New Orleans has produced many a fine bridge player over the years, but the city’s “iconic player,” says John Onstott, is Sidney Lazard. Lazard’s legend extends much farther than New Orleans, however: A swaggering, riverboat gamblin’, irascible artist at the table, Lazard is on the short list of the best and most colorful who ever played the game.

Lazard was born in New Orleans in 1930 and lived here for 71 years before moving to Dallas. His father taught him many card games, but it was draw poker that caught the kid’s fancy.

“My father, Jules, was a terrific card player and athlete, but his father – my grandfather Joe – some thought he was the best card player in the country.” He adds, “My other grandfather was a genius, but a lousy card player.”

Lazard’s cousins were responsible for teaching

him bridge when he was 15. He discovered duplicate a couple years later. “I was hooked right away,” Lazard says. He attended his first NABC in 1948.

When he was 18 or 19, “the bulb went on.” He describes the awakening: “One day,

Two years ago at the Spring NABC in Dallas, Juanita Chambers sat down to play in a side game with David Page of Plano TX. Although Chambers has won

18 North American championships and three world titles, she was nervous. It was her first bridge

tournament in more than 12 years.For the decade-plus before her return to the

game, Chambers was missing in action, on the sidelines and occasionally in jail as the result of problems associated with abuse of alcohol and drugs. Friends mourned the absence of a brilliant player.

To the joy of many contemporaries who missed her flair and her expertise, Chambers is back. She was playing on Saturday in the Machlin Women’s Swiss Teams, and she has plans for a return to high-level competition.

Chambers’ descent was quick, her recovery long, but she is convinced that her demons are banished for good.

“I used to go to the bar,” says Chambers, 58. “Now I go to church.”

Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015 Volume 58, Number 10

58th Spring North American Bridge Championships NABCDailyBulletin@acbl.org Editors: Sue Munday and Brent Manley

March 12-22

Goodwill messageLet’s thank our gracious

hosts, who have worked so hard to organize a great tournament and a terrific party. We return to

our bridge communities knowing that we all bear responsibility for seeing that bridge remains the game we enjoy so much. Until we meet again in Chicago …

Sandy DeMartino, Goodwill ChairATTENDANCE through Saturday 10,837 tables

Continued on page 5

Continued on page 8

Walter Lewis, front, with card holder Taylor Burke and partner Jay Segarra.

A long road back to bridge

Lewis ignores disability ashe inspires and achieves

If you play bridge online and favor OKbridge, you may have crossed paths with Big Wally. If you prefer Bridge Base Online, you may have encountered Slim Shady. Chances are Wally or Slim got the better of you at the virtual table.

Each is the nom de-guerre of Walter Lewis, a Gautier MS resident who recently achieved the rank of Emerald Life Master.

Besides being an expert player, the 74-year-old Lewis is an inspiration to all who know him.

Since 1959, Lewis has been paralyzed from the neck down, the result of a spinal cord injury he suffered in an automobile accident.

Far from being bitter about his lot in life, Lewis is always upbeat and friendly, albeit eager to take opponents’ matchpoints and/or IMPs.

He says that as an incurable optimist, he believed he was going to recover well from the accident. That didn’t happen, but he notes that he was used to his condition by the time reality hit. “I never suffered from depression,” he says.

At the Spring NABC in New Orleans on Saturday, he and Jay Segarra played in the Strati-

Sidney Lazard: In a class of his own

Continued on page 6

Continued on page 8

Gamerman, Fellerlead Fast Open

Lewis Gamerman of Randolph MA and Bob Feller of Bloomington IN will start play today in the NABC+ Fast Open Pairs with a carryover of more than two boards on a 25 top. Their score of 62.69 puts them 4.69 matchpoints ahead of Alexander Ornstein of New York City and Mel Colchamiro of Merrick NY.

In third with two final sessions to go are Christian Jolly and Andrew Cavalier of Huntsville AL with 52.96.

In the Fast Open Pairs, players have 11 minutes to play two boards. Regular pairs games with two-board rounds allow 15 minutes.

Continued on page 8

Diamond, Lavazzain Vanderbilt finalTeam Lavazza and the squad captained by John

Diamond earned spots in the championship round of the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams with impressive wins.

Diamond, originally seeded 16th, cruised to a 166-65 victory over No. 4 seed Martin Fleisher.

No. 3 Lavazza took care of the dangerous No.

Schwartz with slim leadin Jacoby Open SwissThe Richard Schwartz squad has a slim lead

with eight matches to play in the Jacoby Open Swiss Teams. Schwartz is fielding the same team that lost in the round of 32 in the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams.

Schwartz is playing with Allan Graves, Ron Schwartz, Lotan Fisher, Boye Brogeland and Espen Lindqvist. Their carryover score of 29.08 victory points puts them just ahead of Justine Cushing,

Nitabach out frontin Women’s SwissThe team captained by Linda Nitabach starts

play today in the Machlin Women’s Swiss Teams with a carryover of 15.10 victory points, 5.11 VPs ahead of second.

Nitabach, of North Plainfield NJ, is playing with Sandra Rimstedt, New York City; Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX, and Ida Groenkvist and Cecilia Rimstedt of Sweden.

Right behind the leaders are Jean Talbot, Judy Katz and Joan Van Geffen of Metairie LA, and Leigh Ives of Barrion ON.

Daily BulletinPage 2 Sunday, March 22, 2015

SPECIAL EVENTSMEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS

Sunday, March 22 Peter Pender Memorial Vugraph. (Preservation Hall, 2nd floor)

HOSPITALITYSunday, March 22

1 pm: Pralines (Grand Ballroom foyer, 3rd floor)

Masterpoint disclaimerScores as reported in the Daily Bulletin are

subject to change because of score changes or corrections. The masterpoint awards as shown are, therefore, also subject to change.

Electronic Device Policy The electronic device policy at NABCs allows

players to bring electronic devices such as cell phones into the playing area provided that such devices are turned off.

Further, any such equipment must not be visible during the session

The policy applies to all pairs, team members,

captains, coaches, kibitzers and play recorders, except those designated by the ACBL and are in force throughout any actual playing session or segment of play.

A violation of the policy will result in an automatic disciplinary penalty of one full board (or 12 IMPs at that form of scoring) for the first offense. A second offense will result in disqualification from the event for the pair/team. Kibitzers violating this policy will be removed from the playing area for the remainder of the session.

IllusionOn this deal from the first final session of

the Silodor Open Pairs, Shan Huang created an illusion for declarer that led to a fine score for the defenders. Huang, of Toronto, was playing with David Sabourin of Ottawa. The deal was reported by Sylvia Shi of Rockville MD. Dlr: West ♠ 9 8 6 4 3 Vul: Both ♥ K 5 2 ♦ J 9 ♣ J 3 2 ♠ Q 2 ♠ A 10 5 ♥ Q 7 4 ♥ J 10 9 8 6 ♦ 8 7 6 2 ♦ K Q 3 ♣ Q 10 7 4 ♣ 6 5 ♠ K J 7 ♥ A 3 ♦ A 10 5 4 ♣ A K 9 8 West North East South Sabourin Huang Pass Pass 1♥ Dbl 2♥ 2♠ Pass 3♥ Pass 3♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass

Huang led the ♥J, taken by declarer in hand. North played the ♦J at trick two: queen, ace, 2. A diamond went to declarer’s 9 and Huang’s king, and he exited with a heart to dummy’s ace.

Eager to get to hand to play a spade up, declarer ruffed dummy’s low diamond, then led a spade to the king. On the ♦10, declarer discarded one of his clubs. Huang could have ruffed with the ♠10, but figured his partner had the doubleton ♠Q, so he knew his ace and Sabourin’s queen would crash together on the next round of the suit.

Instead of ruffing with the ♠10, Huang ruffed with his ace, creating the illusion that West started with Q-10-2. In that case, playing another trump would end declarer’s chances for a heart ruff.

After ruffing with the trump ace, Huang got out with a club, taken by the ace in dummy. Declarer then cashed the ♣K and ruffed a club. Imagine declarer’s shock when Huang overruffed with the 10 that was supposed to be in the West had. With the trump queen still to come, Huang and Sabourin recorded plus 100 on a deal where most East-West pairs ended up minus 620.

Waiting for the bellBy Barry Rigal

In the round of 16 in the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, Sabine Auken found a call that generated a pile of IMPs for her side without having to hear the bell go off. Dlr: East ♠ A Q 7 2 Vul: N-S ♥ A Q J 8 5 3 ♦ J 5 2 ♣ — ♠ 9 6 ♠ 8 ♥ K 10 ♥ 7 6 4 ♦ 8 6 4 3 ♦ A K 5 ♣ A K 10 7 3 ♣ Q J 9 8 6 4 ♠ K J 10 6 4 3 ♥ 9 2 ♦ Q 10 ♣ 5 2 West North East South 1♣ 1♠ 2♠ 4♣ 4♦ Pass 4♥ Dbl 5♣ Pass Pass 5♠ 6♣ Pass Pass 6♠ Pass Pass Dbl All Pass

Without the 4♦ bid by Auken, Roy Welland might have got the opening lead wrong.

After her intelligent lead-directing action, the diamond lead was a formaility. Down one for plus 200 to East-West.

In the other room, North-South were allowed to play in game in spades, so the clever bid by Auken created a double-digit swing instead of a big loss. On any lead but a diamond, declarer was going to make 6 S* doubled for plus 1660. In a match that the Martin Fleisher team won by 18 IMPs, this board turned out to be critical.

Smoking PolicySmoking is not permitted in the playing area

during any bridge playing event at an NBAC. This includes electronic smoking devices.

Email usGot a hand to share or a nice story? We’d love

to see it.The Daily Bulletin has its own email address:

NABCDailyBulletin@acbl.org. You’ll also find it on the front page under the “Daily Bulletin” between the date and the editors’ names.

This email address won’t be checked with any regularity when the NABC is not in session, so please continue to use our office email addresses for non-tournament–related correspondence.

Support the ACBL Educational FoundationThe ACBL Educational Foundation supports

activities that instruct bridge and that ncrease the enjoyment of playing and the number of players. The Foundation has nine members: three from the Board of Directors and six from the general bridge membership. Members are elected for three-year terms, with a two-term limit. The Foundation meets three times a year – once at each NABC – to consider grant applications.

The Educational Foundation is funded by voluntary contributions made when members join or renew their ACBL membership, through special games and events and through individual donations. Donations are tax deductible.

During the past few years, the Educational Foundation has approved applications for a variety of bridge programs across the U.S. and Canada, including:

• After-school bridge clubs• In-school bridge programs• Summer Youth bridge camps• American Bridge Teacher Association

conference• Online course module for teaching bridge to

school teachers• Bridge lesson programs to develop new

players• North American Collegiate Bridge Team

ChampionshipsThe Educational Foundation encourages ACBL

members who want to start a bridge program to consider applying for a grant for financial support. The application form is on the ACBL web site at www.acbl.org (select the “Foundations and Commissions” link under the “Administration” heading).

For more information, contact Foundation President Barbara Heller at bhellerb@gmail.com.

Opt in for electronic results notification

Would you like to be notified as soon as results and Daily Bulletins from the NABC are posted online? Do you want information on your performance in the events you played in? ACBL has introduced features that do just that.

When you opt in to these notification systems, you will receive two emails each night with links that go directly to the information you’re looking for.

The results email will contain two links. The first will go directly to your MyResults page via My ACBL on the homepage. There, you can see how you did at each event during the NABC. The second link directs you to the NABC results page where results for all players in the event will be listed.

The Daily Bulletin email notification will contain a direct link to the early edition of the latest Daily Bulletin.

To opt in, go to www.acbl.org/privacysetting and change the settings for NABC Bulletin notices and NABC results notices from “unsubscribe” to “send via email.”

Page 3Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

JUST FOR NEW PLAYERSGetting the most from

your conventions – part 9 By Brent Manley

You should play bridge for fun. The instant you find yourself playing the game for any other reason, you should rack it up and go on to something else.

— Charles Goren

In the previous column, you read about cuebids that can help increase your bidding efficiency, namely strength-showing and control-showing bids. That just scratches the surface of this excellent bidding tool.

One strength-showing cuebid not discussed previously occurs when partner opens the bidding and the next player overcalls, as in this example: West North East South 1♥ 1♠ ?

You are South. Suppose your hand is ♠K 5 ♥A J 6 4 ♦Q 10 7 5 ♣6 3 2

With a pass by East, you would show limit raise in hearts according to your partnership agreements. If East passes, you might bid 3♥ to show 10-11 support points. When there is an intervening overcall, your jump raise should show a weak hand, perhaps♠10 7 ♥Q J 8 7 ♦K 7 6 5 4 ♣4 3.

The opponents probably have the balance of power, so you want to take away their bidding space.

A simple raise to 2♥ with the stronger hand is out of the question, so what do you do? With that hand, your call is 2♠, a cuebid showing a limit raise or better (you are an unpassed hand, after all) in hearts. You will, of course, respect partner’s decision if he signs off in 3♥.

The cuebid raise won’t always deliver four-card trump support – and the more balanced your hand the more important it is for your

values to be in high cards.Here’s another nifty trick

with cuebids. Say your right-hand opponent opens 1♥ and you hold ♠A Q 4 ♥7 6 ♦A K J 10 5 4 ♣J 7

You overcall 2♦, LHO passes and partner raises to 3♦. Now what?

A contract of 5♦ should not be on your radar, but the nine-trick game of 3NT is eminently reasonable. All you lack is a stopper in hearts. So how do you find out if partner has a heart control? Easy: Just bid 3♥, a cuebid asking partner if he can stop hearts. Do not confuse this with a control-showing cuebid. If you could stop hearts yourself, your bid would be 3NT, not 3♥.

Check out this cuebid:West North East South 1♠ 3♠Pass ?

You are North. Do you have any idea what South is doing with his jump in the opponent’s suit?

This is another cuebid that is asking rather than telling. South should have a hand such as♠7 ♥A 5 4 ♦Q 2 ♣A K Q 9 8 6 3

If North has the ♠A or some other stopper – maybe K-J-x or Q J 10 – he would be unlucky not to take nine tricks via seven clubs and two aces. With a spade stopper, North must bid 3NT.

Sometimes a cuebid doesn’t specify anything other than strength. Consider this auction: West North East South 1♣ 1♥ 1♠ Pass 2♥

All North knows at this point is that South has a hand strong enough to force game. North should make a bid that best describes his hand. South might have cuebid with a hand such as♠ A Q 8 6 ♥ 4 2 ♦A 10 7 ♣A K Q 5 .

South is clearly interested in slam, but North doesn’t know that. South might have cuebid with

Thinking bridgeBy Eddie Kantar

Using the bidding as a guide to play and defense

Dlr: South ♠ K 6 Vul: E-W ♥ A 10 7 ♦ A 7 6 3 2 ♣ 10 5 3 ♠ A J 10 9 4 3 2 ♠ 8 5 ♥ 8 6 5 4 ♥ 9 ♦ K ♦ 10 9 8 ♣ J ♣ A Q 9 8 6 4 2 ♠ Q 7 ♥ K Q J 3 2 ♦ Q J 5 4 ♣ K 7 West North East South 1♥ 3♠ 4♥ All Pass

Opening lead: ♣JBidding commentary: The 3♠ overcall is

♠A 2 ♥7 5 ♦A J 8 ♣A K Q J 5 4, in which case he would be looking for a heart stopper for 3NT. With the first hand, if North bids 3NT, South will bid 4♠, which is probably a better contract than 3NT. The fact that North has heart strength opposite heart shortness cools South’s interest in slam. This is known as “wasted values.”

With the second, South will pass 3NT and expect his partner to make it.

what you would have for an opening 3 ♠: long suit, weak hand.

Defensive commentary: As East, win the ♣A and return the ♣9 asking for a spade return.

You can’t stand a diamond shift so ask for a spade, the lesser of evils. As West, after ruffing the club return, play the ♠A and a spade.

Play commentary: You have to bring in the diamonds for no losers. Given that you have no intermediates in diamonds, you have two chances: (1) The ♦K is singleton; (2) West has K-x.

Counting time: You know East has seven clubs and two spades, so once you draw trumps, you will know the diamond division. Conversely, you know West has seven spades and one club, so counting the trumps in one hand or the other will immediately tell you the diamond division. Let’s say you decided to work with clubs. When East shows up with one heart, he must have three diamonds (seven clubs, one heart, two spades = 10) so you must find West with the singleton ♦K. You’re in dummy after three rounds of trumps, so bang down the ♦A … and pray. Once again, the bidding plus counting has guided you in the play.

IT’S ONLY A GAMEThe Complete Color Collection

Charles M. Schulz with Jim SasssevilleAvailable at Amazon.com

Published by www.ABOUTCOMICs.com

Top I/N masterpoint winners(through Saturday afternoon)

1 15.41 Mark McKenzie, Shaftsbury VT 2 15.41 Ann McKenzie, Jaffrey NH 3 13.98 Bonnie Zeran, Lakefield ON 4 13.98 Sterling Zeran, Lakefield ON 5 13.25 Judy Nixon, Flower Mound TX 6 13.25 James Nixon, Flower Mound TX 7 11.09 Richard Buttermore, Royal Oak MI 8 11.09 Wendy Buttermore, Royal Oak MI 9 10.53 Curtis Wehling, Glenview IL 10 10.53 Judy Wehling, Glenview IL 11 10.18 M Young, Stevensville MI 12 10.18 Jerry Machtinger, Toronto ON 13 9.64 Mildred Bott, New Orleans LA 14 9.64 Frederick Bott, New Orleans LA 15 9.62 Sharon Dameron, Cedar Park TX 16 9.61 Claudine Cannon, New Orleans LA 17 9.61 Delphine Butler, New Orleans LA 18 9.17 Jean Frank, New Orleans LA 19 8.91 Frankie Milner, Dallas TX 20 8.72 Barbara Fitz-Hugh, New Orleans LA 21 8.41 Janice Zazulak, Metairie LA 22 8.24 Gwen Davis, Baton Rouge LA 23 8.24 Annie Wright, Baton Rouge LA

Daily BulletinPage 4 Sunday, March 22, 2015

FRIDAY-SATURDAY MORNING COMPACT KO BRACKET 1 10 Tables 10.92 1 Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Lucia Enica, Belmont MA; Freerk Polling, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Francisco Bernal, Miami FL 7.64 2 George Klemic, Bensenville IL; Eric Gettleman, Baltimore MD; Nancy Colter, Dublin GA; Nancy Motes, Kennesaw GA 4.91 3 Edward White, Grand Blanc MI; Ken Gee, Regina SK; Jan Zadroga, Todz Poland; Pawel Niedzielski, Lodz Poland 3.82 4 Carolyn Rowley, Evanston IL; Randall Roberts, Chicago IL; Robert Kruger, Elgin IL; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL

FRIDAY-SATURDAY MORNING COMPACT KO BRACKET 2 12 Tables 6.17 1 Henry Bodenheimer, New Orleans LA; E Hugh Lawson - Susan Gibbens, Metairie LA; Suzanne Baer, Biloxi MS 4.32 2 Margot Kane, East Hampton NY; Shelia Brog, New York NY; Gail Grant - C Brackett, Port St Lucie FL 2.78 3 Kathy Twomey, Bloomfield Vlg MI; Timothy Pettus, Northborough MA; Naresh Kapila, Rochester Hills MI; Deepak Dighe, West Bloomfield MI 2.16 4 Peter Peca Jr, El Paso TX; Gayle Tunnell - James Tunnell, San Francisco CA; Merl Needham, Littleton CO

Tromso – way up north but worth the trip

The European Bridge League opened its summer championships to all comers for the first time in 2003 and has continued in odd-numbered years ever since. ACBL players have been a presence at the open tournaments from the inception.

The tournament features teams and pairs competitions in Mixed, Open, Women’s and Senior categories.

In 2013, on the initiative of EBL President Yves Aubry, the event has been broadened to include also daily side-events in order attract a wider range of players. This also provides alternative playing opportunities for non-qualifiers in the medal events.

The 2015 edition is scheduled for Tromso, Norway, from June 27 to July 11 for the Open Championships and July 18 to July 26 for the Youth Championships.

Aubry was in New Orleans to attend meetings of the World Bridge Federation – and to encourage players at the Spring NABC to consider a trip to the land of the midnight sun.

Aubry notes that Tromso, although situated in the far north of Norway, is accessible from a number of major cities. “It’s not hard to get there,” he says. There are daily, on-the-hour flights from Oslo, with direct flights from London, Paris, Stockholm, Munich and Murmansk.

The tournament venue is in the center of town and. Restaurants and shopping are within five to 10 minutes walking time. The drive from the Tromso airport to the city center takes seven minutes.

Aubry says affordable hotel rooms are plentiful, including some at $80 US per night. Rooms comparable to what’s available at the Marriott in New Orleans can be had for $120 US per night.

Aubry notes that Tromso sometimes is viewed as far away and expensive. “It is not so far,” he says, “and not so expensive.”

There are many tourist attractions in Tromso, including daily cruises and mini-cruises along the coast of the country, as far as the North Cape, the point where the Norwegian Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, meets the Barents Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean.

The midnight sun can be seen from mid-May to July 31. The sun reaches its lowest point from 12:14 – 12:24 a.m. during those days. There are other activities for those who might want to take time off from bridge, including fishing, golf and cable-car rides. Car rentals are not expensive for those who like to explore on their own time schedules.

For more information about the tournament and activities in the area, visit

www.tromso2015.no and www.eurobridge.org.

JACOBY OPEN SWISS - QUALIFIERS 66 Tables / Based on 130 Tables Carryover 1 Richard Schwartz, Aventura FL; Allan Graves, Saint Johnsbury VT; Ron Schwartz, Ramat-Gan Israel; Lotan Fisher, Rishon Le Zion Israel; Boye Brogeland, Norway; Espen Lindqvist, Arendal Norway 29.08 2 Justine Cushing - Melih Ozdil, New York NY; Gokhan Yilmaz, Uskudar/Instanb Turkey; Valerio Giubilo, Italy; Leonardo Cima, Roma Italy 26.63 3 Vinita Gupta, Woodside CA; Billy Miller, Las Vegas NV; Morten Bilde, Hovedgaard Denmark; Per-Ola Cullin, Johanneshov Sweden; Dennis Bilde, Aarhus C Denmark; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden 26.03 4 Jaggy Shivdasani - Winthrop Allegaert, New York NY; Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Jack Zhao, Boca Raton FL; Howard Weinstein, Omaha NE; Ross Grabel, Palm Desert CA 24.12 5 Bernard Payen, France France; Philippe Soulet, France; Erick Mauberquez - Thierry De Sainte-Marie, Paris France; Christophe Oursel, Clichy France 23.75 6 John McAllister, Charlottesville VA; Migry Zur Campanile, New York NY; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie Poland 23.61 7 Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Fredrik Nystrom - Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden; Bjorn Fallenius - Aaron Silverstein - Andrew Rosenthal, New York NY 19.16 8 Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Brad Moss, Denver CO; Joe Grue, New York NY; Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Justin Lall, Plano TX 19.03 9 Connie Goldberg, Merion Station PA; Bill Eisenberg, Perris CA; Neil Chambers, Schenectady NY; John Schermer, Seattle WA; Massimiliano Di Franco - Andrea Manno, Palermo Italy 18.10 10 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Curtis Cheek - Ishmael DelMonte, Las Vegas NV; Marc Bompis, Bourg La Reine France; Jean Quantin, Paris France 17.57 11 Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; Alan Schwartz, Fairfax VA; John Lusky, Portland OR; David Caprera, Denver CO 17.54 12 G S Jade Barrett - Karen Lee Barrett, Elk Point SD; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA; Bjorgvin Kristinsson, Sanford FL; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw Poland; Jacek Romanski, Lublin Poland 17.41 13 Patricia Tucker - Olin Hubert, Atlanta GA; Jeffrey Miller, Naperville IL; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Robert Bitterman, Harbor Springs MI; Brad Carmichael, Kansas City MO 17.18 14 Michael Creager, Brecksville OH; Kenneth Kranyak, Bay Village OH; Bernie Greenspan, Beachwood OH; Barry Purrington, Eagan MN 16.72 15 Andrew Gromov - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow Russia; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel Hill NC 15.87 16 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Plano TX; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice Poland 15.57 17 Stephen Fischer, Stuart Park, NT Australia; David Morgan, Melbourne Australia; Robert Dennard, Orlando FL; David Kent, Lake Mary FL 15.33 18 Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; John Mohan - Ron Smith, Las Vegas NV; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Steve Garner, Chicago IL 15.17 19 Jared Lilienstein - Michael Polowan - Brian Glubok - Sam Lev, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL 14.82 20 Maria Capucho, Esboa Portugal; Manuel Capucho, Leboa Portugal; Nuno Paz, Ponta Delgada Portugal; Antonio Palma, Erora Portugal 14.79 21 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA; Magdalena Ticha - Richard Ritmeijer, Groningen Netherlands 14.59 22 Kasper Konow, Frederiksberg Denmark; Michael Askgaard, Gentofte Denmark; Christina Madsen, Hellerup 2900 Denmark; Gregers Bjarnarson, New York NY; Anders Hagen, Copenhagen Denmark 13.76 23 Ji Chen - Fu Zhong - Jie Li, Beijing People’s Republic of China; Patrick Huang, Taipei Taiwan; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn Netherlands 12.91 24 Rusty Krauss, Vienna VA; Barry Falgout, Silver Spring MD; Robert Hopkins Jr, Arlington VA; David Rodney - Avril Rodney, Fairfax VA 12.52 25 Loretta Rivers, Monroe LA; Mike Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Howard Parker III, Clements CA; Bart Nab, Tilberg Netherlands; Bob Drijver, Rotterdam Netherlands 12.49 26 Mitch Towner, Austin TX; Craig Ganzer, Brooklyn NY; John Ramos, West Hollywood CA; Robert Brady, Mc Lean VA 11.83 27 Martin Harris, Chicago IL; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Adam Wildavsky, Dillon CO; Philippe Cronier, Paris France 11.35 28 Drew Becker - Claude Vogel, Chicago IL; George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Kevin Fay, Columbia MO; Jason Chiu, San Jose CA; David Joyce, Kenilworth IL 11.14 29 Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC; David Yang, Darien IL; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 11.11 30 Richard Coren, Highland Beach FL; Michael Kamil, Delray Beach FL; Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 11.09 31 Hans Graverson, Aalborg Denmark; Henrik Caspersen, Aarhus Denmark; Lars Tofte, Aarhus Costa Rica; Emil Jepsen, Aarhus Croatia 11.05 32 Sedat Dinc - Okay Gur - Namik Kokten - Haldun Civginer, Istanbul Turkey; Levent Imamoglu, Besiktas Istnbl Turkey 10.74 33 Stephen Goldstein, Anaheim CA; Bob Etter, Sacramento CA; Joseph Kivel, Newport Coast CA; Zane Gary Brown, San Francisco CA; Robert Morris, Houston TX 9.72 34 Ed Ulman, Portland OR; Jim Looby, Las Vegas NV; Louis Glasthal, Berwyn PA; Bob Glasson, Pennington NJ 9.23 35 Lloyd Arvedon, Woburn MA; John Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA; Doug Fraser - Sandra Fraser, Victoria BC 9.07 36 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Huub Bertens, Bend OR; Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria; Valentin Kovachev, Las Vegas NV 8.92 37 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin Poland; Wlodzimierz Starkowski, Poznan Poland 8.63 38 Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Wojciech Gawel, Wroclaw Poland; Rafal Jagniewski, Legionowo Poland; Michal Nowosadzki, Wejherowo Poland; Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Reese Milner, Sarasota FL 8.17 39 Paul Johnson III, Four Oaks NC; Alec Price, Southern Pines NC; Mary Vickers, Apex NC; Scott Stearns, Elberta AL 8.10 40 Monica Angus, West Vancouver BC; Rock Shi Yan, Richmond BC; Nongyu Li, Palo Alto CA; Yan Wang, Scarborough ON; Edward Xu, North York ON 7.64

Page 5Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

continued from page 1

Chambers

Chambers, whose late father was an Apache, was born Juanita Tah in Ponca City OK. Her father, an engineer, helped build power plants, so the family was constantly on the move. At Kentucky State University and Kilgore College, Chambers studied math – and played a lot of bridge.

She was in her early 20s when she discovered the game. She and a group of friends used a table cloth with Goren bidding rules on it. One of the group was the proud owner of an ACBL masterpoint. “He was our guru,” recalls Chambers.

When Chambers heard about duplicate, she headed for the local club. She and her partner came in dead last in her first duplicate game– and she was hooked. “I fell in love with it and I joined the ACBL on the spot.”

When she received her first issue of the Bridge Bulletin, Chambers read about a regional tournament in Amarillo, not far from where she lived at the time. At the regional, she met some pro players, found out people could actually make money playing the game, and soon moved to Dallas. One of her early mentors was Hemant Lall, a rising star who is still a highly regarded player.

At the first regional she attended in Dallas, she found herself sitting at the table against the legendary Oswald Jacoby. “It was so exciting,” she says. “In those days bridge was romantic and very social.”

It wasn’t long before Kerri Sanborn (Shuman at the time) caught Chambers’ attention. Chambers was impressed with Sanborn’s integrity and demeanor at the table. “I wanted to grow up to be like Kerri,” Chambers says.

Another star who helped Chambers develop was the late Mike Smolen. “He had a big impact on my game.” She and Smolen won the national Mixed Pairs in Cincinnati in 1979.

Chambers, then Juanita Skelton (from a previous marriage) met Neil Chambers at a tournament and married him in 1983.

“I had everything,” she says. “A beautiful family, success at bridge and I was making money.”

In 2001, the pressure she had been feeling reached its peak. “I forgot why I played – because I loved the game. I lost track of everything important in my life. I forgot my family . . . everything.”

That year, Chambers had been hired to play on a top team, but she was so messed up from alcohol and drugs that she didn’t even go to the tournament.

“It was terrible,” she remembers. “You couldn’t count on me anymore. Ugly things happened and it got worse and worse.” She wanted to change but she couldn’t. “I was constantly failing,” she says.

Chambers went from a comfortable lifestyle to selling off her possessions to buy drugs. “I ended up losing everything,” she says. “I hardly had a change of clothes. You see things like this in the movies but I never imagined it could happen to a person.”

Her chance to turn things around happened in 2009. She was arrested for possession of cocaine and was in jail in Boca Raton FL. She called her brother, Ed Barganier, for help. He went to Boca Raton and persuaded a judge to release Chambers. The judge agreed, telling her, “Go get some help.”

When they got to her brother’s hometown – Garland TX, where they both live now – Chambers thought she was going to move in with his family.

Instead, she remembers, “He said, ‘You’re going to rehab’.”

Chambers spent a year at a residential facility kicking her habits, and she did so well that she stayed on for another two years as a counselor for women with trouble just like hers.

She knew things were changing for her when “I started liking being sober – and I missed my family.”

As things got better, Chambers started getting the itch to play bridge again. By the end of 2012,

Continued on page 13

41 Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Josef Blass - Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC 7.61 42 Paul Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Gavin Wolpert - Vincent Demuy, Palm Bch Gdns FL; John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV 7.44 43 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Ulf Nilsson, Dalby Sweden; P Drew Cannell, Dol-Des-Ormeaux QC; Barry Rigal, New York NY 7.39 44 Pablo Lambardi - Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Ricardo Angeleri, Mar Del Plata Argentina; Jessica Hayman, New York NY 7.37 45 Leora Dubrovsky - Richard Dubrovsky, Howell NJ; Wael Mohsen, 6th of October Egypt; Reda Wasfi Yaacoub, Cairo Egypt 6.84 46 Jay Borker, Greenwich CT; Douglas Doub, West Hartford CT; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands 6.79 47 Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Dennis McGarry, Palm City FL; Louk Verhees Jr, Sh Voorhout Netherlands; Rico Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands; David Bakhshi, London England; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI 6.54 48 Alan Kudisch, Farmingdale NY; Michael Fishman, Great Neck NY; Pascale Gaudreault, Montreal QC; Marius Moldovan, Pointe-Claire QC 6.22 49 Jing Liu - Zizhuo Wang, Minneapolis MN; Fang Liu, Beijing People’s Republic of China; Yinghao Liu, Stanford CA; Junjie Hu - Yichao Chen, Shanghai People’s Republic of China 6.07 50 Vytautas Vainikonis, Vilnius Lithuania; Olanski Wojtek, Zielona Gora Poland; Boguslaw Gierulski, Elblag Poland; Jerzy Skrzypczak, Mragowo Poland; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel; Bar Tarnovski, Rishon Lezion Israel 5.93 51 Walter Schuster - Alexander Wernle - Jovanka Smederevac, Vienna Austria; Gabriella Olivieri, Alessandria Italy; Dano De Falco, Rubano (PD) Italy 5.39 52 Judith Gartaganis - Nicholas Gartaganis, Calgary AB; Kiz Fung, Edmonton AB; Marin Marinov, New York NY 5.35 53 Ranald Davidson, North York ON; Marc-Andre Fourcaudot, Montreal QC; Julius Sigurjonsson, Iceland; Gabrielle Sherman, Delray Beach FL 4.18 54 Craig Allen, Glen Ellyn IL; Robert Giragosian, Bakersfield CA; Gail McCullah, Pearland TX; Stephen McConnell, Evanston IL 4.05 55 Harvey Brody, San Francisco CA; Sara Rothmuller, Santa Rosa CA; Helen Raleigh - Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY 4.04 56 Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon - Fulvio Fantoni - Geir Helgemo - Tor Helness - Claudio Nunes, Monaco 4.02 57 Stan Tulin, Boca Raton FL; Kevin Dwyer, Melbourne FL; Alon Birman - Dror Padon, Tel Aviv Israel; Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; Gary Cohler, Miami FL 3.57 58 William Hall, Thousand Oaks CA; Ron Westwood, Ventura CA; Judy Pede, Grass Valley CA; Carreen Hinds, Bakersfield CA 2.81 59 Joseph Sauro, Oakville ON; Keith Heckley, Hamilton ON; Richard Chan - Paul Janicki, Markham ON 2.80 60 Guss Ginsburg, New Orleans LA; Donna Swarthout - Ellen Hessel, San Antonio TX; Norman Beck, Dallas TX; Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 1.06 61 Danny Sprung - JoAnn Sprung, Las Vegas NV; Stephen Peterkin - Samantha Punch, Stirling United Kingdom 0.89 62 Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA; William Watson, Sunnyvale CA; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA; Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France 0.55 63 James Krekorian, Pensacola FL; Judith Bianco, New York NY; David Grainger, Roseville CA; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX 0.37 64 Dan Morse, Houston TX; John Sutherlin, Dallas TX; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; William Pollack, New York NY 0.08 65 Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam Netherlands 0.04 66 Gaylor Kasle - Larry Kozlove, Boca Raton FL; Piotr Tmczynski, Poznan Poland; Bartosz Chmurski, Lomianky Poland; Joris Lankveld, Amsterdam Netherlands; Berend Van Den Bos, Den Haag Netherlands 0.00

He’s sneakyThis deal from the Silodor Open Pairs shows

that being sneaky can pay off. The perpetrator was Burrell Ives Humphreys, a former prosecutor and judge and now an attorney from Wayne NJ. He was South.

Dlr: West ♠ 6 3 2 Vul: None ♥ 10 4 ♦ J 10 8 6 4 3 ♣ 5 2 ♠ A 10 8 7 ♠ K Q J 4 ♥ K J 8 7 5 ♥ 9 3 2 ♦ 7 ♦ A K Q 2 ♣ 9 7 3 ♣ Q 10 ♠ 9 5 ♥ A Q 6 ♦ 9 5 ♣ A K J 8 6 4

West North East South Pass Pass 1NT 2♣ Dbl Pass 2♠ Pass 3♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass

Humpreys noted, “I was probably the only person in the event who could bid 2♣ naturally.” The takeout double by West helped his side get to the shaky spade game.

Humphreys started with the top clubs before switching to a low heart. Declarer, suspecting that

Humphrey was underleading the ace without the queen, put up the king and could not avoid two heart losers (he gets only two pitches on diamonds) for down one.

Declarer clearly was worried about North’s holding a doubleton ♥Q, in which case playing the jack would result in his losing the ♥Q, ♥A and a heart ruff. To make the contract, declarer needed for Humphreys to have the heart holding he actually had. At pairs, of course, the difference between one down and two down could make a big difference in matchpoints.

Use of the Bidding Box — Alerts and Announcements

When using bidding boxes, the ACBL requires that players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the same time.

When making an Announcement, use the Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the Alert strip at the same time.

A player who Alerts or Announces a bid must make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or Announcement has been made.

Daily BulletinPage 6 Sunday, March 22, 2015

continued from page 1

Lazard

I suddenly had it. I would call it a ‘relaxation of mind’ to achieve ‘clarity.’”

In an interview published in The Bridge World in July 2011, Lazard talks about his early playing days at Tulane. “I played with Ronny Dreyfus, Noel Duvic, Joe Jabon and Harold Rockaway,” he says. “I also played with John Fisher, who was at LSU Medical School. Fisher told me: ‘If you’d taught me bridge one year earlier, I’d never have become a doctor.’’

Lazard credits three mentors; the most important, he says, was New Orleans bridge great Louis Rosen. Another was Freddie Berger from Natchez. “Freddie’s the one who taught me how to bid. People question my bidding, so maybe he didn’t do such a good job.” (Howard Schenken once described Lazard as the fastest bidder and slowest player he had ever seen.)

The third mentor Lazard credits is John Gerber, with whom he played early in his career. “The two strengths of my game – defense and tactics – I learned from Gerber. Chances are that I wouldn’t be playing bridge today if it wasn’t for Gerber.”

Poker-faced ‘maniac’Lazard’s poker-playing father and grandfather

obviously had an impact on his style. “Ask people about me and they’ll say I’m a dangerous maniac. I learned from poker: Look loose and play tight.”

Famous for his table feel and ability to “read” opponents, Lazard again acknowledges his poker roots. “I’ve seen only one player who didn’t give away any tells: John Crawford,” he told The Bridge World . “Among modern players, possibly Jeff Meckstroth is in that category.”

Lazard won 13 NABC titles across six decades. He was on the second-place Bermuda Bowl team in 1959. He took world-championship bronze medals in the 1969 Bermuda Bowl and the Rosenblum Cup in 1959.

He captained the two Bermuda-Bowl winning Nickell teams – in Bermuda in 2000 and in Monte Carlo in 2003. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000 and named ACBL’s Honorary Member of the Year in 2001. He participated on The Bridge World’s Master Solver’s Club panel for more than 50 years.

Lazard’s partners included all the stars of his era: George Rapee, Oswald and Jim Jacoby, Edgar Kaplan, Norman Kay, Bobby Wolff, Marshall Miles – Hall of Famers all. He played with New Orleans greats Julius Rosenblum, Jack LaNoue and John Onstott.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he played with his son, Sid Jr., and in later years, he won the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs and the Reisinger Board-a-Match playing with Bart Bramley.

Side betsAs much a legacy as the titles and accolades,

however, are the stories Lazard tells about his pre-Zero-Tolerance era antics, and the tales others tell about him.

Sometimes there are players who just seem to have another player’s number and in 1963, Al Roth and the not-known-for-his-tact Tobias Stone had Lazard’s number.

He told The Bridge World the story: “I was playing in a National with Byron Greenberg. We were crushing every event, except that I kept self-destructing when we faced Roth and Stone. After the third such round, Roth rubbed it in by chastising Stone for not bidding a grand slam needing an onside king, saying ‘he (meaning me) had to have it for his weak two-bid.’ Stone responded: ‘Had to have it? This guy can’t read or write.’ So I grabbed a full ashtray and dumped it in Stone’s lap saying, “and I’m also very sloppy.”

Lazard calls John Crawford his toughest opponent. Lazard’s team was the underdog matched against Crawford’s team in the 1959

Continued on page 7

NABC+ FAST PAIRS - QUALIFIERS 26.0 Tables / Based on 50 Tables Carryover 1 Lewis Gamerman, Randolph MA; Bob Feller, Bloomington IN 62.69 2 Alexander Ornstein, New York NY; Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY 58.00 3 Christian Jolly - Andrew Cavalier, Huntsville AL 52.96 4 Brandon Sheumaker, Santa Ana CA; Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA 50.42 5 Igor Savchenko, Morris Plains NJ; Irina Kislitsyna, Ellenton FL 49.37 6 Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Tom Kniest, Brentwood MO 48.44 7 Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA; Yusuf Sohtorik, Instanbul Turkey 43.75 8 Leonard Doerksen - Leigh Anne Shafer, Winnipeg MB 42.19 9 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Jeff Roman, Sun City West AZ 42.09 10 Alexander Labry, Austin TX; Jack Lacy, Lago Vista TX 42.06 11 Russell Shoup, Dayton OH; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX 41.69 12 Corey Krantz - Bruce Lang, Philadelphia PA 40.56 13 Larry Jones, Pickerington OH; Douglas Millsap, Columbus OH 36.40 14 Adam Kaplan, Stanford CA; Shane Blanchard, New York NY 33.14 15 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 32.14 16 Denny Cahan, Cumming GA; Roy Martin, Birmingham AL 31.20 17 Paul Darin, San Diego CA; Jim Johnsen, San Mateo CA 31.13 18 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 30.25 19 Alan Gailfus - Debbie Gailfus, Carlsbad CA 30.06 20 Dong Lu - Yanhong Wang, Beijing People’s Republic of China 29.73 21 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Randy Okubo, Saint Paul MN 29.16 22 Bob Heller, Knoxville TN; Peter J Boyd-Bowman, Greensboro NC 28.83 23 Leo Bell, Long Beach CA; Naren Gupta, Woodside CA 27.35 24 Cathy Strauch - Riggs Thayer Jr, San Diego CA 26.74 25 Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN; Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA 25.74 26 John Cobb Jr, Morrisville NC; John Marriott Jr, Cary NC 24.64 27 Kish Devaraj, Atlanta GA; Robert Fendrick, Marietta GA 23.65 28 Jason Rotenberg, Ridgefield CT; Daniel Neill, Beaverton OR 23.23 29 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 22.99 30 Stephen Sanborn, Delray Beach FL; Allan Stauber, Palm Bch Gdns FL 20.74 31 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ann Borgschulte, Lexington MA 20.60 32 Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Jay Kelkar, Oak Hill VA 20.56 33 Eric Gettleman, Baltimore MD; George Klemic, Bensenville IL 17.30 34 Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC; Joanne Minken-Levy, Los Angeles CA 16.74 35 Robert Todd - Bob Soni, Tallahassee FL 12.30 36 Freerk Polling, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Francisco Bernal, Miami FL 12.07 37 Mary Ross - Martha De Cou, Corpus Christi TX 11.60 38 Thomas Bandy - Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR 11.07 39 Chuan Hui Li, Montreal QC; Nicolas Hammond, Marietta GA 11.06 40 David Olson, Owings Mills MD; James Olson, Charleston WV 10.66 41 David Walker, Salem VA; Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 8.19 42 Bernace De Young - Sean Ganness, Miami FL 6.96 43 Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS; Susan Hinton, Vancleave MS 6.74 44 Larry Mori, Clearwater FL; Leonard Melander, West Bloomfield MI 6.67 45 Meyer Kotkin, Cherry Hill NJ; Larry Sunser, Syracuse NY 6.21 46 Robert Cummins - Bob Lyon, Indianapolis IN 3.15 47 Jo Anne Vatter - Richard Vatter, Cadillac MI 3.12 48 Eleanor Seaman - Jerry Goldberg, New York NY 2.57 49 Bob Bowers, Metairie LA; James Bush, New Orleans LA 2.15 50 Paul Munafo, Huntsville AL; Richard Reitman, Los Gatos CA 1.84 51 Lew Levy, Houston TX; Martin Hinds, Bakersfield CA 0.27 52 Andre Asbury, Atlanta GA; Sean Gannon, Decatur GA 0.00

MACHLIN WOMEN’S SWISS TEAMS - QUALIFIERS 10 Tables / Based on 19 Tables Carryover 61.00 1 Lynda Nitabach, N Plainfield NJ; Sandra Rimstedt, New York NY; Ida Groenkvist, Orebro Sweden; Cecilia Rimstedt, Vastra Frolunda Sweden; Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX 15.10 45.75 2 Jean Talbot - Judy Katz - Joan Van Geffen, Metairie LA; Leigh Ives, Barrie ON 9.99 34.31 3 Dori Byrnes, Morris Plains NJ; Sylwia McNamara, White Plains NY; Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY; Beth Palmer, Chevy Chase MD; Jill Levin, Henderson NV; Jenny Wolpert, Palm Bch Gdns FL 9.26 27.11 4 Phyllis Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Shannon Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Marion Michielsen, Stockholm Sweden; Meike Wortel, Amsterdam Netherlands; Benedicte Cronier - Sylvie Willard, Paris France 6.19 24.40 5 Wenfei Wang - Shen Qi - Ran Jingrong, Shanghai People’s Republic of China; Gan Ling, Chengdu China People’s Republic of China; Jian Wang, Beijing People’s Republic of China; ZhengJiang Liao, People’s Republic of China 4.99 22.18 6 Lynn Baker, Austin TX; Karen McCallum, Exeter NH; Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH; Jo Anna Stansby, Dublin CA; Irina Levitina, Hackensack NJ; Kerri Sanborn, Delray Beach FL 4.40 20.33 7 Shawn Quinn, Sugar Land TX; Carolyn Lanier - Mary Pat Gentry - Pat Levy, Houston TX; Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL 3.94 18.77 8 Leslie Strong, Santa Ynez CA; Tania Reyes Hiller, Shrub Oak NY; Mickie Chambers, Atlanta GA; Karen Billett, Victoria BC 1.72 17.43 9 Renee Mancuso, Los Angeles CA; Pam Wittes, Venice CA; Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL; Rozanne Pollack, New York NY 1.10 16.27 10 Barbara Ferm - Donna Compton, Dallas TX; Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Juanita Chambers, Garland TX; Victoria Gromova - Tatiana Ponomareva, Moscow Russia 0.00

MonitoringAt this and future North American Bridge

Championships, ACBL will monitor NABC+ events with visible, real-time cameras. The images will be recorded and be available for later official inspection and review.

By general monitoring of the session and

participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source of information that may be useful in determining facts and settling issues arising from some types of ethical and behavioral complaints or actions. Please summon a director if a problem occurs at the table.

This procedure is intended to assure everyone that the playing field is level and that misbehavior will not be tolerated.

Page 7Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

SATURDAY A/B PAIRS 6.0 Tables / Based on 14 Tables A B 10.50 1 Chuck Said, Nashville TN; Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA 58.05% 7.88 2 1 Rita Dodge, Vancouver BC; Marge Neate, North Vancouver BC 55.96% 5.91 3 2 John Demeulemeester, Burnaby BC; Michael Moffatt, Surrey BC 53.85% 4.43 4 3 Herman Louie - Ming Louie, Henderson NV 52.63% 3.50 5 4 Ken Eisner - Betsy Eisner, Truro NS 52.57%

SATURDAY C/D PAIRS 13.0 Tables / Based on 14 Tables C D E 7.88 1 Michael Zeller, York PA; Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL 59.89% 5.91 2 Mark Krusemeyer, Northfield MN; Lawrence Diamond, Tacoma WA 56.76% 5.25 3 1 Steve Graves - Brenda Thomas, Venice FL 56.02% 3.94 4 2 Paul Sitz, Ramsey MN; Bert Sheldon, Houston TX 54.74% 3.22 5 3 1 Lucy Morini, Warren VT; Darrick Chee, Orange CA 53.80% 2.52 6 4 Ryan Connors, Bethesda MD; Jody Connors, Vero Beach FL 53.39% 1.97 7 5 F Corredine, Slidell LA; Bill Beaushaw, Pearl River LA 53.21% 2.42 6 2 Margarita Jaramillo, Miami FL; Claudia Londono, Colombia 52.95% 1.81 3 William McCarron, Tallahassee FL; Constance Johnston, Anchorage AK 49.50%

SATURDAY EVENING SIDE PAIRS 11.0 Tables A B C 3.98 1 1 Thomas Roberts, Terre Haute IN; Bertil Blomquist, Sweden IN 61.81% 2.99 2 2 Tim White - Renae Gunstone-White, Mercer Island WA 60.88% 2.45 3 3 Calista Graham - Curtis Bare, Charlottesville VA 60.65% 1.72 4 Arleen Harvey, Riverside CA; Scott Humphrey, Pflugerville TX 58.10% 1.99 5 4 1 You Hu, Philadelphia PA; Zhenyang Zhang, Berkeley CA 57.64% 1.23 6 Adriana Salinas, Mexico Mexico; Miriam Rosenberg, Huixquilucan Mexico 56.25% 1.49 5/6 2 Pam Campbell, Fairfield OH; Susan Stacy Vanstone, West Chester OH 55.56% 0.95 5/6 Robert Marcus - Kathy Guinyou, North York ON 55.56%

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS 3.0 Tables A B C 1.71 1 Lorita Tipton - Joyce Eveld, Houston TX 56.50% 1.61 2 1 Margaret Getman, Saint Paul MN; Jo Ellen Drisko, Lexington KY 53.50% 1.21 2 Kate King, Dorchester MA; Susanne Osberg, Sharon MA 53.12%

JACKIE DAIGLE A/B/C SWISS 12 Tables / Based on 28 Tables A B C 5.61 1 Adriano Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro Brazil; Jeovani Salomao, Lago Norte Brazil; Roberto Barbosa, Ap Brazil; Paulo Brum, Rio De Janeiro Brazil 63.00 4.21 2 1 1 Theri Andino, Niceville FL; Bob Soni, Tallahassee FL; Eric Gettleman, Baltimore MD; George Klemic, Bensenville IL 59.00 3.16 3 2 2 Hans Strohmer - Nancy Strohmer, Houston TX; Lynn John Federico, Kenner LA; Daryl Fisher, Diamondhead MS 52.00 2.37 4 John Schwartz, Plano TX; James Thurtell, Dallas TX; Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Ed Lazarus, Baltimore MD 50.00 1.79 3 3 Paul Frean - Sabrina Frean - Cynthia Colin, New York NY; Insa Fricker, White Rock BC 38.00 1.35 4 4 Jim Harp - Mary McGinnis, Dallas TX; Gerrie Owen, Celina TX; T Jean Kidd, Lantana TX 37.00

JACKIE DAIGLE D/E/F SWISS 16 Tables D E F 2.56 1 1 Dominique Guay, Orleans ON; Peter Jacquest, Souris MB; Janet Parsons, St John’s NL; Louis Tousignant, Brooklyn NS 61.00 1.92 2 2 Kathy Twomey, Bloomfield Vlg MI; Sally Craig, Port Moody BC; Naresh Kapila, Rochester Hills MI; Deepak Dighe, West Bloomfield MI 57.00 1.44 3 3 1 Alexander Wellford - John Bondurant - Ann Adler - Larry Adler, Memphis TN 51.00 1.08 4 4 Melanie Watson - Sandy Kristoferson - Charles Brown, Denton TX; Dave Sauder, Lewisville TX 50.00 0.81 5 5 Richard Rogers - Stephanie Rogers, San Francisco CA; Barbara Giddens, Pearland TX; Lorenzo Migliorini, Seattle WA 48.00

continued from page 6

Lazard

Vanderbilt final. Crawford had just married into money and ignoring the presence of tournament director Al Sobel, he challenged Lazard: “Wanna bet on the match?”

Lazard didn’t want to take the bet, but he didn’t want his partner to think he lacked confidence in their team. So reluctantly, he agreed. “There’s my bet,” said Crawford, tossing a wad of cash totaling thousands on the table.

“I’ve been known to carry a few big stacks myself,” says Lazard, but that was too big, even for me. So I countered by grabbing Sobel’s lighter and setting the money on fire. Crawford singed his fingers putting out the flames.” Lazard says he’d like to report that his team won the match. But they didn’t.

A day at the racesLazard was in the oil business. He enjoyed

gambling even when he wasn’t wagering on a bridge outcome. Now-deceased Hall of Fame player Tommy Sanders posted this anecdote on Judy Kay Wolff’s blog in 2011:

“About 25 years ago, we found ourselves in New Orleans for New Year’s. It was the fourth or fifth day of January and the bridge tournament was over. I called up Sidney and we decided to go to the racetrack at the fairgrounds.

“After a few races, I noticed Sidney hadn’t made a bet. Upon inquiring about it, he said, “I just made a $10,000 do-or-don’t New Year’s bet with a friend that neither of us would gamble all year.”

“That being the case, Sidney, why did we come here today?”

He said, “I love it out here. These are my people – the characters, the touts, the smells, the atmosphere – I love ‘em all. And your companionship, I wouldn’t want to be any place else.”

By about the seventh race, I see him pouring over the racing form. So, I said, “Sidney, though I’m not doing that great, I know how to read the racing form. What are you doing that for?”

He said, “I’m looking for a $10,000 horse.”

True greatnessOne of the most prestigious tributes within the

modern bridge community is the Sidney H. Lazard Jr. Sportsmanship Award, established by Lazard Sr. in 2001. The annual award recognizes top players who try to win with class and dignity. Given Lazard’s notoriously colorful conduct at the bridge table, a sportsmanship award seems ironic. “When I was young,” he admits, “I had a well-deserved reputation as an enfant terrible.”

In 1999, Lazard’s beloved 41-year old son died from cancer. Lazard says that Sid Jr. was the nicest guy in the world and a great sportsman.

“I designed the award as a way to honor his memory by recognizing top bridge players who emulate the ideal that I saw in my son, and to encourage all players to aspire to that standard.”

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

FRIDAY MIDNIGHT ZIP KO 10 Tables 3.03 1 Michael Askgaard, Gentofte Denmark; Kasper Konow, Frederiksberg Denmark; Kaare Gjaldbaek, Bronx NY; Anders Hagen, Copenhagen Denmark 2.12 2 Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY; Joshua Donn, Las Vegas NV; Tim Crank, Cincinnati OH; David Grainger, Roseville CA 1.21 3/4 Ursula Brzuska, Milanweg Germany; John Cox, Saint Maries ID; Kaye Hoffmaster, Somers MT; Virginia Bright, Nokomis FL 1.21 3/4 Luz Ortega - Kevin Dwyer, Melbourne FL; Robert Brady, Mc Lean VA; John Ramos, West Hollywood CA

Convention card reminderEach player is required to have a convention

card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a session. The convention card must include the first and last name of each member of the partnership, and the cards must be identical.

If a director determines that neither player has a substantially completed card, the partnership may play only the Standard American Yellow Card and may use only standard carding. This restriction may be lifted only at the beginning of a subsequent round after convention cards have been properly prepared and approved by the director. Further, the partnership will receive a 1/6-board matchpoint

penalty for each board played, commencing with the next round and continuing until the restriction is lifted. In IMP team games, penalties shall be at the discretion of the director.

If the director determines the partnership has at least one substantially completed convention card but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, the director may give warnings or assign such penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the circumstances.

The objective of these warnings and penalties is the encouragement of full compliance with ACBL regulations.

Daily BulletinPage 8 Sunday, March 22, 2015

In order to keep the bridge public informed of appeal results in a timely fashion, the NABC Daily Bulletin staff publishes write-ups. Every effort is made to ensure that these reports are accurate and complete. Before they are published in the NABC Appeals Casebook, however, revisions may be made.

TOURNAMENT APPEALScontinued from page 1

Lewis

flighted Open Pairs A/B, with help from Taylor Burke, who assists Lewis with card sorting and play.

Lewis plays bridge online and in tournaments from Pensacola FL to New Orleans and he is involved with his unit – No. 180 – serving as president for a four-year term.

Segarra, who has played with Lewis for 20 years, is one of his many admirers.

“He’s not just a pretty good player,” says Segarra. “He’s by far the best player on the coast, and he’s adaptable. He’s willing to learn new things and play any system.”

More important, says Segarra, “he gets the most out of his partners, and that’s an underrated strength.”

Before his accident, Lewis played bridge but not seriously. “It was mostly bridge around the pool.”’

After the accident and time in recovery, Lewis took to the game with vigor, reading constantly and playing as much as possible, mostly at clubs. With the advent of bridge on the Internet, Lewis was able to expand his horizons. Recent advances in technology have made playing easier for him.

His favorite device is SmartNav, a hands-free mouse that Lewis can manipulate simply by moving his head. “It’s the damnedest thing,” he says.

Lewis often plays for hours at a time and enjoys good competition. “I have played against some really good people on OKbridge,” he says.

When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2005, Lewis was Unit 180 president. The bridge club in Gulfport was destroyed and Lewis, who had been out of town when the storm him, was wondering what to do.

He says he was gratified to receive a call from Bill Cook Jr., the District 10 representative on the ACBL Board of Directors. Cook told Lewis that the Districts 10 and 7 (part of the Mid-Atlantic Bridge Association) were doing some fundraising to help clubs in the hardest-hit areas.

Now, he says, the club has been rebuilt and players are returning.

On the rare occasions when he isn’t playing bridge, Lewis likes to go to concerts, enjoying classical music and rock, and he serves as toastmaster for special occasions in the area.

Bridge, however, is his main interest and source of enjoyment. Lewis acknowledges a tendency to aggressive bidding– “I’m not known to be timid,” he says – but to him that’s part of the fun of the game. After all, he says, “I kind of like to win.”

SATURDAY-SUNDAY KNOCKOUT BRACKET 1 15 TablesEdward White, Grand Blanc MI; Ken Gee, Regina SK; Jan Zadroga, Todz Poland; Pawel Niedzielski, Lodz Poland vsStuart Sechriest, San Diego CA; Liliane Kirchhoff, San Francisco CA; Robert Englekirk, Rancho Mirage CA; Patricia Loh, Solana Beach CA

Doug Herron - Michael Ranis, New York NY; John Friedl, Signal Mountain TN; Donna Silver, Atlanta GA vsMichael Gladfelter - Mary Jane Gladfelter, Columbus OH; Arun Savara, Honolulu HI; Vijay Vasudevan, Cincinnati OH

APPEAL CASE 3Event: Rockwell Mixed PairsSession: 2nd FinalSubject: Misinformation

Bill Cook Jr. Board 23 ♠ A 2 Vul: Both ♥ A J 7 6 Dlr: South ♦ 10 5 4 ♣ A K 5 4 Allison Wilson Kent Mignocchi ♠ 6 3 ♠ K 8 5 4 ♥ 2 ♥ K Q 8 5 4 3 ♦A K J 8 6 ♦ Q 3 ♣ Q J 10 9 7 ♣ 3 Annette Lee McHann ♠ Q J 10 9 7 ♥ 10 9 ♦ 9 7 2 ♣ 8 6 2 West North East South Pass 1♦ 1NT (1) Dbl 2♥(2) 3♣ Pass 3♥ Pass 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass Pass Dbl All Pass

(1) 15–18 HCP.(2) Transfer to spades (not Alerted/

Announced).Contract: 4♦ doubled by West.Opening lead: ♦2.Table result: Down two, North–South plus

500Director ruling: 3♥ by East, down one,

North–South plus 100.Committee ruling: 3♥ by East, down one,

North–South plus 100.The Facts: East called the director after North’s first pass.

He explained that he had asked for the meaning of 2♥ and was told that North was unsure. At the end of the deal, it was determined that the North–South convention card shows that systems are on over a double and over a 1NT overcall. West said

that she considered 3♥ a cuebid, not natural given the explanation of 2♥. North said he would have doubled 3♥ given the opportunity to do so.

The Ruling: The director polled five players: three bid 4♣

over 3♥ with the West hand while two passed. The results of the poll found that passing was a logical alternative and in accordance with Law 21.B.3, the result was adjusted to 3♥ by East, down one, North–South plus 100.

The Appeal: North–South appealed the ruling and attended

the hearing. The Decision:It was clear that the failure to Announce had

given the offending pair an advantage, and plus 100 for East–West going down two in 3♥ was the correct result. The committee found North’s statement that he would have doubled 3♥ to be sincere, but it had to be discounted as self- serving. Double, while possible, is not automatic. The committee then turned its attention to whether East–West should have protected themselves by making a better effort to learn the actual agreement. Even experienced players seem to not know that they should call the director during the auction in these circumstances, and based on the guidance received from staff it was judged that the non-offenders had done enough to also get the result in 3♥. However, the committee urges that there be ongoing education for cases such as this.

The committee judged that down one in 3♥ was both the most favorable result for East–West that was likely and the most unfavorable result that was at all probable for North–South. Accordingly the Appeals Committee ruled with the TD: 3♥ by East, down one for both sides.

The appeal was found to have substantial merit.

DIC: McKenzie MyersChairperson: Jeff AkerCommittee Members: Will Ehlers and Patty

Tucker.

Melih Ozdil, Gokhan Yilmaz, Valerie Giuboli and Leonardo Cima with 26.63 VPs.

In third are Vinita Gupta, Billy Miller, Morten Bilde, Per-Olla Cullin, Dennis Bilde and Peter Bertheau with 26.03.

continued from page 1

Open Swisscontinued from page 1

Vanderbilt

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

10 Assael squad with a 157-69 victory. Team Assael had staged huge fourth-quarter comebacks in the round of 16 and the quarterfinals, erasing 49- and 40-IMP deficits to win.

Diamond’s teammates are Brian Platnick, Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson, Marc Jacobus and Eddie Wold.

Team Lavazza is Norberto Bocchi, Agustin Madala, Zia Mahmood and Giorgio Duboin.

Page 9Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

Get your results by text message!

ACBL Live allows members to receive their results by text. Simply text your name and ACBL player number to 901-289-2094 or to text@acbl.org. As soon as results are available, you’ll receive your personal results by a reply text.

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

See who’s hanging out at the new

Partnership Desk.

PARTNERSHIP

DESK

Log into MyACBL. Update your profi le, browse for partners and play.

Visit acbl.org/partnershipdesk for more information.

(seated) Dee Moses, NABC co-chair; John Onstott, Honorary NABC chair; Eleanor Onstott, NABC Co-chair; (back row) Bobbie Jean Gattuso, pre-tournament hospitality; Jerrilyn Stumpf, tournament event coordinator; John Federico, I/N and 299ers; Paul Freese, parking; Colleen Walker, partnerships; Lowen, partnerships; John Liukkonen, Daily Bulletin liaison; Jackie Madden, hospitality; Dick Brommell, registration; Ellie Brommell, registration.

Theresa Federico, Intermediate/Newcomers; Jennie Flynn Sauviac, caddies; Jim Thornton, finance; Louise Saik, volunteers, and Sherrie Goodman, publicity.

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS 28.5 Tables / Based on 69 Tables A B C 32.47 1 Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC; Don Piafsky, Toronto ON 59.69% 24.35 2 Roland Laframboise - Ross Cody, Thunder Bay ON 59.58% 18.26 3 Nicholas Hartung, Astoria NY; Peter Merker, Mentor OH 57.92% 13.70 4 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR 57.42% 10.82 5 Libby Fernandez - Stella Rainey, Tuscaloosa AL 57.13% 16.79 6 1 Cordelia Menges, New York NY; Jay Baudler, Piedmont CA 56.90% 12.59 7 2 1 Robert Haar, San Rafael CA; Arti Bhargava, Mill Valley CA 56.62% 7.22 8 Suzanne St Thomas, Salem OR; Suzanne Cook, McKinleyville CA 56.53% 6.49 9 Jack Bonney - Dianne Bonney, Venice FL 56.47% 5.90 10 Edward Spear, Sarasota FL; George Colter, Fredericton NB 56.34% 5.83 11 Claybourne Waldrop Jr, Ft Worth TX; Gary Neisler, N Richland Hls TX 56.00% 9.44 12 3 2 Marc Kelley - Anthony Palumbo, Cranford NJ 55.86% 4.64 13 Stephen Mackay, Markham ON; Ray Jotcham, Scarborough ON 55.57% 7.08 14 4 Ronald Berenger, Metairie LA; Jack Lewis Jr, Luling LA 55.33% 4.06 15 William Higgins, Cincinnati OH; Yauheni Siutsau, Loveland OH 55.22% 5.69 5 Christina Parker, Newton Center MA; Stewart Rubenstein, Newton MA 53.68% 4.91 6 3 Catherine Bardsley, Mc Lean VA; Fred Gramlich, Alexandria VA 53.59% 4.20 7 Marilyn Elyakin, Monroe Twnshp NJ; Marilyn Kogan, Avon By The Sea NJ 53.41% 3.73 8 4 Richard Brown - Randi Brown, Eau Claire WI 53.16% 3.36 9 5 Joel Kramer - Ingrid Stocking, Minneapolis MN 52.61% 3.28 10 Randolph Johnson - Ann Hudson, Suffield CT 52.61% 2.49 6 Richard Shaw, Greenville SC; Stanley Hurwitz, Bluffton SC 50.89% 2.18 7 Telly Wells - Jason Holliday, Baton Rouge LA 49.89%

Merci beaucoup!Meet are our gracious hosts – the hard-working volunteers whose behind-the-scenes planning,

organizing and recruiting and fundraising over the last couple of years made this New Orleans NABC a success.

SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET 1 10 Tables 13.61 1 Paula Nataf, Beverly Hills CA; Nicole Dutilloy - Aurelie Thizy, ; Marcel Dadon, France 9.53 2 Nonie Leavitt, Saint Rose LA; Jennie Flynn Sauviac, Metairie LA; Lillian Range - Julius Rosenfield, New Orleans LA 6.12 3 Richard Morris - Katherine Morris, Portland OR; Victoria Gregory, Pittsburg KS; Charles Burns, Vancouver WA 4.76 4 Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD; Lynn Jones, Timonium MD; Fleur Howard, Gates Mills OH; Phillip Becker, Beachwood OH

SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET 2 12 Tables 9.51 1 Nancy Reader - Robert Arnett - Sam Dodson, Houston TX; Thomas Racciatti, Minneapolis MN 6.66 2 Tommy Boze - Linda Boze, Gallatin TN; Barbara Newman - Betsi Tunnell, Nashville TN 4.28 3 James Easterling, Casselberry FL; Susan Taylor, New Orleans LA; Vicki Willis, Houma LA; Robert Michaud, Sun City West AZ 3.33 4 Judy Cohen, Morton Grove IL; Blythe Olshan Findley, Westchester IL; Donald Schramek, Chicago IL; Bruce Bengtson, Park Ridge IL

SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET 3 16 Tables 7.19 1 Belle Harris - Liza Philpy, Midland TX; Harold Copeland - Raleigh Williamson, Houston TX 5.03 2 Bobbie O’Farrell, Orange Beach AL; Jean Adcock - Gary Klussman - Sandra Moody, Gulf Shores AL 3.24 3 James Ochsner - Allison Ochsner - Bonnie Boyd - Donald Boyd, Houston TX 2.52 4 Kelvin Wallace - Patricia Wallace, Wakulla Springs FL; Rose Patout - Beth Knight, Lafayette LA

Daily BulletinPage 10 Sunday, March 22, 2015

76 TablesGiorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina vsJohn Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA; Geoff Hampson - Marc Jacobus, Las Vegas NV; Eddie Wold, Houston TX

125.00 3/4 Martin Fleisher - Roy Welland - Chris Willenken, New York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA125.00 3/4 Mustafa Cem Tokay, Istanbul Turkey; Antonio Sementa, Parma PR Italy; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany; Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany 80.00 5/8 Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon - Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes - Geir Helgemo - Tor Helness, Monaco 80.00 5/8 James Cayne, New York NY; Thomas Bessis, Paris France; Lorenzo Lauria - Alfredo Versace, Rome Italy; Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France; Michael Seamon, Boca Raton FL 80.00 5/8 Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam Netherlands; Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL 80.00 5/8 Connie Goldberg, Merion Station PA; Neil Chambers, Schenectady NY; John Schermer, Seattle WA; Bill Eisenberg, Perris CA; Massimiliano Di Franco - Andrea Manno, Palermo Italy

50.00 9/16 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Plano TX; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice Poland 50.00 9/16 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin Poland 50.00 9/16 Joe Grue, New York NY; Brad Moss, Denver CO; Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Justin Lall, Plano TX; Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON 50.00 9/16 Andrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Johan Upmark - Fredrik Nystrom, Stockholm Sweden 50.00 9/16 Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; John Mohan - Ron Smith, Las Vegas NV; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Steve Garner, Chicago IL 50.00 9/16 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Ishmael DelMonte - Curtis Cheek, Las Vegas NV; Jean Quantin, Paris France; Marc Bompis, Bourg La Reine France 50.00 9/16 Gaylor Kasle - Larry Kozlove, Boca Raton FL; Berend Van Den Bos, Den Haag Netherlands; Joris Lankveld, Amsterdam Netherlands; Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan Poland; Bartosz Chmurski, Lomianky Poland 50.00 9/16 Bob Todd - Douglas Fisher, Winnipeg MB; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON; Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC; Don Domansky - David McLellan, Thunder Bay ON

1. Nickell64. Gartaganis

32. Sprung33. Kasle

16. Diamond49. Lo

17. Gupta48. Chinese Ladies Red

9. Grue56. Ash

24. Mahaffey41. Rogoff

25. Tulin40. P. Fireman

8. Drijver57. Team No Name

5. Lynch60. Sealy

28. McAllister37. Krekorian

21. Goldberg44. China Ladies Blue

12. Schwartz53. Muliar

13. Hamman52. Bjarnarson

20. Meltzer45. Ornstein

29. Ekeblad36. Onstott

4. Fleisher61. Team BUMU

1. Kasle (33)31 35 59 7516. Diamond41 80 109 139

8. Drijver18 75 106 1469. Grue17 25 61 117

5. Lynch18 44 65 10312. Goldberg (21)37 77 107 123

4. Fleisher35 66 83 12413. Meltzer (13)19 47 85 106

111wd

103141

15592

8598

121wd

79101

9799

15699

117wd

95134

15876

19492

121135

159129

98190

163wd

1. Nickell32. Kasle (33)

16. Diamond17. Chinese Ladies Red (48)

9. Grue24. Rogoff (44)

8. Drijver25. Phyllis Fireman (40)

5. Lynch28. Krekorian (37)

12. Schwartz21. Goldberg

13. Bjarnarson (52)20. Meltzer

4. Fleisher29. Onstott (36)

9294

116102

14358

13663

112107

86112

81130

126.5126

1. Diamond (16)60 95 145 148

8. Drijver15 35 73 wd

4. Fleisher27 60 102 125

5. Goldberg (21)9 10 49 96

PAIRINGS IN TODAY’S VANDERBILT KO TEAMS

1. Diamond (16)

2. Lavazza (3)

1. Diamond (16)43 62 108 166

4. Fleisher15 20 41 65

Page 11Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

25.00 17/32 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL; Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL 25.00 17/32 Andrew Gromov - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow Russia; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel Hill NC 25.00 17/32 Richard Schwartz, Aventura FL; Allan Graves, Saint Johnsbury VT; Boye Brogeland, Norway; Espen Lindqvist, Arendal Norway; Lotan Fisher, Rishon Le Zion Israel; Ron Schwartz, Ramat-Gan Israel 25.00 17/32 Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL; Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Richard Coren, Highland Beach FL; Michael Kamil, Delray Beach FL; Walid Elahmady - Tarek Sadek, Cairo Egypt 25.00 17/32 Dan Morse, Houston TX; John Sutherlin, Dallas TX; Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Daniel Gerstman, Buffalo NY 25.00 17/32 Barry Rigal, New York NY; Jeff Aker, Briarcliff NY; Douglas Simson, Columbus OH; Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY; John Lusky, Portland OR; Allan Falk, Okemos MI 25.00 17/32 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA; Magdalena Ticha - Richard Ritmeijer, The Netherlands Netherlands 25.00 17/32 James Krekorian, Pensacola FL; Judith Bianco, New York NY; David Grainger, Roseville CA; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX; Jill Levin, Henderson NV; Jenny Wolpert, Palm Bch Gdns FL

25.00 17/32 William Pollack - Rozanne Pollack - Robert Blanchard - Shane Blanchard, New York NY 25.00 17/32 Vainikonis Vytautas, Vilnius Lithuania; Olanski Wojtek, Zielona Gora Poland; Bar Tarnovski, Rishon Lezion Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel; Jerzy Skrzypczak, Mragowo, Poland; Boguslaw Gierulski, Elblag Poland 25.00 17/32 Phyllis Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Shannon Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL; Meike Wortel, Amsterdam Netherlands; Marion Michielsen, Stockholm Sweden; Benedicte Cronier – Sylvie Willard, Paris France 25.00 17/32 Roberto Barbosa, Ap Brazil; Adriano Rodrigues - Paulo Brum, Rio de Janeiro Brazil; Jeovani Salomao, Lago Norte Brazil 25.00 17/32 Bruce Rogoff, Boca Raton FL; Joshua Parker, Briarcliff NY; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Jo Anna Stansby, Dublin CA; Doug Baxter - David Lindop, Toronto ON 25.00 17/32 Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw Poland; Jacek Romanski, Lublin Poland; G S Jade Barrett - Karen Lee Barrett, Elk Point SD; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA; Bjorgvin Kristinsson, Sanford FL 25.00 17/32 Wenfei Wang - Shen Qi - Ran Jingrong, Shanghai People’s Republic of China; Gan Ling, Chengdu China People’s Republic of China 25.00 17/32 Gregers Bjarnarson, New York NY; Anders Hagen, Copenhagen Denmark; Kaare Gjaldbaek, Bronx NY; Michael Askgaard, Gentofte Denmark; Kasper Konow, Frederiksberg Denmark

PAIRINGS IN TODAY’S VANDERBILT KO TEAMS

2. Monaco63. Kokten

31. Morse34. Soulet

15. Rosenthal50. Collins

18. PD Times47. Team Heifer

10. Team Assael55. Lu

23. H. Lall42. Barbosa

26. P. Fireman39. Vytautas

7. Gordon58. Litvack

6. Cayne59. Kent

27. Berg38. Pollack

22. Street43. Team Jinghua

11. Gromov54. Lara

14. Levine51. Todd

19. Spector46. Camberos

30. Doub35. Rigal

3. Lavazza62. Narasimhan

14390

113110

19639

145147

15584

104154

89136

17879

123wd

105145

16583

146wd

73177

142122

103105

156100

2. Monaco31. Morse

15. Rosenthal18. Team Heifer (47)

10. Team Assael23. Barbosa (42)

7. Gordon26. Vytautas (39)

6. Cayne27. Pollack (38)

11. Gromov22. Street

14. Todd (56)19. Spector

3. Lavazza30. Rigal (35)

13648

168140

16450

151101

12598

90106

12578

189102

2. Monaco28 64 106 14315. Rosenthal28 50 100 103

7. Gordon37 91 131 13410. Team Assael12 45 82 145

6. Cayne41 89 115 17311. Street (22)48 67 84 108

3. Lavazza51 77 110 16414. Todd (56)24 32 68 94

2. Monaco15 58 106 122

7. Team Assael (1025 53 66 136

3. Lavazza51 109 157 157

6. Cayne31 39 68 wd

1. Diamond (16)

2. Lavazza (3)

2. Team Assael (10) 22 42 49 69

3. Lavazza 58 85 104 157

Daily BulletinPage 12 Sunday, March 22, 2015

TIME TO DECIDE, TIME TO REGISTER

Page 13Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

Play for a world title with no need to qualifyFor most world championships, players must

qualify, usually in team trials. The United States Bridge Federation is in charge of the selection process. Six squads in three divisions will represent USA in the 42nd World Bridge Bridge Teams Championships in Chennai, India, from Sept. 26 to Oct. 10.

You may not get to India via the team trials, but you can compete for a world title anyway.

The 10th World Transnational Open Teams runs from Oct. 4 to 10 alongside the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup and Senior Bowl – and the only requirement is that you must be in good standing with your national bridge organization. That’s the ACBL for people who live in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Bermuda.

The WTOT starts with 15 rounds of Swiss teams qualification, the top eight teams going into the knockout stage. You can play with any eligible player from any country, as a partner or teammate. WBF President Gianarrigo Rona said that, based on inquiries about the WTOT, he is expecting a big turnout for the event. He said there will be no issues of safety for players or difficulty with visas for travel to India.

The tournament venue is the ITC Grand Chola Hotel, where special room rates have been negotiated by the World Bridge Federation. A stay at the Grand Chola includes a buffet breakfast and free wi-fi. Within the Grand Chola, there are seven restaurants with a variety of cuisines.

Chennai, once known as Madras, is the only city in South Asia to figure in the “52 places to go around the world” by the New York Times. Lonely Planet, a tourism guide publisher, has named Chennai one of the top 10 cities in the world to visit in 2015.

With temples, beaches and centers of historical and cultural significance, Chennai is a popular destination for Indians and foreigners. In terms of foreign tourist visits, Chennai has been the most visited Indian city since 2008.

During late September and early October, the weather is warm in the daytime with mid-70s temperatures in the evening, similar to Bali, which hosted the world championships in 2013.

Rona suggested booking air travel and hotel rooms early to assure the best prices. For more information, visit www.worldbridge.org/chennai-hotels.aspx

she had played a couple of sessions at a club in Dallas. She says Chris and Donna Compton offered major help, letting her teach classes at their club, the Bridge Academy of North Dallas.

“She’s a good egg,” says Chris, “and the bridge world takes care of its own.”

Chambers says a strong religious faith has sustained her as she gets further and further away from the influences that nearly wrecked her life. “I’m a nice person now,” she says.

Jo Morse was at the tournament when Chambers made her return to tournament bridge. “When I saw Juanita in Dallas,” Morse says, “I let out a shriek that would have woken the dead.”

“She was missed by everyone,” says Martha Katz. “We missed the energy she brings to the tournaments.”

Chambers says that bidding changed a lot while she was away from the game, but the card play and defense – which she considers her strengths – are the same. One current partner told her not to worry about the new conventions because “you never could bid anyway.”

Now working on “playing the rust off,” Chambers is sure there will be no relapses. “I’m healthy, and everyone has made me feel loved and

continued from page 5

ChambersSATURDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS 20.0 Tables A B C 5.69 1 1 Liz Nixon, San Marcos CA; Maryann Soinski, Winter Park FL 63.33% 4.27 2 2 John Crouch, Edina MN; Loring Knoblauch, Chicago IL 62.41% 3.20 3 3 Tipping Ellis, New Orleans LA; Frank Morgan, Allentown PA 61.67% 2.40 4 James Tanner, Highland CA; Millie Garrison, Riverside CA 60.97% 2.45 5 Zhenzhong Guo - Wen Jie Lian, Beijing People’s Republic of China 60.23% 1.75 6 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Barbara Murphy, Newton MA 56.69% 2.30 7 4 1 Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX; Joe Ramirez, Mission TX 56.38% 1.50 5 Mark Heumann, Watertown MA; Marsha Gerstein, Somerville MA 54.63% 1.12 6 Margaret Moen, Seattle WA; Paula Strand, Kirkland WA 54.35% 1.73 2 Sandra Macpherson, Halifax NS; Ira Grumet, Delray Beach FL 53.43% 1.29 3 Ellen Li - Qi Yao, Mountain View CA 51.64% 0.97 4 Jo Ellen Drisko, Lexington KY; Margaret Getman, Saint Paul MN 51.50%

SATURDAY MORNING JULIETTE DUBEA & LINDA FOX 299ER PAIRS 10.5 Tables A B C 2.76 1 Beverly Basha - Sandra Weber, Slidell LA 70.80% 2.36 2 1 Gail Davis - Toni Sardisco, Baton Rouge LA 61.43% 1.77 3 2 Judy Nixon - James Nixon, Flower Mound TX 59.86% 1.16 4 Ann Jennings - Craig Jennings, Naples FL 59.19% 1.33 5 3 Karen Doddridge, Winter Park FL; Sheryl Roper, Hendersonville NC 55.85% 0.69 6 Gail Haar, San Rafael CA; Bart Rhoades, Tiburon CA 54.60% 1.87 4 1 Linda Conner - Elizabeth Cordes, New Orleans LA 53.70% 1.40 5 2 Bonnie Zakotnik - Dan Cliffe, New Orleans LA 51.02% 1.05 3 Margaret Ponseti, Sandy UT; Lynn Flynn, New Orleans LA 47.52% 0.88 4 Diana Powell - Janice Zazulak, Metairie LA 47.40%

SATURDAY MORNING JULIETTE DUBEA & LINDA FOX 49ER PAIRS 4.0 Tables A B C 1.43 1 1 Al Walton - Thomas Bartlett, Germantown TN 63.62% 1.21 2 2 1 Warren Summer - Lillian Summer, New Orleans LA 55.85% 0.91 3 3 2 Claudine Cannon - Delphine Butler, New Orleans LA 53.32%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SIDE PAIRS 18.0 Tables A B C 5.31 1 Fred Hawa - Judith Chaice, White Plains NY 63.83% 3.98 2 Darlene Shirey, Fort Worth TX; Joy McKenzie-Smith, Portland OR 58.17% 2.99 3 Estelle Margolin, Rego Park NY; Paul Burnham, Wilton CT 57.63% 4.17 4/5 1 Barry Boyd, Wheeling WV; Conner Boyd, Key West FL 57.30% 1.97 4/5 Linda Brodie, Bellaire TX; Terry Currie, Houston TX 57.30% 1.64 6 Ralda St Pierre - Lotte Optekamp, Houston TX 56.86% 3.13 2 Joyce McMonagle, Cordova TN; Brenda Glaze, Anchorage AK 54.36% 2.60 3 1 Timothy Pettus, Northborough MA; Yoko Glubok Sobel, Brooklyn NY 54.25% 1.76 4 Gail Kahan, Santa Barbara CA; John Kahan, Century City CA 53.05% 1.95 5 2 Donald Keyes - Terry Henderson, Anchorage AK 52.61% 1.46 6 3 Paul Keedy, Beaumont TX; Sandra Allison, Silsbee TX 52.07% 1.13 4 Ellen Li - Qi Yao, Mountain View CA 51.85% 0.82 5 Hinda Gilbert - Gail Gabiati, San Francisco CA 51.74%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH 30.0 Tables 7 8 9 9.19 1 Charles Smith, Bolton ON; Gaye Villa, Caledon East ON 62.50% 6.89 2 Linda Hanson, Capitola CA; Dorothy Mersereau, Calgary AB 61.01% 5.32 3 1 James Jeffers - Shirley Jeffers, China Grove NC 59.23% 3.99 4 2 J Hagedorn - Kathy Hagedorn, Saint Louis MO 58.63% 3.06 5 Janet Crossley, San Rafael CA; Therese Koller, Pueblo CO 58.48% 2.63 6 Mavis Minuck - Sharon Putter, Winnipeg MB 58.33% 2.99 7 3 Elizabeth Wood, Arlington MA; Mimi Groome, New Orleans LA 57.89% 2.24 8 4 Gerald Schiff - Irena Wiewiorowska, Lafayette LA 57.74% 1.84 9 Robert Orvis - Gayle Orvis, Burleson TX 56.99% 1.67 10 Carol McCartney - Janet Tucker, Bend OR 56.55% 1.65 11/12 5/6 Pam Campbell, Fairfield OH; Susan Stacy Vanstone, West Chester OH 55.65% 2.07 11/12 5/6 J Walker Jones Jr - John Combe, Jr, New Orleans LA 55.65% 1.53 13/14 Barbara Williford, Raleigh NC; Richard Dixon, Frontenac KS 54.91% 2.07 13/14 Alan Godes, Needham MA; Elaine Lacroix, The Villages FL 54.91% 2.04 15 7 Mae O Neil - Warren Courtade, Mandeville LA 54.72% 1.18 8 Mary Regottaz, Kenner LA; Paul Rosenblum, New Orleans LA 53.57% 1.48 9 Maureen Merker, Mentor OH; Joan Lennox, New Orleans LA 52.64%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS 11.0 Tables A B C 2.76 1 1 Nancy Love - Frankie Milner, Dallas TX 66.37% 2.07 2 Mary Silky - Bill Silky, Syracuse NY 62.20% 1.36 3/4 Dan Rice, Milton MA; John Sagodi, Hamilton ON 61.90% 1.36 3/4 Karen Doddridge, Winter Park FL; Sheryl Roper, Hendersonville NC 61.90% 0.97 5 Bonnie Zakotnik - Jean Frank, New Orleans LA 57.74% 0.65 6 Jo Ellen Drisko, Lexington KY; Margaret Getman, Saint Paul MN 56.85% 1.58 2 William Mendell, Colorado Spgs CO; Dale Strawn, Seattle WA 55.36% 1.18 3 Bonnie Zeran - Sterling Zeran, Lakefield ON 54.76% 0.89 4 Sandra Freeman - Helen Wisdom, New Orleans LA 50.30% 1.33 5 1 Willa King, Newport Beach CA; Katherine Kwong, Foster City CA 50.00% 1.00 2 Kathy Gilmore, Metairie LA; Barbara Fitz-Hugh, New Orleans LA 48.21%

Daily BulletinPage 14 Sunday, March 22, 2015

SATURDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS 3 OF 5 SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS YY ZZ EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Liz Nixon, San Marcos CA; Maryann Soinski, Winter Park FL 63.33% 1 1 John Crouch, Edina MN; Loring Knoblauch, Chicago IL 62.41% 2 Zhenzhong Guo - Wen Jie Lian, Beijing People’s Republic of China 60.23% 2 2 Tipping Ellis, New Orleans LA; Frank Morgan, Allentown PA 61.67% 3 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Barbara Murphy, Newton MA 56.69% 3 James Tanner, Highland CA; Millie Garrison, Riverside CA 60.97% 4 2 1 Wayne Tindall, San Juan TX; Joe Ramirez, Mission TX 56.38% 4 3 Mark Heumann, Watertown MA; Marsha Gerstein, Somerville MA 54.63% 5 Gerri Soffa Carlson, Rancho Palo Vds CA; Steve Mager, Hermosa Beach CA 55.55% 5 4 Margaret Moen, Seattle WA; Paula Strand, Kirkland WA 54.35% 6 3 David Taylor, Seattle WA; Melinda Westgate, Mercer Island WA 53.47% 6 Linda Brodie, Bellaire TX; Terry Currie, Houston TX 53.56% 7 4 2 Sandra Macpherson, Halifax NS; Ira Grumet, Delray Beach FL 53.43% 7 5 1 Ellen Li - Qi Yao, Mountain View CA 51.64% 8 5 Jim Mulbrandon, Verona WI; James Carroll, Lyons NY 52.50% 8/9 6 Craig Wakefield, Des Plaines IL; Lynne Marley, Downers Grove IL 51.39% 6 Won Yang, Clermont FL; Calvin Konner, Bethesda MD 51.58% 8/9 Shelley Burns, North Vancouver BC; June Pocock, New Westminster BC 51.39% 2 Philip Debus, Centennial CO; Jennifer O’Neill, Cherry Hill Vlg CO 46.02%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION MMM EAST-WEST 7 3 1 7 3 1 1 1 J Hagedorn - Kathy Hagedorn, Saint Louis MO 70.83% 1 Charles Smith, Bolton ON; Gaye Villa, Caledon East ON 62.50% 2 2 Elizabeth Wood, Arlington MA; Mimi Groome, New Orleans LA 59.23% 2 1 Gloria Woloshyn - Dianne Harley, Winnipeg MB 52.98% 3 Linda Hanson, Capitola CA; Dorothy Mersereau, Calgary AB 56.85% 3 Judy Sandberg - Joel Sandberg, Hacienda Hgts CA 51.79% 4 Susan Young, Shreveport LA; Linda Harrison, Pittsburg TX 55.36% 4 Alan Godes, Needham MA; Elaine Lacroix, The Villages FL 51.49% 2 Louise Hargon, Baton Rouge LA; Nada Wood, Houston TX 49.40% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION TTT EAST-WEST 7 3 1 7 3 1 1 1 James Jeffers - Shirley Jeffers, China Grove NC 59.52% 1 1 J Walker Jones Jr - John Combe, Jr, New Orleans LA 61.01% 2 Carol Raimondo, Cayucos CA; Julie Connor, Houston TX 55.06% 2 Robert Orvis - Gayle Orvis, Burleson TX 58.04% 3 Jerry Carter - Betty Jean Carter, Little Rock AR 54.76% 3 2 Marlene Flament, Oldsmar FL; Pat Ward, Clearwater FL 56.55% 4 Jean Higgins - William Higgins, Dallas TX 52.38% 4 Gail Fayard, Gretna LA; Cindy Lewis, Luling LA 53.27% 2 Malcom Millar - Rosalyn Millar, Summerside PE 50.89% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UUU EAST-WEST 7 3 1 7 3 1 1 1 Pam Campbell, Fairfield OH; Susan Stacy Vanstone, West Chester OH 59.82% 1 Mavis Minuck - Sharon Putter, Winnipeg MB 65.77% 2 2 Gerald Schiff - Irena Wiewiorowska, Lafayette LA 57.14% 2 1 Mae O Neil - Warren Courtade, Mandeville LA 55.06% 3 Janet Crossley, San Rafael CA; Therese Koller, Pueblo CO 56.55% 3 2 Debra LaMountain, Forest Hills NY; Janine Buss, Port Washington NY 54.17% 4 Peter Rans, Halifax NS; Carolyn Wood, Cobbs Creek VA 56.25% 4/5 3 Maureen Merker, Mentor OH; Joan Lennox, New Orleans LA 50.89% 4/5 Om Garg - Cathy Rantz, New Orleans LA 50.89%

JULIETTE DUBEA & LINDA FOX SATURDAY MORNNG 299ER 100/200/300 SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Gail Davis - Toni Sardisco, Baton Rouge LA 61.43% 1 Beverly Basha - Sandra Weber, Slidell LA 70.80% 2 Ann Jennings - Craig Jennings, Naples FL 59.19% 2 1 Judy Nixon - James Nixon, Flower Mound TX 59.86% 3 2 Karen Doddridge, Winter Park FL; Sheryl Roper, Hendersonville NC 55.85% 3 Gail Haar, San Rafael CA; Bart Rhoades, Tiburon CA 54.60% 4 3 1 Linda Conner - Elizabeth Cordes, New Orleans LA 53.70% 4 2 Musette Buckley, Metairie LA; Marian Bourgeois, New Orleans LA 49.39% 4 2 Bonnie Zakotnik - Dan Cliffe, New Orleans LA 51.02% 3 1 Diana Powell - Janice Zazulak, Metairie LA 47.40% 2 Judee Flotron - Virgina McMurray, Metairie LA 47.24%

SATURDAY MORNING JULIETTE DUBEA & LINDA FOX 49ERS 20/50 SESSION SECTION BBB A B C 1 1 Al Walton - Thomas Bartlett, Germantown TN 63.62% 2 2 1 Warren Summer - Lillian Summer, New Orleans LA 55.85% 3 3 2 Claudine Cannon - Delphine Butler, New Orleans LA 53.32%

NABC+ FAST PAIRS 2ND QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B C EAST-WEST 1 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Jeff Roman, Sun City West AZ 65.18% 1 Lewis Gamerman, Randolph MA; Bob Feller, Bloomington IN 65.27% 2 Stephen Sanborn, Delray Beach FL; Allan Stauber, Palm Bch Gdns FL 64.10% 2 Christian Jolly - Andrew Cavalier, Huntsville AL 60.62% 3 Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Tom Kniest, Brentwood MO 59.73% 3 Corey Krantz - Bruce Lang, Philadelphia PA 59.97% 4 Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Jay Kelkar, Oak Hill VA 58.71% 4 Brandon Sheumaker, Santa Ana CA; Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA 58.82% 5 Alan Gailfus - Debbie Gailfus, Carlsbad CA 57.89% 5 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Randy Okubo, Saint Paul MN 57.52% 6 Leonard Doerksen - Leigh Anne Shafer, Winnipeg MB 56.96% 6 Russell Shoup, Dayton OH; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX 57.30% 7 Larry Jones, Pickerington OH; Douglas Millsap, Columbus OH 56.93% 7 Adam Kaplan, Stanford CA; Shane Blanchard, New York NY 56.79% 8 Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC; Joanne Minken-Levy, Los Angeles CA 56.82% 8 Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA; Ann Borgschulte, Lexington MA 56.70% 9 Denny Cahan, Cumming GA; Roy Martin, Birmingham AL 56.20% 9 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 56.40% 10 Jason Rotenberg, Ridgefield CT; Daniel Neill, Beaverton OR 56.00% 10 Paul Darin, San Diego CA; Jim Johnsen, San Mateo CA 55.68% 11 Eric Gettleman, Baltimore MD; George Klemic, Bensenville IL 53.77% 11 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 55.53% 12 David Walker, Salem VA; Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 53.72% 12 Freerk Polling, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Francisco Bernal, Miami FL 54.95% 13 Jo Anne Vatter - Richard Vatter, Cadillac MI 53.47% 13 Robert Todd - Bob Soni, Tallahassee FL 54.71% 14 Larry Mori, Clearwater FL; Leonard Melander, West Bloomfield MI 53.32% 14 Dong Lu - Yanhong Wang, Beijing People’s Republic of China 53.94% 15 Thomas Bandy - Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR 53.00% 15 Robert Cummins - Bob Lyon, Indianapolis IN 53.87% 16 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 52.80% 16 Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA; Yusuf Sohtorik, Instanbul Turkey 53.61% 17 Chuan Hui Li, Montreal QC; Nicolas Hammond, Marietta GA 52.64% 17 Alexander Labry, Austin TX; Jack Lacy, Lago Vista TX 53.17% 18 Cathy Strauch - Riggs Thayer Jr, San Diego CA 52.28% 18 John Cobb Jr, Morrisville NC; John Marriott Jr, Cary NC 52.58% 19 Bernace De Young - Sean Ganness, Miami FL 52.08% 19 Alexander Ornstein, New York NY; Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY 52.42% 20 Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS; Susan Hinton, Vancleave MS 51.69% 20 Andre Asbury, Atlanta GA; Sean Gannon, Decatur GA 52.26%

SATURDAY A/B PAIRS SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION E EAST-WEST A B A B 1 1 Herman Louie - Ming Louie, Henderson NV 62.50% 1/2 1 John Demeulemeester, Burnaby BC; Michael Moffatt, Surrey BC 56.25% 2 Chuck Said, Nashville TN; Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA 56.25% 1/2 David Fleischer, Alexandria VA; Brian Mason, Crossville TN 56.25% 2 Ken Eisner - Betsy Eisner, Truro NS 51.67% 2 Isabel Chernoff - Vicki Moffatt, Surrey BC 55.83%

SATURDAY C/D PAIRS SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION G EAST-WEST C D E C D E 1 1 Steve Graves - Brenda Thomas, Venice FL 61.86% 1 1 Ryan Connors, Bethesda MD; Jody Connors, Vero Beach FL 60.10% 2 2 Paul Sitz, Ramsey MN; Bert Sheldon, Houston TX 61.06% 2 2 1 Tori Dauphinot - Kiendl Gordon, New York NY 58.97% 3 Mark Krusemeyer, Northfield MN; Lawrence Diamond, Tacoma WA 57.53% 3 Michael Zeller, York PA; Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL 58.17% 4 3 F Corredine, Slidell LA; Bill Beaushaw, Pearl River LA 56.73% 4 3 William McCarron, Tallahassee FL; Constance Johnston, Anchorage AK 52.08% 5 4 Jim Murphy - Chris Murphy, Calgary AB 52.24% 5 Linda Stockton, Metairie LA; Colleen Walker, Kenner LA 50.32% 1 Maryann Soinski, Winter Park FL; Toby Burke, San Marcos CA 51.44% 4 Martin Deneroff - Valerie Deneroff, New York NY 50.16% 2 Lucy Morini, Warren VT; Darrick Chee, Orange CA 49.04%

FRIDAY-SUNDAY SIDE GAME SERIES FOURTH SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION QQQ EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Thomas Roberts, Terre Haute IN; Bertil Blomquist, Sweden IN 61.81% 1 1 Calista Graham - Curtis Bare, Charlottesville VA 60.65% 2 2 Tim White - Renae Gunstone-White, Mercer Island WA 60.88% 2 Arleen Harvey, Riverside CA; Scott Humphrey, Pflugerville TX 58.10% 3 Adriana Salinas, Mexico Mexico; Miriam Rosenberg, Huixquilucan Mexico 56.25% 3 2 1 You Hu, Philadelphia PA; Zhenyang Zhang, Berkeley CA 57.64% 4 3 1 Pam Campbell, Fairfield OH; Susan Stacy Vanstone, West Chester OH 55.56% 4 3 Robert Marcus - Kathy Guinyou, North York ON 55.56% 4 Lucy Tillman Jr, The Villages FL; John Burgoin, Brownsville TX 52.55%

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS SECTION CCC A B C 1 Lorita Tipton - Joyce Eveld, Houston TX 56.50% 2 1 Margaret Getman, Saint Paul MN; Jo Ellen Drisko, Lexington KY 53.50% 2 1 Kate King, Dorchester MA; Susanne Osberg, Sharon MA 53.12%

Show offJim Munday executed this presumptive little

show-up squeeze in the first session of the Silodor Pairs. Dlr: West ♠ J 9 8 5 3 Vul: None ♥ 4 ♦ K J 5 4 ♣ 10 9 3 ♠ K Q 4 2 ♠ 10 6 ♥ Q 9 8 6 2 ♥ A K J 10 ♦ — ♦ A Q 6 ♣ A 5 4 2 ♣ K J 8 6 ♠ A 7 ♥ 7 5 3 ♦ 10 9 8 7 3 2 ♣ Q 7

West North East South Munday Sealy 1♥ Pass 2NT Pass 3♣ Pass 3♦ Pass 3♠ Pass 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass 5♥ Pass 6♥ All Pass

2NT showed a forcing heart raise. 3♣ showed a minimum opener. 3♦ asked about shortness and 3♠ said yes, in diamonds. 4♣ and 4♦ were controls. 5♥ asked, “What about spades (the unbid suit)?” With the diamond void, Munday chose 6♥ rather than bidding 5NT to show the ♠K and suggest a possible notrump slam.

North led a low spade won by the ace. South returned the ♠7 to Munday’s ♠K.

Declarer played ♥2: 4, ace, 3. (Wish trick!) When he came off dummy with a low diamond and East played the ♦2 without a twitch, Munday initially placed the ♦K in North’s hand. He ruffed ♦6 with the ♥8.

To collect some more information, he ruffed a spade (RHO pitched a diamond) and played the ♥K. He cashed dummy’s ♦A, pitching a low club from hand, overtook the ♥J with the queen, and played his last heart, RHO pitching a diamond and LHO letting go of the ♦J and his last two spades.

♠ — ♥ — ♦ K ♣ 10 9 3 ♠ Q ♠ — ♥ — ♥ — ♦ — ♦ Q ♣ A 5 4 ♣ K J 8 ♠ — ♥ — ♦ 10 9 ♣ Q 7

LHO’s labored discards made the temporary assignment of the ♦K look more like a sure thing.

Munday cashed the ♣A and then the ♠Q. When lefty pitched a low club, Munday discarded the ♦Q from dummy. He played to the ♣K (perforce bringing down the doubleton queen) and the ♣J was his 12th trick. Plus 1010 was good for 42 of 51 matchpoints.

LHO, who is apparently afflicted with a counting disorder when opponents’ slams make, jumped all over his partner. “Pitch your diamonds!” he insisted hotly. “You can’t pitch clubs!”

Munday eyed LHO calmly. “She only had two clubs.”

Page 15Daily Bulletin Sunday, March 22, 2015

Today is Judy Katz Day. Judy Katz is one of the top players in the LBA.

She was married to local businessman and political figure “Hippo” Katz for more than 50 years. One of the area’s leading players describes Judy as “a happy, talkative, speedy bridge player who is quite skilled in the game. She can whisk out a win at the speed of light.” Judy loves to cook and can prepare an entire meal for large groups she invites to eat in her “le garage,” where she can seat 20 people or thereabout …While she may sometimes lose count of dinner guests, she never loses count in bridge.

All the regional Swiss events today are being held in memory of Jeff Johnston.

Jeff Johnston was a vibrant force in the ACBL for two decades. While he wore many hats, his biggest role was as Mr. NABC. From site exploration to staffing to set-up, from packing up to breaking down, Jeff was the behind-the-scenes magic that made everything work.

No job was too small and no hour too early or too late: Jeff was first and foremost about service. He liked to call himself “the world’s foremost non-bridge playing bridge expert,” a moniker he earned through years of striving to create the best possible tournament experience for NABC guests.

Jeff was a mentor who made a significant difference in the lives of a number of his co-

workers. His ability to listen – really listen – made him a stand-out manager. His charisma, and oh! his humor! (Jeff liked exclamation marks) – sometimes dry, often silly and once in a while outright slap-sticky – made him just plain fun to be around. NABC goers were lucky to get a regular dose of Jeff’s humor via “The Insider” column in the NABC Daily Bulletin.

This New Orleans NABC is the first without Jeff at the helm. He died Dec. 29. His co-workers, his services crew, Wendy, the tournament directors, the local planning committee, fans of “The Insider” and all of his NABC family and friends miss him terribly.

Today’s Sponsors

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS QQQ RRR EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Roland Laframboise - Ross Cody, Thunder Bay ON 62.15% 1 Claybourne Waldrop Jr, Fort Worth TX; Gary Neisler, N Richland Hls TX 69.67% 2 Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC; Don Piafsky, Toronto ON 61.26% 2 Libby Fernandez - Stella Rainey, Tuscaloosa AL 62.59% 3 1 Randolph Johnson - Ann Hudson, Suffield CT 59.81% 3 1 Marilyn Elyakin, Monroe Township NJ; Marilyn Kogan, Avon By The Sea NJ 58.73% 4 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR 58.35% 4 2 Cordelia Menges, New York NY; Jay Baudler, Piedmont CA 58.52% 5 Nicholas Hartung, Astoria NY; Peter Merker, Mentor OH 57.21% 5 Jack Bonney - Dianne Bonney, Venice FL 57.54% 6 William Higgins, Cincinnati OH; Yauheni Siutsau, Loveland OH 55.48% 6 3 Paul Freese, Metairie LA; David Bybee, New Orleans LA 57.38% 7 2 1 Fred Sutherland - Kathryn Sutherland, Surprise AZ 55.23% 7 Suzanne St Thomas, Salem OR; Suzanne Cook, McKinleyville CA 56.43% 8 Stephen Mackay, Markham ON; Ray Jotcham, Scarborough ON 54.85% 8 Edward Spear, Sarasota FL; George Colter, Fredericton NB 56.23% 9 3 2 Gary Waldron - Carol Foster, Laguna Beach CA 54.77% 9 Clay Hall, Vestavia AL; Don Haney, Trussville AL 56.21% 10 4 Wallace Young - Edwina Moscatelli, Honolulu HI 52.69% 10 4 1 Robert Haar, San Rafael CA; Arti Bhargava, Mill Valley CA 55.69% 11 5 3 Janet Thompson - Doris Moore, Pueblo CO 52.23% 11 5 Elaine Weintraub, Philadelphia PA; Ricki Rogers, Mount Laurel NJ 54.47% 12 6 4 Joel Kramer - Ingrid Stocking, Minneapolis MN 51.98% 12 6 Peter Manzon, Waltham MA; Rick Holcomb, Malden MA 53.80% 7 5 Richard Shaw, Greenville SC; Stanley Hurwitz, Bluffton SC 51.23% 7 2 Catherine Bardsley, Mc Lean VA; Fred Gramlich, Alexandria VA 53.77% 8 Cadir Lee, Los Gatos CA; Randal Burns, Washington DC 50.95% 8 3 Marc Kelley - Anthony Palumbo, Cranford NJ 52.96% 4 Telly Wells - Jason Holliday, Baton Rouge LA 47.32% 5 Karen Dugan, Belle Chasse LA; Ellen Lappa, Metairie LA 47.29%

NABC+ FAST PAIRS 1ST QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B C EAST-WEST 1 Bob Heller, Knoxville TN; Peter J Boyd-Bowman, Greensboro NC 59.91% 1 Alexander Ornstein, New York NY; Mel Colchamiro, Merrick NY 65.80% 2 Brandon Sheumaker, Santa Ana CA; Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA 56.91% 2 Igor Savchenko, Morris Plains NJ; Irina Kislitsyna, Ellenton FL 64.14% 3 Christian Jolly - Andrew Cavalier, Huntsville AL 55.99% 3 Mary Ross - Martha De Cou, Corpus Christi TX 62.38% 4 Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN; Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA 55.97% 4 Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA; Yusuf Sohtorik, Instanbul Turkey 60.00% 5 Russell Shoup, Dayton OH; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX 55.65% 5 Alexander Labry, Austin TX; Jack Lacy, Lago Vista TX 59.90% 6 Radu Nistor - Susan Schnelwar, New York NY 55.29% 6 Leo Bell, Long Beach CA; Naren Gupta, Woodside CA 57.42% 7 Dong Lu - Yanhong Wang, Beijing People’s Republic of China 55.21% 7 Bill Rose, Seattle WA; Howard Kahlenberg, Philadelphia PA 57.39% 8 John Cobb Jr, Morrisville NC; John Marriott Jr, Cary NC 54.95% 8 Kish Devaraj, Atlanta GA; Robert Fendrick, Marietta GA 56.82% 9 Michele Gagne - J-Francois Guillemette, Montreal QC 54.76% 9 Leonard Doerksen - Leigh Anne Shafer, Winnipeg MB 56.31% 10 Larry Jones, Pickerington OH; Douglas Millsap, Columbus OH 54.49% 10 Cathy Strauch - Riggs Thayer Jr, San Diego CA 56.00% 11 Lewis Gamerman, Randolph MA; Bob Feller, Bloomington IN 54.45% 11 Luz Ortega, Melbourne FL; Riki Tulin, Boca Raton FL 55.77% 12 Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 54.36% 12 Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Tom Kniest, Brentwood MO 55.52% 13 Paul Darin, San Diego CA; Jim Johnsen, San Mateo CA 53.99% 13 Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 54.38% 14 Adam Kaplan, Stanford CA; Shane Blanchard, New York NY 53.44% 14 Eleanor Seaman - Jerry Goldberg, New York NY 53.58% 15 Aaron Jones, Orange CA; Sylvia Shi, Rockville MD 53.19% 15 Denny Cahan, Cumming GA; Roy Martin, Birmingham AL 53.57% 16 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Jon King, Balboa Island CA 52.96% 16 Becky Simkins, Dothan AL; Judy Fendrick, Marietta GA 52.24% 17 Corey Krantz - Bruce Lang, Philadelphia PA 52.62% 17 Meyer Kotkin, Cherry Hill NJ; Larry Sunser, Syracuse NY 51.66% 18 David Olson, Owings Mills MD; James Olson, Charleston WV 52.54% 18 Eric Gettleman, Baltimore MD; George Klemic, Bensenville IL 51.58% 19 Bob Simkins, Decatur GA; James Fordham, Fairburn GA 52.17% 19 Alan Gailfus - Debbie Gailfus, Carlsbad CA 51.52% 20 Paul Munafo, Huntsville AL; Richard Reitman, Los Gatos CA 51.92% 20 Barton Buffington, North Kingstown RI; Barbara Mackay, Fredericton NB 51.42%

SATURDAY C/D PAIRS 1ST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION K EAST-WEST C D E C D E 1 Michael Zeller, York PA; Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL 61.61% 1 1 Ellen Ryan, Ithaca NY; Sharon Durr, Osprey FL 58.58% 2 1 1 Margarita Jaramillo, Miami FL; Claudia Londono, Colombia 58.46% 2 2 1 Lucy Morini, Warren VT; Darrick Chee, Orange CA 58.56% 3 Linda Stockton, Metairie LA; Colleen Walker, Kenner LA 55.42% 3 Mark Krusemeyer, Northfield MN; Lawrence Diamond, Tacoma WA 55.98% 4 2 Steve Ramos, Jr - Sharon Biederman, Seal Beach CA 54.64% 4 Helene Fornia, Clyde Hill WA; Barbara Higgins, Redmond WA 52.65% 5 Dee Moses - Eleanor Onstott, New Orleans LA 53.82% 5 3 David Fotland - Wendy Fotland, San Jose CA 52.41% 6 3 Kim Brinkman, Highland Vlg TX; David Ticen, Victoria TX 53.14% 6 4 Martin Deneroff - Valerie Deneroff, New York NY 51.81% 4 Jim Murphy - Chris Murphy, Calgary AB 49.93% 2 William McCarron, Tallahassee FL; Constance Johnston, Anchorage AK 46.92%

SATURDAY A/B PAIRS 1ST SESSION SECTION I A B 1 1 Rita Dodge, Vancouver BC; Marge Neate, North Vancouver BC 60.00% 2/3 Chuck Said, Nashville TN; Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA 59.59% 2/3 2 Jay Segarra, Ocean Springs MS; Walter Lewis, Gautier MS 59.59% 4 3 Ken Eisner - Betsy Eisner, Truro NS 53.34% 5 4 Terry Schleppegrell, Boulder City NV; Mark Rindner, Anchorage AK 53.21%

FRIDAY-SUNDAY SIDE GAME SERIES THIRD SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS YY ZZ EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 Fred Hawa - Judith Chaice, White Plains NY 63.83% 1 Darlene Shirey, Fort Worth TX; Joy McKenzie-Smith, Portland OR 58.17% 2 Estelle Margolin, Rego Park NY; Paul Burnham, Wilton CT 57.63% 2/3 1 Barry Boyd, Wheeling WV; Conner Boyd, Key West FL 57.30% 3 Ralda St Pierre - Lotte Optekamp, Houston TX 56.86% 2/3 Linda Brodie, Bellaire TX; Terry Currie, Houston TX 57.30% 4 1 Joyce McMonagle, Cordova TN; Brenda Glaze, Anchorage AK 54.36% 4 Phil Hook, Atlanta GA; Phillip Kielpinski, Amarillo TX 56.54% 5 Sonia Kaplan, Eatontown NJ; Sylvia Gindi, Oakhurst NJ 53.16% 5 Tina Tessaro, Miami FL; Donald Weiner, Coral Gables FL 55.88% 6 2 Gail Kahan, Santa Barbara CA; John Kahan, Century City CA 53.05% 6 2 1 Timothy Pettus, Northborough MA; Yoko Glubok Sobel, Brooklyn NY 54.25% 7 3 1 Donald Keyes - Terry Henderson, Anchorage AK 52.61% 7 3 2 Ellen Li - Qi Yao, Mountain View CA 51.85% 4 2 Paul Keedy, Beaumont TX; Sandra Allison, Silsbee TX 52.07% 4 3 Hinda Gilbert - Gail Gabiati, San Francisco CA 51.74% 5 Gail Grant - C Brackett, Port St Lucie FL 49.67% 5 Martha Keller - Dolores Mackinnon, San Francisco CA 50.98%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH AFTERNOON SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION MMM EAST-WEST 7 8 9 7 8 9 1 Linda Hanson, Capitola CA; Dorothy Mersereau, Calgary AB 65.18% 1 Barbara Williford, Raleigh NC; Richard Dixon, Frontenac KS 61.01% 2 Charles Smith, Bolton ON; Gaye Villa, Caledon East ON 62.50% 2 Janet Crossley, San Rafael CA; Therese Koller, Pueblo CO 60.42% 3 Marilyn Maher, Washago ON; Hellar Nakonechny, Carman MB 56.55% 3 1 Gerald Schiff - Irena Wiewiorowska, Lafayette LA 58.33% 4 Judy Sandberg - Joel Sandberg, Hacienda Hgts CA 52.08% 4 2 Jane Herman - William Herman, Effingham IL 55.95% 1 David Roberts - Janis Roberts, New Orleans LA 50.30% 2 Ruth Lessinger, Plainview NY; Kay Rogers, Manakin Sabot VA 46.43% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION TTT EAST-WEST 7 8 9 7 8 9 1 1 James Jeffers - Shirley Jeffers, China Grove NC 58.93% 1 Alan Godes, Needham MA; Elaine Lacroix, The Villages FL 58.33% 2 2 Mary Regottaz, Kenner LA; Paul Rosenblum, New Orleans LA 57.44% 2 1 Elizabeth Wood, Arlington MA; Mimi Groome, New Orleans LA 56.55% 3 Robert Orvis - Gayle Orvis, Burleson TX 55.95% 3 Sue Babineaux - Earlene Boddie, Shreveport LA 52.98% 4 J Walker Jones Jr - John Combe, Jr, New Orleans LA 50.30% 4 2 Barbara Wood - Margaret Ellis, Rockwall TX 51.49% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UUU EAST-WEST 7 8 9 7 8 9 1 Carol McCartney - Janet Tucker, Bend OR 60.12% 1 1 David Newcomer - Cheryl Bedgood, Macon GA 55.44% 2/3 1/2 Mae O Neil - Warren Courtade, Mandeville LA 54.38% 2 Roger Hurwitz, Kansas City MO; John Hurwitz, Kingwood TX 53.57% 2/3 1/2 Maureen Merker, Mentor OH; Joan Lennox, New Orleans LA 54.38% 3 2 Pierrette Desmarais, Saint-Hyacinthe QC; Michel Trudel, Granby QC 51.11% 4 Barney Kaplan, Sarasota FL; Wesley Seitz, Champaign IL 51.40% 4 Wendy Joyner, Raleigh NC; Lisa Gray, Cary NC 50.93%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS 50/100/300 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Nancy Love - Frankie Milner, Dallas TX 66.37% 1 Mary Silky - Bill Silky, Syracuse NY 62.20% 2/3 Dan Rice, Milton MA; John Sagodi, Hamilton ON 61.90% 2 Bonnie Zakotnik - Jean Frank, New Orleans LA 57.74% 2/3 Karen Doddridge, Winter Park FL; Sheryl Roper, Hendersonville NC 61.90% 3 1 William Mendell, Colorado Spgs CO; Dale Strawn, Seattle WA 55.36% 4 Jo Ellen Drisko, Lexington KY; Margaret Getman, Saint Paul MN 56.85% 4 2 Bonnie Zeran - Sterling Zeran, Lakefield ON 54.76% 2 Sandra Freeman - Helen Wisdom, New Orleans LA 50.30% 3 1 Willa King, Newport Beach CA; Katherine Kwong, Foster City CA 50.00% 1 Kathy Gilmore, Metairie LA; Barbara Fitz-Hugh, New Orleans LA 48.21% 4 John Musser IV - Stephanie Musser, New Orleans LA 47.92%

SATURDAY DAYLIGHT OPEN PAIRS SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS QQQ RRR EAST-WEST A B C A B C 1 1 Ronald Berenger, Metairie LA; Jack Lewis Jr, Luling LA 60.10% 1 1 Christina Parker, Newton Center MA; Stewart Rubenstein, Newton MA 58.82% 2 2 1 Marc Kelley - Anthony Palumbo, Cranford NJ 58.76% 2 Nicholas Hartung, Astoria NY; Peter Merker, Mentor OH 58.64% 3 Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC; Don Piafsky, Toronto ON 58.12% 3 2 1 Richard Brown - Randi Brown, Eau Claire WI 57.16% 4 3 2 Robert Haar, San Rafael CA; Arti Bhargava, Mill Valley CA 57.54% 4 Roland Laframboise - Ross Cody, Thunder Bay ON 57.01% 5 Edward Spear, Sarasota FL; George Colter, Fredericton NB 56.45% 5 Suzanne St Thomas, Salem OR; Suzanne Cook, McKinleyville CA 56.63% 6 4 3 Lucy Tillman Jr, The Villages FL; John Burgoin, Brownsville TX 55.55% 6 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR 56.49% 7 Buddhadeb Biswas, San Jose CA; Peter Morse, North Vancouver BC 54.90% 7 Stephen Mackay, Markham ON; Ray Jotcham, Scarborough ON 56.29% 8 Mary Mosher, Tinton Falls NJ; Cleopatra Guastella, Red Bank NJ 53.50% 8 Jack Bonney - Dianne Bonney, Venice FL 55.41% 9 5 4 Catherine Bardsley, Mc Lean VA; Fred Gramlich, Alexandria VA 53.41% 9 3 Cordelia Menges, New York NY; Jay Baudler, Piedmont CA 55.28% 10 Janice Henderson, Gonzales LA; Bobby Maynard, Houston TX 53.30% 10 William Higgins, Cincinnati OH; Yauheni Siutsau, Loveland OH 54.95% 11 6 5 Telly Wells - Jason Holliday, Baton Rouge LA 52.46% 11 4 Amanda Carter, Arlington VA; Wayne Bardsley, Mc Lean VA 54.92% 12 7 Carolyn Likou - Manny Likou, West Dundee IL 51.85% 12 5 Lynne Newman, San Diego CA; Mary Bass, Mobile AL 54.31% 8 Peter Manzon, Waltham MA; Rick Holcomb, Malden MA 51.34% 6 2 Jacquelyn Madden - JoAnn Ippolito, Metairie LA 53.36% 7 3 Joel Kramer - Ingrid Stocking, Minneapolis MN 53.25% 8 4 Toni Schultz, New Port Richey FL; Jerry Miller, Silver Spring MD 51.26% 5 Luraette Tucker - Jim Tucker, Little Rock AR 47.97%

Today’s Bridge Events: all events played at the Marriott

Organized by Alice Travel and Larry CohenTWO more ACBL Regionals at Sea in 2015

with Larry CohenOctober 8-17, 2015

Canada/New EnglandRoundtrip NY (Cape Liberty, NJ)

Royal Caribbean’s

Liberty of the Seas

with Barbara SeagramDecember 6-13, 2015

Western CaribbeanRoundtrip Galveston, TX

Royal Caribbean’s

Liberty of the Seas

- Daily Lectures -- Hand Analysis -

- Awards Ceremony -- Well-lit room, comfortable seating -

- Prepaid gratuities -- Current taxes and fees included -

Open Pairs, Swiss Teams, Knockout Teams, Side Games

GOLD POINTS

You must book through Alice Travel to participate in these bridge programs.DETAILS ON OUR WEBSITE: WWW.ALICETRAVEL.COM

BRIDGE DESK: 888-816-2457

Don’t wait to call. Our Regionals sell out quickly.Act Now! 888-816-2457

NewOrleans4-2015.qxp_Layout 1 3/2/15 1:27 PM Page 1

Judy Katz DaySunday, March 22, 10 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherJeff Johnston Flight A/B Swiss Teams (Unlimited/5000) 1-2 Grand Ballroom-Carondelet, 3rd floor $16 $20Jeff Johnston Flight C/D Swiss Teams (3000/1500) 1-2 Grand Ballroom-Carondelet, 3rd floor $16 $20Jeff Johnston Gold Rush Swiss Teams (750/300) 1-2 Grand Ballroom-Carondelet, 3rd floor $16 $20 Gold points for 0–750.Jeff Johnston Stratified Senior Swiss Teams 1-2 Grand Ballroom-Carondelet, 3rd floor $16 $20 All above: Play-through. For Senior Swiss, players must have been born before January 1, 1959.Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 5th single session Mardi Gras D, 3rd floor $16 $20Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Mardi Gras C, 3rd floor $15 $19299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Mardi Gras C, 3rd floor $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Mardi Gras C, 3d floor $15 $15

Sunday, March 22, 10 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.Stratified Fast Open Pairs 1-2 Mardi Gras E, 3rd floor $16 $20

Sunday, March 22, 10 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.Saturday-Sunday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 Mardi Gras D, 3rd floor $16 $20

Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.NABC+ FAST PAIRS 1-2 F Galerie 4, 2nd floor $20

Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.JACOBY OPEN SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor $20

Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.MACHLIN WOMEN’S SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Galerie 1, 2nd floor $30

Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.VANDERBILT KNOCKOUT TEAMS Final Balcony I J K, 4th floor $30

Sunday, March 22, 2:30 p.m.Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 6th single session Mardi Gras D, 3rd floor $16 $20Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Mardi Gras C, 3rd floor $15 $19299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Mardi Gras C, 3rd floor $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Mardi Gras C, 3rd floor $15 $15

Unless otherwise noted: The three-flight strati-flighted events (two-session) are divided: A/B (5000+, 0–5000) separate from C/D (1500–3000, 0–1500) and the Gold Rush (300–750, 0–300); Two-flight strati-flighted events are divided A/B/C (3000+/1500–3000/0–1500) and D/E/F (300–750/100–300/0–100). Strata breaks for stratified and stratified Senior events are: A (unlimited), B (750–2500) and C (0–750). 299er and lower events are stratified at the discretion of the director. BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events UPPER CASE = NABC events Green = Regional events Blue = Gold Rush events Red = Intermediate/Newcomer events*Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.

See you in Chicagofor the Summer NABC August 6–16

and the Youth NABC August 6–8.