Mike Becker was born in 1943 and is an American

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player and official. Becker is from

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. He is a son of

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. As of 1979, Becker and Ron Rubin were partners in a New York City

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firm and at the bridge table. Becker trained more than 50 bridge players, 15 of whom were national champions. At bridge they used a strong one-club, relay bidding system that they called "the Ultimate Club". They played on the last of the "Aces" teams sponsored by Dallas businessman Ira Corn, which won the 1983 Bermuda Bowl world team championship. In the

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(ACBL) Becker was President of the Greater New York Bridge Association in 1980, chaired committees governing the U.S. International Team Trials from 1996 to 2012, and the Hall of Fame in 2003. He was the founding president of the

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, established in 2001 primarily to select and support teams that represent the United States in world competition. He was inducted into the

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in 2006.

Publications

* ''The Ultimate Club'', Mike Becker and others (New York: Monna Lisa Precision Corp., 1977) * ''The Ultimate Club'', Michael Becker, Matt Ginsberg, Matthew Granovetter, and Ron Rubin (Livingston, NJ: Ultimate Club, 1981)

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

* ACBL Hall of Fame, 2006"Induction by Year"
''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-19.

Wins

North American Bridge Championships North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven da ...

(20) **

von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs The Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). Usually called simply the "Life Master Pairs" or "LM Pairs", this is a six-ses ...

(1) 1990 **

Silodor Open Pairs The Silodor Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Silodor Open Pairs is a four session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying ...

(1) 1988 **

Grand National Teams The Grand National Teams (GNT) North American bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Grand National Teams is a team knockout event. The event is broken into ...

(7) 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018 ** Vanderbilt (6) 1977, 1981, 1985, 1989, 2005, 2019 **

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 Championships, North American Bridge Championship (NABC). It is an open four session board-a-match event ...

(3) 2007, 2012, 2019 **

Spingold The Spingold national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Spingold is a knock-out team event that attracts the top contract bridge players in the world. T ...

(4) 1972, 1980, 1982, 1992 **

Reisinger The Reisinger national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Reisinger is a board-a-match event. History The event is contested for the Reisinger Trophy ( ...

(1) 2016

Runners-up

(1) 1975 **

(1) 1998 **

(2) 1981, 1992 ** Vanderbilt (3) 1978, 1999, 2004 **

(2) 1968, 2008 **

(5) 1967, 1983, 2002, 2004, 2007 **

(2) 1968, 1988

References

External links

Bridge Winners profile
(maintained by Becker) * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Becker, Mike 1943 births American contract bridge players Bermuda Bowl players People from Tenafly, New Jersey Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people)