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February 9, 2020 Q 1 Quarterly Newsletter of the Dallas Bridge Association, Vol. 26 Q 1

Table Talk Table Talk Unit 176

Inside this issue

Out & About; Fall Sect. Results; Highpoint Winners p 2-5

Around the Tables; Dec STaC results; 2020 Unit Board;

”Young Blood” article p 6-9

Tournaments; President’s Message; I/N News p 10-11

Master Points Races; In Memoriam; Clubs; January Elec-

tion Sectional Winners p 12-15

Texas Star Award Unit 176

Mary Jane McGinnis is Dallas' own Jill of all trades. If it was there to do, she has done it with enthusiasm and Southern charm. She has served several terms on the board of directors, has

written our Score Card article for years, and chaired several sectional tournaments. If you want a great party, MJ is your go-to per-son. She has been at the helm of the unit Christmas party and has made it an event – from the wonderful food, to the exciting door prizes and to her own specially-designed contribution boxes – she does it all. Mary Jane is our steel magnolia, and we are proud to honor her with this year's Texas Star Award.

Goodwill Award Unit 176 What makes Vi stand out is her willing-ness to always help. She recently served on the Unit 176 Board. While on the board, she took on many duties including coordinating club visitations by the board and new unit member welcome letters. Even more im-pressive is the fact that she kept these du-ties for a couple of years following her term on the board. Coordinating club visitations can be a complicated task. Welcoming new members is a constant task. Each month Unit 176 welcomes between 9 and 15 new members. Did you know we greet each new member and transferee into the unit with a letter and a Unit Game free play? Vi not only is a per-son behind the scene, she is frequently present at the bridge table, always smiling and friendly. Unit 176 is proud to award Vi Ganeles the Goodwill Award. Well Deserved Retirement:

After 13 years of operating her own bridge stu-dio in Richardson, Dorsey Shaw sold her studio in January to Jim Harp. She wants to enjoy the pleasure of playing bridge with her friends with-out all the responsibilities of club ownership. She will have more time to travel to visit her children as well as take some days off to do whatever strikes her fancy. The best thing is that we all get to see her around the tables since she isn’t moving to a place with warmer weather like Florida or Aruba.

A Timely Reminder: Putting your

phone away and paying attention to

those talking to you….there’s an APP

for that. It’s called “RESPECT”.


McKinney DBC’s 7th Anniversary On Thursday September 19, 2019, the McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club celebrated its 7th year anniversary. We celebrated with a free play day and free anniversary cake com-plete with balloons! Our club had plenty to celebrate. Our membership has continued to grow reaching 156 members in 2019. The club has expanded to two well attended games per week and in 2019, according to ACBL, we had a total of 1,019 tables. ACBL also indicates we are ranked 515 in North America club size. We hope to continue growing by offering a friendly well managed game. Guests are always welcome. ~reported by John Harrelson

A Game for the Record Books

We all play bridge looking for that game that really clicks. On Thursday Septem-ber 10, 2019 Adrianne Feuer and Jack Rollier had such a game. They accomplished a 76.39% game which is the highest game we have record-ed in our McKinney game. Congratulations to Adrianne and Jack! ~reported by John Harrelson

Bridge Superstar! Bob Bender achieved the level of Bronze Life Master in August 2019. Let’s flashback to how it all started at the University of Delaware during the late 1960's. He played a lot of bridge, but he was also on the Tennis team. It is amazing that he found time to study. But, he did and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1970. Due to attending graduate school and raising a family he did not play any bridge for the next 47 years. In 2017 he found bridge again. He took beginner les-sons at BAND and played at Dorsey’s. He read many bridge books, took lessons, and played a lot of bridge. Needless to say, he came back to the game with a venge-

ance. He eventually added playing at the McKinney Du-

plicate Bridge Club where we have adopted him. He won the Mini-McKinney and the Ace of Clubs for his point level in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He became a Life Master in November 2018 and a Bronze Life Master in August 2019. Bob commented that "he is not yet a strong player, but he is getting better". I would say he qualifies as a strong player. Bob shared finding bridge was like "finding something wonderful that had been lost". He enjoys the mental challenge of playing bridge and also making new friends. He also feels the key to playing good bridge is having great partners and men-tors. Congratulations to Bob for his successful return to Bridge! ~reported by John Harrelson

Special Unit Game Friday, Nov 15 Dorsey’s Open 20 tables: ABC Stan Hsu, Khalifa Ahmed

BAND Open 8 tables:

A Randolph Worsham, Marion Gebhardt B Barry & Lynn Cooper

C Joel Cane, Hilton Israelson BAND 499er 12 tables:

A Margie Portela, Marcia Messinger B Beverly & Chester Winchester

C Harenda & Geeta Desai BAND 49er 8 tables:

AB Len Bourland, Joan Clark C Margaret Cooley, D Lane Mueller


Dallas Fall Sectional November 7-10 There were 2,528.16 master points earned by 509 players at this

551 table tournament. The highest master points won was 38.73. About 405 Unit 176 players won master points.

Unit 176’s top ten players were: Nagy Kamel, 38.73; Milton Neher, 36.73; Petra Hamman, 34.49; Bob Friz, 31.84;

Tom Edwards, 31.54; Michael Hout, 29.15; Marion Gebhardt, 25.72; Eric Diamond, 23.71; Hemant Lall, 23.32;

Michael Schreiber, 21.53

Th AM Open Pairs Flt A Michael Schreiber,

Milt Neher

Th Aft Open Pairs Flt B Nancy Fellman, Marilyn Florin

Th Swiss Bkt 2 Cheryl Rider, Randy

Worsham (NP), Fonse Ragland, Jim Rider

Th AM Open Pairs Flt BC Vivian & Jun Li

Th AM 499 Pairs Flt AB Anita & John Everhart

Th Aft 499 Flt ABC Carol & Tony Arthur

Th AM 499 Pairs Flt C Susan Henchal, Bub Blackstone

Th Swiss Bkt 3 Fred Carver, Robert Kayser,

Martha & Sharon Ward Th & Fri Swiss Bkt 1

Pat Cassidy (Arlington), Nancy Kornegay (N. Richland Hills),

Nagy Kamel, Steve

Kornegay (N. Richland Hills)

Fri Swiss Bkt 2 Linda Harley, Stan Hsu, Khalifa

Ahmed, Janet Borg

Fri Swiss Bkt 3 Ping Wen, Bonnie Shea,

Jin Chu, Tom Lang

Fri Swiss Bkt 4 Gerry Urbach, Charles

Golenternek, Joni Antwell, Janet Trombello

Fri AM Open Pairs Flt B Mark Hatkoff, Lee Huber

Fri AM 499 Flt AB Nancie Wagner,

Val Lawler

Sat AM Open Pairs Flt AB Leigh Ann & Thomas Schmidt

Fri AM 499 Flt C Kathy Russler,

Judy Berg Sat AM Open Pairs Flt C David Greims, Fred Curtis


Dallas Fall Sectional cont.

Sat Swiss Bkt 2 Paul Taylor, Bob Scrimale,

Chris Myers (AZ), Jim Harp

Sat Swiss Bkt 3 Carol Murray, Laura

Onsgard, Carol Casey, Ros Miller

Sun AM Open Pairs Flt C Wright Barnebey,

Pat Marchman

Sat AM 499 Pairs Flt AB Anne Goodman,

Gano Ehlers

Sun Aft Open Pairs Flt A Nancy Stanton,

Lynn Wood

Sat AM 499 Flt AB Feza Buyukdura,

Frank La Cava

Sat Swiss Bkt 4 Lynda Bradley

(Corinth), Gool Castleberry, Roger & Linda Farish (Lewisville)

Sat Swiss Bkt 1 Kristen Onsgard, Petra Hamman,

Phillip Grothus (Houston),

Hemant Lall

Sat AM Open Pairs Flt A Milt Neher,

Marion Gebhardt

Sun Swiss A & X Bob Friz, Eric Diamond,

Gerry McKim, Mike Hout Nov 28-Dec 8 Fall NABC

There were 90,815.42 master points earned by 4,458

players at this 10,374 table tournament. The highest

master points won was 400. About 30 players from

Unit 176 earned master points. The top 6 Unit 176

players were: Bob Hamman, 262.64; Mike Passell,

112.60; Phil Clayton, 111.92; Hemant Lall, 94.28;

Petra Hamman, 62.51; Justin Lall, 60.60.

Some highlight games:

Fri Day Open Pairs: 41 tables

Flt A Nancy Passell, Petra Hamman

Mitchell B-a-M: 56 tables 140 MP won by

Bob Hamman; H. Weinstein, CA; M. Becker, FL;

P. Weichsel, CA; L.Milne & A. Hung, Australia.

Wed Brkt B Teams 10: 12 tables 7.17 mp won by

Anne Curry, Molly Hamilton; D. Soshnick & C. Yokota, MO.

Harvey Brody KO—1: 14 tables 58.89 MP won by

Mike Passell; M.Levine, Fl; E.Wold, Houston; S. DeWijs,

Doorn; B. Muller, Zwaag 16; M. Jacobus, Las Vegas.

Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs: 18 tables Phil Clayton; J. Cohn,

NY won with a score of 530.74.

NEW Intermediate Level Lessons Where: Harp’s Bridge Club

When: Thursdays at 4:30 pm

Instructor: Mark Bumgardner, Bridge Professional & ACBL Certified Instructor/Director

214-223-5219 [email protected]

Random Thoughts that Popped into My Mind If my body is ever found on a jogging trail; just

know that I was murdered somewhere else and dumped there.

I’ve decided I’m not old, I’m 25….plus shipping & handling.

In my defense, I WAS left unsupervised.


77% Dec Lesson Game

Jill Bach Ilene Bierman

80% Dec 299 Pairs Barbara Willard, Michael Conner

74% Dec Open Pairs Michael Schreiber

Milton Neher

74% Dec Open Pairs Barbara & Bob

Hamman

72% Dec Open Pairs Anita Platt

Michael Schreiber 72% Dec 49 Pairs Laura Nagy

Carolyn Joost

73% Jan 299 Pairs Cecily Hutchison

Lynda Pillan

McKinney DBC’s High Point Winners

November 5th 67.82% November 14th 68.75%

Karen Roland, Connie Van Patter Jerry Frankel, Jon Brown

November 26th 66.67% December 10th 68.43%

Mary Pennington, Ray Clark Bonnie Shea, Nancy Morse

~shared by John Harrelson

75% Jan Open Pairs Bill Osborn

Rosalind Smith

87% Jan Fun Game B K Sloan

Linda Robertson

January 8th 68.64%

Bob Bender, Stu Nelan

BAND 70 % Dec & Jan Winners

A Favorite Picture Michael Schreiber, a

recent newlywed, enjoys playing

bridge with his wife, Amy Downing.

Their 70% Open Handicap Pairs Oct.

game picture didn’t make the deadline for the

Nov Table Talk. Instead of using that October

game picture, he wanted to share his favorite

picture of Amy with all of you in this issue.

74% Jan Open Pairs Jerry Frankel Milt Neher

BAND 70 % continued

80% Jan 299 Pairs Kim & Jon Paul

Temple


Around the tables 299 BAND

Nov 3 1st ABC Melissa & David Gordon

11.5 tables

Jan 5 1st ABC Jon Paul & Kim Temple

14 tables

OPEN DORSEY’S Nov 3 1st AB Rich Page, Steve Birnbaum

12 tables 1st C Janet Borg, Maria Gregorat

Unit Pairs Game Winners

OPEN BAND Nov 3 1st A Amy Downing, Michael Schreiber

10 tables 1st BC Allan Chernov, Paulette Armstrong

Jan 5 1st A Nancy Latner, Rosalind Smith

11 tables 1st BC Cheryl Bradford, Linda Appel

Dec 8 Holiday Party Thank you to the 302 peo-

ple who played at 75.5 tables in 3 different flights. A huge thank you for your generosity resulting in over $4,000 being donated to the North Texas Food Bank. Congratulations to these winners: Open Pairs - 29.5 tables

A S. Kohan, Linda Spangler B Joe Gill, Adrianne Feuer

C Jennifer Rao, Mary Lynn Genovesi 1500 Pairs - 25.5 tables AB William Driscoll, J. Terrence Wolfe C Pat Glaser, Mavis Wallace 299 Pairs - 20.5 tables

A Feza Buyukdura, Frank La Cava BC Jon Paul & Kim Temple

99 BAND Nov 3 1st A Tanis Weiss, Sherill Black

5.5 tables 1st BC Bonnie Sweat, Richard Adin

Jan 5 1st AB Brian & Jean McAulay

6 tables 1st C Charles Pavlue, George Conant

“PASS IT FORWARD”

Courtesy

Unit 176 Games: 1:30 pm

Feb 9 March 8 April 12 May 10

June 14 July 5 Aug 9 Sept 13 Oct 11

Nov 15 Dec 6 Unit Game/Holiday Party

OPEN HARP’S Jan 5 1st A Petra Hamman, Hemant Lall

10 tables 1st B Michael & Karen Hout

1st C Xiaoqi Zhou, Chuck Eastin

Unit 176 Team Games: 6:30 pm

Feb 13 BAND May 14 HARP’S

Aug 13 BAND Oct 15 HARP’S

Unit 176 Special Day Unit Games:

March 19 Thursday Unit Pairs

April 20 Monday Unit Pairs

July 14 Tuesday Unit Pairs

September 16 Wednesday Unit Pairs

November 13 Friday Unit Pairs Game

STaC Dec 9 - Dec 15 -continues on p 7

Mon AM 2000: 7 tables

AB 62.20% Billee Brooks, Jo Ann Truitt, DBS

Mon AM Open: 21.5 tables

A 63.86% Mark Bumgardner, Eric Diamond, FBC

BC 58.20% Dan Kahn, Charles Interdonato, FBC

A Special Wow to these Winners: Wed Aft 49: 3.5 tables AB 72.12% Carolyn Joost, Laura Nagy, BAND Th Aft 299: 13 tables ABC 69.72% Tony & Carol Arthur, BAND


STaC Dec 9 - Dec 15- continued

Mon Aft 499: 14 tables

C 58.85% Darlene West, Bev Morrow, V V BC

B 61.25% Nancy Latner, Kathleen Carr, BAND

Mon Aft Side: 16 tables

ABC 59.52% Jim & Cheryl Rider, BAND

Mon Aft Limited Side: 5 tables

A 61.25% Janet Sheppard, Jana Mueller, BAND

BC 57.50% Judy Brow, Kathy Russler, BAND

Mon Aft Novice: 3.5 tables

A 64.42% TIE William & Julia Cantrell BAND

TIE Bonnie Keene, Carol Dixon, BAND

B 64.42% William & Julia Cantrell, BAND

Tues AM Open: 18 tables

AB 68.43% Nancy Morse, Bonnie Shea, MDBC

C 54.47% Bob Bender, Stuart Nelan, MDBC

Tues Aft Side: 15 tables

AB 67.26% Clint Schuhmacher, Roslyn Miller, BAND

C 60.12% Robert Kayser, Fred Carver, BAND

Tues AFT Limited: 14.5 tables

AB 64.99% Marsha Murray, Sherill Baack, BAND

C 53.64% Steven Rait, Cindy McIntyre, BAND

Tues Eve Side: 4 tables

AB 62.74% Scott Nason, Stephen Birnbaum, BAND

C 53.38% Jon Paul Temple, Hellen Revelle, BAND

Wed AFT Open : 54.5 tables

AB 66.55% Elda Kay Hampton, Bob Butterfield,V V BC

Wed Aft 499: 15 tables

A 63.81% Judy Duval, Pat Glaser, V V BC

BC 62.14% Gini Hines, Becky Venhaus, V V BC

Wed Aft 299: 7 tables

A 65.94% Amy Adams, Ron Day, BAND

BC 62.37% Paul Therriault, Karen Degraffenreid,

BAND

Wed Aft 49: 3.5 tables

C 53.85% Billye Jones, Madge Cruse, BAND

Wed Eve Open: 5 tables

A 64.50% Milton Neher, Rosalind Smith, BAND

BC 60.50% Jeff Karpeles, Dale Remmers, BAND

Wed Eve 299: 6 tables

A 65.00% Richard & Sue Schleier, BAND

BC 54.38% Becky Hopkins, Mary Lok, BAND

Th AM Open: 26 tables

AB 67.24% Raymond Clark, Truett Cates, MDBC

C 60.21% Judy Bouska, Judy Duval, FBC

Th AFT Open: 57 tables

A 67.43% Michael Schreiber, Milton Neher, BAND

BC 62.98% Robert Kayser, Brian Heaphy, BAND

Fri AM Open: 11 tables

AB 58.77% Rich Page, Mark Zeitlin, DBS

C 60.00% Charles Thomas, Anna De La Rosa, BAND

Fri Aft 499: 12 tables

ABC 67.05% B K Sloan, Cassie Stern, BAND

Fri Aft 99: 5.5 tables

A 62.57% Doug & Gloria Pierce, BAND

BC 59.59% David La Cava, Charles Pavlue, BAND

Sat AM Open: 20 tables

AB 66.88% Anita Platt, Jo England, BAND

C 58.79% Martha Ward, Linda Lindley, BAND

~continued on page 8


STaC Dec 9 - Dec 15 continued

Sat AM 2499: 7.5 tables

A 59.94% Nancy & Charles Morse, DBS

BC 57.14% Robert Holliday, Bob Bender, DBS

Sat AM 299: 7 tables

A 63.10% Jinny Smith, Mary Lee Duda, BAND

BC 56.75% Lawrence Brennan, Steven Buholz, BAND

Sun Aft Open: 22 tables

C 55.95% Leonard Epstein, Hellen Revelle, BAND

Sun Aft 299: 20.5 tables

AB 67.78% Timothy Murphy, Frank Gill, BAND

Sun Aft Small Games: 3 tables

A 62.00% Jim Harp, Mary Jane McGinnis, DBS

Congratulations to the winners of the Board Election: Board members reelected were Joe Gill

and Jim Rider. New to the Board is Debrah Chockley. Unit 176 Committee Assignments of Officers & Members are: President Joe Gill: Member Communi-cation, Electronic Contact Vice President Stuart Nelan: Charity Chair; NAP & GNT Coordinator

Secretary Rich Brandenburg: Equipment Liaison

Treasurer Martha Young: Unit Game Coordinator Members: Debrah Chockley: Membership Eileen Davidoff: Tournament Coordinator; Publicity

James Rider: STaC Coordinator; Education Liaison;

Alice Ogle: IN Coordinator; Scott Nason: District 16 GNT/NAP Coordinator Non-voting: Ed Yetter: Business

Manager; Webmaster Pat Measley: Hospitality Chair

Jim Bauer: District 16 Representative

San Antonio District 16 NAP Finals Jan. 18-19 There

were 995.50 master points won by 146 players at 181

tables. About 26 Unit 176 players won master points.

Two of the NAP Flights were won by Unit

176 players as follows:

Flight A: 36 mp Chris Compton

& Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio

Flight B: 24 mp Pawel Hanus, Ari Sippola

MDBC Makes a Difference

In December 2019 the McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club made a $1000 donation to the McKin-ney Salvation Army. This donation was to help in the Salvation Army's partnership with a local group to

sponsor the "HOMELESS WARM SHELTER" program. When the tem-perature dips below freezing, the Salvation Army will open its gymna-sium doors to provide a meal and will house the homeless for the night. The McKinney Salvation Army continues to do an excellent job in supporting our Bridge games. We value our relationship with them.

Pictured above: Major Louise Feeser, Salvation Army McKinney Ray Nelson, President McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club ~reported by John Harrelson

San Antonio Sectional January 16-19

There were 1,266.51 master points won by 291 players

at 288 tables. About ten Unit 176 players won points at

this tournament.

Austin College Bridge Class Picture to the right:

Truett Cates, second from the right, requires his students to play at bridge clubs as part of their course credit require-ments. They are pictured at McKinney DBC with Ray Nel-son, white shirt front row, President of MDBC. For more information about this amazing effort to bring younger people into the bridge playing world, see article “Young Blood” on page 9.


YOUNG BLOOD A girl with pink hair, a boy with pink hair, a pre-med student, a chiseled muscular 320 pound football player; this is a cross section of an Austin College class learning to play bridge for college credit (I can only dream of any color hair). Oh, to be a Freshman in college again. So many of us rabid bridge players are always bemoaning the lack of young bridge players in our games. We have Dr. Truett Cates to thank for originating a college class at Austin College, located in Sher-man, Tx, to help pump Young Blood into our bridge arena. Truett, as he has his students call him, designed this class way back in 1994. Dr. Cates has taught this almost every year since, except for 5 or 6 years when he took a sabbatical from teaching. During those years, our dear departed friend Charlie Price, pinch hit for him. Literally hundreds of young folks have been introduced to this marvelous game. The class is currently offered during Jan term. Just in the month of January, Austin College offers students the chance to take one class compressed into an accelerated schedule whereby students can complete the entire course for four semester hours in a single month. The current class has 17 students, and they meet daily for a one hour lecture and two plus hours of supervised play. They also are assigned 3 labs which include 15-18 hands that point out proper tech-niques of bidding and playing. Unfortunately, of course there are tests, three of them. I’ve been told many of us would find these tests difficult to pass. The course fees include ACBL membership, the first three Audrey Grant books from her teaching series along with special decks of cards for staging demo hands. Perhaps the highlight of the class is taking to the road to play in sanctioned games in several of our local clubs. They played club games at Harp’s and McKinney bridge clubs, two sessions at the NLM tournament in Denton, and my favorite, a “Pro Am” session (I use the Pro term rather liberally) at Harp’s. The students were anxious at first, but gained confidence as the game progressed. After playing a difficult 5C game to perfection, the glee on Gabe’s face was priceless. Gabe was my “rookie”.

I would like to make a special call out to Dr. Cates for doing so much to enrich our beloved game. In addition, several members of our Unit have been very instrumental in helping to grow our game. Jim and Cheryl Rider did an outstanding job promoting and co-chairing last year’s extremely successful I/N Regional and will be chairing the I/N Regional in November. Ed Yetter does a fantastic job of scheduling and arrang-ing these tournaments along with making sure the funds are available to put them on. Stu Nelan and Robbie Ogle do so much on the I/N committee to help make the game more attractive for our newer play-ers. Jim, Stu, and Robbie are all on the Board of Directors, and Ed serves as a non voting member, but he probably is one of the hardest workers in Unit 176. Lastly, Donna Compton has done an unbelievable job of recruiting newcomers. The gist of this story is trying to keep our game viable. It is incumbent on all of us to recruit newcom-ers, particularly Young Blood. Scour the highways and gutters, get your friends, kids and grandchildren interested to keep this game going for future generations. ~ reported by Rich Brandenburg


Tournaments Forth Worth

Sectional &

I/N Regional

Feb 21-23 CERA Recrea-

tion Complex,

Ft. Worth

Oklahoma City Regional

March 2-8 Radisson Hotel,

Oklahoma City

Spring NABC March 19-

29

Hyatt/Hilton/CC, Columbus,

Ohio

NAP Finals Flt A March 18-

19

Columbus

Ohio

NAP Finals

Flt B &C

March 28-

29

Columbus,

Ohio

BAND 99

Sectional

March 27-

29

BAND

Houston Sectional

GNT District Finals

Flt B

Flt A & C

April

3-5

4-5

Marriott

Westchase,

Houston

DFW Regional April 13-19 Hyatt Regency,

DFW

Unit 176 Board Update:

2020 Unit 176 Board

President: Joe Gill

Vice President: Stuart Nelan

Treasurer: Martha Young

Secretary: Rich Brandenburg

Board Members: Deborah Chockley, Eileen

Davidoff, Scott Nason, Robbie Ogle, Jim

Rider

Business Manager: Ed Yetter

The Unit 176 Board serves the members of Unit 176. We want to provide effective leadership in making bridge an enjoyable activity. If you have

any ideas, please let us know.

For More Tournament information: www.dallasbridge.org

Make Plans NOW to Attend:

March 12-15 Dallas Spring Sectional

Richardson Civic Center

Tournament Co-Chairs:

Rich Brandenburg [email protected] & Bob Holliday [email protected] Partnership Desk:

Adrianne Feuer [email protected] & Ann Parker [email protected] Tournament Director: Scott Humphrey Tournament Schedule is available at www.dallasbridge.org

Message from the President Our Election Sectional was held in January (as usual) and 3 board members were elected. We welcome Debrah Chockley as a new member; she is replacing Mary Jane McGinnis who completed a 3-year term and has served previous terms on the board. We thank Mary Jane for all the hard work she has performed as a board member. Jim Rider and Joe Gill were re-elected. We also thank all those who ran for the board. We have a couple of new items this year. One is a special offer for new players with 0-5 master points. Play 5 club games and earn a free play (up to $10). This isn’t actually new, since it has been done before, but we are bringing it back. For more information contact Robbie Ogle ([email protected]). Something that is new for us is an Ambassador Program for the Labor Day Regional. The idea is that anyone who shows up is guaranteed a partner. Players who volunteer as ambassadors for a specific day and time will receive two free plays, even if they are not needed to play. If you want to volunteer as an ambassador, or just get more information, contact Stu Nelan ([email protected]). GNT qualifiers continue through March. Only flights B and C need qualify for the district. A club qualifier is one or two sessions. For more information contact Scott Nason ([email protected]) or Stu Nelan ([email protected]). The Dallas Spring Sectional is scheduled for March 12-15. As usual the venue is the Richardson Civic Center, and we follow the same event format we have used in the past. We hope to see you there. ~ Joe Gill

mailto:[email protected]




Dallas Labor Day Regional Ambassador Program The Dallas Labor Day Regional (Sep 1-7) will be here soon, and we are already preparing for it! Ed Yetter and Sheri Gautier are the Co-Chairs for the Tournament, and Stu Nelan is the Partnership Chair. We are establishing an Ambassador Program for the Regional. This program will provide a local volunteer (the Ambassador) to be onsite, ready to play for each session, in case there is someone who needs a partner and none is available. Our goal is to provide all people who want to play with a part-ner; our hope is that they will go back home and tell their bridge-playing friends about their wonderful experience, and return with those friends next year! The Ambassador will only play if needed. If the Ambassador plays, he/she will play for free. And whether or not the Ambassador plays, he/she will get two free plays for use at this or another Dallas Tournament or Unit Games. These Ambassadors will represent our Dallas bridge community to our out-of-town guests, so your participation is greatly needed. Please contact Stu Nelan at [email protected] with your email ad-dress and cell phone number if you would like to be an Ambassador. And if you signed up at the Holi-day Party on Dec 8, please contact him again to ensure that he has your name, cell phone, and email correct. ~Stu Nelan

ATTENTION I / N PLAYERS The ACBL states the “N” in I/N stands for Newcomers. I disagree, but I am not the ACBL ! Anyway, I want to make it clear, any Non Life Master is included at ALL I/N events. Your Unit 176 and District 16 are working on plans to make you feel more included. For instance at the March Sectional (March 12 -15), we will be removing the 0 - 49 and replacing it with 0 - 99 in the Stratified Pairs. In the past, the 0 - 49 games haven’t had enough players and sent novice players into 0 - 499. We’re hoping the 0 - 99 range will open up the game to more players who are comfortable playing with each other. (This is different from what is stated on the flyer). Below is a link to the first version of Intermediate/Newcomer material on our District 16 website. https://www.d16acbl.org/ In it you will find tabs for:

Back issues of Paul Cuneo's I/N Newsletter How to use the ACBL website to get a list of upcoming I/N Tournaments D16 Teaching Materials How to use the ACBL website to get results from D16 past I/N Tournaments Links to ACBL I/N information

So check out the link and please let us know what else we can add to the website to make it more use-ful. Please email me with any questions or comments: [email protected] Please come and play as we want to see you at our events. ~Robbie Ogle

BAND 299 Silver Sectional Jan 31– Feb 2 There were 221.26 master points won by 131 players at 114 tables. Some highlight winners are:

Sat AM 99 AB; Sat Aft 99 ABC; Sun Aft 99 AB

Thomas Dickerson Roger Bean

Fri AM 99 BC & Sat AM 99 C Paige Allen, Joan Byers

Fri AM 299 C & Sat AM 299 ABC Sharon Walsh

Jim LaRose

Fri Aft 299 AB 72.16%

Beverly & Calvin Winchester

Sun AM 299 ABC 68.29%

Lisa & Kurt Smith

Sun Aft 299 A 73.52% Sharon Lux

Lacy Peterson

Sat Aft 299 ABC 65.87% & Overall Winners at 7.64 mp Kim & Jon Paul Temple


https://www.d16acbl.org/


2019 Helen Shanbrom Ace of Clubs

(updated 2/6/20; includes points won at club level only)

0-5 Gail Wingfield 50.49 Jon Paul Temple 39.51

5-20 Sherill Baack 68.41 Melissa Gordon 36.74

20-50 Feza Bayukdura 119.27 James Bishop 77.98

50-100 Burton Shepherd 101.05 Chuck Thomas 66.41

100-200 Robert Kayser 111.70 Judy Zipkes 79.78

200-300 Fred Carver 99.58 Mary Chaffin 92.43

300-500 Robert Bender 199.32 Ribs LaMothe 195.22

500-1000 Anita Platt 226.65 Jerry Frankel 163.03

1000-1500 Rosalind Smith 327.90 Joe Fletcher 154.75

1500-2500 Sidney Perutz 318.22 Jo England 267.00

2500-3500 Florence Beaird 194.60 Amy Downing 170.40

3500-5000 Milton Neher 392.60 David Nurenberg

185.62

5000-7500 Bill Osborn 395.22 Jack Borenstein 378.89

7500-10,000 Michael Murphy 112.84 Joan Jackson 52.75

Over 10,000 Marion Gebhardt 330.68 Michael Schreiber

311.38

Congratulations to Unit 176’s new-est Ruby Life Masters:

Chris Anderson, Kristen Onsgard, Jo Ann Truitt

Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Life Masters: Daniel Butler, Allan Chernov, Robert Kayser, Neill Ray

Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Gold Life Masters: Jon Browne, Pawel Hanus, Jane Kirby

Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Silver Life Masters: Carol Casey, Susan Doe, William Higgins, James Moore, Sharon Ward, Richard Wittrup

Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Sapphire Life Master: Amy Downing, Donna Garrard,

Phyllis Gravitz, Preston Morrow

2019 Mini-McKenney (updated 2/6/20)

0-5 Gail Wingfield 96.65 Jon Paul Temple 56.87

5-20 Sherill Baack 84.59 Mark Meiches 48.71

20-50 Feza Buyukdura 188.72 James Bishop 88.09

50-100 Burton Shepherd 131.51 Chuck Thomas 104.53

100-200 Allen Chernov 193.19 Robert Kayser 182.38

200-300 Terence Harley 175.42 Mary Chaffin 166.67

300-500 Robert Bender 294.51 Stuart Nelan 215.10

500-1000 Anita Platt 297.21 Ari Sippola 265.83

1000-1500 Rosalind Smith 442.42 Kristen Onsgard

259.41

1500-2500 Sidney Perutz 398.36 Scott Nason 387.99

2500-3500 Amy Downing 334.23 Florence Beaird

298.41

3500-5000 Milton Neher 601.98 Tomi Storey 442.45

5000-7500 Phil Clayton 491.16 Jack Borenstein 483.06

7500-10,000 Michael Murphy 220.77 Joan Jackson

206.81

Over 10,000 Chris Compton 1,659.88 Mike Passell

1,547.45

Just a Thought: SMILE,

you’ve still got your sense of

humor, haven’t you?

In Memoriam

Carol Eschelbrenner

Nita Kimball

Tina McKim

Leonard Schaen

Robert Van Lone

Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Platinum Life Master: Michael Murphy


CLUB NEWS

Harp’s Bridge Club 580 W. Arapaho Rd #433 Richardson, TX 972-808-0001

10:30 am games: Mon, Tues, Fri, & Sat 1:30 pm games: Sat & Sun

6:30 pm games: Mon, Tues, & Thurs - see the calen-dar for specific Thursday nights

Rockwall’s Duplicate Bridge Games: Monday at 10:00 am and Tuesday at 10:30 am. Carol Rieger is the Club

Manager and Director of the Monday game while Judy Jacoby is the Club Manager and Director of the Tuesday game.

The games are held in the Rockwall Center located at 108 E Washington Street (Goliad and Washington St)

Ennis Bridge Club: The club has 1 pm sanctioned games on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month at the Ennis Public Library, 501 W. Ennis Ave, Ennis, TX 75119. Club Manager Barbara Fudge: [email protected]

Friendly Bridge Club: New location: Disciples Christian Church, 2001 Independence Parkway, Plano, Texas

Open Pairs Games at 10 am on Monday & Thursdays Director: Mike Davis 214-632-7398

Note: For online sign-up for the daily games held weekly, go to www.friendlybridgeclub.org

Valley View Bridge Club: 1) Trinity Episcopal Church now called Church of the Incarnation 12727 Hillcrest, Dallas—just south of I-635. Wednesdays for a NOON game. (open and a separate 0-300 supervised). Come join us. All games at Valley View are $10. We give free plays to winners of all sections. For reservations to any game, you can

email us at [email protected] For game results, visit website at www.valleyviewbridgeclub.com Valley View Bridge Club’s new phone number is 469-534-3119

McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club Game: TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS at 10 am

Salvation Army, 600 Wilson Creek, McKinney, TX Club Manager: Connie Van Patter

Note: Sign up each week by emailing the director: [email protected]

Looking for a Bridge Instructor The Unit 176 website at www.dallasbridge.org has a handy list

of instructors with each person’s contact information. The alphabetical list includes: Susan Bates, Mark Bumgardner, Truett Cates, Donna Compton, Mike Davis, Jay Gibson, Petra Hamman, Vernon Hodge, Jane Kirby, Ribs LaMothe, Preston Morrow, Kristen Onsgard, Bill Osborn, Gerrie Owen, Randy Patterson, John Pelletti, Stefanie Scott, Dorsey Shaw, and Jim Thurtell. Please contact Martha Young if you want to be added to this website list.

Lariat Bridge Club: 6:30 pm sanctioned game on Tuesdays at the Boy Scouts cabin at Chapman Park, 1139 Brown

St, Waxahachie, TX 75165. Club Manager Troy Dollar. Questions: contact Jim Bishop [email protected]

Welcome to Unit 176 NEW: Leif Anderson, Marcia Bankhead, Ilene Bierman, John Bridgewater, Chris Brown, Brenda Carpenter, Sylvia Chavez, Lynn Clement, Hunter Couturier, Claudia Dossal, Anne Elmer, Jackson

Epes, Richard Eshelbrenner, Brandon Evans, Shannon, Fischer, Brinn Flores, Stephen Fulenchek,

Gustavo Goncalves, Kyra Goncalves, Anne Gopichand, Pamela Graham, Grace Hage, Samuel Harris, Elizabeth Hilbourn, Jacob Hoffman, Connie

Kee, Jonathan Lawrence, Elaine Lindh, Bradley Love, Bertie Lynch, Ian McAulay, Travis McSwain-Shaw, Carlene Merris, Lee Meyer, Anita Motard,

Mason Mullins, Adam Myers, Betty Neuman, Wyatt Novak, Cristian Olvera, John Peiser, Rosalind Perry,

Damien Peterson, Miguel Portillo, Anika Rajesh, Madeline Richard, Jonathan Russ, Ashton Skrine,

Lloyd Smith, Brian Stein, Stehen Suellentrop, Dillon Thompson, Eric Van Hal, Vicki Wallace, Shirley

Ware, Cameron Warta, Nancy Wechsler, Gregory Werbaneth, Lauren Zogg

TRANSFERS: Marilyn Florin, David Ginsburg, Connie Lowry, Nancy Moore, Walter Netschi, Judy

Rutherford

Bridge Academy of North Dallas (BAND) located at 12250 Inwood Rd Ste 8, Dallas, 972-960-6700. Check website for dates of games and lessons.

www.bridgeacademyofnorthdallas.com


Dallas Election Sectional January 9-12 There were 2,645.76 master points earned by 544 players at this

564 table tournament. The highest master points won was 57.47. About 450 Unit 176 players won master points.

Unit 176’s top ten players were: Nancy Passell, 34.44; Gerry McKim, 32.31; Petra Hamman & Hemant Lall, 30.04;

Nagy Kamel, 27.70; Kim Brinkman, 27.13; Milton Neher, 26.86; Brady Allen & John Bromberg, 26.65.

Th AM Open Pairs Flt AB Mark Hatkoff Randy Smith

Th Swiss Bkt # 1 Nancy Passell, Petra

Hamman, Phillip Grothus -Houston, Hemant Lall

Fri AM 499 Pairs Flt ABC Nina Watkins, Ansel

Goldgar

Fri AM Open Pairs Flt AB Joe Gill, Adrianne Feuer

Th Swiss Bkt # 4 Ed Ducayet, Jan

Trombello, Pat Ducayet, Neill Ray (np)

Th & Fri Swiss Bkt # 3 Betty Sue Wheeler, Judy Etchison, Linda Zimmer-

man, Scott Etchison

Fri Aft Open Pairs Flt AB Jim McCommons,

Eileen Davidoff

Fri Swiss Bkt # 4 Nancy O’Fallon, Ted Bender (np), Jo Driscoll, Lynn Trentham

Sat Aft Open Pairs Flt B Hellen Revelle, Amy Downing

Th Aft Open Pairs Flt C Bill Driscoll Terry Wolfe

Th & Fri Swiss Bkt # 2 Rich Brandenburg,

Bob Bender, Stuart Nelan, Bob Holliday

Fri Swiss Bkt # 1 Nancy Kornegay– N Rich-

land Hills, Nagy Kamel, Steve Kornegay-N Richland

Hills, Dan Morse-Houston

Sat Swiss Bkt # 1 Nancy Kornegay– N Rich-

land Hills, John Bromberg, Steve Kornegay-N Richland

Hills, Barry Schaffer

Sat AM Open Pairs Flt A Bill Staats-Southlake, Hugh

Hillaker-Grand Prairie

Why don’t cats play

bridge in the jungle?

Too Many Cheetahs


Classified Ads BRIDGE LESSONS: For group or private lessons with ACBL Certified instructor Mike Davis, contact him at 214-632-7398 or email [email protected]

Get a classified ad listed - FREE! If you own a bridge oriented business and would like to advertise

free, Email Sue at: [email protected]

A special thank you to the following people who contributed infor-mation/pictures/statistics/names which were used in this edition of Table

Talk: Rich Brandenburg, Cheryl Clark, Eileen Davidoff, Jay Gib-son, Joe Gill, David Greims, Scott Nason, Stuart Nelan, Robbie Ogle, Phyllis Savell, Dorsey Shaw, Ed Yetter, and Martha Young

Table Talk Editor & Publisher: Sue Greims Reporters: BAND: Donna Compton; Harp’s

Bridge Club: Jim Harp; McKinney DBC:

John Harrelson;

Other Unit Clubs: reporter positions open, anyone interested?

1C-7nt.com : High quality bridge playing cards,

bidding boxes, bidding cards, and duplicate boards. Locally owned and operated. Contact Jianbo Chen at 817.896.3709 for local discount.

We’re going digital with District 16 Scorecard:

Recall that Scorecard is a bi-monthly publication for District 16, of which our unit is a member. The first few pages have district news and most of the rest has news from specific units and advertisements. We have been given the option of receiving Scorecard in digital form and have elected to take that option. This will result in a significant savings to the unit since our costs for Scorecard are a notable part of our budget. In addition to saving money, there are certain ad-vantages to going digital. For an example, look at the latest scorecard by clicking on

http://www.d16acbl.org/Scorecard/2001.pdf (This may take 9 or 10 seconds to load.)

Note that using the bar at the top, you can change the font and picture size as desired. (“ctrl +” and “ctrl –“ also achieve this.) With most browsers, to search for text you just type “ctrl f” and a box will appear where you can type the text to search. This enables a fast way to find out about specific events or individu-als without having to read or scan through the entire document. Give it a try. ~Joe Gill

Highland Road Animal Hospital: Cat Puns Cat Puns Freak Meowt

Seriously, I’m not kitten

Frontier Veterinary Hospital Why was the cat sitting on the computer?

To keep an eye on the mouse

What is the cat wizard’s name? Hairy Pawter

January Election Sectional continued

Sat Aft Open Pairs Flt A Kimmel Jones-Euless, Hugh

Hillaker-Grand Prairie

Sun Aft Open Prs Flt ABC Dale & Valerie Remmers

Sat Swiss Bkt # 2 Adrianne Feuer, Bill Driscoll, Joe

Gill, Terry Wolfe

Sat Swiss Bkt # 3 Liane Tsai, Carol Adamek,

Chris Tsai, Ann Parker

Sat Swiss Bkt # 4 Bob Bender, Valerie

Remmers, Dale Remmers, Bob Holliday

Sun Swiss D Judi Mairs-Lewisville, Judy

Etchison, Tom Mairs-Lewisville, Scott Etchison

Sun Swiss A Sherri Gautier, Nancy

Kornegay–N Richland Hills, Mark Bumgardner, Steve Kornegay-N Richland Hills

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