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Steve Watson and Lou Nimnicht achieved yet another
excellent game on Tuesday at the Beach Bridge Club.
Lou writes — “As usual, it took some luck (bidding a
50% slam, for example) to reach 70%. In addition,
Steve was so on fire, had be been able to clone himself
as a partner, he would probably have had an 80%
game.”
Steve shares his viewpoint — “Bridge is truly a partnership game. On this occasion our partnership blended
smoothly, resulting in a very good score. Lou was not
only an ideal partner, he also made —which he is
prone to do — many great decisions at the table.
Partnership discipline is a key to success in bridge.”
We congratulate the two of you on your success!
Another winning partnership — Carol Osgerby and Don Valiska
— scored big-time on May 26 in an SSBC afternoon game.
Don comments — “Carol and I have been playing together for
several years now, and we enjoy each other’s company at the
bridge table. I still have a lot to learn, and playing with Carol
makes learning easy. Like most 70% games we did a lot of little
things that gave us just a little better board than our opponents,
and we stayed out of trouble on tough hands.”
Carol adds — ”Don and I always enjoy playing with each other —
win, lose or draw — we both enjoy the game. We laugh a lot and
we enjoy our opponents. Sometimes we mess up and give many
gifts to our opponents, and sometimes they return the favor.
When we get lucky and pass when we should and bid when we should and the opponents decide it is their turn to gift us, we
get a 70% game which is always nice. Most of all we just enjoy this wonderful game of ours!!!!”
Top scorers for the 3rd week of May are —
Lou Nimnicht — 6.71; Dave Bigler — 6.70; Barb
Graegin — 6.43; Yuan Hsu — 5.88; Zafar Khan —
5.87; Joe Chin — 5.14; Jim O’Connell — 4.70;
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Cathy Mason — 3.20; Steve Watson — 2.92;
Mary Schumm — 2.87; Hilda Connor — 2.85;
Ruth Westberg — 2.85. Congratulations!
Operation SOS (Support our Service
Members), a Highland organization, collects
items to send to our soldiers overseas.
Since 2007 Operation SOS has sent thousands of packages to our troops. See
www.operationsosnwi.com/ for more information. Diane
Martin has asked that the bridge community help in the
collection of needed items such as — body wash, Q-tips,
sun block, medicated powder, lip balm, Q-tips, antiperspirant, disposable razors, tooth paste, tooth brushes, and
dental floss. There is a box in the foyer of the Elk’s Club,
where you can place your donations when you come to
the game on Mondays.
ILLINI REGIONAL WINNERS
This is the photo that appears online in the
District 8 Advocate. Lee Esworthy, Larry
Rabideau, Bob Butz and John Goring were
the winners in the Rose Bowl Compact KO,
Bracket 1. This regional was held in Champaign, IL from May 19 - 25. For this firstplace finish, they earned 11.91 masterpoints.
As was previously reported in the newsletter,
their grand total earned at the Illini Regional
was 35.05 masterpoints.
What a phenomenal foursome! We congratulate them on their spectacular win!
Lou Nimnicht and Dan Spain achieved this excellent
game on Monday, the 8th, which earned them 4.31
masterpoints. Congratulations to this superb pair!
Dan says. “Lou was brilliant!” Lou states, “After our
most recent 49% effort, Dan and I got most things
right today. Even so, it required bidding an ”iffy” club
slam and an inadvertent misbid by an opponent to
sneak past 70%.”
ABA
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World Wide Bridge Contest
Lou Nimnicht and Barbara
Graegin scored the highest
on June 6 with a 59.09% at
the club level. Overall, they
scored 60.25% and placed
#323 among the 3856 pairs
from 209 clubs in 25 countries. They each will receive a
certificate at a later date. As
of today a pair from Greece
is the leader. It’s fun to compare your club scores and
your percentage on each
board with the overall results.
There is a lot of interesting
information online. Go to
www.ecatsbridge.com.
Lots of points were earned in a
recent sectional hosted by the
Midwest Bridge Unit in Chicago.
Those earning points were —
George Goewey — 10.19
Tom Hallum — 10.19
Joe Chin — 9.49
Rosietta Brown — 7.78
Denise McPherson — 7.78
Steve Watson — 5.26
Al Simmons — 5.13
Annie Lypson — 4.35
Peggy Kiernan — 2.31
Jackie Chavez — 2.31
Joan Adams — 2.31
Jan Merrick — 1.96
Bill Kilbride — 1.96
Claire Murvihill — 1.96
Marge Hedegard — 1.96
Charlotte Abernethy — 1.35
Anna Urick — 1.35
Alta Allen — 0.87
Marsha Holmes — 0.30
Richard Boyd — 0.30
Congratulations!
to all 20 players!
The Times
Top scorers for these 2 weeks:
Lou Nimnicht — 11.33
Joe Chin — 10.72
Al Simmons — 9.35
Barbara Graegin — 9.25
Trudi McKamey —8.17
Steve Watson — 7.83
George Roeper — 6.80
Yuan Hsu — 5.22
Helen Miller & Barbara Walczak 0.57
Lenny Yarsh & Mary Kocevar 0.46
Don Valiska & Carol Osgerby 0.26
East-West
George Roeper & Al Simmons 3.35
Zafar Khan & Bill Kilbride 2.51
Trudi McKamey & Bob Porter 1.35
Joan & Bob Butz 1.24
Wayne Hiser & Lois Edelstein 1.09
Community Bridge Club
Yuan Hsu & Indra Gupta 0.89
results from May 30
Connie Stevens & Jerry Palm 0.25
North-South
Beach Bridge Club
Jerry Palm & Connie Stevens 2.63
results from June 2
Joe Chin & Al Simmons 1.97
Laverne Niksch & Wayne Carpenter 3.00
Alan Geller & Indra Gupta 1.05
Barbara Walczak & Hilda Connor 2.25
Faye Anderson & Hilda Connor 0.78
Lou Nimnicht & Steve Watson 1.69
East-West
Lou Nimnicht & Barbara Graegin 3.50 Trudi McKamey & Bob Porter 1.27
John Teshima & Ed D'ouville 0.83
Mike Howards & George Roeper 1.48
Rosietta Brown & Denise McPherson 1.11 Duneland Bridge Club
results from June 2
Carolyn Potasnik & Yuan Hsu 0.62
Intermediate/Novice Game Chuck & Marcy Tomes 0.80
Nancy Didion & Charlene Millard 0.98 Dorothy Hart & Judy Selund 0.56
Lori & Tom Rea 0.40
Don & Alice Giedemann 0.74
Lenny Yarsh & Mary Kocevar 0.21
Delphine Slater & Bernice Bell 0.55
Community Bridge Club
Mary Jo Vera & Gail Sangster 0.50
results from June 3
Calumet Bridge Club
Barbara Graegin & Al Simmons 2.63
results from June 1
George Roeper & Joe Chin 1.97
North-South
Yuan Hsu & Zafar Khan 1.87
Ruth Westberg & Jim Angell 1.88
Carolyn Potasnik & Faye Anderson 1.80 Lenny Yarsh & Mary Kocevar 1.52
Trudi McKamey & Mary Schumm 1.40
Joe Chin & John Goring 1.24
Steve Watson & Lou Nimnicht 1.30
Mary Schumm & Peggy Kiernan 0.89
Caron Espinosa & Pat Princehorn 0.82 Martha Harris & Juwanna Walton 1.14
Pat Mikuta & Bob Porter 1.05
Lou Nimnicht & Steve Watson 0.79
Arlyne Filler & Norma Vierk 0.61
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Five days of festivities —
Monday — 7:00
Tuesday — 12:15 & 7:00
Wednesday — 7:00
Thursday — 12:15 & 7:00
Friday — 12:15
There will be free pizza on
Tuesday evening and
appetizers and desserts
during all 7 sessions.
NAP games on Mon, Tues (afternoon), Wed, and Fri —megapoints
— including red points! All games are
special during this week!
Announcing a weeklong celebration
at the new South Suburban Bridge
Center — located at 2551 GlenwoodLansing Road in Lynwood (one block
east of Torrence Ave). During the
week of June 22 - 26 all entry fees will
be only $5.00!
$5.00 Don’t miss out on all
the fun and excitement! If you have
any questions, call 708-394-3440.
This article
appeared in The Times
on Wednesday, June 10.
NEW GAME IN VALPARAISO
As of June 3, 2015
there is a third
bridge club in Porter
County — the
Valparaiso Duplicate Bridge Club.
This is a limited
game for players
with less than 500
masterpoints.
The game begins
at 12:00 every
Wednesday afternoon.
The location is —
Banta Senior Center
605 Beech St,
Valparaiso, IN 46380
The club manager
and director is
Charlie Halberstadt.
He can be reached
at —
[email protected]
Charlie says it’s
going well in
this new adventure.
This article appeared in The Times on June 14, 2015.
Libby’s 100th Birthday Bash Get well, Roger!
Some of you may know Libby
Amos. She has played primarily in LaPorte. She is being
honored at a party on July 2.
If you are interested, check the
flyer on the front table with
details. Also Chuck Schultz
could answer your questions.
Libby was Chuck’s 2nd grade
teacher, as well as his 6th
grade English teacher, in the
1940s.
Roger Sokol has been recovering
from a back injury for about a
month now. He is being treated
for a herniated disc in his lower
back. Recovery has been slow,
but he is improving. He is able to
walk/stand for several minutes
before the pain is too much. He
is receiving extensive physical
therapy. In July the orthopedist will outline a course of
treatment. Roger’s letter to all of you who care about his
progress is on the front table.
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to all of our bridge dads!
Thanks to Diane
Martin for making
this valuable tool
available to us on
Mondays.
If you haven’t signed up to receive Fast Results electronically, pray tell why not? Being connected affords you a
wealth of self-evaluation opportunities. This program
focuses on delivery of only personal results. Not only are
the hands displayed that you played earlier in the day,
they are integrated with thorough hand analyses. For
example, here is a screen which helps you study your
declarer play.
Welcome, Roger!
Roger Casey, who plays primarily in Sun City Center in Florida,
stopped by on Monday to join us in our mutual pastime.
Roger has a home in Munster, where he spends about three
months of the year. However, Roger is looking to sell his longtime home to reside in Florida permanently.
Roger has been playing bridge since the 1970s, but his immersion
in duplicate began only a few years ago. He has already has 300
masterpoints to his credit. He plays bridge three or four times a
week in Florida.
Before retirement Rogers worked for a manufacturer. He has 3
children and 4 grandchildren. Besides bridge, he golfs and
swims and participates in workshops that the association gives
(such as lapidary).
We are happy that Roger has visited us and hope that he will
drop by often during the summer.
Judy Selund suffered a broken tibia and a fracture
in her foot, when she was walking her dogs Tuesday evening. If you want to send her a card, send
to 22 Bittersweet Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN 46368 or
to talk with her, call 219-763-4900.
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A and B winners
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Wednesday
Team Game
C winners
(a strong Illinois contingent)
There were nine teams that placed overall in the third Wednesday of the month
team game. They are —
Indra Gupta, Lynne Kostopoulos, Mike
Devine & Ruth Goodpasture — 2.92
Annie Lypson, Al Simmons, Ruth
Westberg & Dan Taylor — 2.19
Dave Watkins, Laverne Niksch, Jim
Angell & Yuan Hsu — 1.64
Rosietta Brown, Linda Dunn, Steve
Watson & Lou Nimnicht — 1.23
Shirley Koch, Dolores Browne, Esther
Walenga & Jackie Chavez — 0.92
Mary Schumm, Barbara Walczak, Ed
D’ouville & Connie Stevens — 0.91
Hilda Connor, Faye Anderson,
Carolyn Potasnik & Anna Urosevich
— 0.91
Joyce Dixon, Delphine Slater,
Carolyn Owens & Bernice Bell — 0.61
Bob Porter, Bob Ferguson, Wayne
Hiser & Bill Hahn — 0.61
Congratulations to these teams and
to the other five teams who scored
points for winning rounds!
WELCOME, JIM!
Jim Casey joined his brother, Roger, at the Monday game. They played quite well
together and ended up with 0.77 masterpoints. Prior to this game Jim had a total
of 0.48 masterpoints, earned while on a recent cruise. Way to go, Jim!
Jim learned the game while in college, and considers it good entertainment
throughout the years. He and his wife have played a lot of bridge over the past 65
years. He hasn’t been playing much lately. However, he had such a good time on
Monday, that he decided he would like to get more involved.
Jim has 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Before his retirement he was a CPA and
also a lawyer. In addition to bridge, he likes to golf, travel (mostly on cruises) and
look for anything that’s fun to do. He retired at the age of 62 and has been retired
for 25 years. Does that seem even remotely possible??!!? Jim says he just loves
living — and we love having him as part of our congenial group!
The Longest Day
For the third year in a row ABCL has designated
June 21st, the longest day in the year, (and also June
22nd this year) as a fund-raising day to support
Alzheimer’s disease, care and research. In the past
two years bridge players have donated more than
$1,000,000 to help fight Alzheimer’s.
Here you see Jim Lively in his “Fighting Alzheimer’s”
t-shirt and Bob Ferguson with some of the many
purple balloons at the Monday game. Each player
paid a $10 entry fee, of which $2 was allocated for
the Alzheimer’s fund. That made a total of $108,
plus a $25 contribution from the Elks Club.
As an aside — the Monday game held in Michigan
City had the same number of tables as in Highland
— 13½ — and they collected $700 to be given to
the Alzheimer/Dementia Society of Northern
Indiana. What an outpouring of generosity!
Top weekly scorers —
Lou Nimnicht - 9.43
Bob Porter - 6.93
Jim Angell - 6.37
Barbara Graegin - 5.73
Dan Spain - 4.31
Trudi McKamey - 4.22
Pat Mikuta - 4.06
Lenny Yarsh - 3.69
Indra Gupta - 3.64
Mary Kocevar - 3.50
B. Walczak - 3.38
Special Games in July
The Times
BRIDGE SCORES
reported in
Wed, 1st — NAP qualifier
Sat, 4th — NO GAME
Mon, 6th — NAP qualifier
Wed, 8th — Local charity
Sat, 11th — NAP qualifier
Mon, 13th — ACBL charity
Wed, 15th — Team game
Upgraded club championship — potluck A-J
Sat, 18th — NAP qualifier
Mon, 20th — NAP qualifier
Wed, 22nd — ACBL charity
Sat, 25th — Club champion
Wed, 29th — NAP qualifier
Tuesday special games will
be announced at a later
time.
June is Congratulations
National
Adopt a Cat
month. Do
you have a
furry friend
in your life?