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Monday, July 21, 2008 Volume 80, Number 4 Daily Bulletin 80th Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Districts 8, 9, 23 and 24 take GNT titles District 9 repeats in GNT Championship Flight The District 9 team captained by Mike Becker led from start to finish in scoring a second straight win in the Grand National Teams, Championship Flight, knocking off Jan Jansma and Ricco Van Preeijen. the District 25 squad led by Frank Merblum 125-74. Dutch duo take LM Pairs Continued on page 5 Two players from the Netherlands who agreed to play five minutes before game time saved their Grand National Teams, Championship Continued on page 21 Flight, winners: front, David Berkowitz, Eric Rodwell, Mike Becker; rear, Larry Cohen, Jeff Meckstroth, Warren Spector. District 24 wins GNT Flight A The District 24 team captained by James Scott surged ahead in the second quarter of their match with a team from Ohio and went on to a 125-74 victory in the Grand National Teams, Flight A. The winners are Scott, Wilton CT; Harry Apfel, John Ramos and Kelley Hwang, New York City; Valentin Carciu, Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford. Continued on page 5 Tops in the Grand National Teams, Southern California pair Flight A: front, Valentin Carciu, John Ramos, James Scott; rear, Sorin claim Bruce LM Pleacoff, Kelley Hwang, Harry Apfel. Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford nearly didn’t make it out of the first day’s qualifying sessions. District 23 wins GNT Continued on page 21 Flight B District 23 won a tight match in the Flight B Grand National Teams. The winners, captained by Joseph Viola, were behind by 7 IMPs after the first quarter to the District 5 team, but moved ahead by 1 IMP at the half. The third quarter saw them increase the lead to 3 IMPs before they pulled away in the final quarter to win by a score of 141—-100. Continued on page 5 The won the Grand National Teams, Flight B: front, Gerard Geremia, Joseph Viola; rear, David Kempe, Matt Klimesh. Ken Llacera and Mick Friedberg. District 8 wins Californians tops in GNT Flight C Young LM Pairs When Mick Friedberg and Ken Llacera The District 8 team captained by entered the Young LM-1500 Life Master Pairs, Thomas O’Reilly-Pol shook off a first-set deficit and stormed to victory in the Continued on page 21 Grand National Teams, Flight C, over a squad from District 23 (California). The 2008 Summer NABC final score was 200-124. With the win, O’Reilly-Pol, of St. * Louis, became a Life Master. His 24,222 teammates were Debbie Romero, - 6,567 Continued on page 5 Winners of the Grand National Teams, Flight C: Thomas O’Reilly-Pol, Sandy 17,655 to go Bigg, Debbie Romero, Jonathan * see NABC Insider, p.2 Goldberg. Page 2 Daily Bulletin SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Monday, July 21 Tuesday, July 22 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Computer Bridge. Conference Rooms 8 & 9 – Kibitzers 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Computer Bridge. Conference Rooms 8 & 9 – Kibitzers welcome. welcome. 9 a.m. - Noon Teacher Accreditation Program (TAP). Third session. 9 a.m. - Noon Bridge Teachers and Bridge Cruises Seminar. Join Peg Pre-registration required. Room: Pavilion 1 & 6. Cundiff, host of more than 100 bridge cruises, for an 9:30 a.m. - Better Bridge Seminar. Teacher education by Audrey informative session about what you need to know to be a 5:30 p.m. Grant. Topic: Practical Support for the Professional successful teacher and bridge host on a cruise ship. Fee: Teacher. Free, but reservation required. Location: $25 at the door. Conference Rooms 13 & 14. Courtyard by Marriott, two blocks from Hilton. 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Better Bridge Seminar. Teacher education by Audrey 10 a.m. - Noon Competition and Conventions Committee meeting. Grant. Topic: Better Bridge Accreditation Program. $125, Conference Room 10. includes lunch, dinner. Location: Courtyard by Marriott, 10 a.m. - Noon Open Team Trials meeting. Conference Room 7. two blocks from Hilton. 5 - 7 p.m. Goodwill Reception. Room: Pavilion 9. 10 a.m. - Noon Senior Team Trials meeting. Conference Room 7. 10 a.m. - Noon PlayBridgeDealer4 Seminar. Learn about the latest dealing/pre-duplicating machine. Conference Room 12. CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Be sure to hear these free expert lectures in Las Vegas daily in Pavilion 11. Tuesday, July 22 12:15 p.m. Allan Mazer I’d Rather Be Last Monday, July 21 6:45 p.m. Larry Cohen Lawful Preemption 12:15 p.m. Mel Colcharmio How to Play Like An Expert (Without Being One) Wednesday, July 23 6:45 p.m. Norma Sands Bidding Over Preempts 12:15 p.m. Ken Monzingo Hand Patterns 6:45 p.m. Audrey Grant Improving Your Odds at the Bridge Table LATE NIGHT/ENTERTAINMENT Good Rockin’ Tonight Latest Flame), Surrender, Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Please Mr. Postman, Only The Lonely, Runaround Sue, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Those Oldies Nightly, in our very own late-evening dance hall, we’ll feature a steady But Goodies, Because They’re Young and Run To Him. stream of classic Fifties and Sixties sock hop music . dance hosts On Friday, July 25, be sure to wear your Hawaiian shirts, in honor of included! the West Coast tradition, “Hawaii Day.” Don’t forget to wear your floral After the evening session tonight, the DJ will be playing songs from shirt! 1960—61. These songs will During your visit, check out Teatro Elvis, our DVD movie theater, be featured: It’s Now or Never, Shop Around, Crying, Little Sister, Take playing a non-stop showing of dynamic Las Vegas concerts, including Good Care of My Baby, Are You Lonesome Tonight, Runaway, Tossin’ and those by Elvis, Barry Manilow, Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand. There’ll Turnin’, Running Scared, Travelin’ Man, Stay, Marie’s The Name (His even be an Elvis photo-op with autographed CDs. Ron Sukoneck is a Grand Life Master, a rank NABC Insider requiring more than 10,000 points and a title in an Coffee with Well, this just in: we received the Mitchell NABC+ event. Sukoneck has Elvis Report and found that our table-count down on page won the Spingold Knockout one has been found guilty of steroid-enhancement. Elvis is returning Teams, the Men’s Swiss to the NABC to sign Mr. Baum has deemed an asterisk shall forever be Teams and the Grand used in any reference to this record. Although there autographs and pose National Teams. He won the for photos with is a ton of bridge going on, it doesn’t look like U.S. Team Trials and we’re going to break the record for tables in play. players at noon today represented his country in near Pavilion 2. There But we’re still shooting for the largest NABC since Santiago, Chile. He finished the Insider got involved. Team records are nice, but will be free coffee third in the Rosenbloom with supplies last. this one is all about personal achievement! Teams in Geneva. He is retired and lives in More bad news. The “ask me girl” will be Wilmington DE, where he loves to play golf. leaving Tuesday morning to start working on the Boston NABC. Be sure to say good bye. New Life Masters The Insider wants to thank the Bulletin Boys for Goodwill Message David Bohnett of Las Angeles is a new Life trusting us to keep them out of trouble and printing Today is Goodwill Day. My co-chairs and I Master. He needed four goldpoints and won them in these pieces with virtually no editorial oversight. So, invite all members of the National the KO Teams. His teammates are Brian Reynolds, thanks to them. Almost every night they finish their Goodwill Committee to join us at a Samantha MacDouglas, Chris Moore and Jennifer work around 3 a.m. (or later) and still the Daily reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in Chalfan. Bulletin is returned from the printer and sitting in Pavilion 9. John Morano of Iowa City IA is a new Gold the racks waiting for you by 6:30 a.m. Good work We look forward to seeing you. Life Master, a rank requiring more than 2500 guys – a little kissing up to keep our prime page two Aileen Osofsky, Chairman masterponts. He earned the last points he needed space never hurts. Let them know you appreciate National Goodwill Committee while playing in the Knockout Teams with Ed Judy their hard work and maybe you can get front page of Iowa City, Gordon Adkins of Westchester OH coverage like the eight big event winners clamoring and Sali Ma of Las Vegas. Monitoring for space there this morning. John Babb of New Paltz NV advanced to Life At this and future North American Master. He needed .02 gold points and won that by Championships, ACBL will be monitoring Participate in tee shirt day coming in second in his bracket of the Knockout NABC+ events with visible, real-time cameras. Come see Margot Hennings, Tournament Teams. He was playing with Farley Mawyer. The images will be recorded and will be available Chair for the Summer 2009 NABC in Washington Hetty Kallman of Thousand Oaks CA for later official inspection and review. DC, and get your special DC NABC tee shirt advanced to Life Master playing in the Open Pairs By general monitoring of the session and now! with Jean Jolin. participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source After you get one, wear your shirt Tuesday to Sue McHale and Phil Rutkowski both earned of information that may be useful in determining show your support for next Summer’s NABC.