SPECIAL GAMES
Tuesday Night Club Championship
9/17 7:30 PM
Wednesday Night Club Championship
9/25 7:00 PM
Thursday Morning Club Championship
9/26 10:30 AM
Santa Clara Sectional
Masonic Lodge
September 27-29
Cancelled Games:
SJBC Sun 9/29 PM
SJBC Sun 9/29 Eve
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Prez Sez 1
August
Results 2
Top Ten 3
Masthead 3
Idioter’s
Corner 3
Promotions 4
Game Times 4
Prez Sez by
Dan Turkus
I hope you all did well at the Regional. It was really
something to see so many of our people wearing their badges, or should I say
personalized jewelry. Thank you Sherry
Waki for going to the trouble of getting us all signed up, and labeled! Quite a
few of our members scored over 30 points at the event(s). So many of you had
Section firsts that they ran out of mugs! I would like to congratulate (your
name here) for winning the (name of the event that you won). Good show! Now did I miss anyone? Lately, my partners
have been saying to me, I can't play good Bridge unless glassware is involved.
I remember when I was first starting at Bridge, getting 10 points in a whole
year seemed like a struggle, and then seeing people win that many and more in
one Regional event, left me in awe. Well, your day will come before you know
it, if it hasn't already!
From the ACBL: You will still have to announce your 1NT opening point range. Many of us were hoping they would
abandon this announcement, but apparently it is here to stay.
When you are at the club, pick up a brochure for our next
Sectional (September 27th - 29th), and pick your favorite partners for some
challenging events. The brochures are
bright "hot" yellow, currently on top of the computer. This Sectional will have lots of great
competition, and last years World Champions will answer any of your Bridge
questions for a dollar. Look out for
them (our World Champions) at the Sectional, and have a great question for
them. Also, our speaker, Peter Weischel, will be speaking Saturday afternoon,
giving tips about how one can hold their own against the better players.
For the Sectional, we need a few volunteers to assist in
setting up the tables on Friday Sept. 27th around 11:00 AM.
Also, mark your calendar for the North American Open Pairs
(NAOP) playoffs at the club on, October 20th.
First of two sessions will be at noon.
Do you want to be a Director? Talk to Ray Yuenger for how to obtain a home study course.
That's it for this month, so I'll see ya at the tables
Thanks Eric! by Ray
Yuenger
The
Club wants to thank Eric Ge Yang for donating a new computer to the club. We
will now be able to transmit results directly to the ACBL.
£100 for Mr. Webb
100 Lumps for Mr. Head
by Neil Webb
with
Michael Angelo Ravera
In
a team game in August, Neil Webb held a hand that is just about the worst
possible. His distribution was 4-3-3-3 with four clubs and he held no card
higher than an eight. A hand like this comes along about once in every hundred
thousand hands or so. This hand was manually dealt. It is possible that Neil
even dealt it to himself.
Bridge
Legend has it that the Earl of Yarborough offered a consolation prize of one
hundred pounds for anyone in the club who received such a hand. Back in those
days, £100 was a lot of green (OK, so UK money wasn’t really green, but stay
with me on this one). I’m certain Neil showed plenty of green at the table
during this hand. Chances are that it looked something like this: 
.
No
thanks, Neil! I would rather have that hand that appears on the front of those
ID badges. According to the laws of probability I will have to wait, on the
average, for Neil to get this £100 hand about one hundred thousand times before
I get one of those hands. I hope that my opponents pick that hand to
psych a 1NT opener ahead of me, if I ever get such a hand.
Sunday 5:20 PM, San Jose
Bridge Center (SJBC)
|
8/4 |
Ben & Fia Bosklopper
A/B/C 73.50% |
|
8/11 |
Richard Jacobs - Tom Coleman
A Bob & Nancy Ward A/B/C Shirley Foreman - Marilyn
Bliss B |
|
8/18 |
Irene & William Price A/B Sherry Waki - Rita Randolph A Carol Burnett - Keith Burnett C Ben & Fia Bosklopper B/C |
|
8/26 |
Irene & William Price A/B Leon W. Lee - Eric Yang A Li Zhao - Craig Tsui C Alexander Tampilang - Shane De Zilwa B |
Monday
11:00 AM SJBC
|
8/5 |
Tina Pearson - Glenda Ciochon
A Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C Jane Casciano - Raja Smadi
A/B/C |
|
8/12 |
Melinda Foos - Gigi Spinazze
A/B 65.06% Trina Bowman - Faye Parsons
A Bert Hsu - George Pledger B |
|
8/19 |
Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr
A 66.19% N Hatfield - Tania Moalem A Richard Kilner - H Zoellner
B Sidney Safir - Paul Nelson B Elizabeth Moley - Judi
Carollo C |
|
8/26 |
Frances Dickman - Charlie
Dorn A Andy Kridl - Ted Richmond A Bert Hsu - George Pledger B Joyce Sogg - Doris Oelberg B Fung Bao - Raja Smadi C |
Monday
7:30 PM SJBC
|
8/5 |
Mike Sullivan – Ron Laffen
67.35% Jewel Schimke – Shirley
Foreman |
|
8/12 |
Mike Sullivan - Stan Batiste Eric Yang - Leon W. Lee |
|
8/19 |
Stacie Bowman - Elizabeth
Strasen |
|
8/26 |
Leon W. Lee - Eric Yang
68.23% |
Tuesday
10:30 AM SJBC
|
8/6 |
Jyme Schmieder - Rose
Meltzer A Beverly Wright - Jean Power
B Sabina Siem - Timothy White
A/B Andrew & Jim Wulfhorst C Norman Riley - Harry Cuzner
C |
|
8/13 |
Jyme Schmieder - Rose
Meltzer A 71.43% Tania Moalem - Dana Brown B N Hatfield - Frances Dickman
A Rollin Cutts - Stanford
Field B/C |
|
8/20 |
Charlie Dorn - Diane Shannon
A Rollin Cutts - Stanford
Field A/B Larry Wagner - Larry Mohr B |
|
8/27 |
Art Fonda - Josephine Cooley
A/B |
Tuesday
7:30 PM SJBC
|
8/6 |
Jeffrey Hu - Kou-Ping Cheng
A Sabina Siem - Rita Tingley
A/B Victor Rivkin - Boris Ginzburg
B Awtar & Birendar Singh C Mike Kadish - Eric Yang C |
|
8/13 |
Mike Cailean - Ashraf
El-Sadi A Peter Sun - Xiaodong Zhang B Gary Porter - Judy Fisher A Kit Humphrey - Henri Farhi B |
|
8/20 |
Gary MacGregor - Franklin
Lowenthal A 66.76% Shih-Ming Shih - Michael Fleisher
B Dan Turkus - George Humphrey
A/B Stan Batiste - Keith McMahan
C |
Wednesday 10:30 AM SJBC
|
8/7 |
Victor Rivkin - Timothy
White A/B Bert Hsu - Y.E. Chen A/B Peter Kao - Leon W. Lee C |
|
8/14 |
Gary Yang - Boyer Chu A Malcolm Stewart - Victor
Rivkin B Peter Kao - Leon W. Lee C |
|
8/21 |
Barbara Barlow - Dolores
Clinch A Ruth Sporer - Maureen
Ellenberg B/C |
Wednesday
7:00 PM SJBC
|
8/7 |
Franklin Lowenthal - Edward
Barlow A Gigi Spinazze - Raymond
Yuenger A/B Michael Fleisher - Guy Gecht
B/C |
|
8/14 |
Heather Cutting - Gary
MacGregor A Jim O'Neil - Franklin
Lowenthal A Victor Rivkin - Boris
Ginzburg B Paul Nelson - Edward Lee B Greg Dougherty - Tom
Dougherty C Mike Sullivan - Alexander
Tampilang C |
|
8/21 |
Will Watson - Leila Sink A Neal Webb - Raymond Yuenger
A/B Srinivasan Ravindran - Dana
Brown B |
Wednesday
7:30 PM Oakwood
|
8/7 |
Melinda Foos – George
Pledger A/B Florence Golden – Don Hayden
A Donald Perry – Hiram Shen C Tom Snouse – Vibeke
Gilbreath B Andrew & Jim Wulfhorst C |
|
8/14 |
Abby Aldecoa – Larry Miller
A Florence Golden – Don Hayden
A Laura Walters – Dan Oneal B Richard Jacobs – Donald
Perry B |
|
8/21 |
Dan Oneal – Marilyn Campbell
A/B Richard Jacobs – Donald
Perry A/B Sharon Grandfield – Ray
Crist C (Tie) Ted Finalyson – Cathy
Stahler C (Tie) |
Thursday
10:30 AM SJBC
|
8/1 |
Barbara Harkleroad - N
Hatfield Kit Humphrey - Bill Langlois |
|
8/8 |
Frances Dickman - Diane
Shannon A 65.05% Kathleen Keener - N Hatfield
A Tony Staw - Gigi Spinazze B Y.E. Chen - Gary Yang B |
|
8/15 |
Richard Sarsfield - Douglas
Hong A/B Ted Richmond - Andy Kridl A Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C |
|
8/22 |
Ivan Rose - N Hatfield Frank Warzek - Olive Tangney |
