Sunday, December 8, 2019 Volume 92, Number 10 Daily Bulletin 92nd Fall North American Bridge Championships [email protected] | Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Chip Dombrowski Lavazza in front Thanks for coming to San Francisco! By Jim Leuker, Chairman, Fall 2019 NABC in I’m so happy to I know that you enjoyed the tournament, because With an enormous score in the first semifinal have seen all of you who so many of you told me so. I know you were pleased session – 22.5 wins – Team Lavazza blasted into came to San Francisco with our variety of events, guest speakers, late night the lead in the Reisinger BAM Teams. Lavazza to participate in the Fall snacks, gifts, prizes and more. You told me you (Norberto Bocchi, Dennis Bilde, Philippe Cronier, 2019 North American appreciated the venue and its playing spaces. And Giorgio Duboin, Agustin Madala and Antonio Bridge Championships. there are more good restaurants near the Marriott Sementa) scored 15 in the second session. Combined I hope you had a great than ever. with their carryover from the qualifying round of time, competing against You’ll be pleased to know that we’re scheduled 13.07, the squad had a semifinal total score of 50.57, old friends and making to return to this same site for the Fall 2025 NABC. continued on page 9 new ones. I know I met We’re looking forward to hosting another great players from all over tournament here. North America as well The staff and support personnel of the Marriott Berg leads N.A. Swiss as from Chile, Argentina, China, Australia, the Marquis have done an outstanding job in providing The squad captained by Mary Ann Berg posted Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Iceland and many for all our tournament needs. The ACBL Tournament the top score in the semifinal round of the Keohane other places. North American Swiss Teams to lead the six-session continued on page 5 contest going into today’s final round. Berg, playing with Jason Feldman, Krzysztof Buras, Grzegorz Player roundup: Goals Narkiewicz, Rafal Jagniewski, and Wojciech Gawel As 2019 comes to a close, some of us are looking through the playing areas on Friday asking people finished yesterday with a four-session total of 197.05 forward to what we’d like to accomplish next year this question: What is your goal for 2020? Here are victory points, giving them a carryover of 34.10 VPs in bridge or in life. Daily Bulletin staff wandered their answers. continued on page 7 in the final. In second with a carryover of 22.57 is Sibraud continued on page 9 Zmuda leads

JustynaMixed Zmuda’s squad Swisstopped the qualifying round in the NABC+ Mixed Swiss Teams. Zmuda (Dominik Filipowicz, Loretta Rivers, Mike “I want to play more “I started a business. My “My goal for 2020 is to “To get through a bridge Cappelletti and Sandra Rimstedt) scored 122.29 international events goal is to make a million make the ACBL session with Glenn victory points and has a carryover of 30.00 VPs in and do well in the dollars in revenue. You more efficient and [Milgrim] without today’s final. Olympiad.” didn’t say it had to be a effective.” forgetting a single In second with a carryover of 25.53 VP is Irene Andy Hung realistic goal.” Joann Glasson convention.” Baroni’s team: Alessandro Gandoglia, Yasuko Australia Jill Hunter District 4 director Barry Rigal Shrenzel and Daniel Lavee. Australian trials winner Boston MA Pennington NJ New York NY“ Thomas Turgeon’s team is in third place with 21.14 VPs. Turgeon is playing with Sandy McCay, Robert Kent and Ellen Kent. Blackwood, von Zedtwitz “Come get recipients for 2020 announced The ACBL Hall of your wine!” Fame Committee has Win a section top here in San announced that National Francisco? Or make the overalls Tournament Directors in any event? Stop by the Prize Matt Smith of Victoria Desk (North Registration) on the BC and Sol Weinstein of bottom level before game time to Yonkers NY have been claim you prize, a bottle of wine chosen as recipients of the (red or white). There are cases 2020 Blackwood Award, and cases of wine left, and the while Chuck Burger of organizers are starting to panic. Do it today! continued on page 3 Chuck Burger Matt Smith Sol Weinstein Micro Bridge wins Goodwill Message World Computer Championship As we pack up our bid boxes and prepare to Micro Bridge won the World Computer-Bridge leave, let’s be sure to thank our hosts. The San Championship and was crowned best bridge-bot of Francisco committee, led by Chair Jim Leuker, has the year, defeating Synrey Bridge in the 64-board exhibited outstanding hospitality. final, 120-35. Sandy DeMartino, Chair This was a big win for the Micro Bridge Team, Aileen Osofsky Goodwill Committee as for the past five years Micro Bridge has lost its semifinal or final match. The other semifinalists were Wbridge5, losing its semifinal match to Micro Bridge 182-140, and ATTENDANCE Q-Plus Bridge, losing its semifinal match to Synrey through Saturday Bridge 175-133. Hans Leber (Q-Plus Bridge), Yu Peng (Synrey Bridge), Gérard Joyez, accepting the gold medal The annual event attracts bridge-bots from for Micro Bridge, Zhihui Shi (Synrey Bridge) and 9762.5 tables continued on page 5 Yves Costel (Wbridge5). Page 2 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Daily Bulletin

SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Sunday, December 8 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Peter Pender Memorial . (outside Yerba Buena 8, Lower Level)

TOURNAMENT APPEALS

In order to keep the bridge public informed of appeals results in a timely so Law 73E2 did not apply. The director ruled that fashion, the NABC Daily Bulletin staff publishes write-ups. Every effort is made to the table result would stand with no adjustment. ensure that these reports are accurate and complete. Before they are published in Law 73D1 says that a player should be careful the NABC Appeals Casebook, however, revisions may be made. about variations in , but to vary one’s tempo unintentionally was not an infraction. Inferences from He believed that E-W would find a defense to defeat such a hesitation may only be taken by an opponent APPEAL CASE 2 it some of the time. By Laws 16B1 and 12C1c, Event: Nail Life Master Pairs and at his own risk. the contract and result were changed to 80% of 3♣ Session: First Final The Appeal: E-W requested a review of the doubled making (N-S plus 670) and 20% of 3♣ Subject: Tempo ruling. The reviewer spoke with West. E-W disagreed doubled down one (N-S minus 200). Director in Charge: Kevin Perkins with the director’s conclusion and felt that the table The appeal was deemed to have merit. director could not possibly have polled the right level Reviewer: Matt Koltnow Helene Bauman of player. To them, a player of North’s caliber would Panel: Matt Koltnow, Gary Zeiger, David Board 21 ♠ A 6 2 have worked the problem out already. By this point Metcalf Vul: N-S ♥ Q J 9 5 in the play, for declarer to have 14 HCP, he would Play analyst: Jonathan Fleischman Dlr: North ♦ 9 need to have one of the red kings. If he has the ♥K, ♣ Q J 9 8 3 then he has the rest of the tricks; it would not matter Bo Xiao Rory Xiao APPEAL CASE 3 what North plays. If he has the ♦K, then he will ♠ K 10 9 7 ♠ 5 3 Event: Mitchell Open BAM Teams have a play to make in the diamond suit. (squeeze ♥ A K 10 3 2 ♥ 7 6 Session: First qualifying session vs. ). A player of this level should anticipate ♦ J 10 3 ♦ A K 8 6 5 4 Subject: Tempo and Deception the position and be prepared to pitch a diamond in ♣ K ♣ 10 7 5 Director in Charge: David Metcalf tempo to avoid giving away the position (if he has Jim Wakefield the queen) or deceiving declarer (if he does not). ♠ Q J 8 4 Adam Stokka E-W asserted that the conditions for 73E2 had been ♥ 8 4 Board 9 ♠ A 7 5 met – an innocent player drew a false inference from ♦ Q 7 2 Vul: E-W ♥ Q 8 3 a player who had no demonstrable bridge reason for ♣ A 6 4 2 Dlr: North ♦ 10 8 6 5 2 his tempo and could have known at the time it would ♣ 10 2 work to his advantage. They therefore felt they were West North East South Mitch Dunitz Iftikhar Baqai entitled to an additional trick. 2♣ (1) 2♦ Dbl (2) ♠ J 10 3 2 ♠ K Q 6 The reviewer also spoke with North who said Redbl 2♥ (3) Pass 2♠ (4) ♥ 6 2 ♥ A 9 7 5 4 that declarer’s plays were somewhat confusing, and it Dbl 2NT (5) Pass 3♣ ♦ A J 4 ♦ K 7 took time for him to work out the position. Dbl (6) Pass 3♦ All Pass ♣ K 6 5 3 ♣ Q 8 4 The Decision: The reviewer gave the North hand (1) 11-15 HCP, natural, Alerted Anne Lamport to two additional players as a single-dummy defense (2) Asks for further description, Alerted ♠ 9 8 4 problem. They chose (or agreed to) the same plays (3) Shows a four-card major, Alerted ♥ K J 10 through trick eight. When it came time to discard (4) Asks for further description, Alerted ♦ Q 9 3 at trick nine, it took one of the experts nearly 45 (5) Minimum with four hearts, Alerted ♣ A J 9 7 seconds, at which point he said that declarer’s play in (6) Break in tempo, agreed (disputed length of hearts was confusing and he could not work out what time, but noticeably longer than prior calls) West North East South was correct to play next. Pass 1NT (1) Pass The reviewer brought this data to the panel. As Table Result: 3♦ by East, making three. Pass Pass it corroborated the table director’s finding, the ruling Facts: All players agreed that the double of 3♣ (1) 14-16 HCP was upheld. (Law 73D1) was out of tempo compared to East’s first two calls. Table Result: 1NT by East, making two, E-W The appellants correctly believed more polling Six players were given the East hand. All of them plus 120. should be performed, so the appeal was deemed to chose or could accept East’s first three calls. At the Facts: All four players agreed that North took have merit. fourth turn, three bid 3♦, two passed, and one said it extra time thinking before discarding at trick nine. Reviewer: Matt Koltnow was not clear which would be better. South led the ♣7 to the 3, 10 and declarer’s Panel: Matt Koltnow, Jenni Carmichael, and Rui Director’s Ruling: The player poll showed queen. The ♠K was ducked, as was the ♠Q. North Marques passing to be a logical alternative, so by Laws 16B1 won the third round of spades and played a club to Experts consulted: Danny Molenaar and Tim and 12C1, the contract and result were adjusted to 3♣ South’s ace. The ♣9 went to dummy’s king, as North Verbeek doubled by North, making three, N-S plus 670. shed the ♦2. On the last spade, North pitched the ♦5, The Appeal: E-W requested a review of the declarer the ♥4, and South the ♥10. The low heart ruling. They asserted that the double of 3♣ was not a exit from dummy was passed to South’s jack, and on STEM contacts needed The ACBL Educational Foundation is penalty double. As such, they felt 3♦ was automatic. the ♣J, North discarded the ♦6, declarer the ♥7. searching for ACBL members who have may have The reviewer spoke to both sides. The non- South exited with the ♦3 which ran to the 4, 10 contacts with national STEM (science, technology, appellants believed the length of the break in tempo and king. Declarer then played a diamond to the ace, engineering, mathematics) accreditation bodies. The to 15-20 seconds. They agreed with the ruling. and cashed the ♥A, conceding the last trick. Ed Foundation’s plan is to create bridge modules that East said his hand was so bad that he could not E-W summoned the director at the end of play can be integrated into STEM curriculums at schools imagine passing 3♣ doubled. E-W argued that the and asserted that North clearly hesitated before in the U.S. double was just cards, not explicitly penalty, so East discarding on trick nine (when South cashed the ♣J). Members with information or leads should should be able to do what he wants. Lastly, they did Declarer claimed that he was fooled by the hesitation contact Project Committee Chair Barbara Heller at not think 3♣ doubled would always make nine tricks. into not taking the diamond finesse, and that North [email protected]. The Decision: The reviewer gave the East hand had no legitimate reason for the break in tempo. to three additional players. All of them felt that the North explained the break in tempo by saying slow double expressed doubt about defending, which that he was trying to count out the hand. East said he Masterpoint disclaimer made 3♦ more attractive than pass. misplayed the diamonds because of North’s tempo. Results reported in the Daily Bulletin are subject The panel accepted the table director’s poll He inferred North had the ♦Q. to change because of score changes or corrections. regarding pass as a logical alternative. When Director’s Ruling: The director gave the North The masterpoint awards as shown are, therefore, also combined with the reviewer’s poll, the panel hand to two players as a single-dummy defense subject to change. concluded that the break in tempo demonstrably problem. One of them took time at several tricks suggested 3♦ would be more successful than pass, trying to figure out what to do next and even more and that pass was a logical alternative. The reviewer time at trick nine. The director determined that North spoke to an expert to analyze the play in 3♣ doubled. did have a legitimate bridge reason for thinking, Daily Bulletin Sunday, December 8, 2019 Page 3 JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS Once either opponent leads a heart, there is no longer a strong five-card suit, easily the equivalent of 20 Take All Your Chances a guess in that suit, and the slam can be chalked up. HCP for the reasons mentioned. By Eddie Kantar Notice if you play the ♥A K J instead, conceding North (Dummy) a heart trick and forcing a diamond return, you could ♠ Q 9 5 4 2 go down. East may win and lead a diamond, and ♥ A 3 2 West may have the queen. ♦ A 3 2 A possible layout: ♣ K 4 ♠ Q 9 5 4 2 ♥ A 3 2 South (You) ♦ A 3 2 ♠ A K 10 8 6 ♣ K 4 ♥ K J 10 ♠ 7 ♠ J 3 ♦ K J 7 ♥ 9 8 4 ♥ Q 7 6 5 ♣ A J ♦ Q 10 8 6 ♦ 9 5 4 After you open ♣ 10 9 8 5 2 ♣ Q 7 6 3 2NT (yes, 2NT even ♠ A K 10 8 6 with five spades), ♥ K J 10 partner surprises ♦ K J 7 you by bidding 3♥, ♣ A J a transfer to spades! Tip No. 1: When you have two equally divided You jump accept by suits and either can be used as your throw-in suit to bidding 4♠ showing a force a lead in the other, ask yourself which suit you great hand for spades most want led to you. Once decided, use the other as with at least four Lydia and Mark Cohen were playing together your throw-in suit. Here, forcing a heart lead is more for the first time at a tournament on Saturday spades. Partner bids helpful than forcing a diamond lead. in the 299er Pairs. Lydia has played a few 6♠. West leads the Tip No. 2: When you have a five-card major with times at the Monterey Regional, but it was ♣10. Plan the play. a and 20-21 HCP, you are usually the first tournament of any kind for Mark, You have better placed to open 2NT rather than the major. who has been playing at the club for three possible losers in two suits, both equally divided, When you open the major, partner often responds or four years and social bridge for longer. “I both missing the queen. A finesseaholic draws 1NT, and when you raise to 3NT, the stronger hand wasn’t particularly interested in competing,” trumps, strips clubs, and takes two red-suit . hits the table, usually making the defense much Mark said. “My wife wanted a partner and I’m He will be victorious 75% of the time, how often easier. always up for something I haven’t done before. I wanted to make my wife happy. It’s the best one expects to win at least one of two finesses. Not Also, it is easier to respond to a 2NT opening bad, but terrible on this hand. reason.” Lydia learned to play when she was bid with a 4 or 5 HCP along with a six-card suit, as 12 and after a long break started playing at A stronger player draw trumps, strip clubs, and partner is known to have at least two cards in the suit. the Metropolitan Club. “I’ve been enjoying it,” plays the ♦A, ♦K and the ♦J, forcing a heart return. In fact, many top players open 2NT with 19 HCP and she said. “I play at least twice a week.”

1963 Eric Murray 211 2005 Zia Mahmood 416.88 1964 Harold Rockaway 180 2006 Drew Casen, Jim Krekorian 334.13 1965 Mike Lawrence 211 2007 Lew Stansby 375.28 1966 Charles Coon 144 1967 Sami Kehela 155 The Herman Trophy becomes the Goren Trophy 1968 Henry Bethe 144 2008 Eric Rodwell 623.75* 1969 Sylvia Stein 150 2009 Jeff Meckstroth 377.66 1970 Ira Rubin, Chuck Burger 154 2010 Steve Garner 326.20 1971 John Grantham 150 2011 James Cayne, Michael Seamon 378.63 1972 Steve Robinson 181 2012 Zia Mahmood 348.08 1973 Larry Cohen 207 2013 Agustin Madala 402.22 1974 Fred Hamilton 202 2014 Boye Brogeland, Espen Lindqvist 368.89 1975 Walt Walvick 171 2015 Bogulsaw Gierulski, Jerzy 1976 Paul Soloway 199 Skrzypczak, Ron Pachtmann, Winner of the Goren Trophy for the most points 1977 John Mohan 160 Pawel Zatorski 375.94 earned during the 2018 Fall NABC: Joe Grue 1978 Bob Hamman 165 2016 Eric Greco 382.88 1979 Robert Levin 233* 2017 Joe Grue 266.10 Goren Trophy 1980 Jeff Meckstroth 225 2018 Joe Grue 422.31 Measures Most 1981 Chip Martel 225 1982 Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell 191 Hall of Fame Fall NABC 1983 Marty Bergen 233* The Goren Trophy is awarded to the player(s) 1984 Grant Baze 200 continued from page 1 who captures the most masterpoints at the Fall 1985 Eric Rodwell 364.75* West Bloomfield MI has been named as the recipient NABC. Last year in Orlando it was won by Eric 1986 Kit Woolsey, Ed Manfield 211.55 of the 2020 von Zedtwitz Award. Greco, who placed second in the Reisinger and third 1987 Jill Meyers 176.00 The Blackwood Award is given to those in both the Mitchell Open BAM and the Kaplan Blue 1988 Bob Hamman 269.55 individuals who have contributed greatly to the game Ribbon Pairs. 1989 Mark Molson 253.71 of bridge in ways other than playing expertise. The Here are the previous winners of the Goren 1990 Eddie Wold 276.26 von Zedtwitz Award is given to living or deceased (originally the Lou Herman) Trophy. (An asterisk 1991 David Berkowitz 356.65 individuals who have achieved prominence in the indicates the record was broken that year.) 1992 Haig Tchamitch 201.66 game of bridge and have an outstanding tournament Lou Herman Trophy 1993 Bob Hamman 355.13 record but who may not have been in the limelight 1952 Al Roth 1994 Mark Lair 365.06* for a significant period of time. 1953 John Crawford 1995 Jeff Meckstroth 407.77* Smith and Weinstein are longtime ACBL 1954 Paul Hodge 1996 Michael Rosenberg 445.77* tournament directors, each with extensive 1955 Milt Ellenby 1997 Bart Bramley, Sidney Lazard 320.31 backgrounds that have influenced the organization of 1956 Paul Hodge 1998 Eric Rodwell 328.59 bridge in North America. 1957 Lew Mathe 1999 Geir Helgemo 449.37* Arguably the top player ever from the Detroit 1958 Sylvia Stein 2000 George Jacobs 365.22 area, Burger is an 11-time NABC champion with 19 1959 Mort Rubinow 2001 George Jacobs, Alfredo Versace 333.75 second-place finishes. 1960 Oswald Jacoby 2002 Dan Morse 388.81 A full report will accompany the Hall of Fame 1961 Phil Feldesman 2003 Geoff Hampson 374.79 induction ceremony at the Summer NABC in 1962 Marshall Miles 2004 Jeff Meckstroth 381.16 Montreal in July 2020. Page 4 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Daily Bulletin

FRIDAY-SATURDAY MORNING COMPACT KO QUALIFIERS IN THE NABC+ MIXED SWISS TEAMS 13 Tables 9.58 1 Michael Lynch, Edwards CO; Bill Multack, 58 Tables / Based on 116 Tables Carryover Miami Beach FL; Jacqueline Hurlbutt - Karen Johnson, Scottsdale 1 Justyna Zmuda, Skawina Poland; Dominik Filipowicz, Kalisz Poland; Loretta Rivers, AZ Monroe LA; Mike Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Sandra Rimstedt, New York NY 30.00 6.71 2 Shawn Cantlin, Tracy CA; Carla Francis, Castro 2 Irene Baroni, Moniga Italy; Alessandro Gandoglia, Rome Italy; Yasuko Shrenzel, Valley CA; Linda Decquir, Wildomar CA; Nancy Raznick, San Honolulu HI; Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON 25.53 Francisco CA 3 Thomas Turgeon, Memphis TN; Sandy McCay, Naples FL; Robert Kent - Ellen Kent, 4.31 3 Kathleen Young - Donna Barker - Christine Evans, Walnut Creek CA; Carolynn Zocchi, Petaluma CA Chicago IL 21.14 3.35 4 Peter Clay - Kathleen Clay, Wellesley MA; Paul 4 Radu Nistor - Raluca Dobrescu, Woodside NY; Lynda Nitabach, North Plainfield NJ; Harris, Waltham MA; Barbara Wilson, Sudbury MA Iulian Rotaru, New York NY 18.62 5 Chun Chang - Maggie Zhao, Palo Alto CA; Yannie Zhao, Saratoga CA; Chin Huang, FRIDAY ZIP KO Foster City CA 18.19 6 Tables 6 Gary Donner, Bluffton SC; Cecilia Rimstedt, Kungsbacka Sweden; Thomas Paske, 2.99 1 Deepak Ramanathan - Brian Wallace, San Francisco CA; Joseph Lieberman, Brooklyn NY; Arjun Dhir, Johns Manhattan NY; Christina Madsen, Hellerup Denmark 16.26 Creek GA 7 Sanna Clementsson, Stockholm Sweden; Alexander Sandin, Ostersund Swaziland; 2.09 2 Kyle Rockoff, Gilbert AZ; Siqing Yu, New York Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Wei Wang, Shanghai People’s Republic of China 16.17 NY; Adam Grossack, Newton MA; Amber Lin, San Francisco CA; 8 Tatiana Dikhnova - Victoria Gromova - Sergey Orlov - Mikhail Krasnoselskii, Moscow Russia 16.13 Ulla Winkler, Somerville MA 9 Claire Alpert - Francisco Bernal, Miami FL; Leonardo Fruscoloni, New York NY; Piotr Pawel Zatorski, Gdansk Poland; Katarzyna Dufrat, Wroclaw Poland; Sylvie Willard, Paris France 15.28 Monitoring 10 Carole Weinstein, Waltham MA; Raymond Depew - Judith Argento, Naples FL; ACBL monitors events at North American Bridge Ronald Mak, Manchester NH 13.86 Championships with both visible and concealed 11 Jean Barry, Livermore CA; Dewitt (Hal) Montgomery III - Amy Casanova, Portland OR; real-time cameras in public spaces. The images are George Whitworth, Coarsegold CA 13.66 recorded and available for later inspection and review 12 Wubbo De Boer - Agnes Snellers, Groenekan; Laura Dekkers, Rotterdam Netherlands; Joris van Lankveld, Amsterdam Netherlands 13.30 by ACBL management and tournament officials, 13 Franck Multon - Pierre Zimmermann, Monaco; Fredrik Helness - Gunn Helness, among others, including members of the Anti- Oslo Norway; Anam Tebha, Charlotte NC 12.97 Cheating Commission. These recordings are also 14 Kenneth Titow - Linda Mitchell - Kenneth Klein, Scottsdale AZ; Suzette Wynn, uploaded to the internet following the NABC. Phoenix AZ 12.76 By general monitoring of the session and 15 Christine Denny, Encinitas CA; Paul Darin, San Diego CA; Weidong Pei, Brea CA; participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source of Fran White, Fallbrook CA 12.47 information that may be useful in determining facts 16 Margie Cole - Alejandro Bianchedi, New York NY; H. Hunt, Kiawah Island SC; and settling issues or disputes arising from some Giorgia Botta, Brooklyn NY 12.12 types of ethical and behavioral complaints or actions. 17 Frank Treiber III, Toledo OH; Diane Travis, Cincinnati OH; Lorna Davis, West Chester OH; Please summon a director if a problem occurs at the James Cunningham, Indianapolis IN 11.32 18 Di Zheng, Los Angeles CA; Shen Qi, Shanghai China; Hu Wen, Nanjing China; Liang Li, table. This procedure is intended to assure everyone Nanjing China; Wei Zhang, Suzhou China; Zuo Xiao Xue, Horn Lake MS 10.50 that the playing field is level and that misbehavior 19 Arianna Testa, Rome Italy; Lee De Simone, Paso Robles CA; Alexander Hydes, Zagreb will not be tolerated. Croatia; Marshall Lewis, Bloomington IN; Cristiana Morgantini, Rome Italy 10.48 20 Dawn Campbell - Irva Neyhart, Portland OR; Roger McNay, Beaverton OR; Jon Bartlett, Happy Valley OR 10.36 Smoking Policy 21 Kay Enfield, Santa Fe NM; Felicity Moore, Albuquerque NM; Robert Morris, Houston TX; Smoking is not permitted in the playing area Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX; Allan Graves, St. Johnsbury VT 9.40 during any bridge playing event at an NABC. This 22 Mary Ose, Incline Village NV; Wayne Karson - Roger Clough - Rebecca Clough, includes electronic smoking devices. Culver City CA 9.16 23 Gene Kuehneman - Adrienne Kuehneman, Bethesda MD; David Rodney - Avril Rodney, Fairfax VA 8.94 24 Teresa Boyd - Grant Robinson, Dublin CA; Michael Gosnell - Julia Gosnell, Walnut Creek CA 8.78 25 Bill Irvine, Delray Beach FL; Ellie Hanlon - Mary Savko, Tequesta FL; Christopher Smith, Vero Beach FL 8.61 26 Thomas Rush, Houston TX; Kamla Chawla, Longmeadow MA; Rajeev Gupta, Oakland CA; Suzanne Cook, McKinleyville CA 8.26 27 Melanie Tucker, New York NY; Mustafa Cem Tokay, Manhattan NY; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Sylvia Shi, Las Vegas NV 7.98 28 Rita Ellington, Charlotte NC; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK; Jessica Larsson, Heimdal Sweden 7.72 29 May Sakr, Ardmore PA; Benedicte Cronier, Paris France; Vasileios Vroustis - Nikolaos Delimpaltadakis, Athens Greece 7.52 30 Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD; Lynn Jones, Timonium MD; Fred King, McLean VA; Rebecca Duty, Richmond VA 6.87 31 Judi Radin, New York NY; Daniel Rubinfeld, Berkeley CA; Daniel Friedman - Linda Friedman, Orinda CA; Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ; Patricia Dovell, Gainesville FL 6.26 32 Joann Glasson - Bob Glasson, Pennington NJ; Robert Hopkins Jr. - Joan Lewis, Arlington VA 6.23 33 Hannah Moon, Sasakatoon SK; Ken Gee, Regina SK; Daisy Goecker, Yardley PA; Cliff Campbell, Thunder Bay ON; Ayako Miyakuni - Kenji Miyakuni, Tokyo Japan 5.91 34 David Sokolow - Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX; Ellen Hessel - Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX; Leonard Holtz, West Hollywood CA 5.74 35 Paul Mohler, Arlington VA; Chatarina Andersson, Kungalv Sweden; Geir Engebretsen, Valderoy Norway; Solbritt Lindahl, Evenskjer Norway 5.64 36 Alan Tenenbaum - Mary Tenenbaum, Rockville MD; Andrew Gofreed, La Plata MD; Muh-Sha Crawford, Virginia Beach VA 4.97 37 Cameron Doner, Surrey BC; Julie Smith, Vancouver BC; Karen Turner - Duncan Smith, Victoria BC 4.90 38 Pat Leary - Jim Leary, Livermore CA; Georgiana Gates, Houston TX; Jerry Weitzner, Danville CA 4.56 39 Pamela Nisbet, Kanata ON; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH; Stephen Castellino, Castro Valley CA; Irina Kislitsyna, Miami FL; Michael Wolf, Fort Lauderdale FL 4.06 40 Donald Kersey - Paddy Allan, Kingston ON; William Koski, King City ON; Leigh Ives, Barrie ON 3.97 41 Lynn Shannon, Campbell CA; John Miller, Oakley CA; Patricia Griffin, Flourtown PA; Russell Samuel, Coram NY 3.91 42 Danny Sprung - Joann Sprung, Las Vegas NV; Anne Brenner - David Caprera, Denver CO 3.87 43 Qiang Zhang - Serena Guo - Brian Zhang, Dublin CA; Amber Lin, San Francisco CA 3.22 44 Sophie Dauvergne - Bernard Dauvergne, Ramonville France; Corinne Faivre - Jeremie Tignel, Castanettolosan France 3.16 45 Veronica McMurdie - Dick Jones, Sacramento CA; Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA; Howard Parker III, Clements CA 3.12 46 Xiao Hu - Jinghui Yang, Kunming China; Jianming Zhang, Union City CA; Gong Wangying, Hangzhou China 2.96 Daily Bulletin Sunday, December 8, 2019 Page 5

47 Glenn Robbins, New York NY; Liping Wang, Beijing China; Wenfei Wang, Shanghai China; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ 2.53 Fairwell from Chair 48 William Pollack - Rozanne Pollack - Christal Henner - Uday Ivatury, New York NY; continued from page 1 Lisa Berkowitz - David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL 2.43 Operations staff have done their usual amazing job 49 Barton Buffington, North Kingstown RI; Maureen Weiman - Magnus Weiman, Eden Prairie MN; Mary Vickers, Apex NC 1.20 keeping things running smoothly. Thank you to 50 Pam Wittes, Venice CA; Abe Pineles, Palm Desert CA; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ; Tournament Operations Director Nancy Boyd and Donna Dulet, Ocean NJ 0.65 Director-in-Charge Ken Horwedel and their excellent 51 Alan Kudisch - Jeanne Hanrahan, East Norwich NY; Sharon Stanfill, Lincoln MA; team of directors for running a great series of events. Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 0.53 Meeting Planners Mark Hudson, Montie Hamblen, 52 Samuel Kuang, Elmhurst NY; Kristen Onsgard, Dallas TX; Nancy Kornegay - Chris Wiegand and the rest of the ACBL staff have Stephen Kornegay, North Richland Hills TX 0.52 been a dream to work with. I can’t say enough to 53 Kathleen Harper, Menlo Park CA; Jim O’Neil, Cupertino CA; Betsey Schneider, thank all of them. San Carlos CA; Robert Ng, Millbrae CA 0.43 I’ve been fortunate to have worked with a great 54 Maris Zilant, Miami FL; David Wachsman - Janis Wachsman, Jericho NY; tournament planning committee. Thank you to the Todd Wachsman, Delray Beach FL 0.27 55 Len Vishnevsky - Jo Ginsberg - Vicki Lerner, San Francisco CA; Richard Reitman, committee chairmen/women for their many hours Los Gatos CA; Grant Vance - Jessica Lai, Oakland CA 0.17 of hard work. Special thanks go to our Intermediate/ 56 Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA; Daniela von Arnim, Hockenheim Germany; Roland Rohowsky, Newcomer team for creating a welcoming experience Nueruberg Germany; William Watson, Sunnyvale CA 0.14 for new and young players. We also had over 300 57 Ruth Fleischmann, New York NY; Omer Ekinci, Astoria NY; Gokhan Yilmaz - Emine Sen, volunteers, without whom this tournament would not Istanbul Turkey; Debra Hyatt, Lakewood CO 0.10 have been possible. Many thanks to all of them. 58 Daniel Sonner, Redwood City CA; Sarah Youngquist, Palo Alto CA; Cheryl Mandala - It’s been a real privilege to serve as your NABC Yul Inn, Cupertino CA; JoAnna Stansby - Lew Stansby, Dublin CA 0.00 Chairman. You’ve offered so many congratulations to the committee and to all the volunteers, that it’s made QUALIFIERS IN THE KEOHANE NORTH AMERICAN SWISS TEAMS the whole effort worth every minute. Thank you all 24 Tables / Based on 94 Tables Carryover for coming. We’ll see you back here in 2025. Happy 1 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Holidays! Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel Hill NC; Rafal Jagniewski, Legionowo Poland; Wojciech Gawel, Wroclaw Poland 34.10 2 Sibraud Van Ooosten, Leiden; Maximilian Stepper - Lauritz Streck, Berlin Germany; World Update Florian Alter, Leipzig Germany 22.57 3 Douglas Simson, Columbus OH; Jeff Aker, Briarcliff NY; Barry Rigal, New York NY; continued from page 1 Glenn Milgrim, Ransomville NY; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA 14.60 developers all over the world, with this year’s 4 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hgts IL; Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; Arthur Wasik - bridge-bot developers from Japan (Micro Bridge), Andrzej Knap, Madrid Spain; Piotr Wiankowski, Gdansk Poland; Piotr Nawrocki, China (Synrey Bridge), France (Wbridge5), Germany Warsaw Poland 14.35 (Q-Plus Bridge), The Netherlands (RoboBridge), 5 Sylvia Moss - Bruce Rogoff, Boca Raton FL; Eldad Ginossar, Chicago IL; Ishmael Del’Monte, India (TCS BridgeBot) and the USA (Meadowlark Las Vegas NV; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY 12.86 6 , Las Vegas NV; Richard Coren - Jerry Stamatov - Diyan Danailov, Bridge). Boca Raton FL; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON 12.66 For all the results of this year’s event and the 23- 7 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Thomas Bessis, Paris France; year history, go to www.computerbridge.com. Frederic Volcker, Issy Les Moulin France; Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France; Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland 12.05 8 Jun Zhang - Yizhuo Zhang - Jiashen Yin, Beijing China; Yanhui Sun, China; Yichao Chen - Junjie Hu, Shanghai China 10.88 9 Stan Tulin, Boca Raton FL; David Bakhshi, London England; Dror Padon - Alon Birman, Tel Aviv Israel; Cornelis Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands; Louk Verhees Jr., Voorhout Netherlands 8.42 10 Wei Tian, China; Xin Li, Guangdong China; Sun Xudong, Shanghai China; Ming Sheng, Northbrook IL 8.24 11 Jerome Rombaut, Hem France; Hilda Setton, Italy; Pierre Franceschetti, Paris France; Nicholas Lhuissier, Rueil Malmaison France; Quentin Robert, Paris France; Julien Bernard, Le Vesinet France 7.62 12 Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Simon De Wijs, Doorn Netherlands; Bauke Muller, Zwaag Netherlands; Mike Passell, Plano TX; Marc Jacobus, Las Vegas NV 7.18 13 Hemant Lall, Carrollton TX; Reese Milner, Sarasota FL; Zia Mahmood, New York NY; David Gold, London England; Marc Bompis, Bourg La Reine France; Michel Abecassis, Paris France 5.30 14 Finn Kolesnik, Ventura CA; Bo Han Zhu, Ukiah CA; Cristal Nell, Seattle WA; John Ramos, Los Angeles CA 4.64 15 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Ulf Nilsson, Dalby Sweden; Owen Lien, Oak Park MI; Peter Gill, Sydney Australia 4.49 16 Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL; Jim Munday, Southaven MS; Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 3.85 17 Alison Wilson, New York NY; Thibo Sprinkhuizen, Rotterdam Netherlands; Luc Tijssen - Veri Kiljan, Tilburg Netherlands; Guy Mendes De Leon, Amsterdam Netherlands 3.26 18 Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Patricia Tucker - Samuel Marks, Atlanta GA; Jerry Helms, Charlotte NC; Allen Hawkins Jr., Birmingham AL; Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA 1.82 19 Phil Clayton, Frisco TX; Andrew Gumperz, Berkeley CA; Bill Nutting - Ann Nutting, Stockton CA; Alexander Kolesnik, Los Angeles CA; Bob Etter, Elk Grove CA 1.55 20 Michael Shuster, Collegeville PA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA; Kent Hartman, San Diego CA; Robert Shore, Los Angeles CA 1.10 21 Tom Trachuk, Walnut Creek CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA; Stephen McConnell, Evanston IL; James Tritt, Orange CA 1.04 22 Erez Hendelman - Samuel Amer, New York NY; Dan Israeli - Asaf Yekutieli, Tel Aviv Israel; Aran Warszawski, Rehovot Israel; Ami Zamir, Hod Hasharon Israel 0.19 23 Gene Simpson - Laura Kenney, San Rafael CA; Tahir Gokcen, Mountain View CA; Gary Macgregor, Portola Valley CA 0.13 24 Joyce Hill, St. Augustine FL; Kevin Dwyer - Shan Huang, Melbourne FL; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Grdens FL; Justin Lall, Little Elm TX 0.00 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ Page 6 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Daily Bulletin

QUALIFIERS IN THE REISINGER BAM Claiming lost valuables 10 Tables Carryover Players who may have forgotten their credit cards 1 Lavazza: Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Dennis Bilde, Copenhagen Denmark; at one of the bars or restaurants in the Marriott should Philippe Cronier, Paris France; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Agustin Madala, claim them at the front desk of the hotel. Buenos Aires Argentina; Antonio Sementa, Parma Italy 4.82 Lost something else of value? Visit the Welcome 2 Martin Fleisher - Joe Grue, New York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Brad Moss, Denver CO; Desk on the lower level (typically open one hour Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Eric Greco, Northville MI 3.04 before game time). 3 Bid 72: Jan Van Cleeff, The Hague Netherlands; Matthias Felmy, Oldenburg Germany; Iain Sime, Edinburgh Scotland; Marina Wilvliet, Den Haag Netherlands 1.79 4/5 Mike Rippey, Orinda CA; Kamil Nowak, Kielce Poland; Leonardo Cima, Roma Italy; Giovanni Donati, Italy; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 1.25 4/5 Laurence Lebowitz, Boston MA; Adam Grossack - Zachary Grossack, Newton MA; Fredrik Nystrom - Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden; Michael Rosenberg, Sunnyvale CA 1.25 6 Peter Crouch, Surrey England; Simon Cope, Hertfordshire UK; Espen Erichsen, Tunbridge Wells UK; Fredrik Helness, Oslo Norway 0.79 7 Josef Blass (npc): Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Michal Nowosadzki, Wejherowo Poland; Sjoert Brink - Sebastiaan Drijver, Geneva Switzerland; Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland 0.32 NABC results 8 Juan Carlos Ventin (npc): Diego Brenner, Barcelona Spain; Frederic Wrang, Stockholm by email/text Sweden;Antonio Palma, Evora Portugal; Miguel Villas-Boas, Salvador Brazil 0.22 Want to be notified when results and the Daily 9 Nick Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Beach FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Montclair NJ 0.14 Bulletins from the NABC are posted online? Want to 10 Howard Weinstein, Rancho Mirage CA; Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Bob Hamman, see your results in the events you played in? ACBL Dallas TX; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Liam Milne, Sydney Australia; Andy Hung, Live does just that. Brisbane Australia 0.00 With the ACBL Live notification system, you will receive emails and/or text messages after each SATURDAY MORNING SIDE SWISS TEAMS session with links that go directly to the information 10 Tables you’re looking for. The email/text message will A B C contain your score for the session and a link to your 4.27 1 Merryl Chin, North York ON; Rick Holcomb, Miami FL; results. (These results will also be available on your Harold Nordstrom, Reading MA; Susan Lincoln, Boxford MA 64.00 MyResults page at MyACBL.) Players will also 3.20 2 1 1 Chris Chang - Jessica Su, Mountain View CA; Henry Hsieh, receive a notification to indicate when the Daily Palo Alto CA; Brian Bi, New York NY 52.00 2.40 3 2 Phyllis Landry, Orleans ON; Margaret Taylor - Patti McCabe, Bulletin for that day is available. Ottawa ON; Margaret Cann, Sydney NS 49.00 This service is automatic for members unless 1.58 4/5 Florence Mahony - Brian Mahony, Delray Beach FL; they have specifically opted out. To receive text Benjamin Eisenberg - Susan Eisenberg, Boca Raton FL 47.00 messages, go to MyACBL at acbl.org and select 1.58 4/5 3 Andy Scott, San Jose CA; Irene Hashfield - Vera Baum, Los Altos CA; Update My Information to enter your email address Kathryn Papermaster, Horseshoe Bay TX 47.00 and/or cell phone number. Also at MyACBL, visit the Privacy Settings tab UNIT 512 WINE COUNTRY SATURDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS to make sure you’ve selected the Subscribe setting 6.0 Tables for General Email Communication and Cell Phone A B C Text Communication to receive these notifications. 3.47 1 Robert Hendricks, Virginia Beach VA; Lynnette Regan, Norfolk VA 62.92% 2.28 2/3 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Eddie Tsaowu, San Francisco CA 58.33% 3.25 2/3 1 Dori Foster - Joe Foster, Atherton CA 58.33% 2.44 4 2 John White - Lynne White, Lincoln CA 57.92% 1.83 3 Jim Liu, Saratoga CA; Susan Zhang, Los Altos Hills CA 53.75% 2.38 4 1 Elliott Zeller, Albany CA; Craig Smith, Luzern Switzerland 50.83% 1.79 2 Douglass Ulrich, Burlingame CA; Jerry Scott, S San Francisco CA 49.17% Daily Bulletin Sunday, December 8, 2019 Page 7

Goals Roundup continued from page 1 What is your goal for 2020?

“I have the goal to be a “To make Gold Life “Become a Grand Life “To look after my health “To improve my bridge Life Master.” Master. I’m at 2360.” Master.” and mental health more.” game.” Molly Hamilton Sylvia Riewerts Jean Barry Tony Mason Dee Poujade Dallas TX Milwaukie OR Livermore CA Oakland CA Portland OR

“To justifiably be “I’m hopefully going to “I would like to win “To do better than “My 2020 goal for my “To win a national confident about my be playing in the World the Vanderbilt. And I losing in the round of club is to gross 10,000 event, which I haven’t career change. I’m going Junior Championships hope that our sponsor is 32 in every event. To do tables and be in the top done in four years and into clinical psychology and I’d like to medal.” healthy enough to play well in the four major 10 bridge clubs in North I’m f---ing sick of it.” from physics.” Sarah Youngquist with us.” events.” America.” Janice Seamon-Molson Jason Leith Palo Alto CA Jacek “Pepsi” Pszczola Joe Grue Donna Compton Hollywood FL Oakland CA Chapel Hill NC New York NY Dallas TX

“To do better than the “To play in all three “I would like to win the “To read all of the New “I would like to be a “I want to win 2000 year before.” nationals. I only have Mixed Team trials with York Times Best 10 Life Master in 2020. points again and go Amy Casanova a partner for one my husband.” books of 2019.” I need to do better than to a lot of foreign Portland OR tournament.” Sylvia Shi Rick Beye today.” tournaments.” Michael Becker Las Vegas NV Tournament director Paul Davis Ron Smith Boca Raton FL St. Louis MO Mountain View CA Chicago IL

“To be healthy.” “I want to win a national “To win a national.” “Graduating.” “I would like to break “It would be nice if I Margaret Taylor event.” Finn Kolesnik Luc Tijssen 2000 points this year.” could learn to count.” Ottawa ON Hal Montgomery Ventura CA Netherlands Martha Hawley Judy Argento Portland OR Fontys University student Carmel Valley CA Naples FL

“Get out of California.” “I want to play on the “Be healthy.” “To eliminate some “To get to it.” Leah Khayter French Mixed Team.” Jeanette Bonifas errors in my game.” Bob Hamman Belmont CA, Laurent Thuillez San Francisco CA Katharine Morris Dallas TX originally from Boston France Portland OR Page 8 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Daily Bulletin

UNIT 512 WINE COUNTRY THURSDAY-SATURDAY MORNING SIDE SERIES - FINAL 32.00 Tables / Based on 17 Tables 9.45 1/2 Eric Gettleman, Ellicott City MD 120.24% 9.45 1/2 Will Engel, Rockford IL 120.24% 5.32 3/4 Robert Hendricks, Virginia Beach VA 119.74% 5.32 3/4 Lynnette Regan, Norfolk VA 119.74% 4.10 5/6 Charles Dahlke, Oshkosh WI 112.02% 4.10 5/6 Robert Webster, Ripon WI 112.02% 2.55 7/8 Susan Zhang, Los Altos Hills CA 107.88% 2.55 7/8 Jim Liu, Saratoga CA 107.88% 2.28 9 Eddie Tsaowu, San Francisco CA 107.57%

SONOMA DBC SATURDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS 18.5 Tables A B C 4.35 1 1 Guy Martin, Ville Saguenay QC; Sabin Harvey, Alma QC 62.50% 2.86 2/3 Charlene Friedman, Menlo Park CA; Cynthia Yock, Atherton CA 61.90% 2.86 2/3 2 Mark Sumner - Mark Issacs, San Francisco CA 61.90% 2.07 4 3 Hari Narayanan, Cupertino CA; Salma Saeed, Redwood City CA 60.42% 1.55 5 4 Margaret Matin - Carina Cassim, Portland OR 59.92% 2.40 6 5 1 Cynthia Crawford - Sylvia Landt, Napa CA 59.13% 1.80 6 2 Irwin Jaeger - Patricia Jaeger, Los Angeles CA 58.68% 1.35 3 Timothy Byrnes, Perpigna France; Joe Huddleston, Peoria AZ 53.57% 1.01 4 Carl Ebeling, Redwood City CA; Darren Cronquist, San Francisco CA 51.98% 0.76 5 Lynne Crawford - Marilynne Solloway, San Francisco CA 51.04%

SONOMA DBC SATURDAY MORNING 99ER PAIRS 7.0 Tables A B C 2.27 1 Jayme Goodale, San Anselmo CA; Suzanne McMahon, Novato CA 60.83% 1.87 2 1 1 Thomas Birge - Kristine Birge, Half Moon Bay CA 60.00% 1.40 3 2 Margaret Garms - Allan McAllister, Oakland CA 57.50% 1.05 4 3 John Stremel, San Jose CA; Kai Eckert, El Granada CA 55.00% 1.16 5 4 2 Stephen Perry - Brenda Perry, Napa CA 53.75% 0.87 3 Darryl Chan - Jeff Finer, Foster City CA 52.92%

SONOMA DBC SATURDAY MORNING NEWCOMER PAIRS 7.0 Tables A B 1.81 1 Wally Manheimer - Eileen Manheimer, Allendale NJ 57.94% 1.53 2 1 James Allison, San Francisco CA; Abby Kindberg 55.95% 1.15 3 2 William Quarles, Walnut Creek CA; Anita Seipp, Atherton CA 55.56% 0.76 4 Susan Beech, Tiburon CA; Deihleen Claffey, San Francisco CA 55.16% 0.57 5 Kristine Zavoli - Walter Zavoli, Palo Alto CA 53.57% 0.86 3 Frada Shapiro - Joan Brownstein, San Francisco CA 53.17% 0.65 4 Marilyn Flores - Danial Lemire, San Francisco CA 51.98%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SIDE PAIRS Restrictions for certain 22.0 Tables events in 2020 A B C Players should be aware of the following 6.93 1 1 Barbara Simon - Wayne Kaneko, Petaluma CA 64.53% decision by the ACBL Board of Directors which will 5.20 2 2 Ellen Coffield - Byron Southern, Little Rock AR 60.89% 3.90 3 Chantal Dube, Montreal QC; Andre Houde, Laval QC 59.48% take effect in 2020. 3.29 4 3 James Harris, Palo Alto CA; Elan Winkler, Mountain View CA 59.48% Any player who has won a contest that carries 2.61 5 4 Roz Kahn, San Francisco CA; David Blohm, Vacaville CA 59.18% ACBL Grand Life Master eligibility (most open 3.15 6 5 1 Kayoko Iwasaki, San Jose CA; Dorr Clark, Campbell CA 57.97% NABC contests or equivalent events such as world 1.39 7 6 Jory Segal, San Jose CA; Lynne Humphrey, Moraga CA 57.08% championship titles or the U.S./Canadian team trials) 1.04 7 Robert Byrum, San Francisco CA; Michaele Drayer, New York NY 56.83% will be treated as if they possess at least 10,000 2.36 2 David McGraham, Vancouver WA; John Wood, Blaine WA 55.10% masterpoints (if they haven’t already acquired that 1.77 3 Randall Klein, Leawood KS; Patti McCabe, Ottawa ON 53.02% total) for the purposes of flighting, stratification and 1.33 4 Leila Marcus - Marilu Donnici, San Francisco CA 51.88% KO bracketing. Essentially, anyone who has won 1.00 5 Robert Crosby, San Mateo CA; Deborah Drysdale, San Francisco CA 51.05% an open NABC title can’t play in a masterpoint- SONOMA DBC SATURDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS restricted event, including the so-called “10K” events 14.0 Tables at NABCs, where participation is limited to players A B C with less than 10,000 points. 3.60 1 1 Fran Allen - Carina Cassim, Portland OR 61.74% Additionally, the ACBL Seeding Committee 2.70 2 2 1 Michael Gerson, El Sobrante CA; Helen Chow, San Francisco CA 60.42% has updated the eligibility points of many players, 2.03 3 3 Bob Gleason - Bob Farkas, San Carlos CA 59.28% especially those from outside North American, which 1.52 4 4 Maureen Keating, Anchorage AK; Craig Smith, Luzern Switzerland 58.71% may alter player seeding 1.70 5 5 2 David Slaby - Patricia Torres, Concord CA 56.44% points for top-level events. 1.11 6 Lois Lourie - Helen Bohl, Sonoma CA 56.06% Email notifications of these 1.28 6 3 Bruce Silverman - Sylvia Victoria, Walnut Creek CA 55.87% changes will be sent to 0.84 4/5 Timothy Byrnes, Perpigna France; Joe Huddleston, Peoria AZ 55.11% 0.84 4/5 Janet Middleton, Benicia CA; Irving Googins, Pleasanton CA 55.11% players in January. Daily Bulletin Sunday, December 8, 2019 Page 9

Stay in touch NA Swiss Reisinger Is your email address on file? Is it up to date? continued from page 1 continued from page 1 Let ACBL know. Call toll-free in the U.S., 800–264– Van Ooosten’s team (Maximilian Stepper, Lauritz giving them an almost-maximum carryover into the 2743; outside the U.S. 1–662–253–3191 Monday– Streck, Florian Alter). final of 4.82. Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time). You may In third is Doug Simson and company (Jeff Aker, In second with a carryover of 3.04 is Marty also email [email protected] or update your info at Barry Rigal, Glenn Milgrim, and Steve Beatty) with Fleisher’s squad (Joe Grue, Chip Martel, Brad Moss, acbl.com by logging into MyACBL. 14.60. Geoff Hampson, and Eric Greco). Third place currently belongs to Team Bid 72: Jan Van Cleeff, Matthias Felmy, Iain Sime and SONOMA DBC SATURDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS Marina Wilvliet with a carryover of 1.79 boards. 7.5 Tables A B C 2.40 1 Stephen Clark - William Billings, Walnut Creek CA 61.79% 1.80 2 1 1 Kai Eckert, El Granada CA; Victor Chung, Mountain View CA 60.12% Can You Count? 1.35 3 Raynard Jong - Marjory Jong, Livermore CA 54.10% By Stephen Castellino 1.28 4 2 Alan Chian - Bo Chian, Ukiah CA 54.05% Board 15 from the second session of the Daylight 0.96 5 3 Robert Saken - Howard Miller, San Francisco CA 53.60% Open Pairs on Thursday presented a fun challenge: 0.74 4 Pico Gilman - Andrew Eidelhoch, San Francisco CA 52.75% Dlr: South ♠ A 9 7 4 0.99 2 Thomas Birge - Kristine Birge, Half Moon Bay CA 50.71% Vul: N-S ♥ A 9 2 ♦ K 8 6 2 SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS ♣ Q 10 49.0 Tables / Based on 89 Tables ♠ 6 3 ♠ Q 10 8 5 2 A B C 40.42 1 1 Surendra Mandava, Saratoga CA; Ravi Thomas, Portola Valley CA 66.89% ♥ K Q J 10 7 ♥ 8 6 30.32 2 2 1 Donghui Lu, San Jose CA; Yu Chang, Milpitas CA 63.97% ♦ Q J 10 7 ♦ 5 22.74 3 Richard Riezman, St. Louis MO; James Griffin, San Rafael CA 62.68% ♣ 7 6 ♣ K 9 5 3 2 17.05 4 3 2 David Weinberg, Reno NV; Chris Chung, Belmont CA 59.07% ♠ K J 13.47 5 4 3 Jesse Liu, Fremont CA; Youfeng Wu, Palo Alto CA 58.62% ♥ 5 4 3 11.55 6 Stuart Goodgold - Buddhadeb Biswas, San Jose CA 57.96% ♦ A 9 4 3 10.11 7 Peter Manzon, Waltham MA; Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA 57.12% ♣ A J 4 3 8.98 8 Daniel Takahashi - Kyungwon Yoo, Las Vegas NV 56.88% I chose to open the South hand 1♣. This may 8.08 9 5 Michael Levin - Joyce Friedman, San Francisco CA 56.81% not be your choice, but there is a method to my 7.35 10 6 Virginia Wailes, Hillsborough CA; Edward Hornung, San Bruno CA 56.23% madness. But opening 1♣ on this hand made things 6.74 11 7 Robert Williams, Halifax NS; Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS 56.23% 6.22 12 8 Dorothy Conway, Ottawa ON; William Thorp, Dana Point CA 56.21% awkward when LHO overcalled 1♥ and partner made 5.77 13 Michael Golden, Wyckoff NJ; Jeffrey Goldman, Norwalk CT 55.85% a negative double. I chose to rebid 1NT, and partner 5.39 14 9 Jeanette Shinsako - Edie Wong, San Francisco CA 55.52% closed the auction with 3NT. 5.05 15 10 Daniel Kroll - Misook Jung, Berkeley CA 55.17% LHO led the ♥K and continued with the ♥10 4.76 16 11 4 Kayden Ge - Xin Ge, Cupertino CA 55.16% which I won with dummy’s ace. 4.49 17 12 Thomas Knier, Burnsville MN; Frank Knier, Fargo ND 55.08% The auction and carding indicated that LHO 4.25 18 Joelle Benioff, San Francisco CA; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA 54.95% had started with five hearts. There was a paucity of 4.04 19 13 5 Martin Kaye - Baron Wang, San Francisco CA 54.41% top tricks, and clubs was the most likely suit to add 3.85 20 14 6 Bruce Yee, Paradise Valley AZ; Mark Solow, Phoenix AZ 53.97% to my gather. So at trick three I played the ♣Q, and 3.67 21 15 Cheryl Berens, Oakland OR; Brenda Biermann, Roseburg OR 53.89% followed with the ♣10, RHO ducking both times. 3.51 22 Francine Moring, Columbia SC; Jim O’Brien, Petaluma CA 53.83% 3.37 23 16 Robert Schwab - Anne Derbes, San Francisco CA 53.79% I stopped to take stock. Because RHO was out of 3.87 24 Judi Callaham, Fair Oaks CA; Carrie Touslee, Roseville CA 53.36% hearts, I decided to a diamond to him because if 3.11 25 17 7 Philip Kuhn - Jennifer Kuhn, San Mateo CA 53.22% diamonds broke 3-2, I would have nine tricks via two 2.41 18 8 Burton Voorhees - Kinga Voorhees, Victoria BC 52.88% spades, one heart, three diamonds and three clubs. 2.29 19 Lakshmi Vora, Bloomfield Hills MI; Naresh Kapila, Auburn Hills MI 52.83% Accordingly, I came to hand with the ♦A, but when 1.78 9 Kevin Cline, Seattle WA; Fred Seipp, Dallas TX 52.55% LHO played the ♦10 to the second round of the suit, I won the ♦K – and RHO showed out, discarding a the STU GOODGOLD SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH PAIRS ♣5! 65.0 Tables The deal was now an open book. RHO had 7 3 2 started with five clubs (he would not have discarded 19.07 1 1 1 William Chung - Herbert Li, San Francisco CA 61.65% 14.30 2 Ramey Farah, La Jolla CA; Patrick Staley, San Diego CA 61.48% a club with only four), a singleton diamond and two 10.73 3 2 2 Rick Armstrong - Chuck Yokota, St. Louis MO 60.28% hearts – ergo, five spades. And LHO’s distribution 8.05 4 Edward Lechner, Altadena CA; Stacie Bowman, Sunnyvale CA 60.25% would be 2=5=4=2. 6.36 5 Steve Carr, Belmont CA; Marc Cervellino, Palo Alto CA 60.05% So the ♠K, ♠A and a third spade threw RHO in, 5.45 6 Paul Britto, Bay Point CA; Robert McHugh, San Francisco CA 58.84% and after he cashed his additional two spade tricks, he 4.77 7 3 Stuart Pollak - Frank Mainzer, San Francisco CA 58.34% was forced to concede the last two tricks to my ♣A J 4.24 8 4 Yilmaz Ozturhan, San Ramon CA; Sam Earnhardt, Walnut Creek CA 57.67% tenace. 3.81 9 Lu Ann Walker, Milpitas CA; Robert Brunkhorst, Sunnyvale CA 57.10% Making three. All I had to do was count! 3.47 10 Herbert Chung - Susie Chung, Oakland CA 56.55% 3.18 11 5 3 Donald Levy, Palo Alto CA; Henry Rivers, San Jose CA 56.39% 2.93 12 Brenda Hatton, San Jose CA; Eunice Menezes, Cupertino CA 56.35% 2.72 13 6 William Rusby, Camano Island WA; Jane Lamont, Apache Junction AZ 56.24% Appealing a ruling 2.54 14 7 4 Debbie Nash - Bill Nash, Cypress TX 56.21% Players in NABC+ events who want to appeal 2.74 15 Bill Yeast, Mill Valley CA; Stanley Green, Greenbrae CA 56.19% a director’s ruling initiate the process by speaking 2.42 16 8 5 David Merenbach - Lisa Merenbach, Belmont CA 56.13% with the director who delivered the original ruling. 2.68 17 William Eads - Cynthia Benton, Fort Worth TX 56.11% The table director will fill out paperwork regarding 2.01 18 Joel Reimnitz - Charlene Reimnitz, Pacific Grove CA 55.78% the appeal, and the appellants will explain what 1.91 19 Carol Schwerer - Stella Q. Wan, Palo Alto CA 55.59% they believe to be wrong with the initial ruling. 2.18 20 9 Sandhya Vora - Shrikant Joshi, Sunnyvale CA 55.26% From there, the case may be handled by a variety 1.73 21 Sue Bockmann - Annie Green, Palo Alto CA 55.05% of means. When the appeals reviewer receives the 1.98 22 10 6 Kerry Flom, Hilton Head Island SC; William Murray, Hilton Head SC 54.93% 1.59 23 11 Richard Springer, Alameda CA; Don Levine, Oakland CA 54.90% case, the circumstances of that particular case will 1.53 24 Carol Morse, Glen Ellen CA; Brooke Farkas, Sonoma CA 54.84% determine whether the case can be resolved by the 1.61 25 Nancy McCormick - Susan Dugas, Las Vegas NV 54.68% original staff (in the case of misapplication of Law or 1.84 26 Cornelia Gould - Ed Gould, Indian Wells CA 54.32% regulation, for instance), a panel of directors, or even 1.36 27 12 Rajani Chandrasekar - Don Garka, Livermore CA 54.25% a committee-type hearing which could include bridge 1.37 28 Christopher Hahn - Toby McEvoy, Henderson NV 54.01% experts. 1.53 29 Furqan Naeem, Pittsburgh CA; Robert Barnes, Concord CA 53.73% 1.79 30 13 Ronald Hutton, Oakland CA; Arne Wagner, Piedmont CA 53.64% 1.19 31 Thomas Zimmerman - Claire Zimmerman, Pearland TX 53.63% 1.16 32 Joanne Gurmankin - Carol Greco, Philadelphia PA 53.56% 1.61 33 Marvin Kirchner, San Francisco CA; Chris Chou, San Jose CA 53.49% 1.02 14 David Ouyang, Waianae HI; Dwight Curry, Lincoln CA 53.45% ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ Page 10 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Daily Bulletin

PAUL McDANIELS MEMORIAL SATURDAY OPEN PAIRS New Life Masters 23.0 Tables / Based on 24 Tables Marc Cervellino of A B C Palo Alto CA became a 17.00 1 Victor Melman, Boca Raton FL; Miroslaw Milaszewski, Lubin Poland 62.01% Life Master on Saturday 12.75 2 Berend Van Den Bos - Tim Van Den Bos, Netherlands 61.01% 9.56 3 Leon Lowe - JoAnne Lowe, Fountain Hills AZ 59.46% playing in the Stu 7.17 4 Walter Lee, Sudbury MA; Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA 58.50% Goodgold Daylight 5.67 5 Steven Smolen - Chris Chen, San Francisco CA 58.39% Gold Rush Pairs with 4.86 6 Lino D’Souza, Burlington ON; Paul Cornelius, Mountain View CA 58.16% Steve Carr. He needed 4.25 7 Paul Janicki, Markham ON; Imtiaz Husain, Midland MI 57.94% about 3.5 gold points 7.88 8 1 Katherine Rehak, Oak Park IL; Aleksandar Lishkov, Chicago IL 57.06% and picked up 6.36 for 3.47 9 John Fout, Fairfield CA; Mark Perlmutter, San Diego CA 56.10% placing fifth in the event. 5.91 10 2 1 Yiran Liu, Arlington VA; Kaiwen Wang, Palo Alto CA 55.16% Alex Martelli of 4.43 11 3 Kevin Fay, Philadelphia PA; Jason Chiu, San Jose CA 54.69% Sunnyvale CA became 3.52 12 4 2 Jonathan Yue, San Jose CA; Aravind Alwan, Milpitas CA 54.39% a Life Master playing 2.63 5 Eusebio Menezes, Cupertino CA; Rajeeva Sharma, San Jose CA 53.04% 2.25 6 Hiroyuki Hagihira, Meguro-Ku Tokyo Japan; Emi Sakata, Japan 51.65% in the Gold Rush Swiss Teams on Sunday. SATURDAY EVENING SIDE PAIRS Martelli was playing 15.0 Tables with his wife, Anna A B C Ravenscroft. 5.42 1 1 Shmuel Greenberg, Israel; Harriet Lewit, Upper Marlboro MD 63.14% Needing just 0.14 4.07 2 Alfred Lee, Foster City CA; Jan Zadroga, Todz Poland 61.22% points of any color, 3.58 3 2 John Gassenheimer - Jill Fisch, Wynnewood PA 60.10% Alex quipped, “It was 2.80 4 3 1 David McGraham, Vancouver WA; John Wood, Blaine WA 59.29% hard NOT to make Life 1.71 5 Suman Agarwal, Columbus OH; H. Jay Sloofman, Tarrytown NY 58.33% Master this week.” 2.04 6 4 Colin Hemsley - Anne Dudman, San Jose CA 57.85% 1.51 5 Stan Chow, San Francisco CA; Cathy Hildebrand, Williamsburg VA 57.69% Patrick Staley of 1.13 6 Long Wu, San Francisco CA; Hal Jones Jr., Lorton VA 55.61% Sand Diego CA earned 2.10 2 Anne Wilson, San Jose CA; Carolyn Drozdiak, Los Gatos CA 51.44% his Gold Card playing 1.58 3 Daniel Harting, Hayward CA; Chris Chung, Belmont CA 49.52% in the Gold Rush Pairs 1.18 4 Douglas Schrock - Pam Schrock, Santa Rosa CA 48.72% on Sunday with partner Ramey Farah of La SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS Jolla CA. Staley easily 4.0 Tables surpassed the four gold A B C points that he needed to 2.10 1 1 Patti Kogan - Mark Kogan, Orinda CA 61.11% advance by picking up 1.73 2 2 1 Janet Middleton, Benicia CA; Irving Googins, Pleasanton CA 56.25% 1.30 3 3 2 Timothy Byrnes, Perpigna France; Joe Huddleston, Peoria AZ 54.17% 14 yesterday.

SATURDAY EVENING SIDE SWISS TEAMS Notice of binding 24 Tables A B C arbitration 7.25 1 Manuela Turcsanyi - Andreas Babsch, Vienna Austria; By becoming an ACBL member or renewing Peter Steiner, Semriach Austria; Nikolas Bausback, Darmstadt Germany 64.00 your membership in the ACBL, you expressly agree 5.80 2 1 1 Frank Van Engelen, Arnhem Netherlands; Bas Van Engelen, Ijsselstein to waive your right to have disputes between you Netherlands;Xinpeng Huang, Foster City CA; Kevin Lin, San Francisco CA 57.00 and the ACBL resolved in a court of law and agree 4.08 3 Don Laycock, Knoxville TN; Lee David Haze - Kevin O’Leary, to accept the use of binding arbitration before the Mountain View CA; Bruce Luttrell, San Jose CA 54.00 American Arbitration Association. The binding 3.81 4/5 2/3 2/3 Franco Caviezel - Gianni Balbi - Giuseppina Di Dio, Venice Italy; arbitration provisions are available for review at acbl. Peter Schneider, New York City NY 52.00 org/bindingarbitration. 3.81 4/5 2/3 2/3 Gale Gropp, Bellingham WA; Judy Duning - Nanette Hittmeier, Olympia WA; Marilyn Knipp, Delta BC 52.00 1.89 6/8 4/6 Kathy Twomey, Bloomfield Village MI; Cecil Henry, Kingman AZ; Avril Shutts, San Diego CA; Nancy Raznick, San Francisco CA 50.00 1.89 6/8 4/6 Luen-Jyh Luo, Milpitas CA; Tsao-Tung Tsai, Cupertino CA; Jack Uppal, Lincoln CA; Ching Chao, Danville CA 50.00 1.89 6/8 4/6 Edmund Wu, San Francisco CA; Foster Tom, Berkeley CA; Jesse Chao - Lisa Nguyen, Oakland CA 50.00 1.12 4 Brandon Ge - Kayden Ge - Min Bai, Cupertino CA; Andrew Chen - Charlie Chen, San Jose CA 40.00

When an irregularity occurs, call the director. Player Memos Do not make your own ruling or allow partner or Player Memo stations are located on the “upper” opponents to do so. B2 Level in the Marriott next to the Fedex office and Once hands are removed from the boards, all on the lower level opposite Salon 6. calls, questions, comments and plays will be in Some “Recorder Reminders”: English. Exceptions may be made if all four players When filing a Player Memo, please include at the table agree to use some common language names and compass locations, and please include the understood by all four players. name of any tournament director involved. Daily Bulletin Sunday, December 8, 2019 Page 11

FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO 1 10 Tables NABC Electronic A bridge partnership 25.01 1 Edward Lee - Ray Robert, Portland OR; Charles Swart - Patrick Chye, Alameda CA Device Policy in 2020: Columbus and 17.51 2 Diane Weissman, Fountain Hills AZ; Carol Johns, Except by permission Scottsdale AZ; Malcolm Morris, London ; John Herriot, Los Angeles of the director in charge, Gatlinburg CA any electronic equipment or Citing their close proximity on the map and on 10.00 3/4 Louis Lipset - Sara Foster - Ronald Goodman, San Francisco CA; Linda Danzig, Tiburon CA device capable of receiving the calendar, organizers for the Columbus NABC (Mar. 19-29) and the Gatlinburg Regional (Apr. 20- 10.00 3/4 Gloria Peston, Double Bay Australia; Nancy or sending an electronic Frank, Glencoe IL; O. Gordon Lien III, Augusta GA; Farley Mawyer, , or capable of 26) have teamed up to entice players to attend both Port Chester NY communicating in any way, events next year. The local host committees for in Columbus and FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO 2 may not be operated or 9 Tables functioning in any manner Gatlinburg – the largest regional in the ACBL 11.59 1 Dan Thatte - Manda Thatte, Palo Alto CA; Debbie in the playing area during a session of play. Any such – believe they have a successful formula not only to Machlin, Los Altos CA; Rita Rubenfeld, Portola Valley CA 8.11 2 Philip Abrahamson - Dana Shelley, Atherton CA; equipment must not be visible during the session and increase player enjoyment at these events but also increase overall attendance. Lynn Giusti, Los Altos Hills CA; Eileen Zefting, Palo Alto CA must remain off at all times. 4.64 3/4 Denise Pitsch, Mountain View CA; Clara Chang, The above restrictions apply to all players, Players who participate in at least five events at Palo Alto CA; Sandra Flattery, Ketchum ID; Charlotte Riviera, Bellevue WA captains, coaches, kibitzers and play recorders the Columbus NABC and the Gatlinburg Regional will be eligible for two special raffles – one for 4.64 3/4 William Mitchell, Lodi CA; Debra Dezarn - except those persons granted permission by the Deborah Greenberg, Stockton CA; Wendy Buchanan, Woodbridge CA ACBL, and are in force throughout any playing players with less than 750 MPs and one for players session or segment of play. Further restrictions and with more. A first-, second- and third-place award TOM QUINLAN SATURDAY COMPACT KO 1 will be made worth $400, $200 and $100 to a player 14 Tables requirements apply in events involving live internet 16.97 1 Lei Jun - Xinguo Fang - Yong Xue, Burlingame and/or vugraph coverage. in each of these categories at the conclusion of the CA; Yumin Liu, Foster City CA A violation of any of the above restrictions will Gatlinburg tournament with winners notified by 11.88 2 Victor King, Hartford CT; Marc-Andre Fourcaudot, Montreal QC; Ranald Davidson, Delray Beach FL; Lloyd result in an automatic penalty, pursuant to Law 91 of email. Next, three separate, random drawings will be Arvedon, Hudson NH the Laws of . 7.64 3 Richard D’Litzenberger, Leavenworth WA; John NABC+ events made at the conclusion of the Columbus NABC Cox, St. Maries ID; William Wood - Barbara Moore, Rock Hill SC awarding a week’s free stay at one of the host hotels 5.94 4 Paul Gelb, Palm Springs CA; Mark Sundelin, • First offense of any kind (ringing, answering or Hyannis MA; Phillip Frankel - Leslie Reynolds, McKinleyville CA initiating a call, texting or browsing) in a session: in Gatlinburg. The more you play, the more chances One full board, 12 IMPs or 20% of the maximum you have to win the free week. TOM QUINLAN SATURDAY COMPACT KO 2 available VPs per match, at the respective form of Also, a separate raffle for an attractions pass for 16 Tables 8.56 1 William Bartley - Patrick Chen - Ruth Ng, San scoring. two will be made at the conclusion of the Columbus NABC. This pass entitles the winner to visit all Diego CA; N (Kaya) Chua, Chula Vista CA • Second offense in the same session or third offense 5.99 2 Gang Zhao - Roy Tsai, San Jose CA; Michele Liu, within the event, disqualification of the pair or team attractions in Gatlinburg (valued at $1200 and offered Cupertino CA; Henry Zhang, Saratoga CA 3.85 3 Michael Lynch, Edwards CO; Bill Multack, Miami from the event. by the Gatlinburg Visitor and Convention Bureau). Additional raffles are being planned for the Beach FL; Jacqueline Hurlbutt - Karen Johnson, Scottsdale AZ Other events 3.00 4 William Fleming - Jim Stickman - Martha Potter, • First offense, in the same session – ringing Columbus NABC, and special events will be held for Seattle WA; William Etnyre, Salt Lake City UT only: one-quarter board, 3 IMPs or 1 VP, at the District 7 players in Columbus. SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO 1 respective form of scoring; first offense in the same 11 Tables session – answering or initiating a call, texting or Adam Parrish - Ira Herman - Allen Kahn, New York NY; Eric Stoltz, browsing: one-half board, 6 IMPs or 2 VPs, at the reminder Portland OR Each player is required to have a convention vs respective form of scoring. card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a Bob Drijver, Rotterdam Netherlands; Bart Nab, Tilburg Netherlands; • Second offense in the same session: two full Tim Verbeek, Utrecht Netherlands; Danny Molenaar, Den Haag session. The convention card must include the first boards, 20 IMPs or 50% of the maximum available Netherlands; Patricia Cayne, Boca Raton FL; Dano De Falco, and last name of each member of the partnership, and RubanoItaly VPs per match, at the respective form of scoring. the cards must be identical. • Third offense in the event: disqualification of the If a director determines that neither player has Chen Zhao, Greenbelt MD; Jing Liu, Stanford CA; Linlin Hu, pair or team from the event. People’s Republic of China; Yinghao Liu, Hoboken NJ a substantially completed card, the partnership may Kibitzers violating this policy will be removed vs play only the Yellow Card and Ray Miller - Daniel Poore, Seattle WA; Howard Epley, Kent WA; from the playing area for the remainder of the may use only standard carding. This restriction may Stanford Christie, Kirkland WA session. be lifted only at the beginning of a subsequent round This policy applies to all events at NABCs. SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO 2 after convention cards have been properly prepared 9 Tables and approved by the director. Further, the partnership Jim Hargrove Jr, San Francisco CA; Sam Dodson, Houston TX; Thomas Racciatti, Minneapolis MN; Sidney Mar, Oakland CA will receive a 1/6-board matchpoint penalty for each vs Use of the – board played, commencing with the next round and Michael Bodell - Mike Cailean, Santa Clara CA; Jennifer Gu, Palo Alerts and Announcements continuing until the restriction is lifted. In IMP team Alto CA; Jason Rosenfeld, Seattle WA When using bidding boxes, the ACBL requires games, penalties shall be at the discretion of the Erwin Linzner - Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; David Neuman, San that players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the director. Francisco CA; Harold Singleton III, Newtown Square PA same time. If the director determines the partnership has at vs least one substantially completed convention card Bill Gates, Kirkland WA; Richard Friesner, New York NY; Eric When making an Announcement, use the Robinson, Park City UT; Sharon Osberg, Larkspur CA Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, Alert strip at the same time. A player who Alerts or the director may give warnings or assign such SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO 3 penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the 9 Tables Announces a bid must make sure his opponents are Kyle Rockoff, Gilbert AZ; Tom Fogarty - Mark Pinkowski - Nic aware that an Alert or Announcement has been made. circumstances. Hristea, Chicago IL Please note that other types of convention cards, vs such as the WBF convention card or homemade Carol Kemper, Portola Valley CA; Arthur Mirin, Castro Valley CA; cards that do not sufficiently resemble the ACBL Stephanie Singer, Belmont CA; Randy Ryals, Menlo Park CA convention card, are not acceptable substitutes. Ann Romeo - JC Chupack - Scott Chupack - Jonathan Weyn, Seattle The objective of these warnings and penalties is WA the encouragement of full compliance with ACBL vs Wayne Hall, Sooke BC; Eric Schneider, Boca Raton FL; Leslie regulations. Weisbrod, New York NY; Ida Cardona, Delray Beach FL Page 12 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Daily Bulletin

Today’s Bridge Events Sunday, December 8, 10 a.m. Event Session Sold /player/session ACBL members* Other

A/X/Y Swiss Teams (unlimited/6000/4000) 1-2 Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $20 $24 Two-session playthrough with half-hour break. Bracketed B Teams (0–3000) 1-2 Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $20 $24 Jackie Zayac Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 5th single session Nob Hill, Bottom Level $20 $24 299er Swiss Teams single Nob Hill, Bottom Level $15 $19 299er & 99er Pairs single Nob Hill, Bottom Level $15 $19 0-20 Pairs single Nob Hill, Bottom Level $15 $15 Sunday, December 8, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Alex Martelli (unlimited/3000/750) 1-2 Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24 Sunday, December 8, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Knockout Teams 3-4 Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $20 $24 Sunday, December 8, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m. REISINGER BOARD-A-MATCH TEAMS 1-2 F Yerba Buena 6, Bottom Level $30 + fee of $20/team/session KEOHANE NORTH AMERICAN SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Yerba Buena 7, Bottom Level $30 + screen fee of $20/team/session NABC+ MIXED SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $30 — Sunday, December 8, 2 p.m. Jackie Zayac Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 6th single session Nob Hill, Bottom Level $20 $24 299er Swiss Teams single Nob Hill, Bottom Level $15 $19 299er & 99er Pairs single Nob Hill, Bottom Level $15 $19 0-20 Pairs single Nob Hill, Bottom Level $15 $15

Unless otherwise noted, strata breaks for all stratified events are:A (3000+), B (750-3000), C (0-750). Three-flight events are divided A/X (6000+/0-6000); B/C (1500-3000, 0-1500); Gold Rush (300- 750/200-300/0-200). Two-flight events are divided A/X/Y (6000+/4000-6000/0-4000); B/C/D (1500-3000/750-1500/ 0-750) if no Gold Rush OR A/B/C (3000+/1500-3000/0-1500) and Gold Rush (300- 750/200-300/0-200). In B flights, no single player may be over 3000. In Gold Rush events, no single player may be over 750. BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events. UPPER CASE = NABC events. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

International Fund In NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition. See you at the Spring NABC in Columbus OH, March 19–29 Today’s Sponsors

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