Sponsored by Units 184 (Lincoln) and 241 (Omaha), ACBL MidAmerica Center – Horseshoe Casino SATURDAY – JULY 27, 2013 ♦ ♥ ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ ♣♦ ♥ ♠ ♣♦ ♥ ♠ ♣♦ ♥ ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ ♣♦ ♥ ♠ ♣♦ Yes, Free Lunch is Back! The Nebraska Regional Thank you Caddies!!! continues its tradition of providing a delicious free lunch Thank you, Ken McNary for doing such a great job of Saturday. Lunch will be served in scheduling the caddies for this tournament. They did the “pre-function area” outside the a great job and we really appreciate their dedication to ballroom from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. The lunch doing a good job. These are the caddies who serviced will be pre-plated and ready to eat. Lunch can be us this week eaten at the tables provided or taken out. Timothy McNary Saturday Menu – Tortellini Vanecia Steffensmeier Salad, Grapes, Sugar Cookie Carlos Steffensmeier Alexis Wilson Bailey Wilson ADD A PRO PAIR TO YOUR Colin Wilson SUNDAY SWISS TEAM Kyle Trivilino Mike Trivilino For the second year, the Nebraska Regional is offering the Jordan Bianchi opportunity for you to add a professional bridge pair to Chris Bianchi your team at the Sunday Swiss. All week, you can Cheri Vecchio purchase a raffle ticket for only $10.00 and if your ticket is drawn, you will win the pro pair for Sunday. There is no Cooper Gatzemeyer limit to the number of tickets that can be purchased and all Jake Gatzemeyer proceeds will go to Bridge in the Schools. The drawing Cale Pulenski will be held on Saturday night. Sarah Brannen Rachael Brannen Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your swiss chances Brianna Murphy and watch your pro teammates in action and also support Sarah Murphy Bridge in the Schools. Danica Ames SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, July 27, 2013 Fremont Bracketed KO’s (4th of 4 Rounds) 9:00 am Omaha Stratified Swiss (2nd of 2 sessions) 9:00 am Saturday Side Game (1 st , 2 nd , & 3 rd Rounds of 3) 9:00 am 1:00 pm 7:15 pm Intermediate/Newcomer Stratified Pairs (single sessions ) 9:00 am 1:00 pm 7:15 pm Mike Passell Kearney Bracketed KO’s (3rd & 4th of 4 Rounds) 1:00 pm 7:15 pm 6:45 Compact KO’s (1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th of 4 Rounds) 1:00 pm 7:15 pm RAP Strati-flighted Gold Rush Pairs (Two Sessions) 1:00 pm 7:15 pm C=0-500; B=0-750 (Section Top earns gold) A=3000+ AX=0-3000 (plays separately) Stratified Swiss Teams (Single Session) 7:15 pm Sunday, July 28, 2013 Strarti-flighted Swiss (Seven 7 Board Matches) 9:30 am D = 0-300, C = 300-750, B = 750-2000 Swiss end by 5pm AX = 0-3000, A = 3000+ (Plays separately) Newcomer Swiss (Single Sessions) 9:30 am Newcomer Strats (C = 0-20, B = 20-50, A = 50-100) 2014 NEBRASKA REGIONAL – AUGUST 4-10 Directing Staff Chris Patrias, DIC Tony Ames, Richard Beye, Diane NEBRASKA REGIONAL FREQUENTLY Beyer Martin, Larry Brobst, Donna ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (FAQs) Coker, Bill Michael, Michael Flader, Eric Bell, Sam Stoxen, Tony Ames II, Q: What are strati-flighted gold rush pairs? Peter Wilke A: Players with fewer than 750 masterpoints play against each other with two strats. C is 0-500 and B Please be courteous to our caddies and directors. is 0-750. Section winners receive gold points. When you need them, call, “Director, Please!” Or, Players with over 750 masterpoints play in the AX “Caddy, Please!” pairs in two stats. AX is 0-3000 and A is 3000+ masterpoints. This is a Zero Tolerance tournament. Bad behavior WILL NOT be Q: How are brackets determined for the knockouts? tolerated at the bridge table. If you A: Teams are listed by total points (5 person teams feel you are being abused, call by 4/5 total, 6 person by 4/6 total). Brackets are taken “Director, Please!” in order from top to bottom with a minimum of 9 teams per bracket and a maximum of 16. !!! All electronic devices must be turned off during play. !!! Q: How are overall winners of the side games determined? A: A person’s two best percentage games determine **** PARTNERSHIPS ***… their overall position. Both games must be in the same series, i.e.Series I at this tournament consists of Need a partner? Check with the staff at the Partnership Desk. the Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday morning side games. Note that the overall is an individual event, not a partnership one. A player can play each session with a different partner and still win the overall. Britain Beezely has brought his fine collection of books and bridge supplies. Q. How many sessions of the side game do you have to play in to get in the overalls? Free Steaks! IF You’re Lucky A. Although you are allowed to play in only one side We’ll be drawing daily for a gift certificate for Omaha game, if you choose, in order to place in the overalls, Steaks. Redeem your certificate at the local Omaha Steaks you must play in at least two of a series. location or online. Your registration card will be used for the drawing, so be sure to register. Q. What victory point scale is used in the Swiss Team games at this regional? Thursday’s Omaha Steaks Winners: A. We are using the 20 point scale. Bill Hoge – Olathe, KS Charles Loos – Rapid City, SD Q. Where are the tournament results Ron Kohr – Schaumburg, IL A. They are being posted at Omahabridge.org during Blair Young – Littleton, CO the tournament. Winners who have not received their certificates, should see Jan Loftin COMMITTEES: TOURNAMENT CHAIRS Leslie “Cookie” Hoberman Photographer Jan Loftin If you are an event winner or a new life master, we REGISTRATION AND HOSPITALITY would like to take your picture and post it on our Jan LeMaster and Robley Garrigan picture board. The photographer will be available PARTNERSHIPS: Marlene and Art Clausen daily by the “Photographer” balloon at 4:30pm and CADDIES: Ken McNary RULES, ETHICS & SEEDING: Sue Himel 10:30pm. The photographer can also be contacted by NEWCOMER: Chuck Hoster email at [email protected] . You are welcome to PHOTOGRAPHY: Dr. Bill Smith take your pictures with you when you go home or FLYER DISTRIBUTION: Lorri Brockman give us your email and we will email them to you. ACBL PRESIDENT: Don Mamula ACBL CEO: New Life Masters Robert Hartman PRESIDENT UNIT 241 Regina English – Omaha, NE (A former caddy!!) Darlene Rischling PRESIDENT UNIT 184 Bob Kutilek 2014 NEBRASKA REGIONAL – AUGUST 4-10 The Great One Looking for a player with a more impressive record than Bob Hamman? You have your work cut out for you. Bob won his first NABC title at the tender age of 23 (something called “The Reisinger”). Since then he has collected over 50 NABC titles. Add in many seconds plus ten Bermuda Bowl victories, other world titles and a multitude of team trial wins. You appreciate that Bob’s bridge resume is second to none. With Captain Richie Schwarz, partner Sam Lev and teammates John Schermer, Neil Chambers and Allan Graves, last month Bob seized the 2013 Senior USBF Championship. This gives Bob the opportunity to earn a title not on his list: the Senior Bowl. Of course, Bob has never played in it previously; the only reason this event has escaped him! I asked Bob for a recent hand to share with us. Most players would offer something with dazzling defense or masterful play. But, not Bob. Bob contributed a hand where he actually went wrong at the table. Yet, because Bob is as fascinated by our incredible game as anyone after all these years, he eschewed glory. Instead, Bob shared a hand with important lessons. With AQxx, AK96x, x, K8x, Bob opened 1H. His LHO bid 2NT for the minors, partner passed, and RHO bid a reluctant 3C. Bob doubled, LHO passed and Sam jumped to 4H. LHO thought a bit, then led a low heart. Bob’s dummy was: 107x, 105x, AQxxx, xx. Bob put up the 10 of hearts, and RHO covered with the queen. Bob won, then played a diamond to the queen, winning, and a club to the king, losing. LHO won, then played another diamond. Bob won the ace, pitching a spade, then played another club. When LHO won, he continued diamonds. RHO pitched a club – and now the hand could not be made. RHO could overruff dummy on the third round of clubs, and needless to say, spades were not a big source of tricks. Bob’s only consolation was that his counterpart went down 3 to his 2. “But I should have made it!” Bob told me. “I made my error at trick two.” He explained. “I know that RHO has 3C. It’s also a virtual certainty that the club ace is on my left. So, I need to lead a low club from hand toward dummy after winning the heart. RHO will win and lead a heart. I win my 9, then play the king from hand. LHO will win, and, unable to return trump, will shift to a diamond. I win the queen, spade to the ace (dropping the stiff king, as it turns out) and ruff my last club. Now I cash my diamond ace, pitching a spade loser and claim 4, giving up 2 clubs and a spade.” 1075 105x AQxxx xx K J9xxx xx QJx KJxxx xx AQxxx Jxx AQxx AK96x x K8x I’ve given this hand to a number of fine players.