Sunday, March 23, 2014 Volume 57, Number 3 Daily Bulletin 57th Spring North American Bridge Championships [email protected] Editors: Brent Manley and Sue Munday

Martha Powell, center, president of Paws in the City, a Dallas pet adoption agency, accepts a check for $5000 from the ACBL Charity Foundation. The foundation allows an NABC host city’s organizing committee to select a charity for the donation. With Powell are 2014 ACBL President Phyllis Harlan, left, and They won the Lebhar IMP Pairs: Radu Nistor and George Heth, Charity Iulian Christian. Foundation chair. With the two-legged posers are Romanians triumph in Winter, left, a pit bull mix, and Kimber, an Australian Lebhar IMP Pairs shepherd mix. Two friends from Romania who played together for the first time at the Spring NABC posted two big sets in the final of the Lebhar IMP Pairs to win by more than 12 IMPs, an impressive margin. The winners are Radu Nistor, who has lived in Edison NJ for about a month, and Iulian Christian, who lives in Bucharest. The young players make their living playing bridge. Star TAP trainer retires Second place went to two Danes, Hans Christian Graverson and Henrik Casperson. in favor of more table time continued on page 11 Betty Starzec, one of ACBL’s ace trainers of A spike in bridge teachers for the last 20 years, is retiring from membership – Rosen, Sutherlin to enter teaching. The reason is simple: “I miss playing traced to Starzec’s ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame bridge.” volunteer work at Billy Rosen, one of the top players from the The ACBL developed its Teacher Accreditation the local level as 1950s, and Peggy Sutherlin, winner of a world Program (TAP) more than 25 years ago. The 10- educational liaison championship and nine North American titles, hour curriculum, offered at every NABC and many and Intermediate/ will join the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame during regionals, teaches teachers how to teach bridge. Newcomer ceremonies in Las Vegas. Starzec took the course for the first time in 1987. coordinator – Rosen has eight North American championships “I read an article about turning your pastime into brought her to the to his credit, including two in the Knockout your career,” says the trainer, who holds a degree in attention of ACBL Teams, plus a victory in 1954. He education from the Northern Illinois University. She management. was named recipient of the von Zedtwitz Award. That took the TAP seven more times before making her Then-ACBL chief award goes to a world-class player not well known continued on page 5 debut as a TAP teacher at the Atlanta NABC in 1995. at present. Rosen’s last big win came in 1980. The award also recognizes longtime service to bridge. Sutherlin will receive the Blackwood Award for Bathurst, Hurd ahead service to bridge not necessarily accompanied by expertise at the game. In Kay Platinum Pairs Sutherlin has an enviable record in high-level Kevin Bathurst and John Hurd will start play Fleisher, 2013 Player of the Year, and Chip Martel, competition, her most recent win coming in 2006 in today in the final two sessions of the Norman Kay newly elected to the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame. Jill continued on page 12 Platinum Pairs with a lead of 8.34 matchpoints on a Meyers, also recently elected to the Hall of Fame top of 13. and longtime partner Mitch Dunitz are only about 1 Close behind are the new partnership of Martin matchpoint out of second. Goodwill Message

Maintain a courteous attitude toward both your Grainger squeaks out 10K Swiss win partner and opponents. The team captained by David Sandy DeMartino, Chair Grainger went into the last round of Aileen Osofsky ACBL Goodwill Committee the 0-10,000 Swiss Teams with an 8.25 Victory Point lead. Despite losing their Vanderbilt and 0-10,000 last match, the 6 IMPs they picked up were enough to stave off Kimberly KO Pre-registration Whipple’s squad. Pre-registration, required for both the Grainger finished with 124 points to Vanderbilt Knockout Teams and the 0-10,000 Whipple’s 123.75. Just 3 more IMPS for Knockout Teams, has been extended from 6 continued on page 12 p.m. (as announced in the Conditions of Contest), to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 23. They won the 0-10,000 Swiss Teams: To register, see Steve Bates in the Dallas David Grainger, Tom Breed, Jackie Ballroom of the Sheraton Conference Center Macchi, Ira Chorush, Roger Lee and (first floor). Daniel Korbel. Page 2 Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daily Bulletin

SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Sunday, March 23 registration required. Fee: $20 covers textbook and door 8-10 am Audrey Grant’s Modern Techniques for Bridge Teachers. prizes. (Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Austin 1) Audrey Grant’s hands-on approach and creative use of the table, cards and bid boxes keeps students engaged, excited Monday, March 24 and focused. She will share these teaching techniques in this GOODWILL DAY breakfast seminar. Fee: $20 covers breakfast and materials. 10 am-Noon Competition and Conventions Committee. (Sheraton Hotel, (Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Austin 1) Central Tower, 37th floor, Majestic 4) 9:30 am- WBF Meeting. (Sheraton Hotel, Central Tower, 37th floor, 10 am-Noon Zero Tolerance workshop. The lively two–hour workshop, 12:30 pm Majestic 6) developed for club managers and directors, goes well beyond 10-11:30 am of Governors/ACBL General Membership Meeting. the Laws to address how to communicate with problem All members of the ACBL Board of Governors are invited to players. TD Dan Plato’s presentation incorporates real–life attend the Spring NABC meeting. This meeting is also open to experience dealing with club players, the differences between the general membership of the ACBL. (Conference Center, 1st club and tournament situations and suggestions for how to floor, Dallas Ballroom BCD) be proactive. The goal is to make the club experience more 10 am-Noon Free Bridge Lesson with Audrey Grant. Grant has an inviting for new members and more pleasurable for everyone international reputation in the field of bridge education. Her by encouraging and empowering directors and managers to vision and commitment have been key to the success of her deal with unacceptable behavior. (Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, official Better Bridge series textbooks, TV shows, lectures, Pearl 3) the Better and the Better Bridge Teacher 5-7 pm Goodwill Reception. Aileen Osofsky ACBL Goodwill Accreditation Program. (Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Committee members only. (Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Austin 1) Austin 2) Noon-2 pm Bridge+ Game. A special game for newer (0-20 MP) players. 14 boards, no card fee. (Conference Center, 3rd floor, San Tuesday, March 25 Antonio Ballroom) 9 am-Noon Club Director Refresher Course. A continuing education 1-6 pm Learn Bridge in a Day?™ This popular session is designed course for club directors to increase their skills. Participants especially for true beginners, those returning to bridge after must attend both sessions. Fee: $15 covers both days. Sign long absences and those merely wanting to “test the waters” up at the door. (Sheraton Hotel, Central Tower, 4th floor, before committing to formal classes. The concentrated course Remington) includes both class instruction and coached play. No pre-

CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Don’t miss these free lectures by some of the best-known players in the game! (Conference Center, 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom) Tuesday, March 25 Sunday, March 23 9:15 a.m. Emily Harrell Mental Skills Training for Bridge 9:15 a.m. Robert Todd and Re-Evaluation 6:45 p.m. George Jacobs Having More Fun at the Table 6:45 p.m. Ellen Kent Minor-Suit Slam Bidding Wednesday, March 26 Monday, March 24 9:15 a.m. Phillip Alder Play the Right Card 9:15 a.m. Kevin Wilson Fitting Honors 6:45 p.m. Jeff Hand Play These Notrump Contracts 6:45 p.m. Ken Monzingo Aunt Lucy ENTERTAINMENT and HOSPITALITY Late-night snacks served at 10:30 p.m. in the Grand Hall on the first floor Monday, March 25 of the Conference Center. Cup cakes

Sunday, March 24 Tuesday, March 26 Ham and cheese wrap Southern-fried chicken and slaw sandwich Check cashing and Traffic advisory – Parking Discounted parking is available for all bridge bridge bucks Sunday, March 23 players: $15 a day if you self park, $20 a day valet. The check-cashing desk, located on the second floor Rock ‘n’ Roll Dallas is sponsoring a marathon on If you are staying at the Sheraton, the cost will be of the conference center, will be open between noon Sunday, March 23. There will be street closures and applied to your room charges. If you are not staying and 1 p.m. every day through Sunday, March 30. traffic slow-downs that will impact players driving to at the hotel, you must pick up a parking validation. There is a limit of $500 per day for check cashing. the game that morning. You can get your parking validation at the Members must provide their ACBL number. Maps posted in the hotel lobby show some of the Information Desk on the third floor of the Conference Bridge bucks are available for purchase at the check- streets that may be blocked. Additional information is Center. cashing desk. Visa, MasteCard and Discover can be available on the organization’s website: runrocknroll. The Information Desk is open 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., used only to purchase bridge bucks. competitor.com/dallas noon to 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Attention! You will not be able to pick up a Vendor locations validation after the game, so think ahead. There are several vendors – books, jewelry and other items – on the first floor of the Conference Center in the area where regional and national events are being played.

Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 23, 2014 Page 3 JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS Bidding hearts first allows Director, please! responder to bid 2♠ to show an By Brent Manley invitational raise to 2NT with a four- card spade suit. If opener has the At the 1999 Summer NABC in San Antonio, two minimum, the partnership can stay at young women arrived at a table wearing tee shirts the two level. that read, “I play bridge at Shirley’s Studio.” The When partner has enough for pair got so mixed up in the bidding on one of the game, things are a bit different. After boards that they landed in a contract so hopeless 1NT – 2♣; 2♥, responder bids 3NT everyone at the table was laughing. with 10 or more HCP. With both One of the women’s opponents said, “Wow, four-card majors, opener knows if I were Shirley, I’m not sure I’d want you two to that responder has four spades, so be wearing my tee shirt.” At that, they burst into he can elect to stay in 3NT or he laughter, one of them pointing to the other and can confidently bid 4♠, knowing the saying, “She’s Shirley!” eight-card fit is there. Opener might decide to stay Perhaps the in 3NT with the most balanced of two got mixed hands, say up on one of the ♠A K 6 5 ♥Q J 8 ♦K 10 4 ♣A 10 9. conventions in With this series. There ♠A K 6 5 ♥4 3 ♦K 10 9 ♣A J 10 6, are some aspects opener would probably bid 4♠. of virtually every Responder might also be weak in convention that hearts. require discussion So, you’re probably asking, between partners. what is the exception for the The convention Stayman bidder’s high-card point invented by George requirement? It’s called “trash” or Rapee but popularized by , after “garbage” Stayman. Consider this whom it is named, provides a good example. hand: Most players know that when partner opens ♠Q 8 7 ♥J 9 5 4 ♦10 9 8 7 6 ♣5. 1NT, a response of 2♣ is the Stayman convention. These cards might well be The 2♣ bidder is trying to find out if the 1NT useless to declarer in 1NT, and if opener has a four-card major. Opener’s responses: your side is vulnerable, you could easily find yourself minus 200 or 2♦ – No four-card major. more. Yuck! 2♥ – Four hearts, possibly four spades. So what do you do? The answer 2♠ – Four spades but not four hearts. is Stayman. Think about it: If you bid 2♣, partner has three choices for You might be wondering why you should bid his response: 2♦, 2♥ and 2♠. With hearts first if you have four of each major. Well, that weak responding hand, you can let’s consider the follow-ups by responder. pass whatever partner bids. Even if After 1NT – 2♣; 2♦, a bid of 2NT by responder partner ends up playing a 4-3 spade of Riverside CA pointed out that when there’s an invites game. Responder will have 8 or 9 high-card fit, it might well be a much better contract than out of turn, declarer has an option points. Opener passes with 15 or a poor 16 and bids 1NT. If partner bids 2♦, the fact that he has at most not mentioned: leave the card on the table as 3NT with 17. When opener is minimum, you get to six cards in the majors gives your side a better a major penalty card and allow the erroneous stop at the two-level. chance of having a diamond fit. Using Stayman in leader’s partner to start with any lead he wants. After 1NT – 2♣; 2♥, if responder bids 2NT, this situation could turn a big minus into a plus. TD Ken Van Cleve also pointed out if declarer opts opener knows responder has four spades. If he Remember that you can use Stayman with a to require or forbid the lead of the suit led by his didn’t, why bother with Stayman? You can see that hand like this only when you are short in clubs. RHO, the erroneous opening leader may return the if opener prefers to play in the 4-4 spade fit, he will Tomorrow: Jacoby transfers. card to his hand. have to bid 3♠ even with a minimum 1NT opener. Note: Regarding yesterday’s column (about On some deals, the three level will be too high. director calls and the laws), TD Arleen Harvey

leading the ♦Q, holding the A-Q, unless you flashed Thinking bridge your hand? Furthermore, there is a very good By Eddie Kantar chance partner has the singleton ace. Play low! The full deal: Dlr: South ♠ Q J 7 6 ♠ Q J 7 6 Vul: Both ♥ 3 ♥ 3 ♦ 10 7 6 4 3 ♦ 10 7 6 4 3 ♣ A K 10 ♣ A K 10 ♠ 9 8 5 3 ♠ 9 8 5 3 ♠ K 10 4 2 ♥ A 8 6 2 ♥ A 8 6 2 ♥ Q 9 7 5 4 ♦ K 2 ♦ K 2 ♦ A ♣ 9 4 3 ♣ 9 4 3 ♣ 8 5 2 ♠ A West North East South ♥ K J 10 1♦ ♦ Q J 9 8 5 Pass 1♠ Pass 2♣ ♣ Q J 7 6 Pass 3♦ Pass 3NT If you play low, partner wins the ace and your All Pass side clears hearts. When you get in with the ♦K you Jackie Khillins and Nancy Llewellyn are can take the setting tricks in hearts – providing you setting the pace in the I/N room. The ladies, Opening lead:♥2. Partner plays the ♥Q, declarer haven’t blocked the suit! You must get that ♥8 out from Fort Smith AR, won the 0-50 game on wins the king and leads the ♦Q at trick two. Which of your hand. Finally, if you played the ♦K at trick Friday, then came back Saturday and did it again. diamond do you play? two, don’t ask! I hope you didn’t fall for this one! Partner must have the ♦A. Why in the world would declarer be Page 4 Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daily Bulletin

Canadian 3NT Audrey Grant’s Modern Techniques for Bridge Teachers By Neville Francis Audrey Grant will offer a special This deal was played in round four of the Open continuing education opportunity for Teams qualifying at the Gold Coast Congress in teachers at a breakfast on this morning Gold Coast, Australia, about an hour’s drive from at 8 a.m. The seminar will be held on Brisbane. I was playing with Magnus Moren. the second floor of the Sheraton Hotel in Austin Rooms 2 and 3. A $20 fee covers Dlr: South ♠ A K 9 7 2 the textbook and seminar. The breakfast Vul: E-W ♥ 5 4 is sponsored by Baron Barclay Bridge ♦ J 8 7 Supply. ♣ A 9 5 When it comes to teaching bridge, ♠ 6 5 4 ♠ -- Grant is a household name. For decades, ♥ A K Q J 10 9 2 ♥ 8 7 6 3 she has taught students, teachers and club ♦ -- ♦ A K Q 10 9 5 owners across the world. Her hands-on ♣ K J 10 ♣ 8 4 3 approach and creative use of the table, ♠ Q J 10 8 3 cards and bid boxes has helped keep ♥ -- students engaged, excited and focused. techniques at work. See how she leaves students ♦ 6 4 3 2 Grant will share her teaching techniques in this eager to learn more! ♣ Q 7 6 2 seminar for bridge teachers. For more information about Grant, visit her West North East South Following the seminar, you may attend Grant’s website: www.betterbridge.com Pass free two-hour bridge lesson and observe her 2♣ 2♠ 3♦ 4♦ 5♥ Pass 7♥ Pass will receive a certificate of recognition. Pass Dbl Redbl All Pass The trophy honors Peter Leventritt of New York, ACBL president in 1954 and assistant treasurer Partner led the ♣A for one down and plus 400 1945–46. He served as president of the Greater New to us. We were feeling very good about this result, York Bridge Association and the Card School of New because even if our teammates got to only 4♥, plus York, which he co-founded. 680 and plus 400 meant 14 IMPs to our side. If they Leventritt (1916–1997) pioneered the use of the got to 6♥, we would gain 17 IMPs. Schenken System in partnership with its inventor, Little did we know that our teammates had a Howard Schenken. He represented North America in gadget and West did not miss his opportunity to the Bermuda Bowl and placed second in 1957, 1961, unleash it on the poor opponents. The bid was 3NT to 1963 and 1965. show a solid . If you have a weak stomach, stop reading now. Previous winners: Here’s what happened at the other table. 1992 James Leary, S. Irving Steinfeldt West North East South The Silver Ribbon Pairs champs in 2013 were 1993 Joan Remey Moore, Helen Shanbrom Pass Richard Wieland and Mike Cappelletti Sr. 1994 Virgil Anderson, Jayne Thomas 3NT Pass 4♠ (!?) Dbl 1995 Gene Freed, Peter Benjamin All Pass Silver Ribbon Pairs 1996 Phil Karani, Martin Hoffman West thought that if East wanted to know about The Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs gets underway 1997 Chuck Said, John Russell his major he would have bid 4♣, so 4♠ must have today. 1998 Eli Borok, Bill Sides been natural. Presumably East thought 4♠ was pass Paid-up ACBL members born before Jan. 1, 1959 1999 Jim Kirkham, Corinne Kirkham or correct! who have a Silver, Red or Blue Ribbon qualification 2000 , Charles Coon As dummy was tracked, East was last seen are eligible to play. (Effective 2014, ACBL has 2001 Fred Hamilton, Steve Catlett heading towards the toilet. set the age minimum for playing in Senior events 2002 Marilyn Hemenway, Mike Albert The result was minus 1700. Instead of a big plus, at 60 years old; those 2003 Roger Lord, Alan Popkin we lost 16 IMPs. who qualified to play 2004 Joseph Godefrin, Ed Schulte Well, I warned you. in Senior events prior 2005 Marla Chaikin, Bill Esberg By the way, Team 17 was the place to go to to the change, however, 2006 Lew Finkel, Gaylor Kasle meet two wonderful Canadians, and if you asked maintain their eligibility) 2007 Allan Siebert, Alan Stout nicely, they might have given you the notes on this The Silver Ribbon 2008 Sheldon Kirsch, Morrie Kleinplatz convention as they are not using them now. Pairs consists of two 2009 Dan Suty, Jim Hilton qualifying and two 2010 Les Bart, Gloria Bart final sessions. The 2011 Richard DeMartino, John Stiefel Wash your hands winners will have their This is the cold and flu season, so please be 2012 James Marsh Sternberg, Fred Hamilton names inscribed on the 2013 Mike Cappelletti Sr., Richard Wieland considerate of your fellow players by washing Leventritt Trophy and your hands frequently and making use of the hand sanitizers provided for you in the playing area. There are 15 of them. Note, however, that health Slow Play New age requirement for officials emphasize such devices are no substitute for Slow play, as opposed to careful or thoughtful thorough hand washing with soap and warm water. play, is discourteous to your opponents -- and to all Senior events other competitors as well. Players and pairs who take The definition of a Senior (for the purpose of more than their allotted time are subject to penalty. Senior events, tournaments, special games, etc.) has Cash concessions In general, pairs who are rarely late will be matured — from 55 to 60 years old. Those ‘tweeners The cash concession stand is in the Grand Hall warned while pairs who are habitually tardy and/or who previously qualified as a Senior and who have on the first floor of the Conference Center (near the pay no attention to time limits will be penalized. been magically rejuvenated are still eligible. If you bookseller). were born before Jan. 1, 1959, you’re still a Senior for the purposes of playing in any ACBL Senior event. Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 23, 2014 Page 5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Star TAP continued from page 1 14 15 executive Roy Green hired Starzec in 1996 to act as a liaison between units and clubs with the aim of increasing membership. 16 17 Starzec traveled to more than 50 locations, meeting with club managers, owners and their 18 19 20 local volunteers. While she was out and about, she continued to teach TAP courses. “I taught the TAP at every NABC for about six 21 22 years,” she says. She was also responsible for updating the TAP 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 materials. One major revision came about when BBO founder Fred Gitelman was working on a second revision of his Learn to Play Bridge program. 31 32 33 “I worked with Fred to match his software to our TAP materials and student texts,” she explains.” 34 35 36 37 As an engineer with Exxon Mobil, Starzec’s husband, Len, was required to move frequently. 38 39 40 When his job took them to Tokyo, the ACBL insisted she pack up her work and take it with her. While in Japan, Starzec completed another major 41 42 43 44 45 revision of the TAP. She taught a TAP class while she was there, and she also had an opportunity to play 46 47 some. Sitting down at the table, she was nervous about the language barrier. “The score sheets were the same 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 and the bidding boxes were the same,” she recounts. “I was playing a 3NT contract and I wanted to claim 56 57 58 down one.” “How do you say, ‘down one?’” she asked her tablemates. “‘Down one,’” they replied. 59 60 Starzec says that the most recent TAP update encompasses a variety of teaching materials in 61 62 addition to the ACBL bridge series – resources such as Eddie Kantar’s “Thinking Bridge,” “Bridge Basics” by Audrey Grant and “Play and Learn” by Pat Harrington. “I also address how teachers can For your amusement develop their own lessons, using material by Barbara By Steve Picus Seagram. Across 6. Suffix with buck “In the TAP, we create an environment in which 1. Minnesota ___ 7. Petty quarrel we display to future teachers what they should 5. Emotional cleansings 8. Green giant utterances display to their future students,” she says. “The 14. Prefix with culture 9. Breakdown of societal norms materials don’t matter – it’s the mindset that matters. 15. One who’s left hanging? 10. Chain together again As long as there are cards on the table and students 16. The sequel to the 2006 Bond film “Casino 11. Ollie’s partner in slapstick are having a good time, they’ll be all right.” Royale” 12. Series conclusions: Abbr. Starzec understands the effectiveness of practice- 18. Half a school yr. 13. Hide’s partner based learning versus textbook-intensive learning 19. ____ Good Feelings 15. Romanian river that flows into the Tisa because of her own experience. She started playing 20. Belarus’s largest city (anagram of “serum”) the game 40 years ago, trying to learn from three 21. Opportunist, perhaps 17. Early partner of Westinghouse type-written pages. Because she never saw the 22. Bourg’s department of eastern France 21. Wrist attachment cards or a game, “I didn’t understand that there was 23. Tennyson’s 12-poem series 22. Mating call? bidding and there was play. My husband, Len, played 31. “I’ve Just ____ Face” by The Beatles 23. Gershwin’s “Of Thee ___” bridge and my neighbors played bridge.” She was 32. Bother 24. Part of a “Star Wars” name baffled. “I cannot be that stupid!” Once she actually 33. Cambodia’s Lon ___ 25. Was sycophantic to saw the cards on table, everything fell into place. 34. “___ long story” 26. Barely visible Len was never interested in making the leap to 35. “She loves me, she loves me not” flower 27. 6-pointers tournament bridge, although they still play socially 37. Where a leather split might end up 28. “...two mints ___!” together. “Now, my husband hates the fact that I’m 38. ___ Valley, San Francisco 29. “And that’s ___” (“Believe you me.”) better than he is.” 39. Sea eagle 30. Follow the reaper The Starzecs made Houston TX their home when 40. The merry widow in “The Merry Widow” 35. “Whip It” singers Len retired. They have two sons and a five-year old 41. The de facto British national anthem 36. “What ___ you getting at?” grandson who also live in Houston. 46. Japanese salad ingredient 37. Motown music category Starzec has been an active member of the 47. Av follower 40. ___ Valley, Calif. American Bridge Teachers Association and, in fact, 48. Over and done with 42. Handbag materials served as a liaison between that organization and the 51. “Why, ____ crime?” 43. Extensions ACBL when she worked for the League. 53. Vegas opener 44. Tush (even more slangy) In 2004, District 16 presented the Oswald and 56. Trivia game now available as an app 45. “Rocket Man” John Jim Jacoby Service Award to Starzec in recognition 59. “The Battleship Potemkin” director 48. Gave the once-over of her work as a unit membership liaison and her 60. “Handy” man 49. Roulette bet success in mainstreaming new players. She served as 61. Private school requirement, perhaps 50. Bernhardt contemporary of old theater co-chair of the NABCs held in Houston in 2002 and 62. Defensive spray (Eleanora ___) 2009. She is serving her second term on the ACBL 51. Put ___ (ask hard questions of) Board of Governors, and she also sits on the Aileen Down 52. TV listings Osofsky ACBL Goodwill Committee and the national 1. What newbies read on-line 53. Superboy’s girlfriend Charity Committee. 2. Chill 54. Flexible, electrically Starzec sounds almost convincing when she says 3. Disney World transport 55. Kind of terrier that the TAP she conducted at this tournament is her 4. Sloth, for one 57. Defense advisory grp. last. This week, she looks forward to competing in 5. Chevrolet introduced it in 1966 58. Pickle nothing but NABC events, starting with the Silver Solution to puzzle on page 10 Ribbon Pairs today, all the way through the Women’s Swiss which starts on Saturday. Starzec is excited to return to playing the game Masterpoint disclaimer she obviously loves. “I may get beat up, but I look Scores as reported in the Daily Bulletin are subject to change because of score changes or corrections. The forward to getting back to learning,” she says. masterpoint awards as shown are, therefore, also subject to change. Page 6 Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daily Bulletin

FIRST FRIDAY ZIP KOS SIDE SERIES I 7 Tables 16.0 Tables 2.58 1 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Barry Margolin, A B C Arlington MA; Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC; Gregory Herman, Fort Collins CO 3.94 1 1 Daniel Baker - Joyce Cooper, Austin TX 72.35% 1.37 2 Dennis Bilde, Aarhus C 8000 Denmark; Morten 2.96 2 Scott Nelson, Encinitas CA; Andrew Loh, Solana Beach CA 66.29% Bilde, Hovedgaard 8732 Denmark; Anders Hagen, Copenhagen 1.94 3/4 Sam Dinkin, Austin TX; Michael Shuster, Collegeville PA 62.69% Denmark; Kaare Gjaldbaek, Bronx NY 1.94 3/4 Richard Newell, West Des Moines IA; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL 62.69% 2.73 5 2 Timothy Smith - Jennifer Nisenoff, Dallas TX 58.14% EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET I 2.88 6 3 1 Joe Cameron, Frisco TX; G Brantz, Plano TX 56.25% 7 Tables 31.69 1 Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria; James 1.54 4 Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS; Dan Chocron, Wichita KS 54.92% Melville, Springfield IL; Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Jay 1.01 5/6 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Janet Cucurullo, Newburyport MA 53.60% Cohodes, Sunrise FL; Valentin Kovachev, Glencoe IL; Kay Enfield, 2.16 5/6 2 Bob Dingle, Addison TX; Bob Frink, Plano TX 53.60% Santa Fe NM 1.62 3 Jurgen Stielow, Austin TX; Donald Robinson, Boise ID 53.41% 16.80 2 G S Jade Barrett - Karen Lee Barrett, Elk Point 1.10 4/5 Ranjan Bhaduri, Chicago IL; Raymond Jung, Hamilton ON 53.03% SD; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA; Bjorgvin Kristinsson, Boynton Beach FL; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw, Poland; Jacek Romanski, Lublin, 1.07 4/5 Richard Page - Rebecca Page, Plano TX 53.03% Poland SATURDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET II 12.5 Tables 8 Tables A B C 17.72 1 Peter Hambly, Hanover ON; Doug Andrews, 3.25 1 1 1 Denys Slater Jr - Jane Slater, Dallas TX 65.70% Etobicoke ON; J. Malcolm Lewis, Kent England; Dwight Bender, London ON 2.44 2 2 2 Tom Collins - Marcia Collins, Texarkana AR 61.62% 9.39 2 Albert Shrive, Dalton PA; Jim McKeown, State 1.83 3 3 3 Martha Ward, Plano TX; Linda Lindley, Dallas TX 55.42% College PA; Donald Dalpe, Baldwinsville NY; Thomas Andrews, 1.37 4 4 4 Christine Skibell - Barbara Smith, Dallas TX 54.62% Utica NY; Daniel Denison - Mary Lou Denison, Solana Beach CA 1.03 5 5 Allan Gold, Rydal PA; Jerry Frankel, Plano TX 54.52% 0.82 6 6 Cindy Whitten - Lenette Sadler, Carrollton TX 53.67% EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET III 0.68 5 Jim Riffell - Zane Sherrill, Frisco TX 53.55% 8 Tables 12.88 1 Claude Le Feuvre, Van Nuys CA; Lawrence Diamond, Tacoma WA; Peter Kyper, West Chester PA; Susan SATURDAY MORNING 49ER PAIRS Kestenbaum, Jenkintown PA 6.0 Tables 6.83 2 Susan Spencer, Spring Branch TX; Jo Neesvig, A B C San Antonio TX; Ellen Coffield - Byron Southern, Little Rock AR 1.68 1 1 Nancy Llewellyn - Jackie Khilling, Ft Smith AR 65.00% EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET IV 1.26 2 2 Rodney Bond - Virgina Bond, Ft Worth TX 53.75% 8 Tables 0.95 3 3 Linda Pempsell - Jane Clark, Arlington TX 52.50% 9.89 1 Keith Meyer - Marci Meyer, Long Beach IN; Ken 0.62 4/5 4 Carol Wetmore - Bruce Wetmore, Arlington TX 51.25% Cornelius - Mary Cornelius, Portland OR 0.62 4/5 Jenny Haynes, Dallas TX; Carol Lyon, Frisco TX 51.25% 5.24 2 Gay Roach - Paulette Huegele, Nacogdoches TX; Rebecca Elder - Clint Pruett, McKinney TX SATURDAY MORNING BRIDGE+ EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET V 9.0 Tables 8 Tables A B 8.44 1 Bonnie Burch - Jo Ann Parten, Emory TX; 1.64 1 Karen Anders, Dallas TX; Mandy Davis, Richardson TX 63.33% Maxine Nobbman, Myrtle Beach SC; Larry Laudig, Waxahachie TX 1.08 2/3 Ashok Parekh - Lena Parekh, Plano TX 61.67% 4.47 2 Richard Peacock, Grosse Pnte Pk MI; Fred Batten 1.08 2/3 1 Drew Stull - John Stull, Dallas TX 61.67% - Lucy Peacock - Mary Fromm, Grosse Pointe MI 0.69 4 2 Karen Bowman - Carole Buffington, Richardson TX 59.17% 1.90 3/4 Rod Southworth - David Zwonitzer - Daniel Zwonitzer, Cheyenne WY; Bill Carstens, Anthem AZ 0.82 5/6 Becky Bullard - Joyce Jordan, Dallas TX 57.50% 0.50 5/6 3 Sheila Hillhouse - Helen Slaughter, Fort Collins CO 57.50% EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET VI 0.37 4 Robert Palko, Georgetown TX; Carolyn Craig, Frisco TX 50.00% 8 Tables 6.74 1 Randy Earle, McKinney TX; Beverly Strauss - Ruthie Shor - Susan Bates, Dallas TX 3.57 2 Howard Huynh - Wayne Bahr - Walter Langendorf - Will Anthony, Lubbock TX

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES 1ST SATURDAY-MONDAY MORNING KO BRACKET I 20.0 Tables 5 Tables A B C Larue Stott - J Fletcher, Dallas TX; Gerrie Owen, Celina TX; Elinor Fries, Coppell TX 4.55 1 Madhusudan Patel, Houston TX; Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS 62.09% vs 3.79 2 1 1 Sam Litovsky, Los Angeles CA; Sherman Layman, Okemah OK 60.96% Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Choon Chou Loo, Singapore 60027 2.56 3 Martha Easter, Daytona Beach FL; Joanne Behr, New Smyrna Bch FL 59.99% Singapore; Tadashi Yoshida, Tokyo Japan; Fred Hamilton, Palm 2.84 4 2 Bill Carstens, Anthem AZ; Rod Southworth, Cheyenne WY 57.38% Desert CA 2.33 5 3 2 Bruce Mann, Aledo TX; George Mann Jr, Kinnelon NJ 57.03% vs 1.70 6 4 3 Jianbo Chen, Frisco TX; Siming Hui, Richardson TX 56.59% John Hogan Jr, Wayne NJ; Mary Vickers, Apex NC; Kasmer Andreychuk, Yorkton SK; Charlotte Blum, La Jolla CA 1.28 5 4 Christine Clark, Nashville TN; Bonnie Keough, College Station TX 54.73% 0.96 6 5 Rebecca Page - Richard Page, Plano TX 54.00% 1ST SATURDAY-MONDAY MORNING KO BRACKET II 1.17 6 Bonnie Burch - Jo Ann Parten, Emory TX 53.57% 5 Tables Mitzi Foster Wesely - Michael Goldman - Julie O’Neill, Fort Worth 1ST SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS TX; Charlotte Krupp, Bedford TX vs 42.0 Tables / Based on 43 Tables George Parkins, Vienna VA; Dennis Sponholtz, Chantilly VA; John A B C Galey, Dallas TX; Delinda Verner, Abilene TX 18.55 1 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Edward White, Grand Blanc MI 63.66% vs 13.91 2 Michael Kamil, Santa Clara CA; R Jay Becker, New York NY 62.42% Andy Villastrigo, San Antonio TX; Christophr Tsai - Liane Tsai, 10.71 3 1 Kim Eng, Issaquah WA; Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA 61.64% Plano TX; Gool Castleberry, Irving TX 7.83 4 Annette Lee McHann, Flowood MS; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 60.19% 6.18 5 Jeffrey Rothstein - Linda Rothstein, New York NY 60.16% The Insider 5.30 6 J Peter Tripp - Penny Lane, Williston VT 56.88% This just in: The Insider has been working for 4.64 7 Brian Hingerty - Geo. Fred Williams III, Knoxville TN 56.61% 4.12 8 Steve Shirey, Fort Worth TX; John Pataki, Mesquite TX 56.55% over a year to secure underwriting for the perfect 3.71 9 Nancy Molesworth, White Plains NY; Rhoda Prager, Boca Raton FL 56.52% Vanderbilt bracket. And, it came through today! The 3.37 10 Susan Darsey, La Selva Beach CA; Jane Basilico, Santa Cruz CA 56.33% Oracle of Odessa has promised to pay for a breakfast 8.03 11 2 David Lodge - Nance Lodge, Rancho Mirage CA 55.87% Buffett (that’s buffet for the non-sporting crowd) for 2.85 12 Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Peter Mosheim, Miami FL 55.79% the ACBL member who picks every match in the 6.02 3 Russell Samuel, Coram NY; Barry Samuel, Santa Rosa CA 54.83% 2014 Vanderbilt KO correctly. 4.52 4 1 David Graham - Jill Graham, Boca Raton FL 54.16% OK, this isn’t as impressive as the Billion Dollar 3.57 5 Wanda Hughes - Dee McKinley, Wichita Falls TX 53.81% Challenge or even the BridgeWinners Vanderbilt 3.06 6 Frank Collecchia - William Toutant, Louisville KY 53.34% bracket, but you have to admit, it is exactly in line 2.68 7 Judith Flack, Sarasota FL; Ellen Schulman, Boca Raton FL 53.30% with what the Insider promises. By the way, tax 3.34 2 Alan Godes, Needham MA; David Greims, Dallas TX 52.32% 2.50 3 Chris Kelly - Jimmy Justice, Waxahachie TX 50.37% and tip are not included – where prohibited, 1.88 4 Deepak Dighe, W Bloomfield MI; Leif Bjorn Odden, 3750 Drangedal prohibited where void ($4 fee for non-ACBL Norway 48.40% members). 1.48 5 Judy Bagley, Point Venture TX; J Bank, Austin TX 48.16% Bracket sheets will be available in the Bulletin office (in the Press Club on the second floor of the SATURDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS Sheraton) and on a table near AMG headquarters near 8.0 Tables the big blue ACBL display on the second floor of the A B C Conference Center. Return your completed bracket 1.89 1 1 Rodney Bond - Virgina Bond, Ft Worth TX 61.23% to the Bulletin office (it will still be on the second 1.42 2 2 Bettye Bell - Ginger Smith, Fort Worth TX 60.67% floor of the Sheraton). Be sure to include your name 1.06 3 3 Wayne Detmer - Jesse Crane, Woodbury MN 58.42% 0.80 4 Patricia Lysaught - Patrick Lysaught, Overland Park KS 53.87% and player number on your . All of those with a 0.60 5 4 Barbara Gee, Ft Worth TX; Robert Endter, Mansfield TX 53.74% perfect bracket will receive the free breakfast Buffett 0.76 1 Linda Pempsell - Jane Clark, Arlington TX 50.21% during any of the next three NABCs (Las Vegas, 0.57 2 Nona Quinn, Geronimo OK; Maretta Toler, Lawton OK 49.38% Providence or New Orleans.) Ties will be broken based on the fewest number of spelling errors in the SATURDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS final-four bracket team names. 16.0 Tables Yesterday, the Insider mentioned the MP scandal A B C involving HQ employees. Latest reports indicate 3.67 1 1 1 Richard McGaughy, Sugar Land TX; George Steele, Austin TX 66.29% that the two longest-term HQ employees, one of the 2.75 2 2 2 Clifford King - Anita King, Sanbornton NH 63.83% newest employees and, yes, even (OMG!) AMG are 2.06 3 3 Jack Schober, Dallas TX; Jerry Frankel, Plano TX 62.12% 1.55 4 4 John Blacklock - Edward Boenker, Addison TX 59.85% key participants. Details are still sketchy and it is 1.41 5 5 3 Neil Lorenz, Alamo TX; Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX 58.52% increasingly difficult to separate myth from reality. 1.05 6 6 4 Pam Campbell, Fairfield OH; Lisa Eisenstein, Loveland OH 57.39% But that is a fairly common issue for the Insider, who 0.83 5 Tom Collins - Marcia Collins, Texarkana AR 57.20% vastly prefers myth, rumor and innuendo to reality. 0.60 6 Vadali Sastry, Orefield PA; Massuma M Kazemi, Dallas TX 56.25% More to come. We promise the cash concessions in the Grand 1ST SATURDAY A/X OPEN PAIRS Hall will not move today. We promise AMG will 52.0 Tables / Based on 93 Tables begin tracking the NABC count for TDs. We promise A B the down escalator won’t break down today. We 28.69 1 Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie, Poland; Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan, Poland 62.88% 21.52 2 Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL; Rozanne Pollack, New York NY 61.24% promise it will be warmer today. We promise you 16.14 3 Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; David Neuman, San Francisco CA 60.31% should not promise make promises you can’t keep. 12.10 4 James Ward - Karen Walker, Champaign IL 60.00% 9.56 5 Jack Feagin Jr - Claudia Feagin, Atlanta GA 58.50% 8.20 6 Richard Bender - Jon Nance, Springfield MO 57.88% Use of the ­– 7.17 7 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 57.08% Alerts and Announcements 6.38 8 Marc Nathan - Cathy Nathan, New York NY 56.55% When using bidding boxes, the ACBL requires 5.74 9 Steve Smolen - Victor Chubukov, San Francisco CA 56.35% 7.65 10 1 Chantal Dube - Josette Levesque, Montreal QC 56.21% that players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the 4.78 11 William Ge, Burnaby BC; James Wu, Surrey BC 55.69% same time. 4.41 12 Larry Klein, Cincinnati OH; Norman Coombs, Brookville IN 55.40% When making an Announcement, use the 4.10 13 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Walter Lee, Sudbury MA 54.83% Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the 5.74 14 2 Anant Rathi, San Diego CA; Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY 54.44% Alert strip at the same time. 4.30 15/16 3 Harry Elliott, Houston TX; Bob Wilkin, Highland Villag TX 54.19% A player who Alerts or Announces a bid must 3.49 15/16 Rebecca Rogers, Las Vegas NV; Mac Busby, San Diego CA 54.19% make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or 3.19 17 Monique Smith, Arlington VA; Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD 54.12% Announcement has been made. 3.23 18 Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA; Ken Monzingo, San Diego CA 54.00% 3.36 19 4 Robert Lurie, Wayland MA; John Hrones Jr, Needham MA 53.69% 2.77 5 Aeron Ries, Bellingham WA; Choon Chou Loo, Singapore 60027 Singapore 53.17% Notice to players 2.19 6 Gregory Herman, Fort Collins CO; Aaron Mohrman, Seattle WA 52.77% Each player must have an ACBL filled out and on the table. Please note that other types of convention cards, such as the WBF Playing in an NABC+ pairs game? Buy your entry early! convention card or homemade cards that do not In an effort to speed up the start of all NABC+ pairs events – which require additional time for proper sufficiently resemble the ACBL convention card, are seeding – the ACBL asks participants to please buy their entries at least 15 minutes before game time. This is not acceptable substitutes. especially true if you expect to be a seeded pair. Page 8 Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daily Bulletin

1ST FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET I LEBHAR IMP PAIRS 15 Tables 49.05 1 Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Reese Milner, Los 78.0 Tables / Based on 157 Tables Angeles CA; Rafal Jagniewski, Legionowo Poland; Wojciech 100.00 1 Radu Nistor, Edison NJ; Iulian Christian, Bucharest Romania 96.54 Gawel, Wroclaw Poland; Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Michal 75.00 2 Hans Graverson - Henrik Caspersen, Aalborg, Denmark 84.02 Nowosadzki, Wejherowo Poland 56.25 3 Allen Hawkins Jr, Birmingham AL; Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA 80.45 34.34 2 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Bauke Muller, 44.44 4 Ron Smith, Las Vegas NV; Bipin Patel, Oakland CA 78.08 Hoorn Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn, Netherlands; Ton 40.00 5 Jing Liu, Minneapolis MN; Yinghao Liu, Beijing People’s Republic of China 77.66 Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Bend OR; Mark Lair, Canyon TX 36.36 6 Scott Levine - Aaron Silverstein, New York NY 72.05 19.62 3/4 Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; John Mohan, Las 33.33 7 David Brower, Portland OR; Adam Parrish, Sandwich MA 71.73 Vegas NV; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Darnestown 30.77 8 Gabrielle Sherman, Santa Clara CA; David Gurvich, Brooklyn NY 66.71 MD 28.57 9 Rosen Gunev - Ivan Nanev, Sofia Bulgaria 63.42 19.62 3/4 Ernesto d’Orsi, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Mauricio 26.67 10 Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 63.05 Figueiredo, Sau Paulo, Brazil; Joao Paulo Campos, Sao Paulo, 25.00 11 Viktor Anikovich, Los Angeles CA; Edward Piken, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA 62.16 Brazil; Miguel Villas-Boas, Sao Paulo Brazil; Alejandro Bianchedi - Ernesto Muzzio, Buenos Aires Argentina 23.53 12 Allan Siebert, Little Rock AR; Don Caton, Pensacola FL 60.93 22.22 13 Bernace De Young - Sean Ganness, Miami FL 59.56 1ST FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET II 21.05 14 Joe Yassi, Etobicoke ON; James Breihan, Houston TX 59.14 16 Tables 20.00 15 Brian Glubok, New York NY; David Treitel, Miami FL 57.91 24.37 1 James Stevens - Sandra Stevens, Paige TX; David 19.05 16 Samuel Baskinger, Totowa NJ; Judy Rothstein, Livingston NJ 57.49 Curl, Fort Worth TX; Robert Curl, Houston TX; Thomas Schmalz, Galveston TX; Betsy Dubose, Bellaire TX 18.18 17 Lewis Gamerman, Westwood MA; Robert McCaw, Sudbury MA 57.36 17.06 2 Lorraine Jarboe - Daniel Jarboe, Ft Walton Bch 17.39 18 Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL; William Wickham, Los Angeles CA 54.64 FL; James Milam - Beth Milam, Idaho Falls ID 16.67 19 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; John Carroll, Dublin 14 Ireland 53.15 9.75 3/4 Margot Hirsch, Arlington TX; Edwina Corn - 16.00 20 Stephen Mackay, Markham ON; Michael Ranis, New York NY 53.10 Michael Estep - Barbara Estep, Hurst TX 15.38 21 John Sutherlin, Dallas TX; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX 50.99 9.75 3/4 Gerri Soffa Carlson, Rncho Pls Vrds CA; Charles 14.81 22 Erez Hendelman - Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY 49.99 Burns, Vancouver WA; Sylvia Riewerts, Milwaukee OR; Samuel Asai, Hood River OR 14.29 23 Fredrik Nystrom, 11427 Stockholm Sweden; Grace Jeklin, Surrey BC 49.95 13.79 24 Kay Joyce - Randy Joyce, Chapel Hill NC 48.69 1ST FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET III 15.03 25 Michael Penick, Dallas TX; Hugh Hillaker, Grand Prairie TX 47.47 16 Tables 12.90 26 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 45.31 17.37 1 Byron Southern - Ellen Coffield, Little Rock AR; 14.12 27 Jarosleaw Cieslak, Poland; Domink Jacek Filipowiez, Kalisz , Poland 42.95 Jo Neesvig, San Antonio TX; Susan Spencer, Spring Branch TX 12.12 28 Jeff McKee, Nevada TX; Jack Lacy, Lago Vista TX 42.43 12.16 2 George Parkins, Vienna VA; Dennis Sponholtz, Chantilly VA; Mark Blanchard, Bay Shore NY; Margie Patterson, 11.76 29 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Bch FL 41.85 Spring TX 11.43 30 Lino D’Souza, Burlington ON; Jay Kelkar, Oak Hill VA 41.52 6.95 3/4 Esther Ellis - Sandy Potts - Martha Norman - 11.11 31 Leonard Doerksen - Leigh Anne Shafer, Winnipeg MB 40.29 Anita Albert, Austin TX 17.10 32 Jadwiga Polujan, Calgary AB; June Pocock, New Westminster BC 39.40 6.95 3/4 Tom Moore - Dorothy Moore, Keller TX; Colleen 10.53 33 Bob Feller, Guilderland NY; Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY 39.15 Bicket, Edmond OK; Betty McCauley, Oklahoma City OK 10.26 34 Steve Gross, Westlake Vilg CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA 34.92 1ST FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET IV 12.15 35 Jenni Carmichael - Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA 33.94 16 Tables 11.22 36 Howard Parker III, Clements CA; Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA 33.16 13.42 1 Donald Hixson - Virginia Hixson, Rapid City SD; 11.18 37 Peter Lit, Elk CA; Ari Sippola, Irving TX 32.70 James Nikstad - Emalyn Nikstad, Wausau WI 9.30 38 Janice Anderson - Richard Anderson, Regina SK 32.69 9.39 2 Barbara Baker - Jane Larimore - Mary Cotham - 9.09 39 Ellis Feigenbaum, Laguna Woods CA; Steve Mager, Hermosa Bch CA 32.09 Jacqueline Montgomery, Fort Worth TX 5.37 3/4 Richard Peacock, Grosse Pnte Pk MI; Fred Batten 8.89 40 David Birnbaum, Pegram TN; Arthur Lowen, Nashville TN 31.73 - Lucy Peacock - Mary Fromm, Grosse Pointe MI 15.60 41 Jonathan Ernest, Lindale TX; Charles Newton Jr, Rosenberg TX 31.07 5.37 3/4 Sandra Jackson - Richard Jackson, Bellaire TX; 8.51 42 Namik Kokten - Tuna Aluf, Instanbul Turkey 30.87 Wilma Booth - Kathleen Malcolmson, Houston TX; Debra Sherman, 8.33 43 Plotr Zak, Lodz Poland; Jerzy Zaremba, Chapel Hill NC 30.02 San Diego CA 8.16 44 Shoichi Yoshihiro - Weishu Wu, Irvine CA 29.72 8.00 45 Clifton Miller Sr, Shreveport LA; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 29.70 1ST FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET V 14 Tables 7.84 46 Tania Reyes Hiller, Shrub Oak NY; Jill Marshall, Port Chester NY 28.79 9.42 1 Randy Earle, McKinney TX; Beverly Strauss - 7.69 47 Dick Yarington, Seattle WA; Stanley Roberts, Kirkland WA 28.61 Ruthie Shor - Susan Bates, Dallas TX 7.55 48 Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON; Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 27.93 6.59 2 Joyce Norton, Laredo TX; Susan Urbach - Gerald 7.41 49 Mark Moss, Piedmont CA; Robert Thomson, San Rafael CA 27.20 Urbach - Charles Golenternek, Dallas TX 7.27 50 V Jay Tipton - Linda Tipton, Irvine CA 26.88

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES 3.77 3/4 Burt Echtenkamp - Linda Echtenkamp, Boise ID; 56.00 Tables / Based on 24 Tables Valarie Remmers - Dale Remmers, Plano TX 9.52 1 Brenda Glaze, Anchorage AK 122.56% 3.77 3/4 Carrol Weaver - Peggy Schimmels - Jan Huber, Oklahoma City OK; Joella Carter, Edmond OK 6.25 2/3 Robert Sandfield, Houston TX 118.55% 6.25 2/3 Geoff Booth, Houston TX 118.55% 1ST SAT COMPACT KO BRACKET I 3.93 4/5 Martha Easter, Daytona Beach FL 117.14% 16 Tables 3.93 4/5 Joanne Behr, New Smyrna Bch FL 117.14% 30.46 1 Sylvia Moss - Michael Seamon, Boca Raton FL; 6.07 6 Sherman Layman, Okemah OK 116.60% Steve Zolotow - Harold Lilie, Las Vegas NV 6.12 7/8 George Mann Jr, Kinnelon NJ 112.18% 21.32 2 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice Poland; Cezary Balicki, 6.12 7/8 Bruce Mann, Aledo TX 112.18% Smolec Poland 13.71 3 G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Anne Dawson, SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS Delhi LA; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw 0 Poland; Jacek 10.0 Tables Romanski, Lublin, Poland A B C 10.66 4 Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Sheri Winestock - Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV 2.83 1 Barbara Horowitz - Dee Bridgewater, Frisco TX 66.37% 2.12 2 Barbara Chappell - Richard Chappell, Houston TX 61.61% 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET II 2.02 3 1 Tom Collins - Marcia Collins, Texarkana AR 57.14% 16 Tables 1.52 4 2 Martin Gibler - Susan Stacy Vanstone, West Chester OH 56.85% 25.42 1 Justine Cushing - Melih Ozdil, New York NY; 0.79 5/6 Neil Lorenz, Alamo TX; Chris Kelly, Waxahachie TX 54.76% Leonardo Cima - Valerio Giubilo, 1.58 5/6 3 1 Jesse Crane - Wayne Detmer, Woodbury MN 54.76% 17.79 2 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesvle VA; Max Aeschbacher, Salt Lake City UT; Hendrik Sharples, Brush Prairie 1.19 4 2 James Huth, Dallas TX; M Susan Tucker, Dalas TX 52.98% WA; Gerry Marshall, Las Varas Mexico 0.71 5 Jay Winter, Highland IL; Jeffrey Brooks, Levittown PA 52.08% 11.44 3 Jay Apfelbaum, Philadelphia PA; Michael Shuster, 0.89 3 Patricia Lysaught - Patrick Lysaught, Overland Park KS 50.60% Collegeville PA; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON; Andre Asbury, 0.67 4 Becky Powers - Pamela Coonce, Tahlequah OK 49.11% Warner Robins GA 8.90 4 Alexander Ornstein - Susan Picus, New York NY; FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES Tadashi Yoshida, Tokyo Japan; Eugene Saxe, Briarcliff NY 28.0 Tables 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET III A B C 16 Tables 5.76 1 Geoff Booth - Robert Sandfield, Houston TX 65.15% 19.21 1 Sathya Bettadapura, Campbell CA; Christopher 4.32 2 Nick Wiebe, Oakland CA; Jean Barry, Livermore CA 64.99% Gibson, Beaverton OR; Chris Wiegand, Portland OR; Venkatrao 2.84 3/4 Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Jay Whipple III, Boca Grande FL 62.46% Koneru, San Antonio TX 13.45 2 Spencer Jones - Peggy Ware - Garth Yettick, 2.84 3/4 Suresh Agrawal, Rowlett TX; Gail Wells, Dallas TX 62.46% Denver CO; McKenzie Myers, Beaverton OR 2.49 5 Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Kay Enfield, Santa Fe NM 61.24% 8.64 3 Jerry Goldberg - Lindsey Weinger - Eleanor 1.78 6 Wendy Dooley, Mississauga ON; Florence Belford, Milton ON 61.04% Seaman - Sandra Rimstedt, New York NY 3.79 1 1 Bruce Mann, Aledo TX; George Mann Jr, Kinnelon NJ 55.15% 6.72 4 Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Gary Gottlieb, 2.84 2 Janet Wickersham, Sierra Madre CA; Brian McGuire, Great Britain 54.47% Brooklyn NY; Jakob Kristinsson, Lake Orion MI; Magnus Olafsson, 2.13 3 Brett Leach - Eric Goff, Austin TX 53.98% 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET IV 1.60 4 D Abraham, Windsor ON; Courtney Nelson, Wells VT 53.23% 12 Tables 1.20 5 Peter Manzon, Waltham MA; Rick Holcomb, Malden MA 52.62% 12.98 1 Kathy Pollock, East Amherst NY; Christopher 2.05 6 2 Marshall Fite, Hobart OK; Justine Thompson, Shawnee OK 52.34% Monsour, Chicago IL; Jack Goodykoontz - Vicki Goodykoontz, 1.54 3 Bob Townley-Smith - Zach Townley-Smith, Lumberton TX 51.51% Morgantown WV 1.15 4 Bill Carstens, Anthem AZ; Susan Kay Schultz, Scottsdale AZ 51.31% 9.09 2 Anthony Bianchi, Houston TX; Robert Whitcher, 0.86 5 Christine Clark, Nashville TN; Bonnie Keough, College Station TX 50.22% Cedar Park TX; Jess Jurkovic - Bill Begert, New York NY 5.84 3 David Binney, Seattle WA; Barton Buffington, North Kingstown RI; George Subt, Southampton NJ; Norman 1ST SATURDAY GOLD RUSH PAIRS Dressler, Kingston PA 41.0 Tables 4.54 4 John Cox, St Maries ID; Ursula Brzuska, 7 3 Milanweg 85 Germany; Angela Fenton, Vancouver BC; Kathy Bye, 12.61 1 1 Oleg Bekker - Viktor Berdnikov, Tucson AZ 64.58% Burnaby BC 9.46 2 Patricia Schroeder - Ninfa Sada, Mexico City Mexico 59.87% 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET V 7.09 3 John Davis, Lake Kiowa TX; Bert Dempsey, Sherman TX 59.59% 14 Tables 5.88 4 2 Jeanie Wolff, Scottsdale AZ; Patricia Jurgensen, Columbus OH 58.93% 11.74 1 Michael Gladfelter - Mary Jane Gladfelter, 4.41 5 3 Valerie Watson, Bella Vista AR; Teri Collier, Angel Fire NM 58.04% Columbus OH; Suman Agarwal, Hilliard OH; Vijay Vasudevan, 3.60 6 James Faw, Oklahoma City OK; Boyan Ganchev, Edmond OK 57.59% Cincinnati OH 3.31 7 4 Patsy Rainwater-Maddu - Connie Van Patter, McKinney TX 57.29% 8.22 2 Dave Adelman, Calgary AB; C Kay Teal, Richland WA; Pat Crampsey, Oshawa ON; C Buddy Carls, Huntingtn 2.66 8/9 Sharon Stevens, Vineland STN ON; Donna Sinrud, Fairfax VA 56.99% Bch CA 2.66 8/9 Ginger Kennedy - Dana Pickett, Fort Worth TX 56.99% 5.28 3 Dave Kuschel, Minot ND; Victoria Gregory, 2.61 10 5 Elaine Bindo - Joseph Bindo, Plano TX 56.25% Pittsburg KS; Kasmer Andreychuk, Yorkton SK; Charlotte Blum, La 2.24 11 6 Michael Thorpe, Montrose CO; Adam White, Colleyville TX 55.65% Jolla CA 1.96 7 Suzanne Schoenthaler, Addison TX; Asa De Vries, Dallas TX 55.51% 4.11 4 Nancy Reader - Robert Arnett - Sam Dodson, 1.66 8/9 Craig Briney - Mary Ann Briney, N Richland Hill TX 55.21% Houston TX; Thomas Racciatti, Minneapolis MN 1.68 8/9 Marjorie Butler - Rachell Jackson, Austin TX 55.21% 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET VI 14 Tables 1ST SATURDAY A/X SIDE SWISS 9.27 1 Jim Harp - Chris Myers, Dallas TX; Douglas 41 Tables / Based on 86 Tables Keller, San Francisco CA; Margaret Raymond, Kingwood TX A X 6.49 2 Stuart Sechriest, San Diego CA; Liliane Kirchhoff, San Francisco CA; Pat Larin, Rancho Mirage CA; David 12.13 1 Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Sumit Mukherjee, Kolkata , White, Lancaster CA India; Bhabesh Saha - Sandip Datta - Kaustabh Nandi, India; Debabrata Majumder, 4.17 3 Lue Waddle - Adele Hudgins - Carolyn Schendle - West Bengal, India 102.00 Nancy Harralson, Dallas TX 9.10 2 David Sabourin, Ottawa ON; Shan Huang, Toronto ON; Leo Bell, Long 3.24 4 Karen Hearn - Hallie Eads - Janet Siefert - Beach CA; Adam Kaplan, New Port Richey FL 99.00 Carolyn Lanier, Houston TX 6.82 3 Lou Ann O’Rourke, Scottsdale AZ; Marc Jacobus - Roger Bates - Curtis 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET VII Cheek, Las Vegas NV; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Ishmael Delmonte, New 14 Tables South Wales Australia 86.00 7.64 1 Pawel Hanus, Carrollton TX; Bogumil Knypinski, 5.12 4 Spike Lay, Daytona Beach FL; Larry Griffey, Vero Beach FL; Cindy N Richland HLS TX; David Goldfarb, Houston TX; Jonathan Bernstein, Matthews NC; Jim Gobert, New York NY 85.00 Goldberg, Saint Louis MO 3.84 5 Dano De Falco, Rubano, Italy; Gabriella Olivieri, Alessandria 5.35 2 Richard Gordon, Rowlett TX; Sally Craig, Port Italy; Patricia Cayne - Jacqui Mitchell, New York NY 84.00 Moody BC; Robert Leach, Midlothian TX; Vera Aktansel, Norman OK 8.76 6/7 1 R Randall Smith - Lee Huber, Rockwall TX; Royce McCray, Caddo Mills 3.44 3 Richard Kalkbrenner - William Kinneman - Ti TX; Mark Hatkoff, Rowlett TX 83.00 Davis - Beverly Kinneman, Little Rock AR 2.52 6/7 Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA; Chris Larsen, Laguna Woods CA; Andy 2.67 4 Rose Van Meter - Faye Morrison - Martha Harvey, Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 83.00 Wichita Falls TX; Cathy Zinn, Burkburnett TX 6.57 8 2 Kathy Swaine - Rand Pinsky, Valencia CA; Sandra DeMartino, Riverside 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET VIII CT; Elaine Landow, Lansdale PA 81.00 16 Tables 1.35 9 Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; John Mohan, Las Vegas NV; Steve 7.13 1 N Tripode, Frisco TX; Melvin Sharp - Betsy Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD 79.00 Goldsmith, Dallas TX; David Luzzatto, Richardson TX 4.93 3 Terry Currie - Lucy Terrill - Elizabeth Ghrist, Houston TX; Carolyn 4.99 2 Andy Villastrigo, San Antonio TX; Christophr Sprague, Anchorage AK 71.00 Tsai - Liane Tsai, Plano TX; Gool Castleberry, Irving TX 3.70 4 Hannah Cornfield, United Kingdom; William Churchman, Pasadena TX; 3.21 3 Glenda Cooper, Irving TX; David Clegg, Dallas TX; Bob Frink, Plano TX; Bob Dingle, Addison TX Mark Churchman - Donald Shatilla, Saskatoon SK 67.00 2.50 4 Jackie Hertweck, Edmond OK; E J Nowak, 2.77 5 Peter Kyper, West Chester PA; Susan Kestenbaum, Jenkintown PA; McKinney TX; Tommie Anglemyer, Plano TX; Bonnie Arnold, Douglas Dye - Dale Dye, Wyndmoor PA 65.00 Frisco TX

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Puzzle solution. Puzzle on page 5 1ST SATURDAY B/C/D SIDE SWISS 45 Tables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 F A T S C A T H A R S E S B C D 14 15 8.34 1 1 Frank Durante, Addison TX; Nancy Latner - Jerr Boschee - A G R I M A R I O N E T T E 16 17 William Olds, Dallas TX 107.00 Q U A N T U M O F S O L A C E 6.26 2 2 Bonnie Burch - Jo Ann Parten, Emory TX; Larry Laudig, 18 19 20 S E M E R A O F M I N S K Waxahachie TX; Maxine Nobbman, Myrtle Beach SC 89.00 21 22 U S E R A I N 4.69 3 3 Tod Pontius - Kathleen Adams, Austin TX; Suvabrata Biswas, Katy 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 TX; Jerrold Albom, Dallas TX 87.00 I D Y L L S O F T H E K I N G 3.08 4/5 Joyce Stone - Melanie Watson - Jane Hopkins, Denton TX; David 31 32 33 S E E N A A D O N O L Sauder, Lewisville TX 84.00 34 35 36 37 I T S A D A I S Y S O L E 3.08 4/5 Sheri Wolkenstein - Jon Wolkenstein, Dallas TX; Norman Gautier 38 39 40 - Joyce Gautier, The Woodlands TX 84.00 N O E E R N S O N I A 41 42 43 44 45 4.40 6/7 4/5 1 Roy Booth, Duncanville TX; Robert Beyer - Robert Scanland, G O D S A V E T H E Q U E E N Arlington TX; James Atteberry, Ft Worth TX 81.00 46 47 U D O E L U L 2.58 6/7 4/5 Keith Meyer - Marci Meyer, Long Beach IN; Ken Cornelius - Mary 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Cornelius, Portland OR 81.00 E N D E D I S I T A L A S 56 57 58 1.45 6/7 Judy Mays, Frisco TX; Callie Weller, Dallas TX; Charlotte Y O U D O N T K N O W J A C K Tunnell, Mc Kinney TX; Judy Matlock, Allen TX 77.00 59 60 E I S E N S T E I N A N D Y 3.30 6/7 2 Kevin Glasgow, Rogers AR; Judy Bappe, Bella Vista AR; Scott 61 62 Defoyd, Pharr TX; Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX 77.00 D R E S S C O D E M A C E 2.48 3 Chuck Moss - Jody Moss - David Wagner, Oklahoma City OK; Sandra Leonard, Edmond OK 68.00 1ST SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET IX 1.86 4 Tricia Adcock, Hot Sprigs Vill AR; Charlene Gallaty, Bedford 16 Tables TX; Norma Fajardo-Solache - Irma Lopez-Solache, Montreal QC 67.00 5.63 1 Dawn Campbell, Portland OR; Kathi Marcus, Lake Oswego OR; Sandra McMinn, Houston TX; Laveta Christian, 1.39 5 Sandra Jackson - Richard Jackson, Bellaire TX; Wilma Booth - West Columbia TX Kathleen Malcolmson, Houston TX 65.00 3.94 2 John Ellis - Denise Strueber - Carol Adamek - 1.04 6 Rosalee Hacker, Southlake TX; Marguerite Lavender, Colleyville Kay Moran, Dallas TX TX; Gayle Orvis - Robert Orvis, Burleson TX 64.00 2.53 3 Marcia McClurg - Jerry McClurg - Patricia Ducayet - Edwin Ducayet Jr, Dallas TX 1.97 4 Diane Segel, Keller TX; Carol Bice - Jenny 0-10,000 SWISS TEAMS Oswald, Colleyville TX; Sandy Brown, N Richlnd Hls TX 36 Tables / Based on 66 Tables 70.00 1 David Grainger, Roseville CA; Janet Macchi, Statham GA; Tom Breed, Kingwood TX; Roger Lee, Arcadia CA; Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON; Ira World championship Chorush, Houston TX 124.00 52.50 2 Kimberly Whipple, Boca Grande FL; Kevin Dwyer, Tampa FL; Owen Lien, beckons all Hendersonville NC; Danny Molenaar, Netherlands; Tim Verbeek, Netherlands 123.75 If you are interested in competing in a world 39.38 3 William Ehlers, Madison NJ; Dori Byrnes, Morris Plains NJ; Meyer Kotkin, bridge championship without going through the Cherry Hill NJ; Corey Krantz, Philadelphia PA; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ 115.00 qualifying stages, there’s a great opportunity for you 31.11 4 Peter Hambly, Hanover ON; Doug Andrews, Etobicoke ON; Dwight Bender, coming up this fall. London ON; J. Malcolm Lewis, Kent England 113.75 The 14th Red Bull World Bridge Series is 28.00 5 Michael McNamara - Sylwia McNamara, White Plains NY; Michael Cassel II, scheduled for Sanya, Hainan, China, Oct. 10 to Roseville MN; Andy Kaufman, Fort Washington PA 112.50 25.45 6 Russ Jones - Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR; Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; 25. The tournament will be hosted by the Chinese Thomas Turgeon, Memphis TN 109.75 Association in cooperation with 23.33 7 Allison Hunt - Zachary Brescoll - H Hunt, Charlotte NC; Luz Ortega, Sanya City and Beijing Lianzhong Co., Ltd. Melbourne FL 105.50 President Gianarrigo 21.54 8 Frank Cymerman - Warren Oberfield, Pittsburgh PA; Jan Assini, Aurora OH; Rona described the tournament as a “real world Bernard Fudor, Murrysville PA 103.00 championship,” and the WBF will welcome players 20.00 9 Norman Schwartz, Carlsbad CA; Lesley Davis - Maritha Pottenger - Paul from all over the world to Sanya. Darin, San Diego CA 102.75 The World Bridge Series is the biggest of all 18.67 10 Henry Caspar, Southaven MS; Terry Richardson, Austin TX; James Andre - the WBF championships and includes World Open, Lily Andre, Sugar Land TX; Mary Oshlag - Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN 100.75 Women’s, Seniors and Mixed teams and pairs 17.50 11 Sharon Anderson, Eagan MN; Judy Schwarz - Phil Schwarz, Lakeville MN; Barbara Heller, Knoxville TN 99.25 championships. There will be no quota on the number 16.47 12 Paul Irvine - Margaret Irvine, Allentown PA; Michael Mullendore, Ellicott of teams/pairs from each national bridge organization City MD; A William Schmidt, Morton PA 98.75 (e.g., ACBL) and all events will be transnational, so 15.56 13 Gary Hann, Interlochen MI; David Anding, Poway CA; Robert Kent - Ellen players from different countries, in good standing Kent, Marina Del Rey CA 97.75 with their own federations, may form partnerships/ 14.74 14 Loretta Rivers, Monroe LA; Joshua Donn, Las Vegas NV; Bob Drijver, 3051 teams. Eg, Rotter Netherlands; Sally Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL 95.50 The first week will feature Mixed Teams and 14.00 15 Hua Yang - Edward Wang - Yan Song, Plano TX; Tiger King, Houston TX 93.00 Mixed Pairs. All players who do not qualify for the 13.33 16 Jim Russell, Bradenton FL; John Grantham, Bentonville AR; Mark Jones, final stages will be allowed to drop into the pairs Birmingham AL; Nancy Spear, Shawnee Mission KS 92.50 final, as will the top four teams (i.e., the finalists and 12.45 17/18 Suresh Mahajan, Del Mar CA; Franklin Lowenthal, Pleasanton CA; Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA; Phil Clayton, Huntington Bch CA; Robert Ng, Millbrae CA 91.25 the teams from the playoff) provided the partnerships 12.45 17/18 Joanne Weingold - Jack Weingold, Boca Raton FL; Martin Robins - Charlene remain mixed. Predmest, Delray Beach FL 91.25 The second week will showcase the Rosenblum 11.67 19 Judy Zhu - Jack Snyder, Naperville IL; Harold Emme, Brentwood CA; Carol Open, McConnell Women’s and Rand Cup Senior Emme, Plainfield IL 89.00 Teams, followed by the Generali Open and Women’s 11.20 20 Robert Hollow, Madoc ON; Paul Janicki, Markham ON; Malcolm Ewashkiw, Pairs plus Hiron Senior Pairs. Members of teams Belleville ON; Charlotte St Amant, Trenton ON 85.00 failing to qualify may drop into their respective 10.77 21 Ryan Schultz, Dayton OH; John Hinton, Greenwood IN; Bob Lyon, events – Open Teams members into the Open Pairs, Indianapolis IN; Peter Whipple, Mason OH 82.25 etc. Players may not cross events when they drop in. 10.19 22/23 Catherine Miller - Hugh Miller, Spring TX; Becky Ellisor - Buddy Ellisor, Sanya is the southernmost city on the Chinese Wimberley TX 79.75 10.19 22/23 Susan Perez, Maryland Hts MO; Richard Haacke, Olivette MO; Mike Giacaman, island of Hainan. It is renowned for its tropical ST. Louis MO; Debra Romero, Clarkson Vly MO 79.75 climate and has emerged as a popular tourist destination. There are many restaurants that feature local delicacies, including the famous ginger- Convention card reminder garlic “Hele” crab. Sanya is often referred to as the Each player is required to have a convention board played, commencing with the next round and “oriental Hawaii.” card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a continuing until the restriction is lifted. In IMP team There are many sights for visitors to see on the session. The convention card must include the first games, penalties shall be at the discretion of the island’s natural landscape, including Asian Dragon and last name of each member of the partnership, and director. Bay and the Nanshan Temple, about 25 miles from the cards must be identical. If the director determines the partnership has at Sanya. It is the most famous Buddhist temple in If a director determines that neither player has least one substantially completed convention card Hainan Province, facing the South Sea and encircled a substantially completed card, the partnership may but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, by mountains. play only the Yellow Card and the director may give warnings or assign such For more information about the tournament, visit may use only standard carding. This restriction may penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the www.worldbridge.org be lifted only at the beginning of a subsequent round circumstances. after convention cards have been properly prepared The objective of these warnings and penalties is and approved by the director. Further, the partnership the encouragement of full compliance with ACBL will receive a 1/6-board matchpoint penalty for each regulations. Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 23, 2014 Page 11

PLATINUM PAIRS 14.0 Tables / Based on 54 Tables IMP Pairs 1 Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gdns FL; John Hurd, New York NY 186.84 continued from page 1 2 Martin Fleisher, New York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA 178.50 Nistor and Christian have played for their 3 Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA 177.30 country in international competition. Nistor earned 4 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Roy Welland, New York NY 175.77 a silver medal in the individual at the 13th World 5 Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY 175.16 6 Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Justin Lall, Las Vegas NV 175.07 Youth Games in Beijing, China, in 2008. He added a 7 Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany 174.76 bronze medal in the Junior Pairs at the World Youth 8 David Bakhshi, London England; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI 174.24 Congress in Croatia in 2011. Christian has been on 9 Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Richard Coren, Delray Beach FL 173.19 the Romanian open team. 10 Cedric Lorenzini, Paris France; Thomas Bessis, Paris 75015 France 172.92 The two knew each other through the small 11 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL; Douglas Simson, Columbus OH 170.33 bridge community in Bucharest but had never 12 Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL 170.13 played together. Nistor said he had to try to master 13 Sartaj Hans, Artarmon NSW 20 Australia; Peter Gill, Sydney Australia 169.59 Christian’s complicated system in a short period of 14 Per-Ola Cullin, Johanneshov Sweden; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden 169.46 time. “There are 45 pages on one club, one major,” 15 Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Steve Garner, Chicago IL 168.19 Nistor said. “But he knows the system.” 16 Robert Todd, Tallahassee FL; Andrew Hoskins, Palo Alto CA 166.24 17 Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; John Diamond, Boca Raton FL 166.19 Christian laughed when he noticed that a clerical 18 James Cayne, New York NY; Alfredo Versace, Rome Italy 164.86 error in the Daily Bulletin put Bucharest in Russia, 19 Hakan Nilsson, West Palm Beach FL; Johan Upmark, 115 58 Stockho Sweden 164.75 which at one time included his homeland as one of 20 , Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 163.36 its satellites. 21 Mustafa Cem Tokay, Istanbul Turkey; Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 163.18 Lying seventh with two final sessions to play, the 22 Marion Michielsen, Sweden; Cornelis Van Prooijen, Netherlands 163.11 Romanians posted solid plus scores of 36.54 IMPs 23 David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD 162.91 and 39.18 to win going away. Their final score was 24 John McAllister, Charlottesville VA; Migry Zur Campanile, New York NY 162.75 plus 96.54 to 84.02 for the runners-up. 25 Fulvio Fantoni, Monaco; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK 162.16 Graverson and Casperson were sent to Dallas 26 Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL 161.66 by the Danish Bridge Federation to practice for 27 Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC 160.64 28 Dana Berkowitz, New York NY; C Ganzer, Brooklyn NY 158.75 the European Bridge Championships this summer. Graverson is in the pharmaceutical business, Dlr: West ♠ Q 8 5 3 2 Casperson in hospital administration. The Baldwin North Vul: None ♥ A K 7 6 5 American Pairs – Part 2 ♦ J The road to good behavior By Phillip Alder ♣ Q 6 Dan Plato I watched most of the second final session and ♠ A ♠ J 10 9 7 4 is a believer. saw some interesting bidding and play on a relatively ♥ 10 4 3 ♥ Q J 9 2 It is his firm quiet set. First, though, here is a quiz drawn from ♦ K 8 6 5 4 2 ♦ A 10 conviction these deals. ♣ K 3 2 ♣ 10 9 that if ACBL 1. With neither side vulnerable, you pick up ♠ K 6 clubs and ♠ K Q 9 8 7 6 3 2 ♥ 8 tournaments ♥ J 7 6 3 ♦ Q 9 7 3 don’t work ♦ 3 ♣ A J 8 7 5 4 harder to make ♣ -- West North East South the atmosphere After two passes, righty opens 1NT, 15-17 points. Merblum Zucker Doub Stein pleasant What would you do? Pass 1♠ Pass 1NT (1) for new Dlr: South ♠ A 10 5 2♦ 2♥ Pass 2♠ players, the Vul: Both ♥ A 5 4 All Pass organization ♦ K 9 6 5 (1) Semiforcing will suffer. ♣ A 9 4 This auction exhibits two aspects of pairs. First, “A bad comment to a new player could easily ♠ -- ♠ K Q 9 8 7 6 3 2 do not stretch for thin games. Stein settled for a quiet send that person out the door, never to return,” Plato ♥ Q 9 8 ♥ J 7 6 3 2♠ rebid, presumably also downgrading his ♦Q. says. ♦ A J 7 2 ♦ 3 Second, try to avoid passing. Merblum’s 2♦ He is putting his money where his mouth is with ♣ Q 10 8 6 5 2 ♣ -- was dangerous. When South did not raise his third free Zero Tolerance workshop, scheduled for ♠ J 4 spades immediately, East was marked with spade Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Sheraton Hotel, ♥ K 10 2 length. The deal could well have been a bad misfit. second floor, Pearl 3. ♦ Q 10 8 4 But it all passed off peacefully. The workshop, Plato says, is aimed at assisting ♣ K J 7 3 East led the ♦A and shifted to the ♠J. and empowering club directors to deal effectively West North East South Declarer thought for ages about ducking, but with inappropriate behavior. Merblum Zucker Doub Stein finally called for the king. “A club’s health and welfare, including the Pass However, when West won with his ace and financial side,” Plato says, “are related to creating Pass 1NT 4♠ Dbl shifted to a heart, North knew the trumps were 1=5. a friendly, social atmosphere. We need to recognize All Pass Declarer won with his ♥A and ran the ♣Q. West and support that.” Doug Doub made the normal-looking 4♠ over the took the trick and returned a club. North won in the Plato says he prefers to focus on pro-active 15-17 1NT, Ethan Stein doubled and led the ♣7. dummy and led the ♦Q, covered and ruffed. Declarer methods to create “the kind of atmosphere where you Declarer ruffed the first trick and led his ♠K. cashed his ♥K, ruffed a heart in the dummy and never have a Zero Tolerance problem” rather than Rick Zucker won with his ace and returned a , discarded a heart on the ♣A. After East ruffed, this punishing the miscreants. “Educating offenders,” he East putting in his 9. South won and shifted to a was the position: says, “is as important as penalizing them.” diamond. Declarer won with dummy’s ace, ruffed a ♠ Q 8 5 Too many club owners and managers, Plato says, diamond, drew the missing trump and played a heart ♥ 6 prefer to look the other way and hope bad behavior to dummy’s 8. When this brought out the ace, the ♦ -- goes away. “The result,” he says, “is decreased contract was destined to go down one. ♣ -- attendance.” Plus 200 for North-South gave them 7.5 ♠ -- ♠ 10 9 7 In his workshops, Plato notes the cultural matchpoints and East-West 5.5. ♥ -- ♥ Q differences between clubs and tournaments and even What would have happened if East had bid only ♦ 8 6 5 4 ♦ -- club to club. 3♠? South would have doubled and maybe North ♣ -- ♣ -- He says he was inspired by Barbara Seagram, the would have converted to 3NT, a contract that could ♠ -- original proponent of the Zero Tolerance concept and have been made. However, there was one plus 630 ♥ -- a pioneer in the effort to promote proper behavior. for North-South, a top for Bob Dennard and Bruce ♦ 9 7 The workshops, Plato says, “are a reboot of Zero Ohmann. Everyone else presumably bid 4♠. ♣ 8 7 East cashed his ♥Q and led the ♠10, but it was Tolerance.” easy for North to play low, endplaying East. Down one, minus 50, was worth 10 matchpoints for North-South. Page 12 Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daily Bulletin

10K Swiss Hall of fame continued from page 1 continued from page 1 Whipple in their last-round win would have secured the first final session. the , Championship Flight. In the top spot. The event, in its second year, attracted 66 teams, 2000, she was a member of the winning team in what Playing with Grainger were Janet Macchi, Tom 36 of which qualified to play on day two. was then known as the Women’s Team Olympiad. Breed, Roger Lee, Daniel Korbel and Ira Chorush. It is now the Women’s Teams in the World Bridge Whipple’s teammates were Kevin Dwyer, Owen Games. Lien, Danny Molenaar and Tim Verbeek. Grainger entered the two-day contest in seventh place. Whipple was sitting 18th at the beginning of

PLATINUM PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B EAST-WEST 1 Cedric Lorenzini, Paris France; Thomas Bessis, Paris 75015 France 59.89% 1 Robert Todd, Tallahassee FL; Andrew Hoskins, Palo Alto CA 61.87% 2 Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gdns FL; John Hurd, New York NY 58.71% 2 David Bakhshi, London England; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI 61.73% 3 Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Justin Lall, Las Vegas NV 57.64% 3 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL; Douglas Simson, Columbus OH 59.02% 4 Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany 57.57% 4 Per-Ola Cullin, Johanneshov Sweden; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden 57.34% 5 Marion Michielsen, Stockholm Sweden; Cornelis Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands 57.33% 5 Martin Fleisher, New York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA 56.75% 6 Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Richard Coren, Delray Beach FL 56.44% 6 Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY 56.34% 7 Mark Perlmutter, San Diego CA; Rick Roeder, La Mesa CA 55.01% 7 Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA 55.89% 8 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Roy Welland, New York NY 54.66% 8 Hakan Nilsson, West Palm Beach FL; Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden 53.18% 9 Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 54.13% 9 Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; John Diamond, Boca Raton FL 53.03% 10 Rahn Smith, Brandon FL; Sharon Horton, Lakeland FL 53.23% 10 Ed Lucas III, Tempe AZ; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ 51.89% 11 Fulvio Fantoni, Monaco; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK 52.66% 11 Ray Miller, Seattle WA; Cristal Nell, Redmond WA 51.75%

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VVV EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Barbara Horowitz - Dee Bridgewater, Frisco TX 66.37% 1 1 Tom Collins - Marcia Collins, Texarkana AR 57.14% 2 Barbara Chappell - Richard Chappell, Houston TX 61.61% 2 2 Martin Gibler - Susan Stacy Vanstone, West Chester OH 56.85% 3 Virginia Farley - Judy Steffens, Arlington TX 54.17% 3/4 Neil Lorenz, Alamo TX; Chris Kelly, Waxahachie TX 54.76% 4 1 1 James Huth, Dallas TX; M Susan Tucker, Dalas TX 52.98% 3/4 3 1 Jesse Crane - Wayne Detmer, Woodbury MN 54.76% 2 Jay Winter, Highland IL; Jeffrey Brooks, Levittown PA 52.08% 2 Becky Powers - Pamela Coonce, Tahlequah OK 49.11% 3 2 Patricia Lysaught - Patrick Lysaught, Overland Park KS 50.60%

FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES 4 OF 4 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS MM NN EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Geoff Booth - Robert Sandfield, Houston TX 65.15% 1 Nick Wiebe, Oakland CA; Jean Barry, Livermore CA 64.99% 2/3 Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Jay Whipple III, Boca Grande FL 62.46% 2 Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Kay Enfield, Santa Fe NM 61.24% 2/3 Suresh Agrawal, Rowlett TX; Gail Wells, Dallas TX 62.46% 3 Wendy Dooley, Mississauga ON; Florence Belford, Milton ON 61.04% 4 David Siebert - Jane Dickey, Little Rock AR 57.46% 4 Brenda Glaze, Anchorage AK; Suzanne St Thomas, Salem OR 59.57% 5 Cole Spencer, Fayetteville AR; Joe Scott, Rogers AR 56.54% 5 Donald Weil, Glencoe IL; Rosanne Schabinger, Mt Prospect IL 55.40% 6 Brenda Fortunate - Edward White, Grand Blanc MI 56.38% 6 John Spessard, Dallas TX; Thomas Corlett, Waco TX 55.24% 7 Margot Hennings, Annandale VA; Merlin Vilhauer, Beaverton OR 56.00% 7 1 Janet Wickersham, Sierra Madre CA; Brian McGuire, United Kingdom Great Britain 54.47% 8 1 1 Bruce Mann, Aledo TX; George Mann Jr, Kinnelon NJ 55.15% 8 2 Brett Leach - Eric Goff, Austin TX 53.98% 9 2 D Abraham, Windsor ON; Courtney Nelson, Wells VT 53.23% 9 Martha Leary, Urbana IL; Richard Ellis Jr, Kokomo IN 53.09% 10 Margot Hirsch, Arlington TX; Edwina Corn, Hurst TX 52.85% 10 3 1 Marshall Fite, Hobart OK; Justine Thompson, Shawnee OK 52.34% 11 3 Peter Manzon, Waltham MA; Rick Holcomb, Malden MA 52.62% 11 Siming Hui, Richardson TX; Fang Uv, 51.70% 4 David Pennington - Mary Adams, Temple TX 51.92% 4 2 Bob Townley-Smith - Zach Townley-Smith, Lumberton TX 51.51% 5 2 Bill Carstens, Anthem AZ; Susan Kay Schultz, Scottsdale AZ 51.31% 5 3 Christine Clark, Nashville TN; Bonnie Keough, College Station TX 50.22% 6 3 Douglas Cote, Woodstock ON; Sherman Layman, Okemah OK 49.85% 6 Alan Cummings, Los Altos CA; Eugene Kales, East Lansing MI 49.70%

LEBHAR IMP PAIRS 2ND FINAL SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS C D E F G H EAST-WEST 1 Jing Liu, Minneapolis MN; Yinghao Liu, Beijing People’s Republic of China 58.65 1 Michael Penick, Dallas TX; Hugh Hillaker, Grand Prairie TX 40.64 2 Ron Smith, Las Vegas NV; Bipin Patel, Oakland CA 50.34 2 Chris Compton - Barbara Ferm, Dallas TX 38.83 3 Allen Hawkins Jr, Birmingham AL; Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA 48.32 3 Gabrielle Sherman, Santa Clara CA; David Gurvich, Brooklyn NY 37.35 4 Brian Glubok, New York NY; David Treitel, Miami FL 42.21 4 John Sutherlin, Dallas TX; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX 36.66 5 Radu Nistor, Edison NJ; Iulian Christian, Bucharest Romania 39.18 5 Si Dombu - Adis Dombu, Las Vegas NV 35.62 6 Jenni Carmichael - Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA 38.23 6 Hans Graverson - Henrik Caspersen, Aalborg 9200 Denmark 35.00 7 Norman Rubin, Monticello NY; Jonathan Green, Kingston NY 37.29 7 Jonathan Ernest, Lindale TX; Charles Newton Jr, Rosenberg TX 32.27 8 Rosen Gunev - Ivan Nanev, Sofia Bulgaria 36.53 8 Shoichi Yoshihiro - Weishu Wu, Irvine CA 31.84 9 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; John Carroll, Dublin 14 Ireland 34.79 9 David Birnbaum, Pegram TN; Arthur Lowen, Nashville TN 31.35 10 Gary Kessler, Springfield IL; Kimmel Jones, Euless TX 31.38 10 Bryan Delfs, Horn Lake MS; Todd Fisher, Chicago IL 31.12 11 Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL; William Wickham, Los Angeles CA 30.74 11 Tania Reyes Hiller, Shrub Oak NY; Jill Marshall, Port Chester NY 28.95 12 Viktor Anikovich, Los Angeles CA; Edward Piken, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA 29.45 12 David Brower, Portland OR; Adam Parrish, Sandwich MA 27.69 13 Bruce Horiguchi, Gardena CA; Bob Etter, Sacramento CA 28.05 13 En Xie, Saint Louis MO; Alice Brown, Midlothian VA 24.19 14 Joe Yassi, Etobicoke ON; James Breihan, Houston TX 25.71 14 Mark Leonard, Long Beach CA; Brenda Bryant, Ferndale MI 23.23 15 Kay Joyce - Randy Joyce, Chapel Hill NC 25.12 15 Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 20.56 16 Dick Yarington, Seattle WA; Stanley Roberts, Kirkland WA 25.03 16 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Ed Lazarus, Baltimore MD 20.16 17 Mark Friedlander, Deerfield IL; Howard Engle, Highland Park IL 24.79 17 Erez Hendelman - Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY 19.99 18 Jarosleaw Cieslak, Paradzice Poland; Domink Jacek Filipowiez, Kalisz 62-800 Poland 23.10 18 Samuel Baskinger, Totowa NJ; Judy Rothstein, Livingston NJ 19.30 19 Melvin Marcus, Waltham MA; Rena Lieberman, North Easton MA 22.99 19 Kathleen Bumgardner - James Richman, Dallas TX 17.05 20 Bernace De Young - Sean Ganness, Miami FL 22.19 20 Howard Parker III, Clements CA; Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA 14.42 21 Leonard Doerksen - Leigh Anne Shafer, Winnipeg MB 19.71 21 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Bch FL 14.04 22 Lewis Gamerman, Westwood MA; Robert McCaw, Sudbury MA 19.22 22 Janice Anderson - Richard Anderson, Regina SK 13.16 23 Richard Brown, Easley SC; Hugh Brown Jr, Mc Cormick SC 19.16 23 Amy Downing - Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN 13.00 24 Shailesh Gupta, Alison Viejo CA; Brian Gilbert, Irvine CA 18.00 24 Stephen Stewart, Overland Park KS; Ron Ashbacher, Lead Hill AR 12.43 25 Bill Staats, Southlake TX; Mark Bumgardner, Dallas TX 17.82 25 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 10.71 26 Fredrik Nystrom, 11427 Stockholm Sweden; Grace Jeklin, Surrey BC 16.00 26 Jennifer Chalfan, Bellevue WA; Meg Myers, Beaverton OR 10.44 27 Mark Moss, Piedmont CA; Robert Thomson, San Rafael CA 13.69 27 Steve Gross, Westlake Vilg CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA 10.38 28 Douglas Burke, Fremont CA; Bruce Blakely, San Rafael CA 12.49 28 Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC; Don Piafsky, Toronto ON 10.27 29 Robert Morris, Houston TX; Jane Armstrong, Sugar Land TX 11.27 29 David Loeb - Maureen Loeb, Heathrow FL 10.00 30 Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT; William Arlinghaus, Ann Arbor MI 10.77 30 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Sun-O Ho, Redmond WA 9.44 31 Barry Bragin, Silver Spring MD; Mark Laken, Glyndon MD 9.51 31 Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON; Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 6.64

1ST SATURDAY GOLD RUSH PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PP EAST-WEST 7 3 7 3 1 1 Valerie Watson, Bella Vista AR; Teri Collier, Angel Fire NM 55.95% 1 1 Oleg Bekker - Viktor Berdnikov, Tucson AZ 66.67% 2 2 Elaine Bindo - Joseph Bindo, Plano TX 55.36% 2 2 Susan Young - Fran Hewitt, Shreveport LA 65.18% 3 Letty Garek, Bedford TX; Bobbie Benson, Houston TX 53.27% 3 3 Nadine Barker - Suzie Herman, Fort Worth TX 55.36% 4/5 Kenneth Gibson - Wendy Gibson, Stow OH 52.98% 4 Mary Knox, Lawton OK; Susan Chun, Las Vegas NV 53.57% 4/5 Glen Tolle - Ann Tolle, Plano TX 52.98% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION QQ EAST-WEST 7 3 7 3 1 Wayne Bahr - Howard Huynh, Lubbock TX 63.69% 1 Eloise Meachum - Leslie Conant, Dallas TX 62.20% 2 1 Jeanie Wolff, Scottsdale AZ; Patricia Jurgensen, Columbus OH 61.01% 2 1 Suzanne Schoenthaler, Addison TX; Asa De Vries, Dallas TX 61.31% 3 2 Stephen Genheimer - Kristie Genheimer, Mustang OK 57.14% 3 Suzanne Justice, Arlington TX; Corinne Easley, Ft Worth TX 60.42% 4 3 Finlay Higgins, Arlington TX; Mike Peiffer, Colleyville TX 56.85% 4 2 Glen Scroggins, Olympia WA; Kathleen Matsubara, Lacey WA 51.19% 3 Judith Busby - Sheila Harrison, Houston TX 50.00% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION RR EAST-WEST 7 3 7 3 1 Sharon Stevens, Vineland STN ON; Donna Sinrud, Fairfax VA 65.18% 1 1 Thomas Hughes - Mindy Kerber, Austin TX 61.01% 2 Patricia Schroeder - Ninfa Sada, Mexico City Mexico 63.99% 2 James Faw, Oklahoma City OK; Boyan Ganchev, Edmond OK 55.65% 3 1 Judy Nixon - Jeanette McDonald, Flower Mound TX 55.65% 3 Bill Strange, Fort Worth TX; Don Cosby, Ft Worth TX 55.36% 4 Jill Carroll, Hurst TX; Sharon Driggers, N Richlnd Hls TX 53.27% 4 2 Dan Woodward - Betty Woodward, Fairview TX 52.68% 2 Sudhir Shah, Dallas TX; Louise LeRoux, Lavon TX 48.21% 3 Patsy Rainwater-Maddu - Connie Van Patter, McKinney TX 51.79% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION SS EAST-WEST 7 3 7 3 1 1 Deborah Armstrong, Dallas TX; Sharon Ward, Plano TX 60.12% 1 John Davis, Lake Kiowa TX; Bert Dempsey, Sherman TX 58.63% 2 Shane Garner - Robert Hartman, Memphis TN 59.23% 2 Ildiko Baxter, Allison Park PA; Tammy Tjader, Pittsburgh PA 54.76% 3 2 Marjorie Butler - Rachell Jackson, Austin TX 57.14% 3 Ann Overfield, Arlington TX; Sissy Toney, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 54.17% 4 3 Craig Briney - Mary Ann Briney, N Richland Hill TX 55.06% 4 1 John Robbins - Ben Benjamin, Fort Worth TX 51.49% 2 Josephine Basel, Dallas TX; Will Sutherland, North York ON 51.19% 3 Eugene Wuller, Coppell TX; Stephen Wuller, Mansfield TX 50.89%

1ST SATURDAY A/X OPEN PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS UU VV EAST-WEST A B A B 1 Lee Atkinson - Mark Yaeger, Hollywood FL 63.31% 1 James Ward - Karen Walker, Champaign IL 69.92% 2 Louis Sachar - Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX 61.77% 2 Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; David Neuman, San Francisco CA 61.23% 3 Richard Bender - Jon Nance, Springfield MO 61.46% 3 Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie 54 Poland; Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan Poland 60.23% 4 Monique Smith, Arlington VA; Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD 57.15% 4/5 1 Harry Elliott, Houston TX; Bob Wilkin, Highland Villag TX 55.54% 5 1 Robert Lurie, Wayland MA; John Hrones Jr, Needham MA 55.85% 4/5 Walter Schafer Jr, Huntington Bch CA; Carmela Chiurazzi, Sunset Beach CA 55.54% 6 , New York NY; Eric Leong, Oakland CA 55.77% 6 Steve Smolen - Victor Chubukov, San Francisco CA 53.92% 7 Gary Neisler, N Richlnd Hls TX; Nancy Peterson, Euless TX 54.54% 7 2 Mark Teich - Gretchen Teich, Bluffton SC 52.92% 8 Gen Geiger - Terry McHenry, Sarasota FL 54.00% 8 Larry Rich, Cumming GA; Bob Heller, Knoxville TN 52.62% 9 Ted Gibbs, Rncho Pls Vrd CA; Alan Myerson, Sherman Oaks CA 52.54% 9 William Ge, Burnaby BC; James Wu, Surrey BC 52.15% 10 2 Elaine Misner - James Misner, Wilton CT 52.15% 10 Geoffrey Phipps, Bluffton SC; Randolph Johnson, Suffield CT 51.23% 3 Wei Tian - Bin Shi, China People’s Republic of China 49.92% 4 Henrietta Morris, Arlington TX; Susan Eastman, Altamont NY 49.69% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS WW XX EAST-WEST A B A B 1 Jane Matcha - Robert Matcha, Sugar Land TX 61.05% 1 Ahmed Rabie, Henderson NV; Ahmed Yousry, Cairo Egypt 60.46% 2 1 Chantal Dube - Josette Levesque, Montreal QC 61.04% 2 Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA; Ken Monzingo, San Diego CA 58.01% 3 Nancy Kornegay - Stephen Kornegay, N Richlnd Hls TX 59.74% 3 Marc Nathan - Cathy Nathan, New York NY 56.50% 4 Larry Klein, Cincinnati OH; Norman Coombs, Brookville IN 58.82% 4 James Partridge - Brenda Hawkins, Birmingham AL 55.78% 5 Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL; Rozanne Pollack, New York NY 58.59% 5 1 Anant Rathi, San Diego CA; Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY 55.26% 6 2 Aeron Ries, Bellingham WA; Choon Chou Loo, Singapore 60027 Singapore 54.63% 6 Jill Fouad, New Canaan CT; Harold Feldheim, Hamden CT 54.91% 7 Lloyd Arvedon, Woburn MA; Glenn Robbins, New York NY 54.59% 7 2 Gregory Herman, Fort Collins CO; Aaron Mohrman, Seattle WA 53.82% 8 Jack Feagin Jr - Claudia Feagin, Atlanta GA 54.59% 8 Michael Creager, Brecksville OH; Kenneth Kranyak, Bay Village OH 53.57% 9 Neal Perlman, San Angelo TX; Barbara Mackay, Fredericton NB 50.51% 9 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Walter Lee, Sudbury MA 53.18% 10 James Stokes, Grand Rapids MI; Bert Newman, West Bloomfield MI 50.07% 10 3 Cameron Shunta - Renee Shunta, Grand Haven MI 53.07% Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 23, 2014 Page 13

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS AAA BBB EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Bill Harlan, Oklahoma City OK; Darlene Shirey, Fort Worth TX 64.78% 1 J Peter Tripp - Penny Lane, Williston VT 68.22% 2 Robert Lavin, East Longmeadow MA; Patricia Wright, Charlotte NC 60.76% 2 1 Kim Eng, Issaquah WA; Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA 64.13% 3 1 Russell Samuel, Coram NY; Barry Samuel, Santa Rosa CA 60.74% 3 Michael Kamil, Santa Clara CA; R Jay Becker, New York NY 62.43% 4 Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Peter Mosheim, Miami FL 56.78% 4 2 Frank Collecchia - William Toutant, Louisville KY 58.09% 5 Nancy Molesworth, White Plains NY; Rhoda Prager, Boca Raton FL 56.51% 5 Zeke Letellier, Crofton MD; Jennifer Koonce, Odenton MD 53.75% 6 Jeffrey Rothstein - Linda Rothstein, New York NY 55.93% 6 3 Robin Ladin - Barbara Harberg, Houston TX 53.63% 7 2 1 Joyce Graf - Sue Alter, Dallas TX 52.07% 7 4 Anne Beaurivage - Jack Conway, Lincoln NE 53.32% 8 Richard Labrecque - Michel Montplaisir, Quebec QC 52.04% 8 Mike Albert - Kathleen Owen, Omaha NE 50.49% 9 3 David Lodge - Nance Lodge, Rancho Mirage CA 50.52% 9 Thomas Leberman, Plano TX; Michael Murphy, Dallas TX 50.22% 4 Joseph Keim - Bill Gottschall, Dayton OH 48.77% 5 1 Alan Godes, Needham MA; David Greims, Dallas TX 48.88% 5 2 Judy Bagley, Point Venture TX; J Bank, Austin TX 48.49% 2 Deepak Dighe, W Bloomfield MI; Leif Bjorn Odden, 3750 Drangedal Norway 46.26% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS CCC DDD EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Edward White, Grand Blanc MI 61.55% 1 Mark Shaw, Columbia MD; Martin Graf, Chevy Chase MD 60.13% 2 1 1 Daniel Fife, Irving TX; Mark Hatten, Carrollton TX 57.95% 2 Annette Lee McHann, Flowood MS; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 59.91% 3 2 Barry Vaughn - Sandy Wyley Vaughn, Amarillo TX 53.59% 3 Randy Thompson, Albuquerque NM; Barry Spector, Springfield VA 55.56% 4 3 Wanda Hughes - Dee McKinley, Wichita Falls TX 53.27% 4 Steve Shirey, Fort Worth TX; John Pataki, Mesquite TX 53.70% 5 4 2 Shirley Morrison, Edmund OK; Norma Baker, Oklahoma City OK 52.18% 5 1 Lillian Johannessen - Robert Hope, Honolulu HI 53.49% 6 Clay Sundermeyer - Nada Sundermeyer, Bellevue WA 51.85% 6 James Fowlkes - Patricia Fowlkes, Garner NC 53.16% 7/8 Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI; George Kaiser, Tequesta FL 51.53% 7 Pam LaShelle, Round Rock TX; Danny Feng, Cedar Park TX 52.51% 7/8 5 Brigitte Sandifer, Sugar Land TX; Audley Karrasch, Houston TX 51.53% 8 Cole Spencer, Fayetteville AR; Joe Scott, Rogers AR 52.18% 2 Marina Scott - J Jennings, Rogers AR 51.85% 3 1 David Graham - Jill Graham, Boca Raton FL 51.74% 4 Barbara Traphagen, Fort Worth TX; R Segerlind, Dallas TX 51.53%

SATURDAY MORNING SIDE SERIES 2 OF 3 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION WW EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Daniel Baker - Joyce Cooper, Austin TX 72.35% 1 Scott Nelson, Encinitas CA; Andrew Loh, Solana Beach CA 66.29% 2 Sam Dinkin, Austin TX; Michael Shuster, Collegeville PA 62.69% 2 Richard Newell, West Des Moines IA; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL 62.69% 3/4 2/3 1 Jurgen Stielow, Austin TX; Donald Robinson, Boise ID 53.41% 3 1 Timothy Smith - Jennifer Nisenoff, Dallas TX 58.14% 3/4 2/3 Virginia Ray, Meadowlakes TX; Shirley Naumann, Marble Falls TX 53.41% 4 2 1 Joe Cameron, Frisco TX; G Brantz, Plano TX 56.25% 5 4 2 Ranjan Bhaduri, Chicago IL; Raymond Jung, Hamilton ON 53.03% 5 3 Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS; Dan Chocron, Wichita KS 54.92% 6 5 3 Donna Sinrud, Fairfax VA; Rosemary Stielow, Austin TX 51.89% 6/7 4/5 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Janet Cucurullo, Newburyport MA 53.60% 6 Mindy Aiken, Aventura FL; Dave Kuschel, Minot ND 51.14% 6/7 4/5 2 Bob Dingle, Addison TX; Bob Frink, Plano TX 53.60% 4 Bruce Mann, Aledo TX; George Mann Jr, Kinnelon NJ 50.19% 3 Richard Page - Rebecca Page, Plano TX 53.03%

SATURDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VVV EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Denys Slater Jr - Jane Slater, Dallas TX 65.70% 1 1 1 Tom Collins - Marcia Collins, Texarkana AR 61.63% 2 2 2 Christine Skibell - Barbara Smith, Dallas TX 54.62% 2 2 2 Martha Ward, Plano TX; Linda Lindley, Dallas TX 55.42% 3 3 Cindy Whitten - Lenette Sadler, Carrollton TX 53.67% 3 3 Allan Gold, Rydal PA; Jerry Frankel, Plano TX 54.52% 4 4 3 Jim Riffell - Zane Sherrill, Frisco TX 53.55% 4 4 3 Neil Lorenz, Alamo TX; Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX 52.33% 5 5 Diane Quin, Grand Prairie TX; Sandra Tennison, Burleson TX 51.30% 5 Cled Painter - Peggy Painter, Athens TX 52.10%

SATURDAY MORNING 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UUU EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Nancy Llewellyn - Jackie Khilling, Ft Smith AR 65.00% 1 1 Rodney Bond - Virgina Bond, Ft Worth TX 53.75% 2 Ziena Faltin, San Antonio TX; Marion Ezedinma, Pembroke Bermuda 50.83% 2 2 1 Linda Pempsell - Jane Clark, Arlington TX 52.50% 2 Susan Smith, Grapevine TX; Daniel Thompson, Fort Worth TX 49.58%

SATURDAY MORNING BRIDGE+ 5/20 SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION XXX EAST-WEST A B A B 1 Carrie Fillingin - Barbara Taylor, Farmers Branch TX 70.00% 1 Karen Anders, Dallas TX; Mandy Davis, Richardson TX 63.33% 1 Becky Bullard - Joyce Jordan, Dallas TX 57.50% 2/3 Ashok Parekh - Lena Parekh, Plano TX 61.67% 2 Monetta Owen, Murphy TX; Jenny Daniel, Dallas TX 54.17% 2/3 1 Drew Stull - John Stull, Dallas TX 61.67% 3 Bettye Bell - Ginger Smith, Fort Worth TX 51.67% 4 2 Karen Bowman - Carole Buffington, Richardson TX 59.17% 4 Robert Lawler - Nina Davis, Grand Prairie TX 50.83% 3 Sheila Hillhouse - Helen Slaughter, Fort Collins CO 57.50% 1 Bob Pansick - Terri Pansick, Dallas TX 44.17%

SATURDAY GOLD RUSH PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PP EAST-WEST 7 3 7 3 1 Earl Mast, Arlington TX; Aleta McTamany, Ft Polk LA 56.85% 1 1 Valerie Watson, Bella Vista AR; Teri Collier, Angel Fire NM 60.12% 2 1 Saundra Dickinson - Barbara Abney, Kingwood TX 56.25% 2 2 Elaine Bindo - Joseph Bindo, Plano TX 57.14% 3 Marifrances Watson - Mary Bloodworth, San Angelo TX 53.87% 3 Marilyn Elston, Aledo TX; Judy Phillips, Fort Worth TX 55.36% 4 2 Judith Busby - Sheila Harrison, Houston TX 52.08% 4 Kenneth Gibson - Wendy Gibson, Stow OH Only 52.38% 3 Nancy Love, Dallas TX; Robert Stewart, Garland TX 50.00% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION QQ EAST-WEST 7 3 7 3 1 Carol Whitten - Sue Patton, Abilene TX 62.80% 1 1 Jeanie Wolff, Scottsdale AZ; Patricia Jurgensen, Columbus OH 56.85% 2 1 Oleg Bekker - Viktor Berdnikov, Tucson AZ 62.50% 2 Joni Holten - Charo Barnette, Houston TX 55.95% 3 2 Michael Thorpe, Montrose CO; Adam White, Colleyville TX 59.52% 3 Sammie Borum - Fred Borum, Texarkana TX 51.49% 4 3 Sandra Fix, Oklahoma City OK; Linda Farris, Arlington TX 55.36% 4 Kay Jennings - Cary Jennings, Fort Worth TX 50.60% 2 Finlay Higgins, Arlington TX; Mike Peiffer, Colleyville TX 26 50.00% 3 Gail Wood - Jane Boozalis, Houston TX 49.40% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION RR EAST-WEST days until 7 3 7 3 1 John Davis, Lake Kiowa TX; Bert Dempsey, Sherman TX 60.54% 1 Ginger Kennedy - Dana Pickett, Fort Worth TX the world's 63.39% 2 1 Josephine Basel, Dallas TX; Will Sutherland, North York ON 58.29% 2 Patricia Schroeder - Ninfa Sada, Mexico City Mexico 55.74% 3 2 Billee Brooks - Carol Stollenwerck, Dallas TX 57.27% 3 Jill Carroll, Hurst TX; Sharon Driggers, N Richlnd Hls TX 54.46% 4 3 Sudhir Shah, Dallas TX; Louise LeRoux, Lavon TX 51.70% 4 1 Eugene Wuller, Coppell TX; Stephen Wuller, Mansfield TX largest 52.55% 2 John Robbins - Ben Benjamin, Fort Worth TX 49.58% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION SS EAST-WEST gathering 7 3 7 3 1 1 Jan Choyce - John Gilbert, Fort Worth TX 65.48% 1 1 Patsy Rainwater-Maddu - Connie Van Patter, McKinney TX of regional 62.80% 2 James Faw, Oklahoma City OK; Boyan Ganchev, Edmond OK 59.52% 2 Victoria Currie, La Jolla CA; Kirsten Lumpkin, Seattle WA 54.46% 3/4 2 Craig Briney - Mary Ann Briney, N Richland Hill TX 55.36% 3 2 Marjorie Butler - Rachell Jackson, Austin TX 53.27% 3/4 Bill Strange, Fort Worth TX; Don Cosby, Ft Worth TX 55.36% 4 Ann Sherman - Eleanor Cherryholmes, Denton TX tournament 52.68% 3 Donald Richardson - Edna Richardson, Corsicana TX 46.43% 3 Dan Woodward - Betty Woodward, Fairview TX bridge 50.30% FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SIDE SERIES 3 OF 4 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS MM NN EAST-WEST A B C A B C players. 1 Madhusudan Patel, Houston TX; Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS 62.09% 1 1 1 Sam Litovsky, Los Angeles CA; Sherman Layman, Okemah OK 60.96% 2 Martha Easter, Daytona Beach FL; Joanne Behr, New Smyrna Bch FL 59.99% 2 2 Bill Carstens, Anthem AZ; Rod Southworth, Cheyenne WY 57.38% 3 1 1 Bruce Mann, Aledo TX; George Mann Jr, Kinnelon NJ 57.03% 3 Phillip Alder, Hobe Sound FL; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 56.49% 4 2 2 Jianbo Chen, Frisco TX; Siming Hui, Richardson TX 56.59% 4 3 2 Christine Clark, Nashville TN; Bonnie Keough, College Station TX 54.73% 5 3 3 Bonnie Burch - Jo Ann Parten, Emory TX 53.57% 5 Hazel Schoenberg - Jules Schoenberg, Plano TX 54.03% 6 4 Bennett Neiman - David Garman, Austin TX 53.43% 6 4 3 Rebecca Page - Richard Page, Plano TX 54.00% 7 5 Bob Ingebritson, Lewisville TX; Marjorie Deutsch, Dallas TX 52.79% 7 Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ; Ken Barbour, Scottsdale AZ 53.47% 8 6 Linda Cole - Nancy Jean Harris, San Angelo TX 51.10% 8 Geoff Booth - Robert Sandfield, Houston TX 53.40% 5 4 Mimi Lempert, Plano TX; Jan Welsh, Richardson TX 52.78% 6 Larry Laudig, Waxahachie TX; Maxine Nobbman, Myrtle Beach SC 50.31%

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LEBHAR IMP PAIRS 1ST FINAL SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS C D E F G H EAST-WEST 1 Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 41.40 1 Stephen Mackay, Markham ON; Michael Ranis, New York NY 46.77 2 Scott Levine - Aaron Silverstein, New York NY 40.83 2 Peter Lit, Elk CA; Ari Sippola, Irving TX 38.04 3 Jeff McKee, Nevada TX; Jack Lacy, Lago Vista TX 38.88 3 Radu Nistor, Edison NJ; Iulian Christian, Bucharest Russia 36.97 4 David Brower, Portland OR; Adam Parrish, Sandwich MA 35.60 4 Allan Siebert, Little Rock AR; Don Caton, Pensacola FL 33.75 5 Ellis Feigenbaum, Laguna Woods CA; Steve Mager, Hermosa Bch CA 34.86 5 Joe Yassi, Etobicoke ON; James Breihan, Houston TX 31.75 6 James Melville, Springfield IL; Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria 32.52 6 Lewis Gamerman, Westwood MA; Robert McCaw, Sudbury MA 30.36 7 Hans Graverson - Henrik Caspersen, Aalborg 9200 Denmark 27.82 7 Clifton Miller Sr, Shreveport LA; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 27.44 8 Erez Hendelman - Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY 27.36 8 Bob Feller, Guilderland NY; Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY 27.19 9 Samuel Baskinger, Totowa NJ; Judy Rothstein, Livingston NJ 26.90 9 Lino D’Souza, Burlington ON; Jay Kelkar, Oak Hill VA 25.76 10 Bernace De Young - Sean Ganness, Miami FL 26.15 10 Gabrielle Sherman, Santa Clara CA; David Gurvich, Brooklyn NY 23.75 11 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 25.92 11 Allen Hawkins Jr, Birmingham AL; Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA 22.32 12 Namik Kokten - Tuna Aluf, Instanbul Turkey 24.93 12 Mark Tolliver - Marc Zwerling, Portland OR 21.47 13 Judith Bianco - Winthrop Allegaert, New York NY 23.35 13 - Chris Hamman, Dallas TX 20.37 14 Bob Friz, Leonard TX; Brady Allen, Dallas TX 20.23 14 Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD; Arnold Malasky, Longboat Key FL 17.16 15 Jadwiga Polujan, Calgary AB; June Pocock, New Westminster BC 19.79 15 Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL; William Wickham, Los Angeles CA 16.68 16 Linda Trent - Brian Trent, Fullerton CA 15.24 16 Ron Smith, Las Vegas NV; Bipin Patel, Oakland CA 15.23 17 Steve Gross, Westlake Vilg CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA 14.93 17 Fredrik Nystrom, 11427 Stockholm Sweden; Grace Jeklin, Surrey BC 14.06 18 Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Bch FL 14.60 18 Donald Mamula, Mill Creek WA; Linda Bandler, Alamo CA 13.07 19 Richard Higgins - Greg Frank, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 14.24 19 Robert Gardner, Glenview IL; Dick Bruno, des Plaines IL 12.99 20 Neil Chambers - Donna Chambers, Schenectady NY 13.46 20 Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL; Jim Foster, Birmingham AL 12.92 21 V Jay Tipton - Linda Tipton, Irvine CA 13.04 21 Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN; Carole Miner, Rochester MN 12.40 22 Michael Fleisher, Santa Clara CA; Kevin Schoenfeld, Pleasanton CA 12.89 22 Rosen Gunev - Ivan Nanev, Sofia Bulgaria 11.93 23 Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Martin Harris, Chicago IL 12.68 23 Viktor Anikovich, Los Angeles CA; Edward Piken, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA 10.82 24 Janice Anderson - Richard Anderson, Regina SK 11.92 24 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; John Carroll, Dublin 14 Ireland 9.64 25 Ron Bishop - Barry Senensky, Toronto ON 11.75 25/26 Barry Bragin, Silver Spring MD; Mark Laken, Glyndon MD 9.27 26 Howard Parker III, Clements CA; Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA 11.46 25/26 Richard Meffley, Fresno CA; Bill Heid, Pacifica CA 9.27 27 Herman Louie - Ming Louie, Henderson NV 11.41 27 Daniel Neill, Portland OR; Jason Rotenberg, Ridgefield CT 8.73 28 Plotr Zak, Lodz Poland; Jerzy Zaremba, Chapel Hill NC 10.13 28 Brian Glubok, New York NY; David Treitel, Miami FL 8.68 29 Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY; Marshall Lewis, Cleveland Hgts OH 9.84 29 Andrew Proczkowski - Kaz Walewski, Edmonton AB 8.45 30 Linda Spangler, Ft Worth TX; Merri-Jo Hillaker, Grand Prairie TX 9.20 30 Stephen Stewart, Overland Park KS; Ron Ashbacher, Lead Hill AR 7.98 31 Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 7.86 31 Michael Golden, Wyckoff NJ; Peggy Kaplan, Minnetonka MN 7.39

SAT A/X OPEN PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS UU VV EAST-WEST A B A B 1 Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie 54 Poland; Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan 60-433 Poland 65.54% 1 Shelba Parmley, Oklahoma City OK; Bill Ream, Burleson TX 58.92% 2 Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; David Neuman, San Francisco CA 59.38% 2 Steve Smolen - Victor Chubukov, San Francisco CA 58.77% 3 William Ge, Burnaby BC; James Wu, Surrey BC 59.23% 3 Rebecca Rogers, Las Vegas NV; Mac Busby, San Diego CA 57.85% 4 Martin Caley, Montreal QC; Diane Graese, Las Vegas NV 57.23% 4 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ann Borgschulte, Lexington MA 56.92% 5 1 William Garrard Jr - Donna Garrard, Irving TX 55.92% 5 Pat Galligan, San Mateo CA; Ashraf El Sadi, Union City CA 55.00% 6 Wallace Goldban, Palm Desert CA; Peter Rank, Palm Springs CA 54.08% 6 Richard Wieland, Redding CT; Fred Hamilton, Palm Desert CA 54.69% 7 David Rock, Westfield MA; Sonja Smith, North Granby CT 53.54% 7 Richard Bender - Jon Nance, Springfield MO 54.31% 8 2 Harry Elliott, Houston TX; Bob Wilkin, Highland Villag TX 52.85% 8 Cheryl Schneider, Westerville OH; Terry James, Upper Arlington OH 53.23% 9 3 Ed Freeman, Portland OR; Blair Young, Littleton CO 52.69% 9 1 Robert Lurie, Wayland MA; John Hrones Jr, Needham MA 51.54% 10 Michael White, Atlanta GA; Jodi Coren, Highland Beach FL 51.85% 10 Bertrand Gignoux, St Leger En Yve France; Duncan Smith, Victoria BC 51.31% 11 Terry Crabbs, Kansas City MO; Wayne Eggers, Woodridge IL 51.46% 11 Monique Smith, Arlington VA; Linda Marshall, Bethesda MD 51.08% 4 Mark Teich - Gretchen Teich, Bluffton SC 49.85% 2 J Brennan, Sherman TX; Roy Sparks, Denison TX 51.00% 3 William Hoge - Jim Dingwerth, Olathe KS 49.85% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS WW XX EAST-WEST A B A B 1 Peter Grover, Aurora OH; Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 56.88% 1 Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL; Rozanne Pollack, New York NY 63.89% 2 Marc Nathan - Cathy Nathan, New York NY 56.60% 2 Jack Feagin Jr - Claudia Feagin, Atlanta GA 62.42% 3 Ray Grace, Sherwood Park AB; Garry Karst, Edmonton AB 56.32% 3 Bill Cook Jr, Madison MS; Don Kern, Bay Minette AL 57.12% 4 Da De Wang - Tong Jiang, 54.89% 4 James Parker - Darcy Parker, Hendersonville NC 57.04% 5 1 Dennis Ryan, Menomonie WI; Gloria Peston, Melbourne, Vic Australia 54.66% 5 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Walter Lee, Sudbury MA 56.49% 6 Lyle Poe Jr, Ellicott City MD; Thomas Weik, Reading PA 54.54% 6 Billy Leeper, Ft Worth TX; Carolyn Pinto, Fort Worth TX 56.16% 7 Tim Crank, Cincinnati OH; Sara Rothmuller, Santa Rosa CA 54.34% 7 Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA; J Lindop, 53.99% 8 2 Anant Rathi, San Diego CA; Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY 53.62% 8 Nancy Popkin, Saint Louis MO; Alan Popkin, St Louis MO 53.55% 9 James Stokes, Grand Rapids MI; Bert Newman, West Bloomfield MI 52.74% 9 Ringo Chung, Mississauga ON; Daniel Hoekstra, Portland OR 53.53% 10 Miguel Reygadas, Tlalpan Mexico; C. Valerie Gamio, Pls Vrds Pnsl CA 52.15% 10 Larry Klein, Cincinnati OH; Norman Coombs, Brookville IN 51.98% 3 Gregory Herman, Fort Collins CO; Aaron Mohrman, Seattle WA 51.72% 1 Aeron Ries, Bellingham WA; Choon Chou Loo, Singapore 60027 Singapore 51.71% 2 Chantal Dube - Josette Levesque, Montreal QC 51.38%

PLATINUM PAIRS FIRST SEMI FINAL SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B EAST-WEST 1 Sartaj Hans, Artarmon NSW 20 Australia; Peter Gill, Sydney Australia 64.53% 1 Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gdns FL; John Hurd, New York NY 60.40% 2 Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC 57.91% 2 John McAllister, Charlottesville VA; Migry Zur Campanile, New York NY 57.26% 3 Dana Berkowitz, New York NY; C Ganzer, Brooklyn NY 57.26% 3 Mustafa Cem Tokay, Istanbul Turkey; Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 56.98% 4 Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY 56.55% 4/5 James Cayne, New York NY; Alfredo Versace, Rome Italy 56.27% 5 Martin Fleisher, New York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA 56.27% 4/5 Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Roy Welland, New York NY 56.27% 6 Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL 55.27% 6 Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Steve Garner, Chicago IL 55.98% 7 Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA 53.92% 7 Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Richard Coren, Delray Beach FL 53.77% 8 Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL 53.06% 8 Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Justin Lall, Las Vegas NV 53.49% 9 Per-Ola Cullin, Johanneshov Sweden; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden 52.78% 9 Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany 53.21% 10 Hakan Nilsson, West Palm Beach FL; Johan Upmark, 115 58 Stockho Sweden 51.92% 10 Lotan Fisher, Rishon Le Zion Israel; G. Margie Gwozdzinsky, Aventura FL 52.14% 11 Okay Gur - Gokhan Yilmaz, Istanbul Turkey 51.21% 11/12 Krishnan Ramaratnam, Jersey City NJ; Kirubakara Moorthy, Chennai India 51.57% 11/12 Fulvio Fantoni, 98000 Monaco; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK 51.57%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS AAA BBB EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1/2 Brian Hingerty - Geo. Fred Williams III, Knoxville TN 66.12% 1 Jeffrey Rothstein - Linda Rothstein, New York NY 64.38% 1/2 Susan Darsey, La Selva Beach CA; Jane Basilico, Santa Cruz CA 66.12% 2 1 David Lodge - Nance Lodge, Rancho Mirage CA 61.22% 3 Michael Kamil, Santa Clara CA; R Jay Becker, New York NY 62.42% 3 Bill Irvine, Quincy MA; Haven Sharaf, Danvers MA 60.57% 4 1 Kim Eng, Issaquah WA; Jeffrey Ford, Redmond WA 59.15% 4 2 1 Chris Kelly - Jimmy Justice, Waxahachie TX 57.08% 5 2 1 Alan Godes, Needham MA; David Greims, Dallas TX 55.77% 5 Suresh Agrawal, Rowlett TX; Gail Wells, Dallas TX 55.77% 6 Nancy Fellman, Dallas TX; Charles Price, Sherman TX 54.90% 6 Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Peter Mosheim, Miami FL 54.79% 7 Zeke Letellier, Crofton MD; Jennifer Koonce, Odenton MD 53.81% 7 3 Ike Golden, Tamarac FL; Lily Chew, Ottawa ON 54.68% 8 3 Martin Schwartz, Denton TX; Lester Dalton, Grapevine TX 51.42% 8 Richard Labrecque - Michel Montplaisir, Quebec QC 53.05% 9 4 2 Deepak Dighe, W Bloomfield MI; Leif Bjorn Odden, 3750 Drangedal Norway 50.54% 9 4 Charles Schmidt - Dorothy Kraus, Albany NY 51.09% 5 Walid Khalid Hakim - Tom Lang, Richardson TX 49.13% 5 2 Timothy Pettus, Northborough MA; Kathleen Stone, Dallas TX 50.44% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS CCC DDD EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Annette Lee McHann, Flowood MS; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 60.46% 1 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Edward White, Grand Blanc MI 65.78% 2 Steve Shirey, Fort Worth TX; John Pataki, Mesquite TX 59.40% 2 Bob Simkins, Decatur GA; Denny Cahan, Roswell GA 58.27% 3 Clay Sundermeyer - Nada Sundermeyer, Bellevue WA 56.80% 3 Nancy Molesworth, White Plains NY; Rhoda Prager, Boca Raton FL 56.54% 4 1 1 David Graham - Jill Graham, Boca Raton FL 56.59% 4 Bernie Greenspan - Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH 56.40% 5 2 Wanda Hughes - Dee McKinley, Wichita Falls TX 54.35% 5 1 Judith Flack, Sarasota FL; Ellen Schulman, Boca Raton FL 55.62% 6 3 Marina Scott - J Jennings, Rogers AR 54.12% 6 2 Jo Shah - Sam Shah, Irving TX 54.87% 7 Cole Spencer, Fayetteville AR; Joe Scott, Rogers AR 53.19% 7 3 Brigitte Sandifer, Sugar Land TX; Audley Karrasch, Houston TX 53.59% 8 4 Steven Goodman - Carol Frana, Overland Park KS 53.18% 8 Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI; George Kaiser, Tequesta FL 52.67% 4 Zia Kazimi - Nadine Kazimi, Clancy MT 49.46% 1 Suzanne Arsenault - Paul Andre Paquin, Saint-Bruno QC 38.36%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UUU EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Bettye Bell - Ginger Smith, Fort Worth TX 60.67% 1 1 Rodney Bond - Virgina Bond, Ft Worth TX 61.23% 2 2 Wayne Detmer - Jesse Crane, Woodbury MN 58.42% 2 Patricia Lysaught - Patrick Lysaught, Overland Park KS 53.87% 3 3 Barbara Gee, Ft Worth TX; Robert Endter, Mansfield TX 53.74% 3 Lacy Peterson - Carolyn Baker, Dallas TX 51.57% 1 Ziena Faltin, San Antonio TX; Stephanie Threlkeld, Germantown TN 40.18% 2 1 Linda Pempsell - Jane Clark, Arlington TX 50.21%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VVV EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 1 Richard McGaughy, Sugar Land TX; George Steele, Austin TX 66.29% 1 1 Jack Schober, Dallas TX; Jerry Frankel, Plano TX 62.12% 2 2 2 Clifford King - Anita King, Sanbornton NH 63.83% 2 2 John Blacklock - Edward Boenker, Addison TX 59.85% 3 3 3 Pam Campbell, Fairfield OH; Lisa Eisenstein, Loveland OH 57.39% 3 3 1 Neil Lorenz, Alamo TX; Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX 58.52% 4 4 Gary Twitty, Wylie TX; Janet French, Rio Rancho NM 55.49% 4 4 2 Tom Collins - Marcia Collins, Texarkana AR 57.20% 5 5 Kevin Glasgow, Rogers AR; Judy Bappe, Bella Vista AR 55.30% 5 5 3 Vadali Sastry, Orefield PA; Massuma M Kazemi, Dallas TX 56.25% 6 6 Charlotte Ewing - Gail Davis, Baton Rouge LA 54.92% 6 6 Dorothy Anderson - Wally Anderson, Boxford MA 53.79% 4 Denys Slater Jr - Jane Slater, Dallas TX 53.79% 4 M Susan Tucker, Dalas TX; James Huth, Dallas TX 53.22% 5 Jim Riffell - Zane Sherrill, Frisco TX 52.84% Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 23, 2014 Page 15

Tomorrow’s Bridge Events Goodwill Day All events are played in the Conference Center unless otherwise noted. Monday, March 24, 9 a.m. Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* Other Monday-Wednesday Morning Bracketed KO Teams 1st 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Sunday-Monday Morning Compact KO Teams 3-4 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Saturday-Monday Morning Bracketed KO Teams 3rd 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Monday-Wednesday Side Game Series 1st single session 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Monday, March 24, 10 a.m. 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $15 Monday, March 24, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Monday-Tuesday Senior KO Teams 1-2 Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Austin 2 & 3 $16 $20 For players born before January 1, 1959 Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 3rd floor, Houston Ballroom $16 $20 Monday, March 24, 1 p.m. Sunday-Monday Side Game Series 3rd single session 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Monday, March 24, 1 & 7:30 p.m. VANDERBILT KNOCKOUT TEAMS Round 1 1st floor, Dallas Ballroom $20 Entry for the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams required by 8 p.m. Sunday, March 23. Continues until complete. LEVENTRITT SILVER RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 F 1st floor, Dallas Ballroom $20 0–10,000 KNOCKOUT TEAMS Round 1 $17 Entry required by 8 p.m. Sunday, March 23. Continues until complete. Monday Compact Bracketed KO Teams 1-4 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Sunday-Monday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Stratified Open Pairs 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 (2500+; 0-2500) Gold Rush 750/300 Pairs 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Gold points for 0-750 Monday, March 24, 3 p.m. Stratified Side IMP Pairs single 3rd floor, Houston Ballroom $15 $19 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $15 Monday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. A/X Swiss Teams single 1st floor, Grand Hall $15 $19 B/C/D Swiss Teams single 1st floor, Grand Hall $15 $19 Sunday-Monday Side Game Series 4th single session 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $15 Monday, March 24, 11:30 p.m. Zip KO Teams single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, Strati-Flighted and Strati-Flighted Senior events are divided: A/X (4000+, 0-4000); separate from B/C/D (1000-2500, 500-1000, 0-500). Strata breaks for Stratified and Stratified Senior events are: A (2500+), B (750-2500), C (0-750). *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.

session for ACBL members, $20 for non-members. A link at the top of the BridgeWinners.com Entry Fees All other events are $15 per player per session homepage will take you to the list of events. Click Players must be ACBL for ACBL members, $19 for non-members. (Note: BUY AN ENTRY, fill out the form specifying who members whose service fees There is no entry fee for any flight of the North you are playing with (you’ll need partner’s ACBL or dues are current in order American Pairs, but participants who have qualified number). If you would like a seeded entry, check the to compete in any of the to play in these events are still required to be paid box that says “Please seed me.” Bridge Winners will following nationally ranked members.) provide you with a seeding number via email prior events: Kay Platinum to the event. When you’ve completed the form, click Pairs, , No more lines! REGISTER at the bottom of the . Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, Leventritt Silver The ACBL and Bridge Winners have teamed up You may make payment using either PayPal or Ribbon Pairs, , Lebhar IMP to enable you to buy entries for NABC events online Google Wallet. Both services allow you to pay with Pairs, Whitehead Women’s Pairs, Jacoby Open in advance. You pay only the cost of the entry – there either a credit card or a bank account. You need a Swiss Teams, and the Machlin Women’s Swiss is no service charge! Google account to use Google Wallet; you do not Teams. You may purchase your entry for day one only need a PayPal account to use PayPal if you pay with The entry fees for these NABC+ contests are $20 of the Silodor Pairs, Whitehead Women’s Pairs, a credit card. per player per session. Note: $1.50 per person per Vanderbilt KO Teams, the Machlin Women’s Swiss Once you’ve purchased your entry, all you do is session benefits the International Fund. Teams, the , the Leventritt check your email for your table assignment, show up Players must also be current ACBL members Silver Ribbon Pairs, and the Bean Red Ribbon Pairs. at game time, sit down at your table and play cards! to play in the 0-10,000 Swiss Teams, the 0-10,000 Except for the Vanderbilt KO, entries may be For more information, please go to Knockout Teams and the Bean Red Ribbon Pairs. purchased up to 10 a.m. the morning of the event. BridgeWinners.com. The entry fee is $17 per player per session. (You must register for the Vanderbilt by 8 p.m., Regional championships are $16 per player per Sunday, March 23.) Page 16 Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daily Bulletin Today’s Bridge Events All events are played in the Conference Center unless otherwise noted. Sunday, March 23, 9 a.m. Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* Other Sunday-Monday Morning Compact Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Saturday-Monday Morning Bracketed KO Teams 2nd 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Friday-Sunday Morning Side Game Series 3rd single session 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Sunday, March 23, 10 a.m. Bridge-Plus+ Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Austin 1 Free Free Free lesson, 14-deal game follows at 12:30 p.m. Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $15 Sunday, March 23, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 3rd floor, Houston Ballroom $16 $20 Stratified Senior Swiss Teams 1-2 Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor, Austin 2 & 3 $16 $20 For players born before January 1, 1959. Sunday, March 23, 12:30 p.m. Bridge-Plus+ single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom Free 14 deals; follows free 10 a.m. lesson Sunday, March 23, 1 p.m. Sunday-Monday Side Game Series 1st single session 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Sunday, March 23, 1 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. NORMAN KAY PLATINUM PAIRS 1-2 F 1st floor, Dallas Ballroom $20 LEVENTRITT SILVER RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 Q 1st floor, Dallas Ballroom $20 Players born before January 1, 1959, who have a Silver, Red or Blue Ribbon qualification are eligible to play. 2 qualifying & 2 final sessions Sunday-Monday Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 A/X Swiss Teams 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 B/C/D Swiss Teams 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Toby Passel Memorial Stratified Open Pairs 1-2 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Sunday, March 23, 3 p.m. Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $15 Sunday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. Stratified Side Swiss Teams single 1st floor, Grand Hall $15 $19 Sunday-Monday Side Game Series 2nd single session 1st floor, Grand Hall $16 $20 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $15 $15 Sunday, March 23, 11:30 p.m. Zip KO Teams single 3rd floor, San Antonio Ballroom $12/team/match

Note: The deadline for registering in the both the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams and the 0–10,000 KO Teams has been extended from 6 p.m. (as referenced in the Conditions of Contest) to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 23.

Unless otherwise noted, Strati-Flighted and Strati-Flighted Senior events are divided: A/X (4000+, 0-4000); separate from B/C/D (1000-2500, 500-1000, 0-500). Strata breaks for Stratified and Stratified Senior events are: A (2500+), B (750-2500), C (0-750). *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.

Today’s Sponsor Say ‘cheese’ please! Toby Passel Memorial (together without fighting), and began, too, to play ACBL has retained a professional photographer occasionally in tournaments. They both eventually to update images for our publications and website. Stratified Open Pairs became Life Masters. We are looking for you – Hall of Famers, NABC Toby Passel, a native of Waco, Texas, lived in For more than fifty years, Toby had regular winners, tournament staff, Grand Life Masters, soon- Dallas from 1948 until 2011. weekly social bridge and mahjong games with a to-be Grand Life Masters and Platinum Life Masters, Toby grew up playing many different card games group of friends. The games disbanded only when Bulletin contributors, I/N speakers, etc. with her parents, sisters and extended family. Her driving by the participants became an issue. On Monday, March 24, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., the family home was a gathering spot for friends and When she moved to the Washington DC area photographer will be located in the Sheraton Hotel, family, and card games and dominos were often the in 2011 at the age of 90, Toby’s biggest regret was second floor in Pearl Room 3. Please try to look nice. entertainment for the evening. Her children don’t leaving behind her regular bridge partner and game. Questions? Email the Daily Bulletin folks at remember a time when their mom and dad (Toby’s She still followed the game by reading The Bridge [email protected]. husband, Leon) didn’t play bridge. Bulletin and was always eager to hear news about the By the early 1960s, Toby and Leon started friends she made playing . Smoking Policy playing in local duplicate games. After Leon She died in November of 2013, just as the Fall retired in 1977, they played more duplicate bridge Smoking is not permitted in the playing area NABC was beginning. during any bridge playing event at an NBAC. This includes electronic smoking devices.