54.38% 7 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; William Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ 53.85% 8 Zac Cohen, San Lorenzo CA; Evelyn Holtz, Santa Rosa CA 54.23% 8 Beverly Perry, New York NY; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA 52.77% 9 Chris Larsen, Costa Mesa CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 53.62% 9 Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON; Dwight Bender, London ON 52.31% 10 Alan Kleist, Cheverly MD; Donald Berman, Laurel MD 52.31% 10 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Paul Morris, Brooklyn NY 51.77% 11 Kenneth Stuckey, Arvada CO; Brian McAllister, Gibbsboro NJ 52.15% 11 Richard Ferrin, Washington DC; Eugene Kales, Arlington VA 51.62% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS E F EAST-WEST 1 Kathie Walvick - Walt Walvick, Mc Lean VA 66.89% 1 Brett Kunin, West Orange NJ; Julian Heicklen, Teaneck NJ 60.39% 2 Michael Strebinger, Port Coquitlam BC; Les Fouks, Vancouver BC 61.90% 2 Dick Benson, Le Roy IL; Eric Gettleman, New York NY 59.45% 3 Marc Levine, Lubbock TX; Mark Lair, Canyon TX 60.40% 3 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Neal Satten, Wynnewood PA 57.54% 4 Barry Rigal, New York NY; Eric Leong, Oakland CA 60.16% 4 John Carruthers, Toronto ON; Anton Blagov, Richmond Hill ON 55.67% 5 Eldad Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba 44 Israel 58.15% 5 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Daniela von Arnim, D-68766 Hockenh Germany 55.32% 6 Dan Morse, Houston TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 57.81% 6 Joel Hoersch, San Diego CA; William Hall, Thousand Oaks CA 54.62% 7 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Sarasota FL 56.85% 7 Marinesa Letizia, Las Vegas NV; Kathleen Sulgrove, Twinsburg OH 54.24% 8 Ellie Hanlon - Mary Savko, Barre VT 52.83% 8 Alexander Kolesnik, Calabasas CA; Bob Etter, Sacramento CA 53.38% 9 Buddy Hanby - Sally Wheeler, Spring TX 52.35% 9 Arnold Goldstein, Boynton Beach FL; Burton Lipsky, New York NY 52.49% 10 Dianne Carr - Lee Steinmeier, Duluth MN 51.60% 10 Wolfe Thompson, Vancouver WA; Marc Zwerling, Portland OR 52.23% 11 Don Krauss, Beverly Hills CA; William Wickham, Los Angeles CA 51.40% 11 Mike Develin, Mountain View CA; Ari Greenberg, San Francisco CA 51.88% 12 Jimmy Rosenbloom, New York NY; Barbara Kasle, Boca Raton FL 51.23% 12 Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Serge de Muller, Fribourg Switzerland 51.41% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS G J EAST-WEST 1 Herbert Wilton, Fredericksburg TX; Maureen O’Rourke, Port Washington NY 60.01% 1 Bill Kent, Iowa City IA; Peggy Kaplan, Minnetonka MN 69.74% 2 Carl Berenbaum, Elkins Park PA; Rich Rothwarf, Philadelphia PA 59.09% 2 Lewis Gamerman, Brookline MA; Robert McCaw, Sudbury MA 58.76% 3 Rick Kaye, Bingham Farms MI; Beverly Gardner, Farmington Hls MI 58.94% 3 Dale Johannesen - Lynn Johannesen, Saratoga CA 58.60% 4 Claude Garneau, Montreal QC; Charles Martineau, Brossard QC 57.86% 4 Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA 58.31% 5 Lynne Feldman, Champaign IL; Ellen Crawford, Henderson NV 56.23% 5 Bob Crossley, Corte Madera CA; David Bryant, San Francisco CA 58.14% 6 Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL; Valerie Westheimer, New York NY 54.94% 6 Walter Schafer Jr, Downey CA; Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 58.07% 7 Bobbie Goerner, Riverside CA; Patricia Jay, Meadview AZ 52.55% 7 Kay Joyce - Randy Joyce, Raleigh NC 56.38% 8 Jerry Keller - Jane Thurman, Laurel MD 52.40% 8 Jan Jansma, Malden Netherlands; Ricco Van Prooijen, Nicuw-Vennep Netherlands 55.76% 9 Ralph Buchalter, South Orange NJ; Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 52.15% 9 Cheryl Mandala - Yul Inn, Cupertino CA 55.45% 10 John Ashton - Marie Ashton, Portland OR 51.92% 10 Craig Huston, Portland OR; Christopher Young, San Diego CA 53.68% 11 Chuck Malcolm - Marti Malcolm, Topeka KS 51.54% 11 Varis Carey, Fort Collins CO; David Caprera, Evergreen CO 53.45% 12 Jeffrey Polisner, Lafayette CA; Edward Nagy, Danville CA 51.32% 12 Richard Popper, Wilmington DE; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ 53.15% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A H EAST-WEST 1 Russell Ekeblad, Providence RI; Peter Weichsel, Encinitas CA 63.94% 1 Daniel Zagorin, Skokie IL; Michael Lawrence, Brentwood TN 60.98% 2 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook NY 61.59% 2 David Yang, Chicago IL; Xiaodong Shi, Naperville IL 59.05% 3 John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Buffalo NY 61.29% 3 Richard Meffley, Fresno CA; Warren Cederborg, Visalia CA 58.72% 4 Ralph Lind, Shoreline WA; William O’Brien, Mountlake Terr WA 60.36% 4 David Lindop, Toronto ON; Michael Cummings, Palm Beach Gdn FL 58.09% 5 Abraham Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ 58.92% 5 S Kohan, Dallas TX; Mark Bumgardner, Carrollton TX 57.79% 6 Hank Youngerman, Jacksonville FL; Gary Brown, San Francisco CA 55.52% 6 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman, Atlanta GA 55.69% 7 Karen Heath, Henderson NV; Ron Sukoneck, Wilmington NC 55.36% 7 Sylvia Moss - Susan Wexler, New York NY 54.01% 8 Leslie Brown, Huddersfield Great Britain; Karen Bradley, Huddersfield England 54.54% 8 Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Zia Mahmood, New York NY 52.87% 9 Richard Gross, Las Vegas NV; Paul Stern, Oak Creek WI 54.33% 9 Michael Shuman, Pasadena CA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA 52.75% 10 Mark Ospeck, Memphis TN; Anton Tsypkin, Sharon MA 54.25% 10 Somers Collins, Little Rock AR; Bo Liu, Mabelvale AR 51.80% 11 Robert Hampton, Blythewood SC; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY 52.79% 11 Frank Aquila, Fairlawn OH; Jerome Rolnick, Lyndhurst OH 51.13% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS B C D EAST-WEST 1 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Larry Griffey, Vero Beach FL 61.39% 1 Onno Eskes, Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn 304G Netherlands 59.62% 2 Ya-Ian Zhang - Ling Gu, CHINA People’s Republic of China 59.51% 2 Erwin Bergsma - Marjorie Bicknese, Culemborg Netherlands 59.41% 3 Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 58.40% 3 Qing Yang, Cupertino CA; Bin Dai, Mountain View CA 58.76% 4 Kasper Konow, Copenhagen Denmark; Michael Askgaard, Gentofle Denmark 57.29% 4 Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk Poland; Krzysztof Buras, Florianska C19 Poland 58.40% 5 Grace Jeklin, Surrey BC; Fredrik Nystrom, Stockholm 112 Sweden 56.88% 5 Rick Rowland, Wilmington DE; Martin Rabinowitz, Narberth PA 57.89% 6 Charles Juergensen, Yardley PA; Nancy Kaercher, Langhorne PA 56.43% 6 Allan Smith, Peterborough ON; Bill Kertes, Toronto ON 57.39% 7 Jared Lilienstein, New York NY; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC 55.87% 7 David Sabourin, Ottawa ON; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 56.68% 8 Terry Terzian, Castro Valley CA; Robert Munson, Danville CA 54.25% 8 Sun-O Ho, Brookfield WI; William McFall, New Berlin WI 56.22% 9 Peter Bisgeier - Robert Gordon, Northport NY 53.85% 9 Alejandro Bianchedi, Buenos Aires Argentina; Perla Sultan Slimak, Caracas Venezuela 55.82% 10 Kiran Nadar, Portola Vally CA; B Satyanaraynan, New Delhi India 53.39% 10 Jan Assini, Aurora OH; Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH 55.31% 11 Rita Shugart, Pebble Beach CA; Boye Brogeland, Norway 53.14% 11 Greg McKellar, Kingston ON; Arch McKellar, Dobbs Ferry NY 54.66% 12 Robert Garret - Konrad Garret, Gardnerville NV 53.04% 12 Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA; Tom Breed, Aurora CO 54.35% 13 Andy Altay, Willowdale ON; Stephen Aarons, Toronto ON 52.94% 13 Tom Kniest, University City MO; Karen Walker, Champaign IL 54.30% 14 Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA; Haisam Osman, Denver CO 52.33% 14 Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; John Russell, North Barringto IL 54.20% 15 Jerry Helms - Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC 52.07% 15 Mildred Breed - Anita Cokins, Austin TX 53.19% 16 Chip Martel, Davis CA; Martin Fleisher, New York NY 51.82% 16 Hoajun Shi, Shang Hai People’s Republic of China; Ze Jun Zhuang, Shanghai People’s Republic of China 53.04% 17 Ira Ewen, New York NY; Bob Gwirtzman, Brooklyn NY 51.42% 17 Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA 52.73% 18 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 51.32% 18 Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY 52.33% Page 16 Daily Bulletin

0-5000 LIFE MASTER PAIRS 2ND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS FFF GGG EAST-WEST 1 James Showalter, Prescott AZ; Geoff Stokes, Gardnerville NV 61.14% 1 Roger Snowling, Hamilton ON; Gary Westfall, Brampton ON 65.15% 2 Pat Chambers - Robin Chambers, Palo Alto CA 59.00% 2 Barry Senensky, Thornhill ON; James Partridge, Birmingham AL 59.72% 3 Gregory Chaffee - Maritha Pottenger, San Diego CA 58.67% 3 Rosemary Shaw, Silver Spring MD; Frimann Stefansson, Akureyri Iceland 56.87% 4 Joerg Schneider, Vancouver BC; Christa Mead, New Westminster BC 58.14% 4 Richard Hyken, Morristown NJ; Julie Cohan, Montville NJ 56.11% 5 Peggy Ware - Spencer Jones, Denver CO 57.85% 5 Jack Frost - Kathryn Frost, Joliet IL 55.94% 6 Barry Spector, Springfield VA; Randy Thompson, Albuquerque NM 57.56% 6 Steve Handley, Edmonds WA; Howard Epley, Kent WA 55.70% 7 Ned Irving - Betty Schultz, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 57.13% 7 Larry Dunham, Tucson AZ; Adele Verkamp, Phoenix AZ 55.14% 8 Bill Schreiber, Van Nuys CA; David Sokolow, Austin TX 54.66% 8 Jean Choi, Honolulu HI; Warren Fukushima, Pearl City HI 53.85% 9 Jerrold Grossman, Rochester Hills MI; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Wds MI 54.58% 9 Martha Young - Bob Scallan, Dallas TX 53.15% 10 Lu Kohutiak - Yvonne Hernandez, Murrieta CA 54.34% 10 Freda Thornbrough - Don Sloter, Omaha NE 52.28% 11 RoseMarie Loughnane, Lafayette Hill PA; Steve Blomstedt, West Chester PA 53.29% 11 Dale Dye - Douglas Dye, Wyndmoor PA 51.44% 12 Annette Caron - Sidney Caron, Northfield IL 52.98% 12 Donna Rodwell, Clearwater Beach FL; Adam Kaplan, New Port Richey FL 50.62% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS HHH III EAST-WEST 1 Merle Stetser, Honolulu HI; J B Nabors, Kempner TX 62.00% 1 Atam Lalchandani, Incline Village NV; Ravi Bhalla, Berkeley CA 60.38% 2/3 Susan Jackowitz - Nancy Turner, New York NY 60.85% 2 Xiaoxue Walker, Mission Viejo CA; Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA 58.15% 2/3 Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 60.85% 3 Rachel Chittaro, Kildeer IL; Ed Nield, Naples FL 55.08% 4 Barry Purrington, Saint Paul MN; Mike Cassel, Roseville MN 58.31% 4 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Cam Meyer, Bend OR 54.92% 5 Lynn Yokel, Campbell CA; Lynn Shannon, Los Gatos CA 57.08% 5 Estelle Ronderos - Al Ronderos, Plymouth Mtng PA 54.69% 6 Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS; Kim Corbin, Scottsdale AZ 55.08% 6 Arnie Kohn, Monroe NJ; Charles Rosenblatt, Pompano Beach FL 54.46% 7 Nancy Wittwer, Falls City NE; Ian McKinnon, Newmarket ON 54.31% 7 Jennifer Kuhn - Phil Kuhn, San Mateo CA 53.92% 8 Andy Vinock, Woodland Hills CA; Marta Peltz, West Hills CA 53.08% 8/9 Phil Goatz - Cyndi Goatz, Las Vegas NV 53.85% 9 Sharon Hammer, Huntington Bh CA; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH 53.00% 8/9 Rusty Krauss - John Miller, Vienna VA 53.85% 10 Jack Forstadt, Evanston IL; Jon Kurasch, Northbrook IL 52.00% 10 Elaine Erickson - Bill Erickson, Las Vegas NV 52.62% 11 Teresa Ozias, Dallas OR; Dick Mc Cluer, Vancouver WA 51.92% 11 Diane Graese, Las Vegas NV; Ghassan Menachi, Fabreville QC 52.38% 12/13 Doug Levene - Mark Jones, Birmingham AL 51.31% 12 Richard Veach, Laurel MD; Steve Czecha, Potomac MD 52.23% 12/13 Laura Lipman, Augusta ME; Allen McRae, Portland ME 51.31% 13 Steve Smolen, San Francisco CA; Carol Frank, Burbank CA 52.00% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS BBB CCC EAST-WEST 1 Joyce Lelah, Los Angeles CA; Ruth Gittelman, Marina del Rey CA 63.77% 1 Richard Schmieder - Jyme Schmieder, Boerne TX 59.83% 2 Paul Boudreau - Lucy Tredennick, Lomita CA 63.54% 2 Helga Solleder, San Carlos CA; John Stanczak, Sunnyvale CA 59.00% 3 Bill McKenna, Darien IL; Frank Pancoe, Glen Ellyn IL 61.31% 3 Lawrence Lau, Westport CT; John Klayman, Haymarket VA 58.27% 4 D. Lionel O’Young, Walnut CA; Kou-Ping Cheng, Saratoga CA 59.38% 4 Randall Dougherty - Lynne Newman, San Diego CA 58.22% 5 Mike Wilson, New Westminster BC; Dave Grubbs, Seattle WA 57.38% 5 B Wayne Stuart III, Santa Cruz CA; Burton Stuart Jr, Chapel Hill NC 57.94% 6 David Rottmayer - William Rottmayer, Spokane WA 54.38% 6 Kimberly Fanady - Steven Kipperman, San Francisco CA 56.94% 7 Ian Findlay - Paul Janicki, Markham ON 53.92% 7 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 55.31% 8 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Jerry Fong, Marianna AR 53.69% 8 Rodney Wilton, Port Carling ON; Brian Johnston, Toronto ON 54.71% 9 Sheila Sache, Delta BC; Peter Morse, North Vancouver BC 53.15% 9 James Smith, Mapleton OR; John Weatherwax, Florence OR 54.54% 10 Russell Friedman, Wilton CT; Allan Wolf, Ridgefield CT 52.42% 10 Benjamin Eisenberg - Susan Eisenberg, Lords Valley PA 54.52% 11 Danny Ioannidis, Stoney Creek ON; Stephen Young, Mississauga ON 52.31% 11 Arif Shah, Granada Hills CA; Basant Shah, Valencia CA 54.14% 12 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA 51.85% 12 William Allison, Decatur GA; Charles Galloway, Thornhill ON 52.47% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS DDD EEE EAST-WEST 1 Allen Bowman, Green Valley AZ; Bill Barkley, New Bern NC 64.31% 1 Stuart Goodgold, San Jose CA; Kevin Podsiadlik, Dallas TX 58.69% 2 Steven Devico - Gayle Covey, Hendersonville NC 61.85% 2 Lee Bukstel, Boca Raton FL; Penelope Millar, Indianapolis IN 56.54% 3 Linda Green - Sam Whitten, Scottsdale AZ 59.92% 3 Roger Johnson, Sarasota FL; Rolf Paul, Needham MA 54.85% 4 Al Blinder, Torrance CA; Sanjeev Pathak, Roswell GA 57.31% 4/5 John Lien - Liz Stoneman, Surrey BC 54.69% 5 Andrew Firko, Oakville ON; Wendy Dooley, Mississauga ON 56.38% 4/5 James La Fountain, Temple TX; Jon Richard Ware, New Braunfels TX 54.69% 6 Marcia Dean - Robert Dean, San Jose CA 56.23% 6 Jeffrey McKee, Santa Clara CA; Greg Resz, Weatherford TX 53.92% 7 Cordelia Menges, New York NY; Jay Baudler, Piedmont CA 54.15% 7/8 Mark Teaford, Seal Beach CA; Steven Johnson, San Diego CA 53.38% 8 Gerald Collier, Camarillo CA; Jan Janssen, Henderson NV 53.69% 7/8 Gay Parrish, Bellingham WA; Jay Brandt, Blaine WA 53.38% 9/10 Edward Layton - Alain Schreiber, San Diego CA 52.77% 9 John Cotty, McCormick SC; Don Kern, Bay Minette AL 53.00% 9/10 Mark Litterman - Kathy Litterman, Phoenix AZ 52.77% 10 Eileen Ojakangas - Leona Hanson, Davis CA 52.23% 11 S Fuhrmann, Madison WI; Glenna Shannahan, Fitchburg WI 52.38% 11 Yasuko Shrenzel, Honolulu HI; Toyoko Saito, Tokyo Japan 52.15% 12 Thompson Jin, Northridge CA; Shiu-Ming Huang, San Marino CA 51.62% 12/13 Natalie Bassil, MA; Neil Montague, Swampscott MA 51.77% 12/13 Saul Agranoff, Newton MA; Joyce Pearson, Framingham MA 51.77%

1ST FRIDAY EVENING SIDE GAME 4TH OF 4 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VVV EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Philip Pearl, Fountain Valley CA; Mary Lou Kiley, Costa Mesa CA 67.39% 1 1 John Gropp, Poughkeepsie NY; John Babb, New Paltz NY 62.50% 2 1 Rene McFall, New Berlin WI; Donald Croysdale, Elm Grove WI 58.42% 2 2 Ronald Traudt - G Nelson Van Fleet, Wichita KS 57.70% 3 2 1 Barbara Rosenthal - James Overacker, Oro Valley AZ 55.87% 3 Roman Smolski - Vera Petty, Warwick Bermuda 57.44% 4 Barbara Clark, West Orange NJ; Betty Cox, Randolph NJ 53.87% 4 3 Ronald Susi, Laurel MD; Mary Skavaril, Columbus OH 55.28% 5 3 Janet Stevens, Reading PA; Emerita Hayward, Leonardtown MD 49.70% 5 4 1 Robert Rickling - Ray Tolston, Sardinia OH 55.27% 4 Paul Lindauer Jr, Varna IL; Mira Rowe, Newhall CA 49.32% 2 Dexter Senft, Bedford NY; S Leech, Pasadena CA 46.43% 2 Carolyn Lanier - Shirley Hooks, Houston TX 48.81% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION WWW EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Dennis O’Brien, Ambler PA; Joan Brandeis, Glenside PA 65.48% 1 Marilyn Garcia, Daytona Beach FL; Charlene Predmest, Delray Beach FL 59.82% 2 1 Carolyn Staab, Glen Ivy CA; Avice Osmundson, La Habra CA 53.57% 2 Bolin Zhu - Wei Liu, 59.52% 3 Myra Abrams, Cote Saint-Luc QC; Mary Vickers, Apex NC 52.98% 3 1 James Tanner, Highland CA; Millie Garrison, Riverside CA 56.85% 4 2 David Dance, Lexington NC; Claude Le Feuvre, Van Nuys CA 52.68% 4 2 1 Olga Burno, Vernon BC; Maggie Sparrow, Hillsdale ON 53.57% 5 Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Paul Bubendey, Chicago IL 51.19% 5 3 2 Lester Kodama - Mitsuko Kodama, Mililani HI 51.79% 3 1 Marilyne Dogole, West Palm Bch FL; Sunny Koontz, Palm Beach FL 49.11% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION XXX EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 James Remy - Gregory Trautman, Olympia WA 66.37% 1 Bill Archambo - Jane McKinney, Springfield MO 63.99% 2 Judy Kay-Wolff, Las Vegas NV; Jane Segal, Villanova PA 65.18% 2 Cheryl Ambach - Jack Ambach Jr, Glasgow KY 57.44% 3 1 Marshall Frank - Rosanna Frank, Chappaqua NY 59.52% 3 Stanley Sternberg, White Plains NY; Ken Donelson, Canton MI 54.17% 4 2 1 Wanda Cavinder - Elizabeth Brown, Indianapolis IN 54.46% 4 Raymond Adams Jr, Turlock CA; Charles Hilding, Wichita KS 52.98% 1 Masaharu Wakasa - Nobuko Wakasa, Kawasaki-Shi 44 Japan 52.08% 2 1 Suzanne Mason, Vero Beach FL; Jennifer Larkin, Carpinteria CA 51.49%

1ST FRIDAY 5/20/50 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION XX EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 James Holzhauer, Naperville IL; Nicholas Moreles, Henderson NV 67.06% 1 1 1 Mark Jenkins - Jameson Painter, Henderson NV 74.21% 2 Nancy Habbas, Las Vegas NV; Kalpana Parikh, San Diego CA 59.13% 2 2 2 Richard Carlson, Henderson NV; George Yanakiev, Potomac MD 64.68% 3 John Linskey, Houston TX; Bradley Etnyre, Las Vegas NV 53.97% 3 3 Uta Gertraud Fink - Betty Morrison, Thornhill ON 53.97% 4 Kevin Tone, Las Vegas NV; Diane Tone, Gilbert AZ 53.17% 4 Marilyn Landau, Rancho Pls Vrds CA; Johnny Arceri, Torrance CA 51.98% 2 2 David Choi - Suk Chiu Leung, 18 Pak Pat Shan Hong Kong 52.78% 3 Janet Young - Astrid Roy Clements, Baton Rouge LA 50.00%

1ST FRIDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION WW EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1/2 1/2 John Lanigan - Karol Lanigan, Colorado Spgs CO 56.55% 1 1 Warren Smith - Gloria Smith, Wichita KS 58.93% 1/2 1/2 Ann Shaylor, Sedona AZ; Dee Willard, Cottonwood AZ 56.55% 2 2 Gail Shaps - Bradley Shaps, Northbrook IL 57.74% 3 3 1 Dianne Maffia - Joseph Kulesza, Las Vegas NV 55.36% 3 3 Mel Fineberg - Connie Jones, Las Vegas NV 55.65% 4 Layne Onufer, Huntington Bch CA; Robert Onufer, Huntington Beac CA 52.98% 4 1 Denis Wood, Elliot Lake ON; Claire Ridgley, Tehachapi CA 52.98% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION YY EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Luigi Calicchia, Clearfield UT; Robert Poriss, So Ogdon UT 65.48% 1 1 1 Pawel Hanus, Carrollton TX; Bogumil Knypinski, N Richland Hill TX 66.07% 2 Judith Dvorkin, North Las Vegas NV; Ann Hung, Vancouver BC 60.12% 2 2 Mitchell Shapiro, Las Vegas NV; Terri Stitt, Oakhurst CA 60.12% 3 2 Charles Gaeth, Benicia CA; Roberta Le Feuvre, Van Nuys CA 57.74% 3 3 John Renna - Christina Renna, Fresno CA 51.79% 4 3 Robert Miller - Michael Colantuono, Penn Valley CA 55.65% 4 2 Stacie Bowman, Sunnyvale CA; Elizabeth Strasen, Woodacre CA 50.60% 4/5 1 John Simpson, Madera CA; Gwen Davey, Fresno CA 54.46% 4/5 Alan Zane - Susan Zane, Houston TX 54.46%

1ST FRIDAY AFT/EVE STRATIFIED OPEN - SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION II EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Jim Leuker, San Francisco CA; Tony Petronella, North Kingstown RI 60.98% 1 Stephen Lippmann - Janet Lippmann, Hartsdale NY 60.04% 2 Sylvia Riewerts, Eureka CA; Samuel Asai, Hood River OR 58.71% 2 Jared Fournier - Jeremy Fournier, Knoxville TN 58.52% 3 1 Sam Katz, Bloomington IL; Andre Asbury, Warner Robins GA 58.52% 3 Barbara Nudelman, Chicago IL; Joan Gerard, White Plains NY 57.77% 4 Vered Noah, Haifa Israel; Kaplan Amaron, Nazert Illit Israel 54.92% 4 Naomi Wandel - Hans Wandel, Portland OR 57.39% 5 Gary Tomczyk - Jackie Dower, Las Vegas NV 54.17% 5 Norma Sands, Denver CO; Bonnie Smith, Littleton CO 56.06% 6 Abe Jakob - Bella Ionis-Sorren, Ft Lauderdale FL 50.95% 6 Marie Smerjac, Castle Rock CO; Douglas McAvoy, Hamilton ON 48.48% 2 Doris Ham - Monica Mitchell, Hot Springs AR 50.38% 1 Jim Cheney, Hilo HI; Linda Gorski, Citrus Heights CA 47.16% 1 Gretchen Schmeeckle, San Mateo CA; Patricia Frederick, Burlingame CA 47.35% 2 Dennis Cogan, Roswell NM; Toby Green, Los Angeles CA 46.97% 1 Camilla Kolber - Fred Kolber, Miami Beach FL 46.02% 2 Sherry Clint, Littleton CO; Meg Harrington, Las Vegas NV 43.94% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION JJ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Donald Blum, Atlanta GA; Joel Schwartz, Las Vegas NV 61.36% 1 Rokyta, Vienna AS; Werner Hackl, Brunn Austria 62.50% 2 Alan Goodman - Dee Harley, Edinburh United Kingdom 59.66% 2 Thomas Corlett - Ethel Corlett, Waco TX 61.55% 3 1 1 Monica Jung - Donna Casey, Lake Barrington IL 59.28% 3 1 Andrew Goldfein, Lincolnwwod IL; Patricia Goldfein, Lincolnwood IL 54.36% 4 Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA; Jay Cohodes, Sunrise FL 54.36% 4 2 Pam Himes - Jerry Himes, Merritt Island FL 54.17% 5 Carol McCully, Manhattan Beach CA; Ed Barad, Marina del Rey CA 53.79% 5 Eli Schneider, East Brunswick NJ; Andrew Tylman, Toronto ON 53.98% 6 Gerald Fox - Barbara Fox, Napa CA 53.22% 6 Jenny Pinto, Las Vegas NV; Norman Leslie, New Orleans LA 53.22% 2 Amanda Jeger, Frankfurt Am Ma Germany; Estera Lisker, East Quogue NY 52.08% 1 Hetty Kallman, Agoura CA; Jean Jolin, Westlake Vlg CA 52.27% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION LL EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Harvey Ackerman, Las Vegas NV; Jack Rhatigan, Cottage Grove MN 62.50% 1 Ann Rickard, Simpsonville SC; Michael Oechsler, Charlottesville VA 62.31% 2 Rebecca Schneider, Desert Hot Sprg CA; Cynthia Schneider, East Brunswick NJ 57.95% 2 Hirsh Schnayer, Laval QC; Michael Efraim, Mont-Royal QC 59.28% 3 Sam Wilson - John Jeffrey, Las Vegas NV 56.25% 3 Harold Farnsworth, Salt Lake City UT; John Landeryou, Lethbridge AB 59.09% 4 Anton Habash, Oxford OH; Cameron Shunta, Grand Haven MI 55.11% 4 Joyce Regan, E Greenwich RI; Ann Basilico, Cranston RI 55.68% 5 Dennis Scholl - George Vasilevsky, Las Vegas NV 53.60% 5/6 Mike Bovarnick, Mercer Island WA; Barton Buffington, North Kingstown RI 53.98% 6 Val Covalciuc - Richard Covalciuc, Fort Myers FL 53.41% 5/6 William Nabors, Colorado Spgs CO; John Pringle, Rio Verde AZ 53.98% 1 1 Mark Murad - Susannah Murad, Dover NH 50.00% 1 Paul Wolf II, Shrewsbury MA; Rick Holcomb, Malden MA 50.38% 2 Mark Raggio, Rancho Palos Vd CA; Sheryl Kohlhoff, Rncho Pls Vrd CA 49.81% 2 1 Jay Hardy, Las Vegas NV; Tommie Kadotani, Denver CO 46.97%

1ST FRIDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS - SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AA EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Ken Barbour, Scottsdale AZ; Aileen Osofsky, New York NY 59.09% 1 Judi Radin - Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY 60.30% 2 Robert Lavin, East Longmeadow MA; Patricia Wright, Charlotte NC 58.71% 2 1 Elise Hunziker - Camil Hunziker, Longueuil QC 58.27% 3 1 Nancy Tobin - Barbara Warren Schlicht, Williamsburg VA 58.33% 3 2 1 Robert Hinrichs, Corona del Mar CA; Ron Pennington, Costa Mesa CA 58.21% 4 Bobbie Parker - Barbara Betz, Las Vegas NV 57.01% 4 Richard Cutler, Beverly Hills CA; Jeri Berger, Marina Del Rey CA 56.42% 5 2 Betty Ann Schmitz, Webster NY; Elsie Jones, Rochester NY 56.25% 5 Gertrude Ebesu, Honolulu HI; Floyd Tsuchida, Henderson NV 56.32% 6 3 1 Fred Nachman - James Hooker, Paradise Valley AZ 54.73% 6 3 George Churchill, Swartz Creek MI; Robert Woodward, Littleton CO 53.60% 4 Alisa Douer - Ronny Vaisberg, Venezuela 51.70% 4 Betty Lou Nagle, Rehoboth Bch DE; Mona Erickson, Hendersonville NC 48.48% 2 Hortensia Azerraf, Bal Harbour FL; Sara Kuperstein, Caracas Venezuela 51.52% 2 Alan Malloy, Santa Clara CA; Laura Rassbach, Boulder CO 46.80% Daily Bulletin Page 17

NORTH-SOUTH SECTION BB EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Matt Granovetter - Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 60.80% 1 Vera Petty - Roman Smolski, Warwick Bermuda 60.23% 2 John Hogan Jr, Wayne NJ; Jean-Marc Picard, Pte-Aux-Tremb QC 59.85% 2 1 T P Goyal, Las Vegas NV; Charlyn Johnson, Henderson NV 59.28% 3 1 1 Peter Sager, San Rafael CA; Alan Jacobs, Boca Raton FL 59.28% 3 Linda Saks - Jay Saks, Cote Saint-Luc QC 58.33% 4 2 Susan Jackson, Roseville MN; Donna Sparks, Houston TX 58.52% 4 2 Eiko Nomura, Tokyo Japan; Aiko Mizuuchi, Tokyo Japan Japan 57.95% 5 Bob Luebkeman, Walnut Creek CA; Anita Burgis, Santee CA 57.95% 5 3 1 W Oates - P Oates, Brighton MI 54.92% 6 Kumiko Matsuo, Yokohama-Shi Japan; Misuzu Ichihashi, Tokyo Japan 54.73% 6 4 2 Carol Clemenz - Fred Clemenz, Lexington SC 54.17% 3 2 Bernadette Williams, Williamsburg VA; Terri Stitt, Oakhurst CA 48.48% 4 Patricia Prather, Linville Falls NC; Lisa Adelberg, Camden ME 48.11% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION CC EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Ann Allen - Anne Marie Harrington, Scottsdale AZ 62.12% 1 Judy Wirtenberg, East Brunswick NJ; Irwin Klugler, Montclair NJ 70.64% 2 J David King, Miami Beach FL; Corinne Roat, Miami FL 57.77% 2 Joan Ivey - Ernie Ivey, Surprise AZ 59.85% 3 2 1 Betty Heller, Scarsdale NY; Meryl Reyman, Greenwich CT 57.01% 3 1 Glenn London - Wesley Wu, Las Vegas NV 57.20% 4 Nannette Bordenstein, Pittsford NY; Joseph Sargent, Rochester NY 54.73% 4 2 1 Guena Shneiderman - Sara Birnbaum, Venezuela 57.01% 5 3 Robert Murphy, Arlington Hghts IL; Michael Nisen, Rolling Meadows IL 54.55% 5 3 2 Robert Kleinman - Madelaine Kleinman, Vail CO 54.36% 6 Martha Beecher - Blair Fedder, Las Vegas NV 53.79% 6 Arnold Federman - Lenore Silver, New York NY 53.03% 7 4 2 Shirley Hooks - Carolyn Lanier, Houston TX 50.19% 7 Mitsuko Suyama, Tokyo Japan; Sachiho Ueda, Chiba-Ken Japan 52.65% 4 Lynda Brown Walker, Springboro OH; Gord Pippy, Winnipeg MB 51.52%

1ST FRIDAY AFTERNOON 0-5 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UU EAST-WEST 1 Nancy Thompson - Andrew Kerr, San Francisco CA 63.75% 1 Robert Colbourn - Sheridan Colbourn, Danville CA 65.00% 2 Nicholas Moreles - Jameson Painter, Henderson NV 61.88% 2 Sandra Wright, Baton Rouge LA; Sandi Proctor, Johns Creek GA 63.13% 3 Jeff Swazlund - Mark Jenkins, Henderson NV 56.88% 3/4 Gerald Thomas - Irene Campbell, Park City UT 51.25% 3/4 Adrienne Angel, Greenrae CA; Judith Schaffenacker, San Leandro CA 51.25%

1ST FRIDAY AFTERNOON 50/20 - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VV EAST-WEST AB AB 1 Nancy Habbas, Las Vegas NV; Kalpana Parikh, San Diego CA 61.37% 1 1 Dennis Waniolek, Shelby Township MI; Richard Cantley, Birmingham MI 57.54% 2 1 Alice Bales - Doris Greenroos, Henderson NV 60.58% 2 Lloyd Hankinson, Osprey FL; Gail Pirodsky, Sarasota FL 56.35% 3 2 Eva Berlin - Carol Kenney, Scottsdale AZ 57.01% 3 2 Marc Bernstein, Leawood KS; Bernie Fromm, Kansas City MO 55.83% 4 Kevin Tone, ; Diane Tone, Gilbert AZ 53.90% 4 Jeffrey Schwartz, Fairfax VA; Kevin Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY 54.70% 5 3 Joni Smith - Beverley Linskey, Houston TX 53.77% 5 Charlotte Ewing - Toni Sardisco, Baton Rouge LA 53.33%

1ST FRIDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION WW EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Kathleen Hathway, Lake Havasu Cty AZ; Warren Wolff, Lake Havsu City AZ 61.55% 1/2 1/2 1 Margaret Matheson - Robert Matheson, Glen Allen VA 60.23% 2 Virginia Dethomas, Hot Springs Vil AR; Cathy Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 57.58% 1/2 1/2 Robert Simony - Barbara Jensen, Pueblo CO 60.23% 3 2 Sue Bailey, Manchester OK; Gloria Teston, San Antonio TX 56.44% 3 3 2 Jean Symehowicz - Juliette Symehowicz, Aventura FL 58.14% 4 Sandra Murray - Jane Huerta, Sarasota FL 54.55% 4 Monrad Monsen - Marie Macaulay, Sacramento CA 54.55% 5 3 2 Kimberley Ward - Roger Ward, Palmer Lake CO 53.60% 5 4 Gordon Reitman - Edythe Goldberg, Las Vegas NV 53.03% 6 4 Ruth Kozower - Michael Kozower, Getzville NY 52.84% 6/7 Joanne Chalifoux, Bay Shore NY; Louisa Delew, East Islip NY 49.81% 5 3 Elizabeth Gompels, Newton MA; Joanie Gates, Austin TX 51.14% 6/7 D Ross White - Barbara White, Coronado CA 49.81% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION XX EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Jane Dadant - Andy Dadant, Orange CA 63.83% 1 1 1 Susan Angel, Greenbrae CA; Jean Marchant, Kentfield CA 62.69% 2 2 Ronald Korn - Carole Korn, Boca Raton FL 59.47% 2 2 2 Max Glick, Pittsburgh PA; Zachary Scherr, Ann Arbor MI 61.55% 3 3 Judy Kaprove - Robert Kaprove, Williamsville NY 56.44% 3 3 Chuck Dollarhide - Patricia Dollarhide, Oklahoma City OK 53.79% 4 Roy Taylor - Janet Wright, Athens GA 54.92% 4 Frederick Nislow - Judith Nislow, Palm Beach Gdns FL 52.65% 5 4 Layne Onufer, Huntington Bch CA; Vivian Jacobozzi, Scottsdale AZ 53.03% 5 4 Judith Arbus, Toronto ON; Fern Netkin, Aventura FL 51.14% 2 Jerry Lynn - Ann Lynn, Carson City NV 52.46%

THURSDAY-FRIDAY AFT/EVE SIDE - FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION FF EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Kathie Macnab, Halifax NS; Jo Ann Lynds, Truro NS 62.88% 1 Karin Griffin, Albuquerque NM; Nancy Boothe, Houston TX 58.52% 2 Andy Kaufman - Sydney Kaufman, Smyrna DE 55.30% 2 1 Jack Berry - Sue Wessner, Hamburg PA 57.39% 3 1 Annette Goldberg, Berkeley CA; George Harman, Northridge CA 55.11% 3 Carol Van Court, Palm Desert CA; Peggy Craig, El Paso TX 57.01% 4/5 2/3 Claudia Elmes, Pasadena CA; Gabriella Bowling, Los Altos Hills CA 53.60% 4 2 Janet Stevens, Reading PA; Emerita Hayward, Leonardtown MD 53.79% 4/5 2/3 1 Ronald Carlson, Ranch Pls Vrd CA; Jon Rankin, Nichols NY 53.60% 5 Edward Hynes, Penobsquis NB; Bob Butterfield, Dallas TX 53.60% 6 Fred Hamilton, Las Vegas NV; Rose Boot, Fresno CA 51.89% 6 3 1 Michael Lieberman - Alya Asarina, Cambridge MA 53.22% 4 2 Keith McMahan, Auburn CA; Paul Cozzi, Toronto ON 50.00% 4 Jairo Giraldo, Mexico Mexico; Robyn Giraldo, Miami FL 52.65% 2 Ann Weinstein, Yonkers NY; David Hurst, 2132 N S W Australia 52.27% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION GG EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Gary Ullman - Anne Ullman, Las Vegas NV 64.02% 1 Andrea Finkel - Lewis Finkel, Jupiter FL 64.77% 2 1 1 Selim Benardete, New York NY; Meg Massie, Charlottesville VA 63.45% 2 Pamela Allen - Lois Carter, Las Vegas NV 57.95% 3 2 2 Linda King, Hollister CA; Robert Lumbert, Severn MD 60.42% 3 1 1 Amal Chatterjee, Bethlehem PA; Samuel Litzenberger, Hellertown PA 57.77% 4 3 3 Jan Condit - Judy Alpert, Las Vegas NV 52.08% 4/5 2 Kazuko Nakagawa, Tokyo 152- Japan; Yoko Yamazaki, Tokyo 156- Japan 55.87% 5/7 4/5 Alice Bloom, Henderson NV; Ann Riesz, Las Vegas NV 51.89% 4/5 Michael Keller, Kalispell MT; Ernest Olness Jr, Billings MT 55.87% 5/7 Bill Willis, El Dorado AR; John Herrmann, Chattanooga TN 51.89% 6 3 Marshall Frank - Rosanna Frank, Chappaqua NY 55.68% 5/7 4/5 Ingrid Sturm - Geraldine Fischer, Las Vegas NV 51.89% 7 Roman Matusik, San Clemente CA; Stan Kosowski, Fountain Vly CA 55.11% 4 2 Donald Prior, Manasquan NJ; Conrad Staudacher, Thornton IL 53.03% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION HH EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Sunand Bal, Tucson AZ; Eric Swanson, Golden CO 60.42% 1 Sandra Hammer, New Smyrna Bch FL; Courtney Nelson, Wells VT 62.12% 2 1 Gerry Peck, Novato CA; Christina Verret, New York NY 58.52% 2 Sten Akerlund - Kent White, Lincoln CA 60.61% 3 Harriet Smith, Shreveport LA; Jean Willis, El Dorado AR 57.01% 3 1 Karen Pickelsimer, Oakwood Hills IL; Lamar Marutani, Vallejo CA 57.95% 4/5 2 Kathleen Reuter, Henderson NV; Nancie McLaren, Philadelphia PA 53.60% 4 2 1 Robert Rickling - Ray Tolston, Sardinia OH 52.65% 4/5 Arnold Fisher, Clementon NJ; Joelyn Shilliday, Marlton NJ 53.60% 5 3 2 Peter Stoyanov, Emmaus PA; Ronald Hutchinson, Nazareth PA 52.27% 6 3 Robert Addison - Ouida Addison, Great Falls MT 53.03% 6 4 3 B Gidwani, New York NY; Paul Goldensohn, Henderson NV 51.70% 4 1 Jeff Lane - Matthew Grant, Austin TX 50.38% 2 Christy Kadin, Camarillo CA; Elinor Levinson Hood, Ventura CA 50.19% 3 Jonathan Harvey - Arleen Harvey, Riverside CA 48.30%

1ST FRIDAY AFT/EVE STRIFIED OPEN - FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION II EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Eli Schneider, East Brunswick NJ; Andrew Tylman, Toronto ON 59.50% 1 Sue Himel - Mary Ann Ryan, Omaha NE 63.39% 2 Thomas Corlett - Ethel Corlett, Waco TX 58.15% 2 Nancy Schwantes, Las Vegas NV; Susan Pringle, Rio Verde AZ 61.41% 3 1 1 Joel Teller - Robert Berger, Berkeley CA 55.24% 3 Jim Leuker, San Francisco CA; Tony Petronella, North Kingstown RI 59.26% 4 Gail Bell, King of Prussia PA; Bobbie Gomer, Willow Grove PA 55.15% 4 Rokyta, Vienna AS; Werner Hackl, Brunn Austria 54.13% 5 2 Hetty Kallman, Agoura CA; Jean Jolin, Westlake Vlg CA 54.22% 5 1 Sam Katz, Bloomington IL; Andre Asbury, Warner Robins GA 54.08% 6 Gary Tomczyk - Jackie Dower, Las Vegas NV 53.06% 6 Vered Noah, Haifa Israel; Kaplan Amaron, Nazert Illit Israel 52.01% 2 Doris Ham - Monica Mitchell, Hot Springs AR 47.98% 1 Diane Greble, Chappaqua NY; Ann Gill, Oxford MS 47.89% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION JJ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Hirsh Schnayer, Laval QC; Michael Efraim, Mont-Royal QC 59.47% 1 Ann Rickard, Simpsonville SC; Michael Oechsler, Charlottesville VA 62.88% 2 Randi Adelman - Eric Mock, New York NY 57.58% 2 1 Mark Russell, Las Vegas NV; Gail Perry, Henderson NV 61.36% 3 1 1 Amanda Jeger, Frankfurt Am Ma Germany; Estera Lisker, East Quogue NY 56.82% 3 Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA; Jay Cohodes, Sunrise FL 60.80% 4 Donald Blum, Atlanta GA; Joel Schwartz, Las Vegas NV 56.44% 4 2 1 Anne Schaeffer, Apple Valley MN; Monte Ziola, Mesa AZ 58.33% 5 Harold Farnsworth, Salt Lake City UT; John Landeryou, Lethbridge AB 54.55% 5 Joan Pleason - Terry Currie, Houston TX 55.11% 6 Gerald Fox - Barbara Fox, Napa CA 53.79% 6 Mike Aliotta, Edmond OK; Raymond Zekauskas Jr, Tulsa OK 53.22% 2 Dick Wilson - Marilyn Goldman, Rochester NY 50.19% 2 Argenta Price - Monica Guo, San Francisco CA 45.64% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION LL EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Ram Hira, North Vancouver BC; Zeke Letellier, Crofton MD 58.52% 1 Jared Fournier - Jeremy Fournier, Knoxville TN 58.71% 2/3 Norma Sands, Denver CO; Bonnie Smith, Littleton CO 57.77% 2 Anton Habash, Oxford OH; Cameron Shunta, Grand Haven MI 55.30% 2/3 Elizabeth Poplawsky, Chula Vista CA; Marcela Gomez, Mexico Mexico 57.77% 3 Val Covalciuc - Richard Covalciuc, Fort Myers FL 53.79% 4 Brian Richardson, Pacific Plsds CA; Leo Lin, Los Angels CA 55.87% 4 Rebecca Schneider, Desert Hot Sprg CA; Cynthia Schneider, East Brunswick NJ 52.08% 5 1 Barbara Zeichik - Phyllis Norquay, Las Vegas NV 55.49% 5 Sam Wilson - John Jeffrey, Las Vegas NV 51.52% 6 Harvey Ackerman, Las Vegas NV; Jack Rhatigan, Cottage Grove MN 53.79% 6 Zerelene Jones, Lafayette LA; Susan Meyers, Mt Kisco NY 51.14% 2 Jim Cheney, Hilo HI; Linda Gorski, Citrus Heights CA 49.24% 1 Dennis Cogan, Roswell NM; Toby Green, Los Angeles CA 49.43% 1 Camilla Kolber - Fred Kolber, Miami Beach FL 48.86% 2 1 Carol Orazetti, Redmond OR; Judy Pieper, Anthem AZ 47.54%

0-5000 LIFE MASTER PAIRS 1FRIDAY AFTERNOON—1ST QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS FFF GGG EAST-WEST 1 Sandy Denison - Maynard Denison, Bakersfield CA 60.69% 1 Dorothy Coakley, Elm Grove WI; Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI 65.77% 2 Tony Miller, Ridgecrest CA; Diane Miller, San Bernardino CA 60.62% 2 Phyllis Harlan - Bill Harlan, Oklahoma City OK 57.62% 3 Roger Snowling, Hamilton ON; Gary Westfall, Brampton ON 60.38% 3 James Showalter, Prescott AZ; Geoff Stokes, Gardnerville NV 55.46% 4 Steve Shaye, Slingerlands NY; Caroline Pascoe, Sarasota FL 58.23% 4 Jerrold Grossman, Rochester Hills MI; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Wds MI 55.38% 5 Scott Levine, New York NY; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL 57.54% 5 Barry Spector, Springfield VA; Randy Thompson, Albuquerque NM 54.62% 6 Barry Senensky, Thornhill ON; James Partridge, Birmingham AL 57.00% 6 Bill Cook, Madison MS; Gerry Mindell, Chicago IL 54.54% 7 Richard Hyken, Morristown NJ; Julie Cohan, Montville NJ 56.00% 7/8 Alice Leicht - Marvin French, San Diego CA 54.23% 8 Bob Wingeard - Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Springs CO 55.77% 7/8 Larry Harding, Hampstead NC; John Herriot, Los Angeles CA 54.23% 9 Martha Young - Bob Scallan, Dallas TX 55.31% 9/10 Annette Caron - Sidney Caron, Northfield IL 53.23% 10 Jack Frost - Kathryn Frost, Joliet IL 54.62% 9/10 Lu Kohutiak - Yvonne Hernandez, Murrieta CA 53.23% 11 Carl Wolinsky, Marietta GA; Rob Epstein, Atlanta GA 53.54% 11 Elaine Ware, Vernon BC; Barb Schultz, Shawnigan Lake BC 51.92% 12 Rosemary Shaw, Silver Spring MD; Frimann Stefansson, Akureyri Iceland 51.77% 12 Bruce Greenspan, Danvers MA; Ann Borgschulte, Lexington MA 51.85% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS HHH III EAST-WEST 1 Rusty Krauss - John Miller, Vienna VA 58.82% 1 Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 61.18% 2 Atam Lalchandani, Incline Village NV; Ravi Bhalla, Berkeley CA 57.15% 2 Roberta Magnus - Anna Bromberg, Brooklyn NY 58.77% 3 Jennifer Kuhn - Phil Kuhn, San Mateo CA 56.97% 3 Doug Herron - Bill Begert, New York NY 57.80% 4 Kirk Kuhlmann - Lacy Jennings, San Diego CA 56.28% 4 Sharon Hammer, Huntington Bh CA; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH 57.31% 5 Rita Levin, Beverly Hills CA; Viktor Anikovich, Los Angeles CA 55.28% 5 Barry Purrington, Saint Paul MN; Mike Cassel, Roseville MN 57.08% 6 Joe Monro - Rhonda Monro, Beverly Hills MI 54.74% 6 Frank Moran - Peggy Moran, Santa Fe NM 54.69% 7 Harvey Jaffe, Huntington Bh CA; Mike Kerr, Irvine CA 54.50% 7 Laura Lipman, Augusta ME; Allen McRae, Portland ME 53.95% 8 Lucette Flanagan - Eugene Flanagan, Rye NY 53.69% 8 Charo Holdo - Jeanette Deverian, Pasadena CA 53.31% 9 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Cam Meyer, Bend OR 53.28% 9 Teresa Ozias, Dallas OR; Dick Mc Cluer, Vancouver WA 52.80% 10 N Paasch, Moorhead MN; Linda Webb, Fargo ND 53.12% 10 Hope Ellis, Beachwood OH; Rosalyn Sukenik, Cleveland OH 52.26% 11 Diane Graese, Las Vegas NV; Ghassan Menachi, Fabreville QC 52.43% 11 Doug Levene - Mark Jones, Birmingham AL 51.95% 12 Xiaoxue Walker, Mission Viejo CA; Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA 50.74% 12/13 Sali Ma, Las Vegas NV; Gordon Adkins, West Chester OH 51.88% 13 Rachel Chittaro, Kildeer IL; Ed Nield, Naples FL 50.54% 12/13 Bob Walters, White Rock BC; Ken Ramsay, West Vancouver BC 51.88% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS BBB CCC EAST-WEST 1 Jean Seward, Killington VT; Susan Winkler, Wake Forest NC 58.85% 1 Bill McKenna, Darien IL; Frank Pancoe, Glen Ellyn IL 66.31% 2/3 Charles Manning, Concord CA; Thomas Franklin III, Martinez CA 56.31% 2 Lawrence Lau, Westport CT; John Klayman, Haymarket VA 61.85% 2/3 Doug Anderson, Quincy MA; Stephen McDevitt, Medford MA 56.31% 3 William Allison, Decatur GA; Charles Galloway, Thornhill ON 58.92% 4 Rodney Wilton, Port Carling ON; Brian Johnston, Toronto ON 54.54% 4 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 57.15% 5/6 Russell Friedman, Wilton CT; Allan Wolf, Ridgefield CT 54.31% 5 Vonnie Lavender, Burke VA; Jane Shaw, Hanover PA 56.38% 5/6 Matthew Frame - Michael Schwab, Raleigh NC 54.31% 6 Jordan Chodorow, Los Angeles CA; Gary King, Hermosa Beach CA 54.85% 7 D. Lionel O’Young, Walnut CA; Kou-Ping Cheng, Saratoga CA 54.23% 7 Jane Rubin - Bruce Rubin, Henderson NV 54.54% Page 18 Daily Bulletin

NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS BBB CCC EAST-WEST 8/9 Mike Wilson, New Westminster BC; Dave Grubbs, Seattle WA 54.08% 8 Kalon Kelley, Santa Barbara CA; Tom McCrackin, Carpinteria CA 54.46% 8/9 Paul Sorensen - Allan Sorensen, Berwyn AB 54.08% 9 Robin Taylor, Gaithersburg MD; Abby Heitner, Wheaton MD 53.23% 10 B Wayne Stuart III, Santa Cruz CA; Burton Stuart Jr, Chapel Hill NC 53.54% 10 Jim Elbogen, Mission Viejo CA; C. Buddy Carls, Huntington Bh CA 52.54% 11 Carol Hamilton - James Hamilton, Sarasota FL 53.31% 11 Molly Tinsley, Ashland OR; Hy Chansky, Las Vegas NV 51.46% 12 Steven Reuschlein, Middleton WI; Eileen Cripps, Madison WI 53.08% 12 Arif Shah, Granada Hills CA; Basant Shah, Valencia CA 50.92% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS DDD EEE EAST-WEST 1 Donna DePesa - Gene DePesa, Tucson AZ 60.38% 1 John Maki, Bothell WA; Amy Deshaw, Seattle WA 61.46% 2 Lee Bukstel, Boca Raton FL; Penelope Millar, Indianapolis IN 57.15% 2 Ellen Cherniavsky, Silver Spring MD; Barbara Ames, Bethesda MD 60.62% 3 Kyun Ja Chung - Libushe Zaporozec, Madison WI 56.92% 3 Michael Andrews - Susan Johnston, Fremont CA 57.23% 4 Fay Teal, Kitchener ON; Stephen Brauss, Saint Louis MO 56.08% 4 Al Blinder, Torrance CA; Sanjeev Pathak, Roswell GA 56.46% 5 Sara Rothmuller, Santa Rosa CA; Laurence Hansen, Healdsburg CA 55.31% 5 Rhoda Kratenstein, Albany NY; Barbara Mackle, Boca Raton FL 55.38% 6 Saul Agranoff, Newton MA; Joyce Pearson, Framingham MA 54.85% 6 Marcia Dean - Robert Dean, San Jose CA 55.15% 7 Eileen Ojakangas - Leona Hanson, Davis CA 53.69% 7 Thompson Jin, Northridge CA; Shiu-Ming Huang, San Marino CA 54.31% 8 Susan Ledford, Oakley CA; Pat Patrick, Pleasanton CA 53.38% 8 Janice Phillips, Atlanta GA; Sharon Rohr, Pittsburgh PA 54.08% 9 Tom Edwards, Richland WA; Al Peters, Bellevue WA 53.31% 9 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Fred Chasalow, Millbrae CA 53.92% 10 Ann Lindley - Alfred Duncker, Alexandria VA 52.23% 10/11 S Fuhrmann, Madison WI; Glenna Shannahan, Fitchburg WI 52.00% 11 Jeffrey McKee, Santa Clara CA; Greg Resz, Weatherford TX 51.54% 10/11 Robert Webster, Ripon WI; Nancy Ogreenc, Wautoma WI 52.00% 12 Roger Johnson, Sarasota FL; Rolf Paul, Needham MA 51.38% 12 Jimmy Ritzenberg, Bethesda MD; Jim Gaarder, Columbia MD 51.77%

0-1500 LIFE MASTER PAIRS – FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS KKK WWW EAST-WEST 1 Christopher Gibson, Beaverton OR; Paul Craviotto, Eugene OR 61.00% 1 James Wang, Tempe AZ; Min Xu, Oxnard CA 68.00% 2 William Thorp, Dana Point CA; Dorothy Conway, Ottawa ON 58.92% 2 Keith Gunn, Orinda CA; Daniel Rubinfeld, Berkeley CA 60.31% 3 Robin Hillyard - Kimberly Gilman, Carlisle MA 58.62% 3 Jeff Ford, Redmond WA; Adam Ruprecht, Seattle WA 59.15% 4 Curtis Barbee - Pamela Barbee, Newnan GA 58.46% 4/5 Marel Bates, Winnetka CA; Bruce Altshuler, Los Angeles CA 54.85% 5 Charles Young - Rich Pestien, Peoria IL 55.85% 4/5 Grant Mackinnon, Burlington ON; Tom Shannon, Toronto ON 54.85% 6 Charles Riffle, Emerald Hills CA; J Beck, Millbrae CA 55.69% 6 Cristal Nell, Woodinville WA; Patrick White, Bothell WA 54.31% 7 Allan Tushman, West Bloomfield MI; Gerald Brown, Vancouver WA 55.23% 7 Eleanor Onstott - Bernie Weiss, New Orleans LA 53.46% 8 Brian English - Eden English, Mableton GA 54.62% 8 Jack Alhale - Rozi Alhale, New York NY 52.38% 9 Elaine Misner - James Misner, Wilton CT 54.31% 9 Henry Nelson, Zelienople PA; Elliot Itkin, Lovettsville VA 52.15% 10 Beverly Pogoda - Joseph Meyers, New York NY 53.31% 10 Laurie Shapka, Red Deer AB; Sondra Blank, Saint-Laurent QC 52.08% 11 David Banh, Annandale VA; Ilene Markell, Memphis TN 52.31% 11 Steve Callaham - Jessica Callaham, Woodstock GA 51.31% 12 Robert Smink, Newtown Sq PA; Estelle Bogart, Penn Valley PA 51.77% 12 Karen Mitchell - Nancy Klym, Calgary AB 50.69% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS XXX NNN EAST-WEST 1 Daniel Thomsen, Westminster CA; Cathy Bauer, Orange CA 60.85% 1/2 Serge Aronovich - Marianne Aronovich, Tuxedo Park NY 59.15% 2 Gordon Markham - Kathy Markham, Sun Lakes AZ 58.38% 1/2 Patrick Corn - Megan McLemore, Athens GA 59.15% 3/4 Jess Jurkovic - Chaim Kozlovsky, New York NY 57.08% 3 Richard Underwood - Joanne Schlang, Voorheesville NY 58.23% 3/4 David Budd, Las Vegas NV; Alan Carpenter, San Francisco CA 57.08% 4 Erin Gove, Los Gatos CA; Janet Adamiak, Saratoga CA 56.31% 5 Mick Friedberg, Aptos CA; Kenneth Llacera, Santa Cruz CA 56.69% 5/6 Marshall Baum, Highland Park IL; Nancy Frank, Glencoe IL 56.08% 6 Landon Blair - Polly Hyatt, Amarillo TX 56.23% 5/6 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Peter Manzon, Waltham MA 56.08% 7 David Kawashima, Vancouver BC; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 56.15% 7 Miles Thomson, Cape Coral FL; Keith White, Fort Myers FL 55.38% 8 Walter Smith Jr, Washington DC; Robert Levey, Chevy Chase MD 55.46% 8 Jeffrey Brown, Highlands Ranch CO; Audrius Mizeikis, Denver CO 54.92% 9 Eddie Moriguchi - Alice Moriguchi, San Francisco CA 54.08% 9 Jim Kerr - Maarten Tjebbes, Vancouver BC 54.69% 10 John Scibelli - Thomas Shulman, Las Vegas NV 53.92% 10 Sundra Malcolm - Laurie Rowe, Eugene OR 52.08% 11 Daren Kuo, Saratoga CA; Alex Lo, Gresham OR 53.69% 11/13 Jack Waller, Ridgecrest CA; H Jay Sloofman, Ardsley NY 51.31% 12/13 Daniel McGuire - Molly Hosford, Las Vegas NV 53.38% 11/13 David Vine, Chattanooga TN; William Adams Jr, Hixson TN 51.31% 12/13 Kathy Rolfe, Lake Winnebago MO; Mary Mertz, Overland Park KS 53.38% 11/13 Judith Lichter, Sparta WI; David Vaclavik, Appleton WI 51.31%

LIFE MASTER PAIRS - FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS E F EAST-WEST 1 Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Serge de Muller, Fribourg Switzerland 62.15% 1 Eldad Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba 44 Israel 63.54% 2 Frederick Allenspach, Plantation FL; Michael White, Atlanta GA 59.31% 2 Jon Baldursson, Hafnarfjordur Iceland; Thorlakur Jonsson, 200 Kopavogur Iceland 60.92% 3 Serge Chevalier, Laval QC; Andre Chartrand, Lery QC 57.77% 3 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Sarasota FL 59.00% 4 Mike Develin, Mountain View CA; Ari Greenberg, San Francisco CA 56.77% 4 Dan Morse, Houston TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 57.00% 5 Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; Allan Falk, Okemos MI 56.23% 5 Stu Swan - Hadi Allahverdian, Portland OR 56.85% 6 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Daniela von Arnim, D-68766 Hockenh Germany 55.77% 6 Don Krauss, Beverly Hills CA; William Wickham, Los Angeles CA 56.77% 7 John Carruthers, Toronto ON; Anton Blagov, Richmond Hill ON 53.69% 7 Kathie Walvick - Walt Walvick, Mc Lean VA 56.54% 8 William Van Dame - Lesly Van Dame, Houston TX 53.08% 8 Marc Levine, Lubbock TX; Mark Lair, Canyon TX 56.08% 9/10 Alexander Kolesnik, Calabasas CA; Bob Etter, Sacramento CA 52.54% 9 Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX 53.38% 9/10 Mizuko Tan Yamada, Tokyo Japan; Randy Corn, Kirkland WA 52.54% 10 Donald Hennings - Margot Hennings, Annandale VA 53.23% 11 Wolfe Thompson, Vancouver WA; Marc Zwerling, Portland OR 52.38% 11 Karen Cumpstone, Nanaimo BC; Michael Roche, Victoria BC 52.92% 12 Steve Becker, Old Greenwich CT; Larry Bausher, West Haven CT 52.23% 12 Michael Strebinger, Port Coquitlam BC; Les Fouks, Vancouver BC 51.46% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS G J EAST-WEST 1 Michael Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; Richard Zeckhauser, Cambridge MA 66.08% 1 Rick Kaye, Bingham Farms MI; Beverly Gardner, Farmington Hls MI 60.40% 2 Cheryl Mandala - Yul Inn, Cupertino CA 60.03% 2 Ralph Buchalter, South Orange NJ; Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 57.83% 3 Dale Johannesen - Lynn Johannesen, Saratoga CA 59.19% 3 Rozanne Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ; Stasha Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ 57.30% 4 Joanne Minken-Levy, Los Angeles CA; Rhoda Walsh, Palm Desert CA 57.88% 4 Lew Stansby - JoAnna Stansby, Castro Valley CA 55.86% 5 Jan Jansma, Malden Netherlands; Ricco Van Prooijen, Nicuw-Vennep Netherlands 57.59% 5 Paolo Pasquini - Jose Valdes, Caracas Venezuela 55.57% 6 Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA 57.29% 6 Varis Carey, Fort Collins CO; David Caprera, Evergreen CO 55.39% 7 Lewis Gamerman, Brookline MA; Robert McCaw, Sudbury MA 56.99% 7 Simon Kantor, Agawam MA; Murray Melton, Las Vegas NV 54.46% 8 Edward Frymoyer, Half Moon Bay CA; Suresh Mahajan, Del Mar CA 55.47% 8 Stephen Landen, Ellicott City MD; William Pettis, Silver Spring MD 54.25% 9 Walter Schafer Jr, Downey CA; Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 54.19% 9 Steve Clark, Carlsbad CA; Marshall Miles, Redlands CA 53.86% 10 Jerry Keller - Jane Thurman, Laurel MD 53.29% 10 Herbert Wilton, Fredericksburg TX; Maureen O’Rourke, Port Washington NY 53.73% 11 Craig Huston, Portland OR; Christopher Young, San Diego CA 52.81% 11 Alison Wilson - Michael Polowan, New York NY 53.14% 12 Lynne Feldman, Champaign IL; Ellen Crawford, Henderson NV 52.50% 12 Gail Erickson, Mendocino CA; Anne Arndt, Puyallup WA 53.10% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS I K EAST-WEST 1 Eric Greco, Philadelphia PA; Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV 60.38% 1 Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY; Robert Levin, Bronx NY 59.62% 2 Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA; Russell Samuel, Glen Cove NY 58.77% 2 Matthew Haag, San Francisco CA; Jason Chiu, San Jose CA 58.23% 3 Gaylor Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ 56.38% 3 Mike Cappelletti, Hixson TN; Mark Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ 56.92% 4 Nadine Wood, Silver Spring MD; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 55.62% 4 Peter Grover, Aurora OH; John Toy, Buffalo NY 56.85% 5 Victor Melman, Scarsdale NY; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam 5 Israel 55.31% 5 Helen Abbott, Mercer Island WA; Polly Dunn, Bellevue WA 55.23% 6 Barry Pritchard - Faith Pritchard, Edmonton AB 55.08% 6 Gavin Wolpert, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL 54.31% 7 Barbara Hamman - Proctor Hawkins, Las Vegas NV 54.92% 7 Kenneth Schutze, Austin TX; Bryan Maksymetz, Garibaldi Highl BC 53.92% 8 Geo Tislevoll, Trondheim Norway; Julie Zhu, Vero Beach FL 54.77% 8 Hugh Brown Jr, Mc Cormick SC; Robert Fendrick, Marietta GA 53.69% 9/10 Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; Alan Schwartz, Fairfax VA 54.38% 9 Jeff Olson, Dallas TX; Derrell Childs, Garland TX 53.38% 9/10 Lyle Poe Jr, Ellicott City MD; Thomas Weik, Reading PA 54.38% 10 Josh Sher, Woodland Hls CA; Michael Crawford, San Diego CA 53.08% 11 Daniel Boye - Susan Yates, Victor NY 52.31% 11 Daniel Levin, Aurora IL; Christopher Monsour, Chicago IL 52.77% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS L M EAST-WEST 1 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL 63.11% 1 Tarek Sadek - Ahmed Hussein, Cairo Egypt 60.71% 2 Cindy Bernstein, Matthews NC; Linda Lewis, Sioux Falls SD 59.25% 2 Brian Senior, Nottingham England; Jack Mizel, Coral Gables FL 58.46% 3 Roy Welland - Brian Glubok, New York NY 58.29% 3 James Thurtell, Dallas TX; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 58.44% 4 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; William Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ 56.73% 4 William Muir - Victoria Muir, Kansas City MO 58.25% 5 Martin Harris, Chicago IL; Walter Johnson, Columbus OH 56.70% 5 Ross Grabel, Huntington Bh CA; Jon Wittes, Palm Desert CA 55.79% 6 Lynn Baker, Austin TX; Karen McCallum, US 54.60% 6 Chris Larsen, Costa Mesa CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 54.63% 7 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; John Jones, Hacienda Hgts CA 53.70% 7 Zac Cohen, San Lorenzo CA; Evelyn Holtz, Santa Rosa CA 54.16% 8 Adis Dombu - Si Dombu, Las Vegas NV 53.34% 8 Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON; Dwight Bender, London ON 53.04% 9 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Paul Morris, Brooklyn NY 52.15% 9 Michael Gilbert - Susan Gilbert, Sarasota FL 51.91% 10 Debbie Gailfus - Alan Gailfus, Carlsbad CA 51.90% 10 Warren Rosner - Chuck Lamprey, White Plains NY 51.79% 11 Beverly Perry, New York NY; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA 51.56% 11 Kyoko Shimamura, Tokyo 136 Japan; Tadashi Teramoto, Tokyo Japan 51.50% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A H EAST-WEST 1 Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Zia Mahmood, New York NY 63.46% 1 John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Buffalo NY 59.52% 2 Martin Hunter - Ronald Wilson, Mississauga ON 62.34% 2 Karen Heath, Henderson NV; Ron Sukoneck, Wilmington NC 59.44% 3 Suzette Wynn - Steve Scott, Phoenix AZ 58.87% 3 Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Alan Osofsky, Palm Beach FL 58.55% 4 Jordan Cohen, Thornhill ON; Doug Baxter, Toronto ON 56.01% 4 Gila Emodi, Kfar Shmaryhu Israel; Doron Yadlin, Petach-Tikva Israel 57.15% 5 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman, Atlanta GA 55.88% 5 Thomas Greer, W Hollywood CA; Barbara Stewart, Victoria BC 56.25% 6 Frank Aquila, Fairlawn OH; Jerome Rolnick, Lyndhurst OH 55.46% 6 Thomas Carmichael - Jenni Carmichael, Kennesaw GA 55.61% 7 Richard Meffley, Fresno CA; Warren Cederborg, Visalia CA 55.11% 7 Alan Watson, Lexington MA; David Becher, Danvers MA 54.93% 8 Sylvia Moss - Susan Wexler, New York NY 54.11% 8 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook NY 54.37% 9 Albert Shekhter - Oleg Rubinchik, Brooklyn NY 53.84% 9 Russell Ekeblad, Providence RI; Peter Weichsel, Encinitas CA 52.98% 10 Claude Vogel, Chicago IL; Joy Scher, Delray Beach FL 52.19% 10 Robert Hampton, Blythewood SC; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY 52.80% 11 George Whitworth, Coarsegold CA; Alan Dankman, Sacramento CA 51.73% 11 Ralph Lind, Shoreline WA; William O’Brien, Mountlake Terr WA 52.24% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS B C D EAST-WEST 1 Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY 61.87% 1 Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk Poland; Krzysztof Buras, Florianska C19 Poland 64.30% 2 Harvey Brody, San Francisco CA; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ 60.70% 2 Jerry Helms - Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC 59.59% 3 Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA; Tom Breed, Aurora CO 60.63% 3 Michael Ranis, Kenmore WA; Dan Botoaca, Glendale CA 58.22% 4 Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; John Russell, North Barringto IL 59.51% 4 Chip Martel, Davis CA; Martin Fleisher, New York NY 58.15% 5 Kiran Nadar, Portola Vally CA; B Satyanaraynan, New Delhi India 59.03% 5 Gary Greene, Longmont CO; Tom Stack, Boulder CO 57.67% 6 Corinne Kirkham - Jim Kirkham, Leawood KS 57.74% 6 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA 55.69% 7 Donald Stack, Overland Park KS; Linda Eakes, Leawood KS 57.03% 7 Debbie Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA 55.67% 8/9 Sathya Bettadapura, Campbell CA; Eddie Rose, Laguna Niguel CA 55.64% 8/9 Omar Olgeirsson, Reykjzuik Iceland; Pall Thorsson, Reykjavik Iceland 54.76% 8/9 Hoajun Shi, Shang Hai People’s Republic of China; Ze Jun Zhuang, Shanghai 55.64% 8/9 Samuel Ieong, Stanford CA; Adam Meyerson, Los Angeles CA 54.76% 10 Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA 54.86% 10 Joseph Machotka, Chicago IL; Florine Walters, Pittsburgh PA 54.68% 11 Jim Linhart, Raleigh NC; Bert Newman, West Bloomfield MI 54.50% 11 Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 54.30% 12 Sun Ming, Beijing; Wang Hong Li, Xihn 53.82% 12 Ya-Ian Zhang - Ling Gu, CHINA People’s Republic of China 53.80% 13 Allan Smith, Peterborough ON; Bill Kertes, Toronto ON 53.80% 13 Kasper Konow, Copenhagen Denmark; Michael Askgaard, Gentofle Denmark 53.21% 14 Alejandro Bianchedi, Buenos Aires Argentina; Perla Sultan Slimak, Caracas Venezuela 53.34% 14 R Jay Becker, New York NY; Steven Cooper, Ft Collins CO 52.91% 15 Jack Bryant - Kenneth Bland, Saint Louis MO 53.01% 15 Ira Ewen, New York NY; Bob Gwirtzman, Brooklyn NY 52.88% 16 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; David Siebert, Little Rock AR 51.52% 16 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 52.66% 17 Andy Altay, Willowdale ON; Stephen Aarons, Toronto ON 51.32% 17 Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Larry Griffey, Vero Beach FL 51.92% 18 John Hassett, Kennesaw GA; Charles Davis, Lilburn GA 51.21% 18 Marc Nathan - Cathy Nathan, New York NY 51.11% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS N Q EAST-WEST 1 Stephen Sanborn, Poughkeepsie NY; Kerri Sanborn, Stony Point NY 62.62% 1 Ala Hamilton-Day, Rose Valley PA; Helen Raleigh, Suffern NY 57.54% 2 Samuel Cohen, Lisle IL; Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA 61.08% 2 Haig Tchamitch, Scottsdale AZ; Peter Gray, Ketchum ID 56.77% 3 Hendrik Sharples, Brush Prairie WA; Gerry Marshall, Calgary AB 59.77% 3 Patricia Dovell, Gainesville FL; Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ 56.38% 4/5 Dave Westfall, Spokane WA; Joseph Kivel, Newport Coast CA 56.23% 4 Jack Spear - Nancy Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 55.85% 4/5 Ishmael Delmonte, Double Bay NSW Australia; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 56.23% 5 Winthrop Allegaert - Jaggy Shivdasani, New York NY 55.54% 6 Jane Teel - Robert Teel Jr, Birmingham AL 56.00% 6/7 Jeff Fang, Arcadia CA; Jack Chao, Oceanside CA 54.46% 7 Meyer Abarbanel, Belvidere IL; James Hudson, DeKalb IL 54.85% 6/7 Michael Moss - John Kranyak, New York NY 54.46% 8 Mary Jane Farell, Los Angeles CA; Maria Pendergast, W Hollywood CA 54.69% 8 Martin Caley, Montreal QC; Frederic Pollack, Lasalle QC 54.23% 9 Eugene Saxe, Briarcliff NY; Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL 54.08% 9 Les Bart - Gloria Silverman Bart, Bradenton FL 53.92% 10 Cathy Strauch - Riggs Thayer Jr, San Diego CA 52.54% 10 Richard Potter, Black Mountain NC; John Potter, Panama City FL 53.69% 11 Mark Dahl, Richmond VA; David Butler, Keswick VA 51.85% 11 Arnie Frankel, Laurel MD; Russell Divvens, Silverthorne CO 52.54% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS R S EAST-WEST 1 Gail Greenberg - Jeffrey Hand, New York NY 60.38% 1 Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY 62.08% 2 Dennis Kasle, Bloomfield MI; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 58.62% 2 James Tritt, Fresno CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA 56.62% 3 Lou Reich, Wheaton MD; Jeff Roman, Alexandria VA 57.85% 3 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; Paul Hackett, Manchester England 56.38% 4 Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD; Arnold Malasky, Longboat Key FL 56.38% 4 Rob Crawford, Henderson NV; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 56.15% 5 Diane Shannon, Saratoga CA; Donald Rothschild, Sunnyvale CA 56.08% 5 Garry Karst, Edmonton AB; Ray Grace, Sherwood Park AB 55.08% 6 Glenn Robbins - Michael Rosen, New York NY 55.69% 6 Peg Waller, Eden Prairie MN; Keith Connolly, Minneapolis MN 54.46% 7 Gene Freed, Los Angeles CA; Barry Schaffer, Frisco TX 55.15% 7 Larry Pocock, New Westminster BC; Ellis Feigenbaum, Petah Tikva 493 Israel 53.85% 8 Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 55.00% 8 Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Eddie Wold, Houston TX 53.69% 9/10 Irina Ladyzhensky - Alexander Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL 53.31% 9 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 51.85% 9/10 Alan Levine - Marjorie Levine, Massapequa NY 53.31% 10 Kenny Horneman, Charlottesville VA; William Seddon, Durham NC 51.77% 11 Hal Montgomery - Ed Freeman, Portland OR 52.54% 11/12 Eric Debus, 3001 Heverlee Belgium; Rutger Van Mechelen, Heverlee Belgium 51.08% 11/12 Saul Gross, Miami Beach FL; Rick Norton Jr, Oceanside CA 51.08% Daily Bulletin Page 19

FRIDAY AM 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION JJJ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Ann Grassi, Goleta CA; Rand Franklin, Santa Barbara CA 61.17% 1 Ken Koelling, Meridian MS; Jeanette Koelling, Starkville MS 59.92% 2 Connie O’Brien, Shreveport LA; Marvin Raines, Fort Washington MD 58.67% 2 Patricia Dollarhide - Chuck Dollarhide, Oklahoma City OK 56.94% 3 Monrad Monsen - Marie Macaulay, Sacramento CA 56.29% 3 1 Janet Young - Toni Sardisco, Baton Rouge LA 55.00% 4 John Lanigan - Karol Lanigan, Colorado Spgs CO 52.98% 4 2 Warren Smith - Gloria Smith, Wichita KS 52.84% 2 Sandra Karnatz, Mount Prospect IL; Kelsey Jouanicot, Beavercreek OH 49.40% 1 Sandra Wright, Baton Rouge LA; Sandi Proctor, Johns Creek GA 50.46% 1 Judith Schaffenacker, San Leandro CA; Adrienne Angel, Greenrae CA 46.83% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION III EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Iris Gregory, Starkville MS; James Wesson Gregory, Carthage MS 69.44% 1 1 John Simpson, Madera CA; Kevin Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY 67.06% 2 1 Warren Wolff, Lake Havsu City AZ; Kathleen Hathway, Lake Havasu Cty AZ 58.73% 2 Nancy Collinge, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA; Sara Dokter, Rncho Pls Vrd CA 55.56% 3 Robert Kaprove - Judy Kaprove, Williamsville NY 58.33% 3/4 2 Denis Wood, Elliot Lake ON; Claire Ridgley, Tehachapi CA 53.57% 4 2 Dixie Sue Allsbrook, Las Vegas NV; Barbara Bovard, Henderson NV 51.98% 3/4 Betty McCauley, Oklahoma City OK; Colleen Bicket, Edmond OK 53.57% 1 Nancy Thompson - Andrew Kerr, San Francisco CA 44.44% 1 Astrid Roy Clements - Nancy Neal, Baton Rouge LA 44.44%

1ST FRIDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PRS - FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION CC EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Judi Radin - Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY 66.10% 1 1 1 Alan Malloy, Santa Clara CA; Laura Rassbach, Boulder CO 62.88% 2 Gertrude Ebesu, Honolulu HI; Floyd Tsuchida, Henderson NV 63.64% 2/3 2 Ann Allen - Anne Marie Harrington, Scottsdale AZ 57.20% 3 Charlton Buckley, Glenbrook NV; Audrey Rennels, Pleasanton CA 61.17% 2/3 Robert Selberg, Palm Springs CA; Kathryn Gisler, Bend OR 57.20% 4 Richard Cutler, Beverly Hills CA; Jeri Berger, Marina Del Rey CA 55.87% 4 Avril Sher, Scottsdale AZ; David Certa, Phoenix AZ 55.68% 5/7 Michael Pudlin - Emily Moffatt, Pasadena CA 53.60% 5 Gregory Trautman - James Remy, Olympia WA 55.11% 5/7 Frank Queen - Virginia Johnston, Denver CO 53.60% 6 Michele Griffin, Penfield NY; Yvonne Limbeck, Victor NY 54.55% 5/7 J David King, Miami Beach FL; Corinne Roat, Miami FL 53.60% 7 Martha Beecher - Blair Fedder, Las Vegas NV 53.98% 1 1 Robert Hinrichs, Corona del Mar CA; Ron Pennington, Costa Mesa CA 50.76% 3 Stuart Treworgy, Cumberland RI; Ralph Oxhandler, Las Vegas NV 51.70% 2 George Churchill, Swartz Creek MI; Robert Woodward, Littleton CO 49.05% 4 Elise Hunziker - Camil Hunziker, Longueuil QC 51.14% 3 Samuel Orandle, Las Vegas NV; Amporn Somsin, Henderson NV 46.78% 2 Raymond Santner, Overland Park KS; Stella Turner, Waynesville OH 47.92% 4/5 2 Ronald Ignelzi, La Jolla CA; Lucia Teulecke, Laguna Woods CA 46.40% 4/5 Bonnie Luks, Auburn MA; Janice Carlson, Paxton MA 46.40% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION DD EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Laura Brill - Rick Goldstein, White Plains NY 67.99% 1 1 Charlotte Davis, Greenbrier AR; Johnnie Owen, Sherwood AR 62.50% 2 Joan Ivey - Ernie Ivey, Surprise AZ 63.45% 2 2 1 Hortensia Azerraf, Bal Harbour FL; Sara Kuperstein, Caracas Venezuela 60.42% 3 1 1 Susan Mastrola, Swansea MA; Judy Pollack, North Dartmouth MA 58.33% 3 Patricia Elms, Newport Beach CA; Betty Pellow, North Las Vegas NV 53.98% 4 2 Elliot Slavis, West Palm Bch FL; John Roller, No Palm Beach FL 55.87% 4 Peter Mosheim, Weaverville NC; Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL 53.41% 5 3 2 Phyllis Pulver - Sydney Pulver, Philadelphia PA 55.49% 5 3 David White, Agoura CA; Donald Croysdale, Elm Grove WI 53.22% 6 4 T P Goyal, Las Vegas NV; Charlyn Johnson, Henderson NV 52.84% 6 Ken Barbour, Scottsdale AZ; Aileen Osofsky, New York NY 52.84% 7 Alisa Douer - Ronny Vaisberg, Venezuela 49.81% 7 4 2 Fred Nachman - James Hooker, Paradise Valley AZ 51.33% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION EE EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Mitsuko Suyama, Tokyo Japan; Sachiho Ueda, Chiba-Ken Japan 63.07% 1 Matt Granovetter - Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 61.04% 2 Arnold Federman - Lenore Silver, New York NY 55.72% 2 Kumiko Matsuo, Yokohama-Shi Japan; Misuzu Ichihashi, Tokyo Japan 59.85% 3 1 Glenn London - Wesley Wu, Las Vegas NV 54.92% 3 1 Patricia Prather, Linville Falls NC; Lisa Adelberg, Camden ME 58.27% 4/5 2/3 Dee Wilson - Nancy Wilson, Des Moines IA 54.17% 4 Margo Sinclair, New York NY; Valentin Kovachev, Stony Brook NY 56.40% 4/5 2/3 Robert Adams, South Bend IN; Millie Larkin, St Cloud FL 54.17% 5 Bob Luebkeman, Walnut Creek CA; Anita Burgis, Santee CA 55.87% 6 Carolyn Feldman, Toronto ON; Jacqueline Syer, Oakville ON 54.10% 6 2 1 Peter Sager, San Rafael CA; Alan Jacobs, Boca Raton FL 52.00% 1 Lynda Brown Walker, Springboro OH; Gord Pippy, Winnipeg MB 48.88% 3 Jayne Ewigleben - Robert Ewigleben, Albion MI 50.10% 2 David Buck, Temple TX; Rene Franco, Dallas TX 46.40% 4 Melbourne Hamer - Joan Hamer, Westcott R England 48.67%

FRIDAY-SUNDAY AM SIDE SERIES - FRIDAY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION FFF EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1/2 1/2 Donna Wood, Vista CA; Janet Dunlap, Rancho Santa Fe CA 60.35% 1 1 Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL; Henryk Szejnwald, Los Altos CA 56.89% 1/2 1/2 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Paul Wolf II, Shrewsbury MA 60.35% 2 2 1 Edward Kelley IV - Benjamin Kelley, Federal Way WA 56.70% 3 3 Glenn Young, Buffalo NY; Dennis Cogan, Roswell NM 60.16% 3 Jeffrey McKee, Santa Clara CA; Greg Resz, Weatherford TX 56.13% 4 Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Marc Levine, Lubbock TX 58.27% 4 3 Janet Adamiak, Saratoga CA; Erin Gove, Los Gatos CA 55.18% 5 4 1 Jesse Stern, Lutz FL; Jourdain Patchett, Sarasota FL 56.94% 5 Sarah Callicoat-Yates, Issaquah WA; Frances Price, Eau Claire WI 54.05% 6 Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA; Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA 54.29% 6 Melinda Foos, Campbell CA; Michael Fleisher, Sunnyvale CA 52.57% 2 Martha Yoke, Albuquerque NM; Helen McCourt, Las Vegas NV 46.02% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION GGG EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Donald Weiss, Mashpee MA; Harold Jaffee, Boynton Beach FL 72.35% 1 1 David Vine, Chattanooga TN; William Adams Jr, Hixson TN 64.96% 2 Robert Levey, Chevy Chase MD; Jay Levy, Amherst NY 60.61% 2 Yoon Kim, San Diego CA; Yas Takeda, Hacienda Hgts CA 63.26% 3 G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Diana Marquardt, Del Mar CA 60.42% 3 Bernie Lambert, Acme AB; Abdul Fakih, Calgary AB 58.14% 4 2 John Loney, Laguna Woods CA; Landon Blair, Amarillo TX 57.77% 4 William Ng, Chatsworth CA; Gregory Vernon, Ridgecrest CA 53.41% 5 Todd Knapp, Costa Mesa CA; Linda Olbort, CD 52.27% 5 2 1 Rajeev Bansal, Overland Park KS; James Gross, Lees Summit MO 53.22% 3 Jeff Ford, Redmond WA; Adam Ruprecht, Seattle WA 52.08% 3 Brad Barry, Phoenixville PA; David Amsterdam, Wayne PA 52.46% 1 Mary Beller, Saint George UT; Judy Zimmerer, Fresno CA 36.36% 2 Dennis Waniolek, Shelby Township MI; Richard Cantley, Birmingham MI 51.33% TOMORROW’S BRIDGE EVENTS Sunday, July 20, 9 a.m. Event Session Sold /player/session ACBL members** Other Saturday-Monday Morning Bracketed KO Teams 2nd Barron $15.50 $17.50 Friday-Sunday Morning Side Game Series 3rd single session Conrad $15.50 $17.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Conrad $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Conrad $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Conrad $14.50 $14.50 Sunday, July 20, 9:45 a.m. Free Bridge Lesson and Game single Pavilion 10 Free Free Sunday, July 20, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 Pavilion 4 $15.50 $17.50 Sunday, July 20, 1 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Side Game Series 3rd single session TBA $15.50 $17.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $14.50 Sunday, July 20, 1 & 7:30 p.m. VON ZEDTWITZ LIFE MASTER PAIRS 1-2 F Ballroom B $18 --- Bruce LM-5000 Pairs 1-2 F Ballroom B $16.50 --- Young LM-1500 Pairs 1-2 F Ballroom B $16.50 --- GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT 1-2 F Ballroom E $18 --- Screens, Second session at 8 p.m. Morehead Grand National Teams, Flight A 1-2 F Ballroom E $16.50 --- Screens, Second session at 8 p.m. Sheinwold Grand National Teams, Flight B 1-2 F Ballroom E $16.50 --- Mac Nab Grand National Teams, Flight C 1-2 F Ballroom E $16.50 --- Stratified Open Pairs 1-2 Ballroom B $15.50 $17.50 Strati-Flighted A/X Swiss Teams 1-2 Barron $15.50 $17.50 Strati-Flighted B/C/D Swiss Teams 1-2 Barron $15.50 $17.50 Sunday-Monday Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 Barron $15.50 $17.50 Saturday-Sunday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 Barron $15.50 $17.50 FISU Team Trials SF & F TBA Sunday, July 20, 7:30 p.m. Stratified Side IMP Pairs single Conrad $14.50 $16.50 Stratified Side Board-a-Match Teams single Conrad $14.50 $16.50 Both of the above events: open to Swiss drop-outs and new entrants Saturday-Sunday Side Game Series 4th single session TBA $15.50 $17.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $14.50 Sunday, July 20, 11:30 p.m. Zip Knockout Teams single Pavilion 10 $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, strat breaks for all stratified events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750). For strati-flighted events, A/X are 3000+/0-3000 and play in their own game; B (1000-2000), C (500-1000) and D (0-500) play in their own game. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current. Page 20 Daily Bulletin

TODAY’S BRIDGE EVENTS See page 2 for other events Junior Day Saturday, July 19, 9 a.m. Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members** Other Saturday-Monday Morning Bracketed KO Teams 1st Barron $15.50 $17.50 Friday-Saturday Morning Bracketed Compact KO Teams 3-4 Barron $15.50 $17.50 Educational Foundation Bracketed KO Teams 3rd Barron $15.50 $17.50 Friday-Sunday Morning Side Game Series 2nd single session Conrad $15.50 $17.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Conrad $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Conrad $14.50 $14.50 Saturday, July 19, 9:45 a.m. Bridge-Plus single Pavilion 10 Free Free Free lesson, then 14 boards, no card fee. Saturday, July 19, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 Pavilion 4 $15.50 $17.50 Saturday, July 19, 1 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Side Game Series 1st single session Conrad $15.50 $17.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $14.50 Saturday, July 19, 1 & 7:30 p.m. VON ZEDTWITZ LIFE MASTER PAIRS 1-2 SF Ballroom B $18 --- Bruce LM-5000 Pairs 1-2 SF Ballroom B $16.50 --- Young LM-1500 Pairs 1-2 SF Ballroom B $16.50 --- GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT 1-2 SF Ballroom E $18 --- Screens, Second session at 8 p.m. Morehead Grand National Teams, Flight A 1-2 SF Ballroom E $16.50 --- Screens, Second session at 8 p.m. Sheinwold Grand National Teams, Flight B 1-2 SF Ballroom E $16.50 --- Mac Nab Grand National Teams, Flight C 1-2 SF Ballroom E $16.50 --- Strati-Flighted A/X Pairs 1-2 Conrad $15.50 $17.50 Strati-Flighted B/C/D Pairs 1-2 Conrad $15.50 $17.50 Saturday-Sunday Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 Barron $15.50 $17.50 Friday-Saturday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 Barron $15.50 $17.50 FISU Team Trials Round-Robin Pavilion 9 Pre-registration required. Saturday, July 19, 7:30 p.m. Strati-Flighted A/X Side Swiss Teams single Barron $14.50 $16.50 Strati-Flighted B/C/D Side Swiss Teams single Barron $14.50 $16.50 Saturday-Sunday Game Series 2nd single session Conrad $15.50 $17.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Pavilion 10 $14.50 $14.50 Saturday, July 19, 11:30 p.m. Zip Knockout Teams single Pavilion 10 $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, strat breaks for all stratified events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750). For strati-flighted events, A/X are 3000+/0-3000 and play in their own game; B (1000-2000), C (500-1000) and D (0-500) play in their own game. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current. Knockout Sales Two Selling Stations for the Open Bracketed Knockouts Our knockouts are growing! On several days, to help alleviate five or six people on your team, please check with a director to confirm the crowding, we will split the sale area for the new knockouts that start at location at which you should purchase your knockout entry. 1 p.m. Please note that this is not changing the event into a flighted knockout. If you have four people on your team, and your team total is greater You will enter your team in the same manner as any other open bracketed than 3000, purchase your entry in the Barron Room near Section B. knockout. If it is appropriate to have a bracket with teams just above and If you have four people on your team, and your team total is less than just below 3000, we will do so. 3000, purchase your entry in the Barron Room near Section Q. If you have TODAY’S SPONSORSHIP where all of the Ethel’s chocolates – including Ethel M). Ethel’s Chocolates their Ethel M brand — are manufactured. The In 2007, the company made the transition from As you register at the Summer NABC here in company distributes their products mainly via Ethel M Chocolates to Ethel’s Chocolates. The Las Vegas, you’ll be treated to a gourmet bar of phone and Internet sales, although they operate new branding boasts a whole new line of 48 Ethel’s chocolate. From an experienced several retail outlets located in and around Las different handmade gourmet chocolates designed chocoholic’s view, I promise you it is Vegas and Chicago. by their master chocolatier Jin Caldwell. as good as it gets! You’ll also find Also located at this plant are the We are fortunate to have this unique Las Vegas chocolate silver dollars each day at famous Ethel M Botanical Cactus institution as a sponsor of our NABC, and we’re the tournament . . . again, gourmet Gardens — a great sight seeing break proud to showcase their chocolates throughout the goodies from Ethel’s, whose — and a small branch of M&M’s event for your enjoyment. Want seconds? Just win “Chocolate Factory” is located in World. Ethel M is owned by , your section (section top in any strat) and you get Henderson NV just 10 miles from the Inc. and was named after the mother another bar, along with your winner’s prize! Las Vegas Strip. It’s the location of Forrest Mars (hence the “M” in Coffee with Carol and ACBLscore

19 , July A lively 90 minutes hosted by Carol Robertson, Director of Club and Member Services. Carol, rday along with Tournament Directors Dan Plato and Rick Beye will answer questions you have on Satu managing your club and scoring and reporting your games. Join us and share your experiences with other club owners from around ACBLand.

Location: Las Vegas Hilton — Conference Room 13 & 14 Time: 10:30 a.m. — Noon