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OCBL JOURNAL Issue N OCBL JOURNAL Issue N. 64. Friday, 10 March, 2021 LEVINE WON THE OCBL SUPER CUP Team Levine, with M. Levine, G. Helgemo, T. Helness, J. Meckstroth, R. Morris, E. Rodwell and E. Wold, won the OCBL Super Cup! In the Final, they faced team Compton, with C. Compton, K. Dwyer, A. Goodman, S. Huang, T. Moses and R. Smith. Mike Levine Geir Helgemo Tor Helness J. Meckstroth The bronze medallists are teams France Sud (B. Cabanes, H. Fleury, M. Mus, E. Gautret, M. Girollet, PY Guillaumin, JJ Palau, P. Poizat) and Gupta (D. Bilde, S. de Wijs, N. Gupta, A. Madala, B. Muller, Zia Mahmood). The OCBL events will come back on March 29, for the OCBL Open League! Robert Morris Eric Rodwell Eddie Wold See details on pages 15 - 16. OCBL SUPER CUP - THE BRACKET GUPTA (97.1) GUPTA (48.1) GILLIS (70) LEVINE (95) FREDIN (25.1) LEVINE (62) LEVINE (100) LEVINE DONNER (38.1) FRANCE SUD (48) FRANCE SUD (63) COMPTON (43.1) COMPTON (42.1) COMPTON (90.1) ORCA (28) WBT CHALLENGERS CUP 1 Challengers Aces 63.69 12 Kinds 40.98 The WBT Challengers Cup is 2 Harris 59.77 13 Norway Juniors 39.45 underway! 3 ECF Holding 55.97 14 The Highlanders 36.07 The event will end on Friday, 12 March. 4 Zaza's Boys 53.89 15 Norwegian Trolls 34.39 5 Munlein 50.55 16 Dutch Juniors 33.73 On the left you can see the ranking 6 Olczyk 49.07 17 Denmark Juniors 29.13 after 4 rounds. 7 Arma 47.17 18 Akkarfjord Lost 24.77 For detailed results, see pages 13 - 14. 8 Baltic Express 47.01 19 Dreamland 22.2 9 Anatolia 46.95 20 Dubrovnik Smart 22.03 10 Abisco 45.51 21 Les Berrichons 18.17 11 Flekkefjord 42.01 22 Benny and Juniors 17.49 OCBL Journal OCBL UPCOMING EVENTS OPEN LEAGUE 29 March - 25 April, 2021 Play every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday at 21.30 CEST - 15.30 EDT APRIL CUP 5 - 9 April, 2021 CEST EDT Qualification: Monday 5 April 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 Tuesday 6 April 16.30 - 19.00 - 21.30 10.30 - 13.00 - 15.30 Wednesday 7 April 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 OCBL CUP Thursday 8 April 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 KO: Friday 9 April 16.30 - 19.00 - 21.30 10.30 - 13.00 - 15.30 MAY CUP 3 - 7 May, 2021 CEST EDT Qualification: Monday 3 May 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 Tuesday 4 May 16.30 - 19.00 - 21.30 10.30 - 13.00 - 15.30 Wednesday 5 May 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 OCBL CUP Thursday 6 May 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 KO: Friday 7 May 16.30 - 19.00 - 21.30 10.30 - 13.00 - 15.30 OPEN LEAGUE 10 May - 6 June, 2021 Play every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday at 21.30 CEST - 15.30 EDT JUNE CUP 31 May - 4 June, 2021 CEST EDT Qualification: Monday 31 May 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 Tuesday 1 June 16.30 - 19.00 - 21.30 10.30 - 13.00 - 15.30 Wednesday 2 June 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 Thursday 3 June 16.30 - 19.00 10.30 - 13.00 OCBL CUP KO: Friday 4 June 16.30 - 19.00 - 21.30 10.30 - 13.00 - 15.30 2 OCBL Journal Champions Cup Total Ranking # Team WBT points Captain # Team WBT points Captain 1 Black 416 Andrew Black 43 Seligman 52 Martin Seligman 2 De Botton 324 Janet de Botton 44 Skalman 50 Krister Ahlesved 3 Moss 253 Sylvia Moss 45 Edmonds 49 Jodi Edmonds 4 Apres- Bridge Champs 241 Sabine Auken 45 De Michelis 49 Luca De Michelis 5 Salvo 237 Nafiz Zorlu 47 Big Ten 46 Ken Kranyak 6 Hunisr 229 Gabor Winkler 47 No surprise 46 Petar Ivanov 7 Skeidar 224 Martin Andresen 49 Marupe 46 Jevgenijs Antonovs 8 Gupta 208 Naren Gupta 50 Zhao 44 Chen Zhao 9 Fredin 203 Peter Fredin 50 Hotspurs 44 Norman Mandell 10 Compton 197 Chris Compton 52 Lupoveloce 42 Davies Guttman 11 Lebowitz 180 Laurence Lebowitz 52 Champey 42 Bart Bussink 12 Wilson 180 Alison Wilson 54 Zaleski 40 Romain Zaleski 13 Apple 155 Hilda Setton 54 Australia 1 40 Tony Leibowitz 14 Gillis 150 Simon Gillis 54 JJMaxRodl 40 Jim Fox 14 Levine 150 Mike Levine 57 Daugava 38 Ugis Jansons 16 France Sud 139 Jean Jacques Palau 58 Cacahuettes 37 Philippe Casler 17 Ireland 125 John Carroll 59 Norwegian Amazones 36 Marianne Harding 18 Scorway 120 Steve Levinson 60 Coppens 34 Pim Coppens 18 Hill 120 Joyce Hill 61 Costa fishing 33 Christian Kayser 20 Leslie 115 Tim Leslie 62 Keeva's Monsters 31 Anam Tebha 21 Amateurs 100 Ai-Tai Lo 62 Goodman 31 Andy Goodman 22 Cole 99 Margie Cole 64 Turkish Delight 29 Omer Ekinci 23 Schwartz 96 Eric Schwartz 64 Lewis 29 Linda Lewis 24 Tilly 95 Kevin Castner 66 Bishel 27 John Bishel 25 Denmark 93 Morten Bilde 67 Khalidon 26 Paul Lewis 26 Orca 88 Richard Plackett 67 Olczyk 26 Jerzy Olczyk 27 Harris 85 Jonathan Harris 67 Albania 26 Konstandin Kapo 28 Sugi 84 Sugiharto Sugiharto 67 Clash 26 Greg Hinze 29 Israel Seniors 80 Doron Limor 67 ECF Holding 26 Espen Fasting 30 Red Devils 78 Zvi Engel 72 BridgeScanner 25 Erikas Vainikonis 31 Agriport 77 Anton Hiemstra 73 McIceberg 24 John McAllister 31 Rippey 77 Mark Rippey 73 Amalgamated 24 Ovunc Yilmaz 33 SpuTnik VI 72 Aleksander Smirnov 75 Fast Juniors 20 Alexander Sandin 34 Mikadinho 67 Marcel Verhaegen 76 Hedge Your Bets 19 Alex Kolesnik 34 Ferguson 67 Bruce Ferguson 77 The Optimist 18 Bernie Greenspan 36 Israel Emerald 66 Ilan Bareket 77 Alpert 18 Claire Alpert 36 Palma 66 Antonio Palma 77 Bridge42 18 Gabor Macskasy 38 Alexander 64 Emma Övelius 80 Hotagrosstein 17 Stewart Rubenstein 39 Donner 61 Gary Donner 80 English Juniors 17 Filippos Kritsalis 40 Harari 58 David Harari 82 Koeppel 16 Lynne Koeppel 41 Goded 54 Gonzalo Goded 83 Parker 14 Christina Parker 42 Slovakia 53 Eduard Velecky 84 Aces Take Kings 13 Sam Amer 85 The Juniors 12 Jacob Freeman 3 OCBL Journal Semifinals by Brian Senior Set one Compton v France Sud third spade and returned a trump, and that left Wold with a spade loser at the end; down one And so to the semi-finals, again to be played West North East South for –50. over 2 x 16-board segments. It would be Gautret Goodman Mus Compton Meckstroth’s 1NT was 14-16 and Gupta’s Compton v France Sud, and Gupta v Levine, the – 3{ Pass Pass double penalty. Zia didn’t fancy that so ran to first-named team having a 0.1 IMP advantage to 3] Pass 4] All Pass 2] and Rodwell, with no reason to suspect avoid any possibility of a tie and extra boards. the nature of the hand on his right, competed West North East South to 2[, ending the auction. Zia led the queen Board 1. Dealer North. None Vul. Bathurst Guillaumin Huang Palau of diamonds to dummy’s king and Rodwell [ A 8 6 – 3{ Pass Pass played the queen of spades. Gupta won that ] J 10 3] Pass 4{ Dble and returned the king of clubs, which Rodwell { J 10 9 8 7 6 4 Rdbl Pass 4[ Pass won. He cashed the [K then led a diamond to } 7 5} Pass 6] All Pass the ace before switching to haeart, leading the [ 9 3 [ K 7 5 4 jack. Gupta won that and forced Rodwell with ] K 9 6 4 3 2 ] A Q 8 7 In this match both Norths opened 3{ and a club. Rodwell accepted the force and played { A 3 { Q 5 2 both Wests overcalled 3]. Mus raised quietly to the queen of hearts. Gupta, who had discarded } A K 9 } Q 5 game and I bet you can guess by now Gautret’s his small heart on the second diamond, ruffed [ Q J 10 2 line of play – yes, +450. and played a club. Rodwell could only make his ] 5 The overtrick was of purely academic interest two trump tricks from here so was down one for { K as in the other room Huang showed a good raise –100 and 4 IMPs to Gupta.. } J 10 8 6 4 3 2 to 4] and Palau made a lead directing double of the 4{ call. Now the Americans drove to Compton v France Sud Gupta v Levine slam, 4[ being RKCB and 5} showing zero or three. Here the lead was the jack of diamonds West North East South West North East South and the lead-director gave Bathurst the clue he Gautret Goodman Mus Compton Levine Madala Wold Bilde needed. He played low from dummy and the – 1NT 2[ All Pass – 3{ Pass Pass bare king appeared, after which he needed 3] Pass 4] All Pass only that the [A would be onside; a somewhat West North East South fortuitous +980 and 11 IMPs to Compton. Bathurst Guillaumin Huang Palau West North East South – 1NT 2[ 3NT Zia Meckstroth Gupta Rodwell Board 5. Dealer North. N/S Vul. All Pass – Pass 1{ 3} [ K Q 3] Pass 4] All Pass ] K 9 8 3 Goodman opened a strong NT and Mus { K 6 4 2 overcalled 2[, spades and a minor. When Madala opened 3{ and that ran round to } A 7 6 Compton passed, no doubt hoping for a Levine, who overcalled.
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