The party game today, Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190, has a football theme. Players are invited to wear their Buffalo Bills gear. Bring refreshments to share at noon. Game starts at 12:30 p.m. For partnerships and info, call Pat Haynes at 716-472-5189 or email phaynes508@roadrunner.com. Next party game is Saturday, Oct. 18.
A new series of 10 lessons in
basic bridge strategies is starting next week at the Bridge Center at 2:30 p.m.
on Wednesdays, beginning Oct. 1, and at 10 a.m. on Saturdays, beginning Oct. 4.
For more info, call 716-424-0014 and leave a message.
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.
The Bridge Center has started a course
of supervised play at 11 a.m. on Mondays for players who know the basics and
want to step up their skills in the game. Each hand is discussed after it is
played. Mini lessons may be given on some of the topics and there will be
possibilities to play for master points. To come, text Pat Haynes at
716-472-5189.
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. Call 716-424-0014 to
register.
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:
The Bridge Center's online
games have taken a summer break. They'll be back again beginning Oct. 6.
Mondays, 7 p.m. For players with
fewer than 900 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
Club 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, until
Oct. 1, when it increases $1. 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
District 5 StaC (Sectional
Tournament at the Clubs) –
All games at participating clubs. Monday, Oct. 6, to Sunday, Oct. 12. 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 Sept. 15 to Sept. 21
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,600 game. North-south, Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 57.14%; Ruth Wurster and Joe Miranda, 56.35%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 55.56%; east-west, Linda Milch and Susan Cardamone, 61.51%; Carole Licata and Ilene Rothman, 52.78%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 48.81%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 60.12%; (tie) Martha Welte and Howard
Foster, Tova and Andrei Reinhorn, 57.14%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. North-south, Larry Himelein and David Schott,
58.75%; (tie) Joanne Nover and Bonnie Clement, Betty Metz and Audrey Ray,
56.88%; east-west, Julie Mitchelle and Brian Fleming, 57.50%; Marily Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 51.88%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Linda Burroughsford and Jim Gullo, 61.46%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan,
53.13%; Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 51.04%; (tie) Donna Steffan and John
Sinclair, Martha Welte and Larry Abate, 47.92%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 62.96%; Sandi England and Allen Beroza, 60.37%; Nancy Kessler and Paula Kotowski, 55.56%; Ann and Joe Williams, 54.44%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 51.11%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 59%; Joe Huber and Fritz Schweiger, 57%;
east-west, Pat Radtke and Pawan Matta, 61%; Elaine Wegrzyn and Gus Alfano, 56%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 56%; (tie) Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, Cindy Darone and Elaine LaVigne, 54.5%; east-west,
Shrikant Joshi and Ron Helfman, 69%; Mary and Jim Atwood, 56%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday afternoon – (Tie) Lynda Pettit and Kay Brinkman, Mike and Bob Rupp, 58.3%; Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 54.2%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Play in All Venues
Jan. 1, 2025, to Aug. 31, 2025
0-5 Points – Julie Mitchell, 32.22; John Brennan, 5.44;
Maureen Piasecki, 4.77; Joan Warren, 1.80; (tie) Walter Balon, Ellen Balon, 0.89;
Mary Collins, 0.57; John Eckis, 0.48; (tie) Linda Marsh, Arthur Ziller, 0.40.
5-20 Points – Mike Rupp, 5.16: Fran Holmes, 3.69; Devon
Marlette, 1.80; David Taylor, 0.63.
20-50 Points – Dennis Daly, 17.80; Anthony Girasole, 6.35;
Zakie Nohra, 5.86; Molly Morris, 3.89; Gini Sicignano, 3.72; Maxine Johnson, 2.57;
Karen Dearing, 1.57; Maureen Saab, 1.34; Phyllis Stasiowski, 0.67; Chris-Elaine
Santilli, 0.57.
50-100 Points – Brian Fleming, 42.71; Ilene Rothman, 17.20;
Mike Metzger, 13.25; Amy Habib, 11.88; Gary Keenan, 11.55; Cynthia Tashjian, 9.26;
Donna Starnes, 9.15; Candace Graser, 8.32; John Houghtaling, 8.24; Susan
Cardamone, 6.75.
100-200 Points – Mike Meacham, 19.41; Carol Licata, 16.35; Maria
Schory, 15.35; Fran Schmidt, 11.60; Jim Hassett, 10.27; Betty DeFeo, 5.62; Jim
Greno, 4.90; Betsy Greno, 4.27; Joan Ciszak, 1.64.
200-300 Points – Maria Amlani, 48.40; Ethan Xie, 22.79;
Laura Houghtaling, 8.24; (tie) Barbara and John Scott, 5.66; Judy Babat, 1.88;
Patty Porter, 1.55; Hannah Weinberg, 0.80.
300-500 Points – David Schott, 47.19; Pat Haynes, 37.17; Joanne
Nover, 33.30; Audrey Ray, 29.75; Ruth Nawotniak, 15.35; Maryann Szafran, 15.08;
Linda Milch, 12.45; Agi Maisel, 12.30; Carl Hasselback, 8.35; Judy Zeckhauser,
6.76.
500-1,000 Points – Larry Himelein, 61.31; (Tie) Terry and
Bram Hamovitch, 50.39; Joyce Frayer, 41.61; Linda Zittel, 36.76; Andrei
Reinhorn, 36.13; Sushil Amlani, 30.48; Martha Townson, 27.01; Richard McGowan, 22.64;
Mary Terrana, 20.67.
1,000-1,500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 92.14; Vic Bergsten, 64.53; Howard
Foster, 50.27; Paul Zittel, 45.33; Mary Ball, 42.79; Betty Metz, 40.50; Jim
Easton, 35.37; Marilyn Wortzman, 35.06; Terry Fraas, 28.35; Larry Abate, 21.43.
1,500-2,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 86.30; Paula Kotowski, 40.93;
David Colligan, 39.49; Pinky Regan, 36.37; Tova Reinhorn, 34.25; Joyce
Greenspan, 27.58; Walt Olszewski, 26.43; Rajat Basu, 21.98; Sandi England, 18.39;
Nancy Kessler, 17.93.
2,500-3,500 Points – Linda Burroughsford, 137.30; David Turner,
27.56; Dale Anderson, 17.51; Art Morth, 8.31; Fred Yellen, 8.09; Elaine
Kurasiewicz, 5.93; Pat Rasmus, 0.51.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 194.99; John Ziemer, 79.72;
Chongmin Zhang, 65.48; Judy Graf, 63.70; Martha Welte, 44.71; Donna Steffan, 39.92;
Jim Gullo, 30.77; Bill Rushmore, 11.46; Barbara Libby, 10.55; Mike Silverman,
7.43.
More than 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 726.08; Jay Levy, 193.31;
Chris Urbanek, 185.31; Dian Petrov, 129.92; Mike Ryan, 91.99; Jay Costello, 72.79;
Bud Seidenberg, 73.49; Kathy Pollock, 53.79; Glenn Milgrim, 31.21; 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 reached a career milestone, 3,000 master points, at the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament. That’s one of the entries in his blog about his bridge adventures here.
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