Chairman: George Vasilevsky Í Co-Chairman: Ed Matulis Wednesday, June 8 Tuesday-Wednesday Morning Compact Knockout Teams (3rd & final rounds) . 9:00 a.m. Wed-Thurs Stratified Morning Swiss Teams (1st of 2 sessions) 0/1500/3000 . 9:00 a.m. Wednesday-Thursday Morning Gold Rush Swiss Teams (1st of 2 sessions) . 9:00 a.m. Stratified Morning Side Game Series (single session or 2nd of 3). 9:00 a.m. 0-100 & 0-300 Stratified Pairs (single sessions). 10:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Stratified Daylight Pairs (0-750/750-3000/3000+) (2 sessions). 10:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Stratified Afternoon Side Game Series (single session or 3rd of 4). 1:15 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday Knockout Teams (3rd & final sessions). 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday Knockout Teams (1st and 2nd of 4 sessions) . 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Stratified Gold Rush Pairs (0-100/100-300/300-750) (2 sessions) . 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Stratified Pairs (0-1500/1500-3000/3000+) (2 sessions). 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Stratified Evening Side Game Series (single session or 3rd of 4) . 7:00 p.m. Stratified Swiss Teams (single session) . 7:00 p.m. Today’s Star Speaker Intermediate/Newcomer Guest Lectures 12:30 Wednesday Gold & Silver Room 6:30 p.m. ! Wednesday 6:30 p.m. – Eric Bell Bobby Levin Opening Leads Tips for Forming a Great Partnership Events Center 6:30 p.m. ! Thursday 6:30 p.m. – Karen Kimes obby Levin has won The Precision of Notrump too many bridge Bevents to list. He is Many thanks to Tuesday’s guest lecturer: the youngest player ever to ! Tuesday 6:30 p.m. – Janis Lilie win the Bermuda Bowl ( in What are you Thinking About? 1981 when he was 23). He and Steve Weinstein were Tournament Hospitality second in the World Open Pairs in Verona in 2006, ! Wednesday: following the evening and won the event four games – Ice Cream Night years later in Philadelphia. Bobby and Steve have ! Thursday: following the evening one of the most successful partnerships in bridge games – Soft Pretzel Night history. Bobby and his wife Jill (also a world ! Sunday morning: starting at 9:30 a.m. – champion) live right here in Las Vegas. Continental Breakfast Star Speaker Series 12:30 Tuesday 12:30 Thursday Mike Passell Chris Compton Covering Honors Bridge Logic: Who Has What? oin 3-time CBL Hall of Top 500 Fame member, Champion Mike Passell J A Chris Compton has been one of North for a session of America’s leading thinking players for more than logically on three decades. As one defense. Have of the League’s top you ever had a masterpoint holders partner who with 80,000, Mike has never gives won three world signals? Chris championships and will walk you dozens of national through the thought process of figuring out who titles. Mike is always has what honors on defense based on logic rather friendly at the table than signals (or coughing). Chris began playing with a great sense of humor. Mike and wife Nancy Bridge professionally in the ACBL at the age of (also a world champion) live in Dallas. 17. He is a World Grand Master and an ACBL Grand Life Master with over 41,000 ACBL masterpoints. Chris and wife Donna (a world champion) live in Dallas. 12:30 Wednesday Bobby Levin Tips for Forming a Great Partnership 12:30 Friday Curtis Cheek obby has Partner Has Overcalled – Now What? won too Bmany bridge events to urtis is a full time list. He is the bridge youngest player professional who ever to win the C has won five NABC Bermuda Bowl, championships in 1981 when he including the prestigious was 23. He and Vanderbilt, Reisinger Steve Weinstein and Life Master open were second in pairs. Curtis, a Grand the World Open Life Master, has earned Pairs in Verona in 2006 and won the event 4 years over 35,000 later in Philadelphia. Bobby and Steve have one of masterpoints. A popular the most successful partnerships in bridge history. figure on the tournament trail, Curtis is a fun He has more than 41,000 masterpoints. Bobby and partner and a fun, but tough, opponent. Curtis and his wife Jill (also a world champion) live right here wife Phyllis live right here in Las Vegas. in Las Vegas. New Knockout Added Bobby Wolff on Bridge NOTICE: An all new Knockout Teams, not on the original schedule, has been added for “I love fools’ experiments. I am always Thursday- Friday 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. making them.” –Charles Darwin North Playing Locations Í8763 ÌKQ95 he Silver and Gold Rooms will be for Ë3 all 10:00 to 3:00 events starting on T ÊK764 Tuesday and continuing through Friday. All West East other events will be in the Events Center. ÍKQJ109 Í2 Ì2 Ì73 Partnerships Ë109862 ËQJ754 eginning Tuesday and for the week, ÊQ5 ÊJ10982 Bpartnership will be located in Bally’s South Palace Room #3 for the duration of the ÍA54 tournament. Gary McGough, Chair. ÌAJ10864 Tuesday & Wednesday: 7:30-10:00, a.m., ËAK 11:45-1:15, & 5:30-7:00 p.m. ÊA3 Thursday through Saturday: 8:00-10:00, Vul: East/West Dealer: South 11:45-1:15, & 5:30-7:00 p.m. South West North East Sunday: 9:00-10:00 a.m. 1Ì 1Í 4Ì Pass 6Ì Pass Pass Pass Wheelchair Available Opening Lead: ÍK e have at least one wheelchair that can fter failing in this slam be used for transport throughout the W which was played at the casino for players with special needs. Call A Dyspeptics Club, from which Ed Matulis at 702 575-8628. many of these hands are reported, a disgruntled declarer Section Tops/Photos claimed he had given it his best or winners, section top awards and shot. As usual, his partner disagreed and FForum photos the photographer will be suggested a better approach. available at Palace #3, 11:45-1:00 and 5:45- What’s your take? 6:55, and after the events. Sunday hours will After West had overcalled 1Í and South be 8:45-9:50 a.m. Jackie Brickey, Chair. reached 6Ì, declarer captured the ÍK (as ducking it would obviously allow a spade Let’s be Tidy ruff) and went about his business – in vain. South should have been able to otels have increasingly been reluctant to capitalize on the fact that West’s overcall hold bridge tournaments because of the H found his partner with only one spade – an excessive amounts of cleaning they have to obvious plus factor for declarer. South’s do between sessions. Please help out by goal was to avoid two spade losers but could disposing of your trash in one of the many not conceive of a way to accomplish his receptacles in the playing area. Thank you. purpose. He reeled off his trumps but that Las Vegas Regional accomplished nothing. In the fullness of time, he lost two spades. Tournament Staff However, there was a legitimate way to Tournament Chair: George Vasilevsky succeed if he went about stripping the hand. South needs a count on the club suit. Tournament Co-Chair: Ed Matulis After winning the opening ÍK and drawing Hospitality & Section Tops: two trumps, he cashes the ËA and ËK Jackie Brickey & Jane Rubin (discarding a spade in dummy) and plays the Intermediate/Newcomer: Judi Weissinger ÊA - ÊK and ruffs one. When West shows Partnerships: Gary McGough out, declarer can safely get back to dummy’s Web Master: Bert Kulic trump, and on his last club he can pitch one Guest Speakers: JoAnn Sprung of his spades. But ... that is all East/West can collect because East is forced to give For any questions call George Vasilevsky, declarer a ruff and sluff as his arsenal now chairman, at 702 349-8872, or co-chair contains only the minor suits. Ed Matulis at 702 575-8628. Result: 6Ì making! Daylight Open Pairs TUESDAY DAYLIGHT PAIRS 39.0 Tables / Based on 37 Tables A B C 20.56 1 Fred Hamilton - James Brier, Las Vegas NV 1156.85 15.42 2 1 Steven Haver - Charles Patterson, Las Vegas NV 1150.33 11.57 3 Mark Tang, Seal Beach CA; William Ng, Chatsworth CA 1128.79 8.67 4 Janis Lilie - Harold Lilie, Las Vegas NV 1121.82 6.85 5 Chuck Said, Nashville TN; Tom Clarke, Lake Charles LA 1119.71 5.87 6 T P Goyal - John Scibelli, Las Vegas NV 1108.90 5.14 7 Ross Cody - Roland Laframboise, Thunder Bay ON 1101.32 8.12 8 2 Cheryl Haines, Half Moon Bay CA; Lisa Evans, Danville CA 1095.60 5.42 9 Darwin Afdahl - Kay Afdahl, Oro Valley AZ 1094.18 6.09 10 3 1 Kenneth Lager, Aurora CO; Tamera Mowrey, Lincoln NE 1093.92 3.43 11 Benjamin Goldsmith - Carol Pincus, Las Vegas NV 1084.19 4.38 12 Melih Ozdil - Sharon Goldman, New York NY 1081.73 2.94 13 Gregory Nowak, Las Vegas NV; Michael Huppert, Florham Park NJ 1073.32 4.57 14 4 2 Robert Wernick, Rancho Mirage CA; Merle Friedman, Palm Desert CA 1058.27 3.35 15 Paul Gelb, Palm Springs CA; Brian Gilbert, Irvine CA 1051.61 2.86 16 William Carrell, Moriarty NM; Joe Harris, Albuquerque NM 1050.32 3.90 17 5 Leonardo Fruscoloni - Margie Cole, New York NY 1040.68 3.09 18 6 Al Peters - Al Spaet, Tucson AZ 1038.85 2.06 19 Warren Cederborg - Suzanne Cederborg, Visalia CA 1037.86 3.35 7 Rick Lepscier, Las Vegas NV; Barbara Lotief, Duson LA 1033.66 2.56 8 3 Don Elconin - Charles Patrick, Santa Barbara CA 1019.94 2.25 9 Debra Gay Falcon - Michael Falcon, Baton Rouge LA 993.67 2.03 10 Steve Vaughn, Humble TX; Rick Stell, Houston TX 991.40 2.52 11 Mark Steele, Albuquerque NM; Mark Johnson, Silver City NM 979.00 2.53 12 Marsha Boyer, Spring TX; Lucilla Edwards, Pahrump NV 974.37 1.65 4 Buki Burke, Ventura CA; Annetta Patrick, Santa Barbara CA 961.21 2.00 5 Judith Higbee, Tempe AZ; John Crowley, Key West FL 916.57 TUESDAY DAYLIGHT PAIRS MORNING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION A EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Melih Ozdil - Sharon 1 Mark Tang, Seal Beach CA; Goldman, New York NY 624.73 William Ng, Chatsworth CA 589.12 2 Fred Hamilton - James 2 Darwin Afdahl - Kay Brier, Las Vegas NV 590.95 Afdahl, Oro Valley AZ 538.08 3 1 Elizabeth Poplawsky, 3 1 Leonardo Fruscoloni - Chula Vista CA; Dewey