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Lavazza Takes Reisinger Trophy Clementsson Wins Mixed Swiss Teams Demirev First in North American Swiss Monday, December 9, 2019 Volume 92, Number 11 Daily Bulletin 92nd Fall North American Bridge Championships [email protected] | Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Chip Dombrowski Lavazza takes Reisinger Trophy ACBL Executive Director Joe Jones presents the Reisinger Trophy to the winners, Team Lavazza: Norberto Bocchi, Dennis Bilde, Antonio Sementa, Agustin Madala, Giorgio Duboin and Phillipe Cronier. Second in the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams was Josef Blass npc: Bas Drijver, Sjoert Brink, Jacek Pszczola and Jacek Kalita. (Not pictured: Michal Nowosadzki.) Demirev first in North American Swiss They won the Keohane North American Swiss Teams: Arthur Wasik, Piotr Nawrocki, Nikolay Demirev, Rose Meltzer, Piotr Wiankowski and Andrzej Knap. Second in the North American Swiss Teams: Thibo Sprinkhuizen, Luc Tijssen, Alison Wilson, Guy Mendes De Leon and Veri Kiljan. Clementsson wins Mixed Swiss Teams Winners of the NABC+ Mixed Swiss Teams: Roger Lee, Wei Wang, Sanna Clementsson and Alexander Sandin. Second in the NABC+ Mixed Swiss: David Caprera, Anne Brenner, Joann Sprung, Danny Sprung 6 331.70 Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV Pepsi wins Blass team wins 7 331.43 Philippe Cronier, Paris France 8 313.33 Dennis Bilde, Copenhagen Denmark Player of the Year Goren Trophy 9 290.98 Wei Wang, Shanghai China Jacek “Pepsi” Pszczola The members of the Blass npc team are the 10 290.76 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL claimed the Player of the winners of the Goren Trophy for those who earn the 290.76 Howard Weinstein, Year race when the Blass npc most masterpoints at the Fall NABC. They have 400 Rancho Mirage CA team placed second in the masterpoints each, 250 from winning the Soloway 12 285.68 Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA Reisinger. The five members KO and 150 for second in the Reisinger BAM. The 13 263.88 Liam Milne, Sidney Australia of the team occupy the first highest masterpoint total outside the Blass team went 263.88 Andy Hung, Brisbane Australia five spots on the leader list, to Roger Lee, who won both the Blue Ribbon Pairs 15 262.64 Bob Hamman, Dallas TX with Pepsi in front with and the Mixed Swiss Teams. 834.16 platinum points. The Masterpoint leaders continued on page 3 Blass team won the Soloway 1 400.00 Sjoert Brink, Geneva Switzerland KO last week and the Spingold KO in the summer. 400.00 Bas Drijver, Geneva Swizerland They also made the quarterfinals of the Vanderbilt 400.00 Michal Nowosadzki, Wejherowo Final table count for 752.73 points for the other members of the team. Poland Pepsi’s fifth-place showing in the von Zedtwitz Life 400.00 Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland Master Pairs put him over the top. 400.00 Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC 10,373.5 Page 2 Monday, December 9, 2019 Daily Bulletin REISINGER BAM TEAMS Sunnyvale CA 89.95 10 Tables / Based on 42 Tables 12.50 27 Frank Treiber III, Toledo OH; Diane Travis, Cincinnati OH; Lorna 200.00 1 Lavazza: Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Dennis Bilde, Davis, West Chester OH; James Cunningham, Indianapolis IN 89.62 Copenhagen Denmark; Philippe Cronier, Paris France; Giorgio 12.12 28 Arianna Testa, Rome Italy; Lee De Simone, Paso Robles CA; Duboin, Torino Italy; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina; Alexander Hydes, Zagreb Croatia; Marshall Lewis, Bloomington IN; Antonio Sementa, Parma Italy 36.32 Cristiana Morgantini, Rome Italy 89.04 150.00 2 Josef Blass (npc): Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Michal 11.76 29 Dawn Campbell - Irva Neyhart, Portland OR; Roger McNay, Nowosadzki, Wejherowo Poland; Sjoert Brink - Sebastiaan Drijver, Beaverton OR; Jon Bartlett, Happy Valley OR 88.66 Geneva Switzerland; Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland 32.82 112.50 3 Howard Weinstein, Rancho Mirage CA; Michael Becker, Boca KEOHANE NORTH AMERICAN SWISS TEAMS Raton FL; Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; 24 Tables / Based on 94 Tables Liam Milne, Sydney Australia; Andy Hung, Brisbane Australia 31.83 160.00 1 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Heights IL; Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill 92.31 4 Peter Crouch, Surrey England; Simon Cope, Hertfordshire UK; NC; Arthur Wasik - Andrzej Knap, Madrid Spain; Piotr Wiankowski, Espen Erichsen, Tunbridge Wells UK; Fredrik Helness, Oslo Gdansk Poland; Piotr Nawrocki, Warsaw Poland 114.36 Norway 30.79 120.00 2 Alison Wilson, New York NY; Thibo Sprinkhuizen, Rotterdam 85.71 5 Mike Rippey, Orinda CA; Kamil Nowak, Kielce Poland; Leonardo Netherlands; Luc Tijssen - Veri Kiljan, Tilburg Netherlands; Cima, Roma Italy; Giovanni Donati, Italy; Tarek Sadek - Walid Guy Mendes De Leon, Amsterdam Netherlands 113.57 Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 28.25 90.00 3 Daniel Korbel, Las Vegas NV; Richard Coren - Jerry Stamatov - 80.00 6 Laurence Lebowitz, Boston MA; Adam Grossack - Zachary Diyan Danailov, Boca Raton FL; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Grossack, Newton MA; Fredrik Nystrom - Johan Upmark, Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON 113.39 Stockholm Sweden; Michael Rosenberg, Sunnyvale CA 27.25 73.85 4 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Ulf Nilsson, Dalby Sweden; Owen Lien, 75.00 7 Nick Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Jeff Oak Park MI; Peter Gill, Sydney Australia 106.76 Meckstroth, Clearwater Beach FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL; 68.57 5 Sylvia Moss - Bruce Rogoff, Boca Raton FL; Eldad Ginossar, Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Montclair NJ 26.64 Chicago IL; Ishmael Del’Monte, Las Vegas NV; Alexander Ornstein, 70.59 8 Martin Fleisher - Joe Grue, New York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA; New York NY 104.40 Brad Moss, Denver CO; Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Eric 64.00 6 Erez Hendelman - Samuel Amer, New York NY; Dan Israeli - Greco, Northville MI 26.04 Asaf Yekutieli, Tel Aviv Israel; Aran Warszawski, Rehovot Israel; 66.67 9 Juan Carlos Ventin (npc): Diego Brenner, Barcelona Spain; Ami Zamir, Hod Hasharon Israel 102.33 Frederic Wrang, Stockholm Sweden; Antonio Palma, Evora 60.00 7 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Portugal; Miguel Villas-Boas, Salvador Brazil 23.22 Thomas Bessis, Paris France; Frederic Volcker, Issy Les Moulin France; 63.16 10 Bid 72: Jan Van Cleeff, The Hague Netherlands; Matthias Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France; Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland 99.69 Felmy, Oldenburg Germany; Iain Sime, Edinburgh Scotland; 56.47 8 Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL; Jim Munday, Southaven MS; Marina Witvliet, Den Haag Netherlands 20.04 Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 96.37 53.33 9 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; NABC+ MIXED SWISS TEAMS Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel 58 Tables / Based on 116 Tables Hill NC; Rafal Jagniewski, Legionowo Poland; Wojciech Gawel, 100.00 1 Sanna Clementsson, Stockholm Sweden; Alexander Sandin, Ostersund Wroclaw Poland 94.02 Switzerland; Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Wei Wang, Shanghai China 127.78 50.53 10 Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Simon 75.00 2 Danny Sprung - Joann Sprung, Las Vegas NV; Anne Brenner - De Wijs, Doorn Netherlands; Bauke Muller, Zwaag Netherlands; David Caprera, Denver CO 119.38 Mike Passell, Plano TX; Marc Jacobus, Las Vegas NV 93.90 56.25 3 Di Zheng, Los Angeles CA; Shen Qi, Shanghai China; Hu Wen, 48.00 11 Douglas Simson, Columbus OH; Jeff Aker, Briarcliff NY; Barry Rigal, Nanjing China; Liang Li, Nanjing China; Wei Zhang, Suzhou China; New York NY; Glenn Milgrim, Ransomville NY; Steve Beatty, Mill Zuo Xiao Xue, Horn Lake MS 118.61 Creek WA 91.90 44.44 4 Justyna Zmuda, Skawina Poland; Dominik Filipowicz, Kalisz Poland; 45.71 12 Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Patricia Tucker - Samuel Marks, Loretta Rivers, Monroe LA; Mike Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Atlanta GA; Jerry Helms, Charlotte NC; Allen Hawkins Jr., Sandra Rimstedt, New York NY 116.95 Birmingham AL; Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA 91.62 40.00 5 Franck Multon - Pierre Zimmermann, Monaco; Fredrik Helness - 43.64 13 Stan Tulin, Boca Raton FL; David Bakhshi, London England; Dror Gunn Helness, Oslo Norway; Anam Tebha, Charlotte NC 115.39 Padon - Alon Birman, Tel Aviv Israel; Cornelis Van Prooijen, Nieuw 36.36 6 Wubbo De Boer - Agnes Snellers, Groenekan Netherlands; Laura Vennep Netherlands; Louk Verhees Jr., Voorhout Netherlands 87.89 Dekkers, Rotterdam Netherlands; Joris van Lankveld, Amsterdam 114.85 41.74 14 Jerome Rombaut, Hem France; Hilda Setton, Italy; Pierre 33.33 7 Alan Tenenbaum - Mary Tenenbaum, Rockville MD; Andrew Franceschetti, Paris France; Nicholas Lhuissier, Rueil Malmaison Gofreed, La Plata MD; Muh-Sha Crawford, Virginia Beach VA 110.65 France; Quentin Robert, Paris France; Julien Bernard, Le Vesinet France 87.87 30.77 8 Daniel Sonner, Redwood City CA; Sarah Youngquist, Palo Alto CA; 40.00 15 Jun Zhang - Yizhuo Zhang - Jiashen Yin, Beijing China; Yanhui Sun, Cheryl Mandala - Yul Inn, Cupertino CA; JoAnna Stansby - Lew China; Yichao Chen - Junjie Hu, Shanghai China 82.25 Stansby, Dublin CA 109.14 38.40 16 Hemant Lall, Carrollton TX; Reese Milner, Sarasota FL; Zia Mahmood, 28.57 9 Radu Nistor - Raluca Dobrescu, Woodside NY; Lynda Nitabach, New York NY; David Gold, London England; Marc Bompis, Bourg North Plainfield NJ; Iulian Rotaru, New York NY 107.37 La Reine France; Michel Abecassis, Paris France 81.66 26.67 10 Paul Mohler, Arlington VA; Chatarina Andersson, Kungalv Sweden; 36.92 17 Phil Clayton, Frisco TX; Andrew Gumperz, Berkeley CA; Bill Nutting - Geir Engebretsen, Valderoy Norway; Solbritt Lindahl, Evenskjer Ann Nutting, Stockton CA; Alexander Kolesnik, Los Angeles CA; Norway; Natasha Khandheria, Corte Madera CA; Joyjit Sensarma, Bob Etter, Elk Grove CA 75.02 Oakland CA 103.13 35.56 18 Sibraud Van Ooosten, Leiden Germany; Maximilian Stepper - Lauritz 25.00 11 Gary Donner, Bluffton SC; Cecilia Rimstedt, Kungsbacka Sweden; Streck, Berlin Germany; Florian Alter, Leipzig Germany 73.84 Thomas Paske, Manhattan NY; Christina Madsen, Hellerup Denmark 102.98 34.29 19 Michael Shuster, Collegeville PA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA; 23.53 12 Irene Baroni, Moniga Italy; Alessandro Gandoglia, Rome Italy; Kent Hartman, San Diego CA; Robert Shore, Los Angeles CA 70.39 Yasuko Shrenzel, Honolulu HI; Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON 102.39 33.10 20 Finn Kolesnik, Ventura CA; Bo Han Zhu, Ukiah CA; Cristal Nell, 22.22 13 Xiao Hu - Jinghui Yang, Kunming China; Jianming Zhang, Union Seattle WA; John Ramos, Los Angeles CA 70.17 City CA; Gong Wangying, Hangzhou China 101.20 32.00 21 Joyce Hill, St.
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