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Blue Ribbon Pairs
The Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs (or simply the Blue Ribbon Pairs) is a national bridge championship held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The event is restricted to those that have won a blue ribbon qualification (usually by placing in the top two of an unrestricted regional event) and is generally considered, with the Norman Kay Platinum Pairs, as one of the two hardest pairs event on the ACBL calendar. The Blue Ribbon Pairs is a six session MP pairs event, two qualifying sessions, two semi-final sessions and two final sessions that takes place over three days, typically starting on the first Tuesday of the NABC. Along with the Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs at the summer NABC and the Norman Kay Platinum Pairs at the spring NABC, the events provide one marquee pairs championship at each of the three NABCs. Each is open to all players whose past performances qualify them, without regard to age, gender, nationality, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain the game of bridge and serve the bridge-related interests of our Members."'' Its major activities are: * sanctioning games at local bridge clubs and regional events * certifying bridge teachers and club directors * conducting the North American Bridge Championships (NABC) * providing education materials and services * administering the ACBL masterpoints system for tracking player performance * providing oversight for ethical behavior and play *Besides representing the interests of its members with the World Bridge Federation, , it had more than 165,000 members. History The ACBL was created in 1937 by the merger of the American Bridge League and the United States Bridge Association in 1937. At that time, its bridge tournaments were open only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Cappelletti
Armand Michael Cappelletti (April 18, 1938 – November 14, 2013)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American lawyer most widely known as a bridge player and poker authority. Cappelletti was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of carpenter Armand "Mondo" Cappelletti and Rose Marie (''née'' Pugliese). Both sets of his grandparents were born in Italy. He later lived in Alexandria, Virginia, where he practiced for the U.S. Department of Justice and later as a public defender in Washington, D.C. Among poker players he is known as the author of the books ''Cappelletti on Omaha'', ''The Best of Cappelletti on Omaha'', ''Poker at the Millennium'' and ''How to Win at Omaha High-Low Poker'', and also as columnist for the poker magazine, ''CardPlayer''. He is well known among bridge players as the inventor of the Cappelletti convention. Cappelletti was an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master with more than 24,000 mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Von Der Porten
Ronald P. "Ron" Von der Porten (born 1936) is an American bridge player from Orinda, California. Books * ''Introduction to Defensive Bidding'' (Prentice-Hall, 1967), 151 pp. * ''Introduction to Competitive Bidding'', Charles Goren and Von der Porten (Doubleday, 1984), 179 pp. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1986 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1982 ** Vanderbilt (1) 1967 ** Reisinger (1) 1962 ** Spingold (2) 1975, 1980 Runners-up * Bermuda Bowl (2) 1962, 1977 * North American Bridge Championships ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1984 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1965 ** Vanderbilt (3) 1961, 1963, 1971 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams The Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). It is an open four session board-a-match event with two qualifying sessions and two ... (1) 1970 References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Lawrence (bridge)
Michael Steven Lawrence (born May 28, 1940)According to the State of California ( CA Birth Index). AFamily Tree Legends Retrieved 2009-07-02. is an American bridge player, teacher, theorist, and prolific writer. Biography Lawrence was born in San Francisco. He started playing bridge while he was a chemistry student at the University of California; as result of a self-inflicted hand injury, he had to postpone the final exams and started playing bridge as a pastime. Bridge became his major interest and he devoted his subsequent life to it. In 1968, he was invited by Ira Corn to join the newly formed Dallas Aces team. He formed a partnership with Bobby Goldman, with whom he played a 2/1 game forcing system. They started by winning several North American Bridge Championships and, after a long Italian Blue Team reign, returned the world crown to America by winning the Bermuda Bowls in 1970 and 1971. Lawrence and James Jacoby left the Aces in 1973. Under Ira Corn's mentorship, Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Mathe
Lewis Lawrence Mathe (March 27, 1915 – March 10, 1986) was an American world champion bridge player and administrator from Canoga Park, California. Mathe, a native of New York, served in the Army during World War II; he enlisted two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He died in Los Angeles in 1986. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1997. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 1997"Induction by Year" ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-20. Awards * (1) 1957 * (3) 1959, 196 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Russell
Clifford Antonio Russell (born February 8, 1979) is a former American football wide receiver. He was waived by the Denver Broncos on February 11, 2009. Russell was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft. Russell has also been a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins, and Detroit Lions. He played college football at Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it .... Following his NFL career, he founded and has operated Ripped Performance, a fitness center in Ashburn, Virginia. References External linksDenver Broncos bio {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Cliff 1979 births Living people Players of American football from Fayetteville, North Carolina Sportspeople from Hawaii American football wide receivers Utah Utes football pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Harkavy
Harold Harkavy (November 29, 1915 – November 29, 1965) was an American bridge player, considered one of the world's best at play. He was originally from New York City, and served in Italy and Africa in World War II. He later from Miami Beach, Florida. He died on his 50th birthday of pancreatitis in a French Hospital in San Francisco, where he had gone for the Fall National Championships. He was survived by his wife, Marie Franko Harkavy, and their son, Robert. Harkavy was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2004. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2004"Induction by Year" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-22. Wins * |
Dorothy Hayden
Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two with her husband Alan Truscott. Her 1966 book, Bid Better, Play Better is considered a classic and was progressively updated. Early and later life Truscott was born as Dorothy Johnson in New York City. Her parents, Dorothy and Reginald Johnson, were keen bridge players and taught their daughter the game when she was 7 years old. Truscott would normally watch her mother play the game, but her father would allow her to bid and play his hand when he poured drinks. One evening a player was late, and she was allowed to fill in. That introduction made her a "bridge addict" for the remainder of her life. She graduated from Smith College and briefly taught mathematics in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first two marriages ended in divorce. Her third, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall National Open Pairs
The National Open Pairs was the first national bridge championship for open pairs and was held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC) as a four-session matchpoint (MP) pairs event. History Inaugurated in 1928 and contested for the Cavendish Trophy, the event lost its national rating after the 1962 NABCs being displaced by the Blue Ribbons Pairs event, renamed the Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs in 1999. The Open Pairs carried on as a secondary eventA secondary event is one held at a national tournament concurrently with a championship event. They are open to players eliminated from the major events and to new players, are usually two sessions long and carry a regional rating. at fall NABCs until 1971 when it was discontinued. Winners Two Open Pairs champions successfully defended that title: Willard Karn– P. Hal Sims in 1932 and Helen Sobel–Margaret Wagar in 1948. The last winner of the Open Pairs as a premier event, B. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wagar
Margaret Wagar (April 6, 1902 – January 6, 1990) was an American bridge player from Delaware, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia. The premier American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) annual championship for women teams since 1976 is the Wagar Women's Knockout Teams, named for Wagar. Previously it was the Women's Board-a-Match Teams, which she won six times including four in a row from 1943 to 1946 with identical teammates Emily Folline, Helen Sobel, and Sally Young. Her teams also finished second or tied for second ten times in 15 years from 1950 to 1964! Wagar also won the premier championship for women pairs four years in a row with Kay Rhodes, the 1955 to 1958 Whitehead Women's Pairs tournaments (and were partners on the runner-up women team seven years in a row from 1952 to 1958). She and Sobel won the Fall National Open Pairs in 1947 and 1948; she and John Crawford won the Rockwell Mixed Pairs in 1948 and 1949. (The Fall National was one of several "national championships" for open p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Sobel
Helen Elizabeth Sobel Smith (''née'' Martin; May 22, 1909 – September 11, 1969) was an American bridge player. She is said to have been the "greatest woman bridge player of all time" and "may well have been the most brilliant card player of all time." She won 35 North American Bridge Championships, and was the first woman to play in the Bermuda Bowl. She was a long-time partner of Charles Goren. Biography Sobel Smith was born Helen Martin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Cornelius and Ethel Martin (''née'' Murphy). Her father, whose own father had emigrated from England, was working as a machinist when Helen was born in 1909, joining a 5-year-old sister, Dorothy. 1910 United States Census Helen was a chorus girl in her youth. At age 16, she was already performing with the Marx Brothers in shows including ''The Cocoanuts'' and ''Animal Crackers''. She only knew only how to play pinochle and Casino until another chorus girl taught her bridge: she took to the game like a duck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Wolpert
Gavin Wolpert (born 1984 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-American professional bridge player. Personal life Garvin Wolpert was born in Toronto, Ontario to a bridge playing family. His mother Hazel, a bridge teacher, started to teach him bridge at the age of seven. Later he trained with the Canadian junior bridge team, and subsequently moved to Florida. He is married to Jenny Wolpert, formerly Jenny Ryman of Sweden, another professional player. They have three children. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL King or Queen of Bridge (1) 2000 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 2011 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2005 ** North American Pairs (1) 2013 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2014 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2004 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2009 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2009 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2012 ** Spingold The Spingold national bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
