Stardust Week
returns to Bridge Base Online next
week. Winners in regularly scheduled virtual club games Monday, April 25, to
Sunday, May 1, will earn double points and the points will be 25% gold and 75%
black. . Info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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Local clubs
offering virtual club games on Bridge
Base Online are the Buffalo Bridge Center’s 0-750 master point limit game at 7
p.m. Mondays, a 1,200-point master point limit game at noon Tuesday, a
1,500-point game at noon Thursdays and the Delaware Wednesday game at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, which is limited to players with fewer than 2,000 points. For more
info, visit the Buffalo Bridge Center website, call 716-691-6201 or email acting club manager Terry
Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
The Rust Belt
Bridge Group, which invites players
from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play on Bridge Base Online, has
novice games at 9:45 a.m. Monday to Saturday, with open games at 9:50. To visit
the group’s homepage, click this link. For
other info, call Dian Petrov at 716-688-1226 or email dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
The Airport
Bridge Club is linked on Bridge
Base Online with the Alliance Bridge Club, the ACBL’s largest bridge club,
which offers more than a dozen games every day. Anyone who has played at the
Airport Club is automatically a member. For more info, visit alliancebridgeclub.com or call Airport Club manager Bill Finkelstein at
716-603-6943.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club plays on Bridge Base
Online under auspices of the Buffalo Bridge Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For
info, call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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The Bridge Center
of Buffalo will have a special
in-person game at 1 p.m. today, Saturday, April 23. Players are asked to bring
a dessert. For partners, call Jay Levy at 716-861-1056 or email jlevyb@aol.com. .
The Bridge Center
has regular in-person open games at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Attendance is ranging from three to five tables.
The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding face-to-face games for more than a year.
Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in the Aurora Senior Citizens Center, 101
King St., East Aurora. Attendance is generally three or four tables. For more
info, email director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
In person games are
back at the Bridge Centre of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., at 1 p.m. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays, now that Ontario has relaxed Covid-19 restrictions.
Proof of vaccination and mask-wearing required. The club’s other regularly
scheduled games continue on Bridge Base Online.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
CANCELED: Ithaca
Sectional – Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N.
Triphammer Road, Ithaca. Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15.
Cleveland All
American Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 24, to
Monday, May 30. For info, click this link.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Spring Sectional – 0-750 Tournament.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14 Anderson Lane. Friday, June 3, to
Sunday, June 5. For info, click this link.
Toronto Summer
Regional – Delta Hotels by Marriott
Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, July 5, to Sunday, July
10. For info, click this link.
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Bridge
club websites:
Click
names for links.
The
Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of April 11 to April 17
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. North-south, Betsy and Jim Greno, 62.50%; Michael Metzger and
partner, 60.65%; Michael and Jim Hassett, 58.80%; east-west, (tie) Carol Licata
and Stephane Ronget, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 57.87%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria
Schory, 52.78%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. Pat Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser, 60.95%; Sharon Wilcoxx and Audrey
Ray, 57.62%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 56.19%; Betsy and Jim Greno,
53.81%; Carol Roth and Rivona Ehrenreich, 53.33%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Jay Levy and Ten-Pao Lee, 60.92%; (tie) Howard Foster and Mike Ryan,
Davis Heussler and Bud Seidenberg, 55.15%; Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 54.56%;
Donna Steffan and Stan Kozlowski, 51.99%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. North-south, Sriram Datla and Amita Arora, 59.92%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 57.14%; Terry Camp and Bill Noltee, 50%; Rajat Basu and John
Bava, 54.76%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 53.17%; Agi Maisel and Tova
Reinhorn, 51.19%; Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 50.40%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy, 72.92%; John Sinclair and Davis
Heussler, 58.33%; Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello, 50%; Mike Ryan and Howard
Foster, 46.88%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
and Dick Rasmus, 72.50%; Peggy Meade and Pepe Justicia-Linda, 55%; Joan and Bob
Ciszak, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 63.19%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 59.03%; Marilyn Wortzman and
Jim Easton, 57.64%; Jan O’Mara and Walt Olszewski, 56.94%; Jim Hassett and Gary
Keenan, 52.78%; Carol Licata and Cynthia Tashjian, 50.69%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – Tim Hartnett and
David Young, 61%; Edna and Ron Fill, 57%; Joe Huber and Fritz Schweiger, 56%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2022, to March 31, 2022
5-20 Points – Mary Luce, 3.15; Molly Morris, 2.58; Michel Dupuis, 1.90;
Karen Dearing, 1.31.
20-50 Points – Maria Schory, 7.41; Jo Ann Smith, 6.93; Fred
Schweiger, 6.43; Howard Epstein, 5.78; John Houghtaling, 5.45; Mary Ellen
Cotter, 5.44; Peggy Mead, 5.35; Jose Justicia-Linde, 5.05.
50-100 Points – Jim Hassett, 12.09; Jennifer Epstein, 7.99; Jim
Greno, 6.75; Betsy Greno, 6.62; Amy Habib, 5.67; Cynthia Tashjian, 5.19; Carol
Licata, 5.07; Candace Graser, 5.03.
100-200 Points – David Schott, 18.23; Judith McDermid, 15.88; Joanne
Nover, 11.21; Janet Desmon, 7.59; Maria Amlani, 6.94; Joan Ciszak, 4.90;.
200-300 Points – Audrey Ray, 14.04; Carol Roth, 12.30; Pat Haynes, 9.13;
Bob Ciszak, 7.35; Margaret Zhou, 5.95; Laura Houghtaling, 5.45; Patty Porter, 4.82.
300-500 Points – Violet Makhija, 35.89; Jasbeer Makhija, 35.64; Martha
Townson, 32.78; (tie) Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 29.49; Larry Himelein, 25.32;
Bonnie Clement, 15.27.
500-1,000 Points
– Vic Bergsten, 51.73; Jim Lanzo, 44.66;
Marilyn Wortzman, 36.30; Amita Arora, 32.36; Joyce Frayer, 19.37; Sushil
Amlami, 15.34; Paul Zittel, 15.22; Bill Rich, 15.03; Mary Ball, 13.12; Richard
McGowan, 11.41.
1,000-1,500
Points – Jim Easton, 36.30; John
Bava, 17.52; Sandi England, 14.66; Judy Kaprove, 8.67; Rajat Basu, 6.46; Howard
Foster, 6.25; Paula Kotowski, 5.64.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gene Finton, 39.50; Gay
Simpson, 29.17; Pinky Regan, 17.02; Elaine Kurasiewicz, 6.40.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte,
168.45; Ken Meier, 47.01; Davis Heussler, 17 even; Allen Beroza, 14.51; Fred
Yellen, 10.45; Dale Anderson, 9.05; Linda Burroughsford, 5.36.
3,500-5,000
Points –John Ziemer, 31.79; Mike
Ryan, 31.23; Judy Padgug, 21.03; Judy Graf, 20.85; Barbara Libby, 11.82; Donna
Steffan, 10.46; Stan Kozlowski, 7.46.
Over 5,000 Points
– Jay Costello, 18.86; Saleh Fetouh, 14.05;
John Sinclair, 11.94; Chris Urbanek, 11.36; Bud Seidenberg, 11.20; Sharon Benz,
9.19.
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The
Duplicate Bridge column is
compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version stopped
appearing Saturdays in The Buffalo News in March 2020 when the pandemic forced
local bridge clubs to halt face-to-face play.
These days you can
find it in two places online. Google “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current
Saturday date and that should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website. Another place to find it
is on Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
Deadline for
submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night. Email danderson@buffnews.com or dahotwings@aol.com. Office phone is 716-849-4420.
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A Gold Life
Master, Dale Anderson has
reached a career total of 2,900 master points. Playing exclusively online these
days doesn’t provide as much drama for his bridge blog as face-to-face
competition, but he still writes about his quest for the next measure of
achievement, Sapphire Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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