The Niagara 499er Sectional
Tournament, for players
with fewer than 500 master points, will be played Friday, Aug. 15, to Sunday,
Aug. 17, in the Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14 Anderson Lane off
Mississauga Street (Route 55), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. For more info, click
this link.
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Western New York Unit 116 holds
its annual picnic lunch and bridge game on Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Buffalo
Bridge Center. Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190. It begins at
11:30 a.m. with a Weidner's chicken barbecue lunch, followed by the game at
12:30 p.m. Cost is $10 for unit members, $15 for non-members. Pre-registration
is required. Call or text John Bava at 908-256-6466 or email him at jbava@roadrunner.com.
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The Buffalo Bridge Center
offers a regular schedule of in-person and online
games Monday through Friday with party games once a month on weekends. For more info,
visit the Buffalo Bridge Center website or call 716-424-0014. Fee for games is $8
for members and $12 for non-members. Membership is $80.
Next party game at the Bridge Center is tomorrow, Sunday, Aug. 10. Play starts at 12:30 p.m. Bring snacks to share at noon. For partnerships, call Pat Haynes at 716-472-5189 or email phaynes508@roadrunner.com.
Don’t want to clean up the house for
kitchen bridge? The Bridge Center also hosts a social game in its lessons room
on Tuesday mornings during the regular 10:30 a.m. game. Players can go at their
own speed and style. Fee is $5 to cover expenses.
In-person games:
Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. For players
with fewer than 1,600 points. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 99
points if there are enough tables. Free lesson at 10.
Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. Open to
all players. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 99 points if there
are enough tables.
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Upgraded to
now include players with up to 2,000 points. Simultaneous game for players with
fewer than 99 points if there are enough tables. Free lesson at 10.
Fridays, 10:30 a.m. Open to all
players by pre-registration only. Call 716-424-0014.
Virtual games on Bridge Base Online:
Mondays, 7 p.m. For players with
fewer than 750 points.
Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Delaware
Wednesday game for players with fewer than 2,000 points. For info on this game,
call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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More access to virtual games on Bridge Base Online is being offered by
the Airport Bridge Club, which currently is not holding face-to-face games. It
has affiliated with a new group of clubs, the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge
Collective, where most games are $5. For more info, click this link.
The Airport Club also continues
to be part of the Alliance 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.
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The East Aurora Bridge Club begins play 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.
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The Bridge Centre of Niagara (BCON) in St. Catharines, Ont.,
offers face-to-face games five days a week at its club in Tremont Square
opposite the Pen Centre shopping plaza off Glendale Avenue:
Mondays, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
(fewer than 499 master points) games.
Mondays, 6 p.m. Beginner game,
fewer than 50 master points. Register at mon-eve@bcon.club.
Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Open game.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. 499er game. Register
at wed-eve@bcon.club.
Thursday, 9:30 a.m. New 99er
game.
Thursday, 1 p.m. 999er game.
Friday, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
games.
Saturday, 6:30 p.m. New open
game. Arrive by 6 p.m. if you need a partner.
Fees are $9 Canadian for members,
$12 Canadian for non-members. $9 Canadian for all players for Monday beginner
game. Membership is $65 Canadian for a year, beginning April 1. For more
information, visit bridgewebs.com/Niagara.
The club has just cut back to a
single virtual game on Bridge Base Online, the one for players with fewer than
750 points at 10 a.m. Tuesdays. Turnout for the other one, an open game at 7
p.m. Thursdays, had gotten too small. For more info, click here.
For online play, BCON recommends
going to the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective, which appears as “SE
Carolina” on Bridge Base Online. Games run throughout the day. A full lineup of
games can be seen at SE Carolina On-line Bridge.
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The Niagara-on-the-Lake Bridge
Centre plays in the
Community Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Anderson Lane off Mississauga
Street on the western end of the village. Open games are at 1 p.m. Tuesdays and
Fridays. Fee is $5 Canadian for members, $7 Canadian for non-members. Annual
membership is $20 Canadian. For more information, visit bridgewebs.com/niagaraonthelake.
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Face-to-face play in non-sanctioned clubs is offered
at the Tonawanda Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays and at the Amherst
Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays.
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Tournament calendar
2025
Niagara 499er Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14
Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 17.
For more info, click this link.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional
– Greater Pittsburgh
Masonic Center, 3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, Pa. Wednesday, Aug. 27, to
Monday, Sept. 1. For more info, click this link.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, Sept. 12, to Sunday, Sept 14. For more info, click this link.
CANCELED: Buffalo Regional – Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave.,
Cheektowaga. Tuesday, Oct. 21, to Sunday, Oct. 26.
Niagara Regional – Holiday Inn & Suites, 327 Ontario
St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 11, to Sunday, Nov. 16. For more info,
click this link.
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Bridge club websites:
Click names for links.
The Airport Bridge Club, which continues to be on hiatus, does not
have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.
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Duplicate scores from ACBL Live for Clubs
Week of July 28 to Aug. 3
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. (Tie) Ross Libby and Bob Yu, Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan,
54.63%; Maria Schory and Mike Metzger, 52.78%; Claudia Doffing and Tom Fahey,
51.85%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 50.93%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Joanne Noer and Larry Himelein, 64.29%; Jini and John
Rubenstein, 55.56%; Pat Haynes and Maryann Szafran, 52.78%; Paula Rosen and Jim
McClure, 51.59%; Barbara Landree and Paul Zittel, 51.19%; east-west, Julie
Mitchell and John Brennan, 58.33%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.94%; Bonnie
Clement and David Schott, 52.38%; Adrian Figliotti and Richard McGowan, 50.40%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Julie Mitchell and Jay Costello, 54.76%; (tie) Martha Welte and Nancy
Wolstoncroft, Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 54.17%; Tova Reinhorn and Betty Metz,
50.60%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. North-south, Joanne Nover and Bonnie Clement,
62.89%; Pat Haynes and David Whitt, 57.14%; Joyce Greenspan and Andrei
Reinhorn, 55.64%; Joyce Frayer and Mary Ball, 52.92%; east-west, Judie Bailey
and Betty Metz, 61.44%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 57.66%; Julie Mitchell
and Brian Fleming, 52.85%; Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 52.21%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Costello, 63%; Martha Welte and Larry Abate, 60%;
Donna Steffan and Judy Graf, 53%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Jan and Carl Hasselback, 61.11%; Donna Starnes and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 60.19%; Nancy Kessler and Paula Kotowski, 58.33%; Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 56.02%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 54.63%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. (Tie) Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, Ed
Harman and Bob Ciszak, 58.33%; (tie) Jeannie Sedwick and Kathy Albright, Claudia
Doffing and June Zumoff, 56.25%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Judie Bailey and Paul Orosz, 66%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 61%; east-west,
Joan Stankiewicz and Ellen Lochead, 69%; Connie Wilson and Miriam Regnet, 57%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 56%; Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 55%; east-west, Shrikant Joshi and Ron Helfman, 64%;
Mary and Jim Atwood, 62%.
Tonawanda Senior Center
Wednesday afternoon – (Tie) Lynda Pettit and
Kay Brinkman, Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 59.4 %.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2025, to July 31, 2025
0-5 Points – Julie Mitchell, 14.34; John Brennan, 4.89;
Maureen Piasecki, 3.19; (tie) Walter Balon and Ellen Balon, 0.59; Mary Collins,
0.57; John Eckis, 0.48; (tie) Linda Marsh and Arthur Ziller, 0.40; Jeanette
Bockstahler, 0.33.
5-20 Points – None.
20-50 Points – Dennis Daly, 10.88; Anthony Girasole, 5.74;
Zakie Nohra, 5.15; Gini Sicignano, 3.72; Molly Morris, 2.31; Phyllis
Stasiowski, 0.67; Chris-Elaine Santilli, 0.57.
50-100 Points – Brian Fleming, 14.68; Donna Starnes, 9.15;
Ilene Rothman, 5.94; Susan Cardamone, 5.59; Pepe Justicia-Linde, 4.78; Maureen
Cancilla, 2.29; Jo Ann Smith, 2.16; Elaine Idzik, 1.29; (tie) Cherry Searle,
Susan Burns, 0.57.
100-200 Points – Betty DeFeo, 5.62; Mike Meacham, 5.55; Carol
Licata, 5.14; Joan Ciszak, 1.22.
200-300 Points – Judy Babat, 1.88; Ethan Xie, 1.60; Hannah
Weinberg, 0.80.
300-500 Points – David Schott, 26.53; Pat Haynes, 23.04; Joanne
Nover, 20.59; Audrey Ray, 18.64; Maryann Szafran, 13.01; Ruth Nawotniak, 10.37;
Agi Maisel, 9.04; Linda Milch, 8.86; Carl Hasselback, 5.65; Judy Zeckhauser,
5.41.
500-1,000 Points – Larry Himelein, 31.77; Linda Zittel, 24.93;
Joyce Frayer, 23.59; Andrei Reinhorn, 23.54; Jo Nasoff-Finton, 14.46; Mary
Terrana, 13.25; Jim McClure, 12.51; Paula Rosen, 12.41; Gordon Crone, 10.82; Sharon
Wilcox, 10.70.
1,000-1,500 Points – Paul Zittel, 33.95; Betty Metz, 30.81; Howard
Foster, 29.83; Mary Ball, 29.34; Jim Easton, 20.79; Marilyn Wortzman, 19.66;
Terry Fraas, 16.44; Ed Morgan, 12.71; Joanne LaFay, 12.57; Bert Feasley, 10.89.
1,500-2,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 28.40; Pinky Regan, 27.63;
Joyce Greenspan, 21.33; Tova Reinhorn, 21.05; Paula Kotowski, 20.42; Sandi
England, 10.59; David Colligan, 8.85; Walt Olszewski, 7.37; Judy Kaprove, 5.30;
Nancy Kessler, 4.86.
2,500-3,500 Points – Linda Burroughsford, 20.42; Dale Anderson,
15.08; Fred Yellen, 1.43; Art Morth, 0.67; Pat Rasmus, 0.51.
3,500-5,000 Points – John Ziemer, 39.38; Judy Graf, 36.09; Davis
Heussler, 33.57; Jim Gullo, 26.16; Martha Welte, 23.99; Donna Steffan, 23.41;
Allen Beroza, 1.35; Chongmin Zhang, 0.74; Brian Meyer, 0.60.
More than 5,000 Points – Mike Ryan, 48.44; Chris Urbanek, 34.14;
Jay Costello, 30.91; Bud Seidenberg, 26.28; Jay Levy, 10.60; Kathy Pollock,
0.75; Dan Gerstman, 0.60.
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The Duplicate Bridge column has been compiled weekly by Buffalo News
Staff Reporter Dale Anderson for more than 20 years. The print version stopped
appearing Saturdays in The 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, beginning at
5:30 p.m. Fridays. Another place to find it anytime 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 a career total of more
than 2,990 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to
write more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
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