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St. Louis Bridge NewsEditor:
Sheryl Finkenstadt, St. Louis MO sheryl@finkenstadt.com
Never forget that duplicate is a partnership game. Partner is going to be thinking about what you bid (or didn’t bid) and what you play (or don’t play). Try to make it easy for partner to make the right choice. Remember, the score will be for BOTH of you.
Ralph
Britton and Bill Maack (left) won first place in Flight C, at the District 8
Finals of the North American Pairs championship. They posted more than 60% in
each of the two sessions of the event (62.81% and 61.73%).
They will represent District 8 in the NAP National championship, in the Spring NABC to be held here in St Louis. Congratulations, gentlemen!
Another Unit pair (Flt C) who had a great game in
one session of the two was Susan Corley & Missy Ramey (68.75%)
The October Sectional provided a great opportunity for players to win lots of masterpoints. There were 370 tables, 413 unique players, earning 1467.66 MPs. Congratulations to the top 10 masterpoint winners in the Fall Sectional.
1. 36.72 Alan Popkin
2. 32.09 Mike Giacaman
3. 30.32 Jack Bryant
4. 29.97 Nancy Popkin
5. 28.11 Tom Oppenheimer
6. 28.08 Stephen Zenk
7. 28.08 Debra Romero
8. 24.18 Milton Zlatic
9. 23.97 Dennis Spencer
10. 22.88 Nate Ward, Champaign IL
Unit 143 has elected a new member to the Board of Directors, Mary Dolan.
Says Dolan: “I’m grateful to Donna Coker for running a truly great novice game, which I still think of as family. I appreciate all the A and B players who take the time to tell me ‘how the contract could have been made.’ I am fortunate to be a member of the Unit 143 bridge community where so many expert players display tolerance, patience and kindness at the tables. I look forward to serving on the board.”
Unit 143 also has a new roster of Officers: Debbie Romero, President; George Hawley, Vice President; Jeff Kopolov, Treasurer; Linda Siebert, Secretary.
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The St. Louis Bridge Center is a 501 [c][3] not-for-profit organization dedicated to training and educating the bridge-playing community. Besides a full roster of regularly scheduled games (Open and intermediate/novice), in keeping with its mission statement, the following seminars have been held:
A special two-day seminar by Jerry Helms was at the SLBC on Oct 23-24, 2012.
Phyllis Siegel started an 8-week class on Oct 26 for adults who want to learn how to play bridge.
Phyllis also offers FREE Bridge 4 Kids (6th grade – high school) on Saturday mornings.
Further, at least three other seminars are schedules for the Winter of 2013.
Members continue to advance in rank. Unit 143 now has 1187 members. Congratulations to the 42 following players, who have gained new stature between October 1 and December 1, 2012.
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New Junior Masters (5+) Shirleana Hoskins Leonard Karoll Debb Keniley Michaela K Kursar Jerome Nuell John Welte
New Club Masters Richard Ahrens Marilyn A Reznik Phillip B Sand Carole A Simon Barrett W Taussig
New Sectional Masters (50+) Dale Burian Becky J Fouke Karen E Graves Larry K Graves Jan Greenberg Barbara J Macpeek Katy Z Mullins
New Regional Masters (100+) Joseph Butkiewicz Bill Canfield Irvin Drewel Patricia K Lazaroff Karl Lovegreen Martha Ludewig Suzy Schoonmaker Ken Schwartz |
New NABC Masters (200+) Barbara A Chaffin Jeanne Netherton Mark F Prosser Carol Rentz
New Life Master (300+) Mike Arnheim
New Bronze Life Masters (500+) Randy Baker Ted Baldwin Tom L Cadwell Linda K Evans Bernard Hoover Mary Ann Mitchell
New Silver Life Masters (1,000+) A Hirson Deborah B King
New Gold Life Master (2,500+) John Samsel
New Diamond Life Master (5000+) Lee Hastings
New Grand Life Master Rod Beery |
January 18-20, 2013 -- Winter Sectional, Blanchette Park, St. Charles.
March 14-24, 2013 -- Spring NATIONALS, St Louis.
