Mixed Pair Winners! | Linda Lee

by Linda Lee on October 5th, 2010

The winner of the Mixed Pairs was Donna Compton of the USA and Fulvio Fantoni of Italy. Second place went to Kismet Fung of Canada playing with Brian Glubok of Italy. The top 10 had an international flavor with 9 Americans, a Canadian, 5 Italians, 2 Latvians, 2 Russia and a Chinese.

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Congratulations to the winners. My special congratulations to Kismet who has represented Canada a number of times in Womens competitions. Well done.

For all the results.

Once again Bulletin is online the night before.  I think I better check to make sure that all the bulletins haven’t been written already.  The cover has a smiling Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni with their medals meeting with various officials.  Wow Donna’s smile says it all.

The Rosenblum and McConnell start tomorrow but it will be a while (round of 64) before we see any of it on BBO.  The Bulletin shows provisional groupings for the Rosenblum.  There are 16 groups of apparently 9 teams with presumably 4 teams qualifying from each group.  There are some intriguing team names.  The Italian stallions are all Americans and the Texan aces are a ll Indian except for one player and the playing captain.   It’s interesting to see so many multinational teams as I go through the list.  It is sure to be an amazing event.

The ladies event had only 37 teams entered on the website but maybe more have joined since.  It appears that they will play a round robin to go to 32.  It seems a bit unlikely.  The Seniors teams is even smaller with only 27 teams entered including Canada Master Point Press.  I think they have quite a good chance of winning a medal.  Go guys: Boris Baran, John Carruthers, John Gowdy, Eric Murray, Michael Shoenborn and Joey Silver.

When I checked the Verona event in 2006 the entry was about the same.  I wonder if the organizer expected a bigger tournament with the competition being held in the USA?

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Worlds start with the Mixed Pairs | Linda Lee

by Linda Lee on October 3rd, 2010

The World Championships have started with the opening event the Mixed Pairs.  Yesterday was the first two of three qualifying sessions.  My guess is that this year there will be a record breaking entry.  There were 445 pairs from 49 countries entered in the first event the Mixed Pairs.  Don’t miss the article in   .  It includes this photo.  The player holding the cards in the foreground is Roberta Melman.  Her smiling partner is Rhoda Schaffer.  The front cover of Saturday Bulletin has greetings from President Obama.  Among other things he mentions that he has fond memories of his grandparents enjoying the game.  Mr. President I am sure you would enjoy it too!

CBS Philly has this headline

The results are posted and the leaders after two sessions are:

John and Laurie Kranyak  (his mom) with a great cumulated score of 66.2%.  John was on the USA Junior team which won the 11th WORLD YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Bangkok 2006.

Second is Sandra Rimstedt, Sweden (Sweden) Shane Blanchard (USA) with 61.77%.  I noticed my friends Arnie and Wendy Krause of Canada had a good start with 56.25%, as did Gloria and Les Bart (USA), 56.37%

Sandra

There are lots of interesting hand in the Sunday Bulletin with a good size staff covering the event.  The first round of the final of the Mixed Pairs and the Mixed Pairs Plate (Consolation) start Sunday evening.

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Onward Mixed | Linda Lee

by Linda Lee on October 3rd, 2010

The first session of the Mixed Pairs Final is in the record books.  Check out:

THE RESULTS

After the first round the leaders Yvonne Hernandez – Lu Kohutiak are listed as an American pair but I think they may actually be from Unionville Ontario not too far from where I live.  I noticed that they won the Red Ribbon pairs some time ago so this is a pair that has played together for a long time.   Also notable is that Karen Cumpstone playing with John Rayner is in eight place.  I have enjoyed playing with Karen from time to time on BBO and she has played on international teams a number of times.   Captain John captained the Women’s team I played on in Istanbul.   Kathy Sulgrove and Joaquin Pacareu are in second with Pam Miller and Jim Ramussen in third.  The Mixed Pairs and the Consolation (Mixed Plate) conclude tomorrow with two more sessions.

The Bulletin for Monday was already published by 11:30 EST (very efficient Bulletin staff).  According to the Bulletin John Kraynak playing with his mother Laurie who were leading the field with a huge score (66%) dropped out after Laurie became sick.  I hope she is feeling better soon and I send her my best wishes.

John Kranyak, who averaged 66% in the first two qualifyingsessions, did not play in the third after she became ill.

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Philly Twitters and BBO Vugraph starts today (Tuesday) | Linda Lee

by Linda Lee on October 5th, 2010

There were various requests of twitter to know about the Vugraph schedule.  I was surprised to see it starts TODAY 2PM EST with Round 2 and Round 3 of the Rosenblum tea,s..  Check here for the schedule of BBO broadcasts.  Woohoo.

I thought it would be interested to check out some current twitters about the bridge World Championships.  These are mostly non-bridge players.  Some don’t represent the kind of thinking we would like…

BaconEggnChase: Geriatric groupies galore! Better put my mommom on lockdown…      RT@PhillyInquirer: World Bridge Series Championship comes to Philadelphia

Then perhaps some sour grapes AliciaTerrance: World Bridge Series Championship comes to Philadelphia: The choice came down to Las Vegas and Philadelphia. “Truth…

The Philly tourist industry is happy though

4PhillyJobs: World Bridge Series Championship comes to Philadelphia More than 4,000 bridge players from the United State

and they wonder how you can make money are bridge…

mailtohayden: World Bridge Series Championship comes to Philadelphia: Some will be paid to play by sponsors, but in large-scale …

and don’t miss BRIDGE TOUR (JADE BARRETT)  twittering from the World Championships.  You can also see his twitters on the facebook page:  Here is some of the news:

In a couple of twitters they gave us the news about Laurie Kraynak

Sadly, Laurie required surgery this morning, preventing John and her from competing further in the World Mixed Pairs. They were leading the event after two sessions when Laurie took ill.

We visited tonight after Anne and Jade had a 3/4 overall (tied with Karen and Ellis, of course) in the pair game and a 2nd overall in the BAM at the regional. Laurie is looking well and is expected to remain at Jefferson Hospital for 2 weeks of rehab.

Another bridge Tweeter is TREBOEF.  He is picking up a lot of bridge tweets from other sources on his ABOUT PHILLY section and was just itching to see vugraph.

Some folks en route…

ashekhter: So, it’s 5 pm and I am on my way to Philly. Our team has registered for Main event in World Bridge Series which starts tomorrow 10:30am.

Jenny’s tournament is over it appears..  If you want an almost minute by minute story of her tournament …

Four more years until the next bridge World Championships. Next time I’ll play in more events

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