The Unit Swiss event, originally on the calendar for Sunday, March 7, 2010, has been moved up a week to Sunday, February 28 at The Bridge Deck. Brunch is served at noon and Ace of Club and Mini-McKenney winners will be honored. Game time is at 1 PM. See you there!
The WCBA is now on Facebook! Use the link at left to visit our page. Fans get real time alerts about upcoming events and can post discussions, interesting hands, request partners for events, chat with other fans and more.
The newly renamed Winter in Westchester Tournament was held from January 8-10, 2010 at The Bridge Deck & at The Riverview Caterers. The tournament kicked off Friday afternoon with Gerald Sosler and Kay Schulle winning the open pairs competition while Denise and Paul Resnik came in first in the 0-200 game. Friday evening, Rick Goldstein and Laura Brill finished first. On Saturday the event moved to the Riverview where players were served a breakfast before the morning game, lunch and presentation of player of the year and new life master recognition followed between sessions, and cocktails and passed trays of food continued the festivities after the 2nd session. The committee led by Joan Gerard, Doris Staubi & Karen Zuckerberg, with assistance by Melissa Baker and Elizabeth Brisson all helped make the day run extremely smoothly. The Harriet Aks Memorial Bowl was won in the morning by Steve Huhman and Dan Wolkowitz, while Dan Hertz and Carlos Munoz won the pair event in the afternoon. On Sunday, the weekend concluded with a terrific buffet prepared by Linda Otness, who did a great job by herself, before the Golden Apple Swiss teams were held. Strat A winners were Fred Hawa, Dennis Newman, Faye Marino & Rich Laufer. In Strat B, the team of Jay Sloofman, Albert Shekter, Cliff Nebel and Ed Zuckerberg won and Strat C was won by the team of Harold & Renee Kelvin, Antoinette Buonafede and Evan Spencer.
Check out photos from the event, courtesy of Rob Baker.
Rob Baker and his wife Melissa made the trip to the San Diego NABC's last month, but Rob didn't spend his time playing bridge. Rob, who is an Opthalmologist in New Rochelle, and whose passions include Astrononomy, classical music and opera (and Melissa, of course) recently added photography to his repertoire and while Melissa was playing in the Nationals with Linda Otness, Rob did a wonderful photo essay on the bridge players in the event. See Rob's photos here
Larry Cohen just published article 24 in a series on how to fill out the convention card. Larry goes into good detail on what the most popular conventions mean and which ones to consider playing with a new or existing partner. This is a great tool and worth checking out here. If you like this article, click the "previous" tab to view all 23 previous articles. Larry also has valuable tools for players of all levels and links to his popular cruises on his site. Enjoy!
Marty Bergen has just released some new booklets in his "Secrets to Winning Bridge Series." Here are some samples. (Clicking ctrl+ to make the font larger will help see the hands better) Regular prices are $9.95 per booklet but Marty has special pricing available on two or more booklets if you order before year's end. Marty and Larry Cohen have also announced a special Reunion Seminar to be held at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas from June 22-24 more info
THIS MONTH:
February 6, 2010: International Fund Game at local clubs
February 22, 2010: ACBL-wide Senior Pairs, Monday afternoon clubs
February 28, 2010: Unit 188 Championship Swiss Teams at The Bridge Deck
NEXT MONTH:
March 3-9, 2010: STAC Week at local clubs
March 11-21, 2010: NABC at Reno, NV
March 27, 2010: GNT District 3 Finals, Memorial Methodist Church, White Plains
Brad Calcagni is now running a Bridge Challenge center from his website. This is a forum where local players can form teams and issue open challenges to other teams for matches to be played at local players' homes. Brad's team, the Killer B's has an outstanding challenge to any team composed of players with less than 2500 MP each and has already played one challenge (and won) and has another one scheduled. To view the site, issue a challenge or answer a challenge click here
The brochure for next year’s World Bridge Series, which will be held in Philadelphia from October 1-16, 2010, is now available. It has information about the hotels, including how to make reservations, the schedule, entry fees etc. You can download it from the WBF Site at www.worldbridge.org or from the ECatsBridge site at www.ecatsbridge.com
If you are a Bridge Professional and a member of the WCBA, we'd love to help publicize you by providing a link to your personal web site on our links page. Just submit your sites' URL to webmaster Ed Zuckerberg at the email address listed below.
Have you ever felt at the bridge table that you have been mistreated by your opponents, or, perish the thought, by your partner? Within our Unit we have a procedure for officially handling complaints concerning unethical behavior at the bridge table, be it suspicions of cheating or maltreatment of opponents and/or partner. For information on the process Click Here
The WCBA wants to keep you more informed of the bridge happenings in our unit. You may already be receiving some e-mails of bridge events, but we encourage you to sign up with our web administrator to keep abreast of current updates to our website and specific unit happenings and events. Please send a brief e-mail to WCBA e-mail list with your name for inclusion on our list. E-mail addresses will be kept strictly confidential, all mailings will be blind and you may opt out at any time. If You made Life Master or achieved a new ACBL rank recently, we want to know more about you! Send a photo and a brief bio including favorite bridge partners, etc. by e-mail to Ed Zuckerberg or via snail mail to: Ed Zuckerberg, 2 Russell Pl, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.
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