SPECIAL GAMES
Unit Games
ProAmNovice
Teams
SJBC Sat 7/17 7:00 PM
Teams will be organized at Game Time
See Promo This Page
W(h)ine and Cheese Pairs
Sat 8/14 7:00 PM
SJBC
NAP Unit Qualifying
SJBC Sun 9/19 11AM&TBA
Prequalification Required
Regional
& National
Rated
Club NAP Qualifiers
Tue 7/20, 8/10&24 7:30PM
Swiss Team STaC Week
Tue 8/17-Mon 8/22
Announced Team Games:
Tue 8/17 7:30 PM
Section Rated
All Western Regional
Santa Clara Marriott
Tue 8/29 – Mon 9/6
Tue 8/29 10:30 AM: Open
Most Other Games Closed
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Prez Sez 1
Unit Promo 1
Fuss about UI 1
June-July Results 2
Top Ten 3
Tingley Promo 3
Dietz Promo 3
Idioter’s Corner 3
Masthead 3
Promotions 4
Game Times 4
Prez Sez by Dan Turkus
If you have never played on a team of 6 people, this
Saturday night, July 17 at 7:00 PM,
you will have the opportunity! Even if you don't have a partner, still come
down to the Club, as my understanding is that there will be a lot of unattached
people and pairs. This should be a really fun event!
The elections are over. Thanks to all who voted, and with
that said, welcome to our new Board members Rekha Nirula and Dick Pitzer. They will
be replacing Gigi Spinazze
and George Pledger.
Many thanks go to Gigi Spinazze and George Pledger for a great job on the Board.
You both provided a hard act to follow, and will be missed!
Your Bridge Quiz for this week: What do Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Dan Turkus have in common?
Answer: Both were elected to serve 4 terms as President. I hope to finish my
fourth, and thanks for the opportunity to serve you again!
By the time you read this, the latest standings for the Ace of Clubs and
the MiniMcKenney will be posted at the Club.
After our Unit dinner at Fung Lum, several of our members said the food was not quite as
good this year. One person missed the Chow Mein, and
another missed the soup. I called Fung Lum to relay the information and got a super apology, and two
days later I heard on the radio that they are going to close and the restaurant
is to become a housing project. With that in mind, if you enjoy the food there,
which I do, hurry up and go, as the opportunity may slip away soon. This is not
meant to be an ad for Fung Lum,
but they have really treated the Bridge Club quite fairly over the past four
years. Does anyone
have an idea as to where we can find another restaurant that can serve as many
as 180 people at one sitting?
Have you qualified
for the NAP (North American Pairs) yet? It used to be called the NAOP. Anyway,
our Unit final playoff game of all who qualified will be held on Sunday,
September 19 at 11:00 AM. The second
session time will be announced at the event.
That's it for this month, so I'll see ya
at the tables.
ProAmNovice Teams 7/17 7PM
The unit Pro-Am-Novice Swiss Teams will be held on
Saturday (July 17) at 7PM at the Bridge
Center. Each team will consist of a
Pro Pair, an Amateur Pair, and a Novice Pair. The Am and Novice pairs will sit in
the same direction. The Pro pair will sit in the opposite direction. Thus, the
Pro Pair’s score will count twice.
Teams will be formed on Saturday night. If you want to
bring your own team then you will have to guess where the break for Ams is. Or come as a pair and we will be forming teams. Individuals
are encouraged.
What’s all the fuss about “UI”?
by Bill Langlois
The ACBL Bulletin frequently publishes discussions about UI –
unauthorized information. This is information that partner gives you via methods
not sanctioned by the laws of bridge: bids out of tempo; incorrect alerts or
announcements, or failure to make correct ones.
The most flagrant example is “Hesitation Blackwood,” wherein the
Blackwood bidder signs off at five after a long pause. The UI is clear: we’re
only missing one ace but unless partner has extra values we’re unlikely to make
six.
The governing rule about UI is quite simple. The recipient of the
information must not select an action that the UI suggests would be successful
if there’s a logical alternative action.
To use the Blackwood example, suppose you are the responder and have a void. In the
absence of the UI, you might ignore the signoff. If your void is opposite one of partner’s aces,
you’ll regret doing so, but if that seems unlikely you’d probably go for it. Passing,
however, is
a logical alternative. Since a slow signoff by the Blackwood bidder suggests
that bidding slam would be successful, you must pass.
“Out of tempo” can also mean too fast. Your left hand opponent uses the STOP card and opens 3♠ passed around to you and
you have a marginal four-level overcall. You’re on a guess whether to bid or
pass: one action will be successful, the other disastrous. If partner ignored
the STOP and passed quickly, you have UI that a pass by you
is the winner. You must therefore select the logical alternative of bidding,
even though you won’t like
the result.
UI doesn’t always
put you behind the eight ball. There are three cases with no ethical problem:
1. There is only one logical
choice. With no one vulnerable you hold ♠KJ53 ♥64
♦A9875 ♣43. Partner opens 1♠, you raise,
and LHO overcalls 3♥, passed around to you. The only logical
action here is to compete If partner’s pass over 3♥ was out of tempo, it
doesn’t change that fact. With the ♦A instead of the ♦Q, however, passing becomes a logical alternative that
a huddle by partner would force you to take.
2. There are logical alternatives
but none are suggested by the UI. You open 1♠, get a slow 2♠ raise, and hold a hand
that might justify an aggressive game invitation. Either partner was
considering passing your opening, or he was considering stronger action than a
single raise, but which? You are free to bid or to pass, at your discretion.
3. The UI is also AI (Authorized
Information). You hold ♠QJxxxx with no other high cards. LHO opens a strong 1NT,
partner passes after a protracted pause, and RHO passes in tempo to you. Yes,
you have UI that partner has a hand good enough to cover a 2♠ bid by you. However, a
pass is a logical alternative. Must you take it? No. You also have AI: for his 1NT
opening, opener has at most 17HCP; for his failure to invite game, RHO has at most 8HCP; you
have 3 points. That leaves partner with, at worst, a minimum opening bid, and
the odds are he has better. Also, the 1NT opening and the
pass on your right means there’s no spade stack out against you. The UI is
comforting, but it’s the AI that allows you to compete.
Next month: We’ll deal with the more complicated issue of UI arising
from the alert/announce structure.
Full game results and some
hand records are available at http://www.sjbridge.org/cal.php
Sunday 5:20 PM San
Jose Bridge Center (SJBC)
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6/13
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Belinda Gu
- Jennifer Gu A/B/C 67.13%
Carol Burnett - Keith Burnett A/B/C
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6/20 Unit Game
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Ronald Siegrist
- Mansoor Gowani A/B
70.19%
N Hatfield - Faye Parsons A 67.31%
Rick & Kathy Jasper A/B 67.01%
Loreta Flynn - Fung Bao B
Bert Goldstein - Robert Moen C
Betty De Paola - Don Nemiro A
Mary Harvel - Randy Rice A/B/C
Keith & Carol Burnett A
Ronald & Virginia Fischer B
Ed & Martha Sutton C
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6/27
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Behrooz Tofighrad - Mike Sullivan
A 65.22%
Ben & Fia Bosklopper
B/C
Fred Kurzweil - Bill Garfield A/B/C
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Monday 11:00 AM SJBC
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6/14
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Robert Ritz - Kit Humphrey A
Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr
A
Read Kitson - Elaine Erickson B
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6/21
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Ted Richmond - W Riester
Jr A
David Gambelin - Bill Yetter
B
Maxine & Ray Lubow A/B
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6/28
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Art Fonda - Josephine Cooley
A/B 65.86%
Virginia English - Alan Becker A
Timothy White - Rita Tingley B
Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi C
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Monday
7:30 PM SJBC
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6/14
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M O'Leary - Judith Clark
Barbara Tiernan - David Gehrt
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6/21
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Rita Randolph - Judy Namanny
Jesse Merlin - C Shutford
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6/28
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Rekha Nirula - Mich Ravera 66.25%
Kat Wesolowska - Erin Gove
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Tuesday
10:30 AM SJBC
|
/15
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David Gambelin
- Gigi Spinazze A/B
65.63%
Tania Moalem - Bill Langlois A
Kit Humphrey - Susan Cook B
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6/22
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Kathleen Keener - Barbara Harkleroad A
Olive Tangney - N Hatfield A
David Gambelin - Gigi Spinazze B
Y.E. Chen - Norman Wang B/C
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6/29
Team
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David
Gambelin - Gigi Spinazze - Bill Yetter - Missy
Coy A/B
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7/6
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David Chang - Gary Yang A/B
Tania Moalem - Dana Brown A
Harry Cuzner - Doris Oelberg
B
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Tuesday
7:30 PM SJBC
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6/15
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Derek & Teddi Fiero A/B
Jim Hayashi - Andre Dermant A
Erin Gove - Eric Yang B
Belinda & Jennifer Gu C
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6/22
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Stephen Tu
- Steve Chen A/B
John Hoffman - Mike Cailean A
Mike Roney - John Prior B
Cai Gao - NongYu Li C
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6/29
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Kit Humphrey - Henri Farhi A
Richard Jacobs - Hiram Shen A/B
Steve Zhang - Cai Gao C
John Oswalt - Cindy Gilbert B
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7/6
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Anne Boboricken - Vivien Kilstrup A 67.82%
Bruce Luttrell - Dana Brown A
Tien-Chun Yang - Fang Wu B
Barbara Kim - Per Skullestad B
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Wednesday
11:00 AM SJBC
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6/16
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Dolores Clinch - Barbara
Barlow A
Joan Lynch - Mo Maxfield A/B/C
Keith Burnett - Mike Carney A/B/C
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6/23
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Raja Smadi - Cassandra Leung A
Jack Clinch - Sidney Safir A/B
Allen Wolman - Randee Palmer B
Marion & Irv Wentzien
C
Elizabeth Moley - Judi Carollo
A
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6/30
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Terry Hall - Dolores Halden A
Marilyn Bass - Joan Seipel B/C
Lynn Yokel - Gigi Spinazze
A
Elizabeth Moley - Judi Carollo
A
Manaj & Beena Shah
B/C
Mack Johansen - John Bugna B
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7/7
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Randee Palmer - Allen Wolman A/B
Robert Ritz - Franklin Lowenthal A
Earl Wentworth - George Wuschnig A/B/C
Jack Clinch - Sidney Safir B
Jan Kiernan - Patricia Yelvington C
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Wednesday 7:00 PM SJBC
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6/16
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Peter Friedland
- Edward Barlow A
Marcia Dean - Robert Dean A/B
Paul Nelson - Jeffrey Hack B
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6/23
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Robert Madalena
- John Schoenbrun A
Tien-Chun Yang - Kou-Ping Cheng A
Paul Nelson - Jeffrey Hack B
Panette Talia - Ronald Siegrist B
H Lyle Supp - R Schwarer C
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6/30
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Will Watson - Leila Sink A
66.37%
Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean A
Tania Moalem - Dana Brown B
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7/7
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Marolyn Imaoka-Yancey - Kathleen
Keener A
Marshall Yancey - Dan Turkus A
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Wednesday
7:30 PM Oakwood
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6/16
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Elaine Erickson - Paul Chang A
Matt Moore - Dan Rappaport
A/B/C
Fred Kurzweil - Andre Dermant B/C
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6/23
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Erin Gove - Eric Yang A/B
Shirley Foreman - Hiram Shen
A/B
Val Abid - Anne Dudman C
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6/30
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Joseph Chui - Mike Sullivan A/B/C
Steve Bosma - Jack
Clinch A
Eric Yang - Erin Gove B
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7/7
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David Gambelin - Bill Traver A/B
Laura Walters-Lorraine Rodich A/B/C
Rita Randolph - Shirley Anderson C
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Thursday 10:30 AM SJBC
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6/17
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Manaj & Beena Shah A/B
Kathleen Keener - Art Fonda A/B
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6/24
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Bill
Langlois - Diane Shannon A 67.42%
Missy Coy - Patrick Galligan B
Dolores & Jack Clinch A
Art Fonda - Mary Touris B
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7/1
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Judy
Fisher - Lynn Yokel A
Y.E. Chen - Chi Yung Lin B
Anne Boboricken - Mary Touris A
Kathleen Keener - Josephine Cooley B
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7/8
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Dan
Turkus - Derek Fiero
Anne Boboricken - Olive Tangney
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Thursday 7:00 PM SJBC
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6/17
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Frank
Napolitan - Ursula Gueldner
A
Norma Epler - Den Rosenfeld B
Hiram Shen - Rekha Nirula A
Stan Batiste - Joel Koransky B
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6/24
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George
Pledger - John Prior A
Judy Travis - Bill Garfield A/B/C
Dick & Ellie Hall-Pitzer B
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7/1
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Celso & Ching Ravelo A
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7/8
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Eric
Yang - Leon W. Lee A 66.08%
Celso & Ching Ravelo A
Mike O'Connor - Mike Carney B
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Friday
11:00 AM SJBC
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6/11
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Raja
Smadi - Ivy Chueh 68.63%
Maureen Ellenberg - Ruth Sporer
65.52%
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6/18
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Fung Bao - Doreen Hornback
Harriet Rounds - Joan Simpson
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6/25
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Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi
Hugh Roberts - Harry Shannon
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7/2
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Maureen
Ellenberg - Ruth Sporer
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7/9
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Helen
& Jim Tseng 69.94%
Hugh Roberts - Harry Shannon
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Friday
7:00 PM SJBC
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6/11
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Bob
Shannon - Jewel Schimke A
Bill Garfield - Mich Ravera A
Maralyn Smith - Fia Bosklopper B
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6/18
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Barb
& Ken Shellito A/B/C
Mich Ravera - Bill Garfield A
Ronald & Virginia Fischer B
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6/25 Team
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3-way
Tie
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7/2
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Mark
Peters - Mike Bennett
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7/9
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Fred
Kurzweil - Bill Garfield A/B
Karen Kulander - Happy Fordham C
Barb & Ken Shellito A/B/C
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Saturday
12:45 PM SJBC
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6/12
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Gabriellla Bowling - Ricardo Jastremski
Janice Scott - Jewel Schimke
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6/19
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Robert
Freitas - Lu Weakland
Gabriellla Bowling - Ricardo Jastremski
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6/26
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Dan
Turkus - Janice Scott
Gabriellla Bowling - Alexander Tampilang
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7/3
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Jerry
Lundquist - Glenn Hudson 65.28%
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7/10
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Mildred
Brewer - Russell Brewer 67.08%
Elaine Erickson - William Ahrens
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Top Ten Games June 11-July10
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1
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70.19%
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Ronald Siegrist - Mansoor Gowani
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6/20
Eve
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2
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69.94%
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Helen
& Jim Tseng
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7/9
AM
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3
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68.63%
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Raja
Smadi - Ivy Chueh
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6/11
AM
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4
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67.82%
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Anne Boboricken - Vivien Kilstrup
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7/6
Eve
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5
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67.42%
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Bill
Langlois - Diane Shannon
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6/24
AM
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6
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67.31%
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N Hatfield - Faye Parsons
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6/20
Eve
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7
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67.13%
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Belinda
& Jennifer Gu
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6/13
Eve
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8
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67.08%
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Mildred
& Russell Brewer
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7/10
PM
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9
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67.01%
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Rick
& Kathy Jasper
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6/20
Eve
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|
10
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66.37%
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Will
Watson - Leila Sink
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6/30
Eve
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Wednesday Morning Lessions
Rita and Bernie are now
including a lesson before their Wednesday 11 AM game held at the Bridge Center. The lesson begins at 10:30. You will need to get there early to get a good seat!
Tuesday Morning at the Club
by
Carole Dietz
By popular request, starting in September we will have a
team game on the last Tuesday of EVERY month. Our team games,
which had been held only on the fifth Tuesday (of which there are only 4 per
year), have been very successful and everyone seems to enjoy playing in that
format.
And.... we invite you to join us every Tuesday at 10:30 AM. Our morning game is very friendly
and we have some of the finest players in our unit attending. We encourage
newer players to participate as well. The competition will help them
improve their skills immensely.
Idioter’s
Corner
The many thoughtful lyrics that
prolific songwriter Bruce Springsteen has penned in his career include the
admonition “It’s hard to be a saint in the city.”
It is with this thought in mind that I welcome Bill Langlois’s words back to these pages. Bill’s article regards
a subject dear to everyone’s heart: Unauthorized information.
Following on the same theme, Sharon and I were pleased to
play in the Las Vegas Regional. Bill and Irene Price, who have moved to Las
Vegas, asked me to give their regards to everyone back
here.
At the Las Vegas Regional, the I/N
section was run by two very good directors. One of them instructed Sharon
to do five push-ups when she gave an incorrect explanation.
The fees in Las Vegas
were typically $3.00 higher than at District 21 events, but they did provide either beer and pretzels or Dove bars after most of the
evening sessions.
So, which is more important, lower fees
or better hospitality? If you have an opinion about this, don’t keep it a
secret! Tell me or another board member. If you send me E-Mail with your
reasoning, I’ll publish it for everyone else to read. I’m just happy to live in
a place where I sometimes get to make that choice.
The Palo Alto
and San Mateo Sectionals were also quite well run.
… and one more thing: I
neglected to mention Gigi Spinazze’s
retirement from the board and as Unit Game Coordinator. Gigi’s
efforts have certainly made our unit games worth attending. Gigi
has shown us how it’s done!
The Di-Rek’Tor
The Di-Rek’Tor is published monthly by Unit 507 of the American
Contract Bridge League, Campbell Community Center, One West Campbell Avenue,
Building J-68, Campbell, CA 95008. Opinions in articles are those of the
authors and not necessarily those of the Unit Board.
Unit 507 Board
Officers
President
Dan Turkus
Vice President
Ray Yuenger
Secretary
Marshall Yancey
Treasurer
Neal Webb
Sgt. at Arms
Art Fonda
Membership
Dick Pitzer
Ethics
Bill Langlois
Unit Recorder
Carole Dietz
Forum columnist
Ray Yuenger
Unit
Game Coordinator
Rekha Nirula
Tournament
Coordinator
Tania Moalem
The Di-Rek'Tor Editor
Michael Angelo Ravera
Education/NAOP
Lynn Yokel
D21
Representative
Jeff Hack
Stu
Goodgold
New
Player Representive
Mich Ravera
