Unit 188, Westchester County, NY, USA

Unit 188

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Bulletin

Welcome to the Westchester Contract Bridge Association, part of the ACBL's District 3 and Region 3.

Club Corner

This is where you can read about news and events happening at our local clubs.

The next STaC runs the week beginning November 10, and all of the open clubs in Unit 188 -- Heritage Hills, The Hartes' Club and The Bridge Deck -- are registered to take part. Win silver points in your club, with the chance to pick up more with good results against players elsewhere in the wider tournament.

Aaron Silverstein is once again offering lessons on Tuesday at The Bridge Deck starting at 11:15am. Attend a class and get a game free!

Gail Greenberg teaches at the Hartes' Club Monday mornings at 9:30am. The lesson fee includes table money for the afternoon duplicate to follow.

Heritage Hills has increased its table fees. Visitors will now pay $10 for a game, which normally runs 24 boards. The club has also joined The Common Game! This means that all of the Open clubs in Unit 188 are playing under The Common Game umbrella. You can all compare notes!

Visit the Local Club section for links and information about regularly scheduled games.

Welcome to Unit 188

WCBA

Welcome to the Westchester Contract Bridge Association, part of the ACBL's District 3 and Region 3.

Spring in Westchester 2025

Thirty-two teams took part in the 2025 edition of Westchester's deluxe Swiss tournament at the Beach Point Country Club in Mamaroneck. First place went to Mimi Bieber & Paul Lewis and Faye Marino & Eileen Paley. The team of Karen Sloan & Sanjivane Bakare and Marie & Harvey Sugar topped the B and C Strats. See the full results table by clicking here.

Save the date for next year's Spring in Westchester, to take place Saturday April 4!

Click to see a list of the 2024 awards. Click here to see pictures of the award winners.

Mabel Atkinson

Mamaroneck resident Mabel Atkinson is still playing bridge at age 106! Read the Westchester Magazine article about her here.

Player Performance

October saw more Life Masters Advancing

Eileen O'Neill became a Diamond Life Master. John Adonai became a Bronze Life Master. Colin Baigel advanced to Regional Master. Jerry Lieberman climbed to Sectional Master. And Jacob Tabs is a newly minted Junior Master.

Congratulations!

Click here for links to full ACBL information and the status of the current 2025 Masterpoint races. To see the winners of the 2024 Masterpoint races click here to see a summary of the Ace of Clubs awards, here to see the Mini-McKenney winners and here for the list of Virtual Ace of Clubs winners honored for their online play.

188ers did well in the October Metro STaC

At the Hartes' Club, Henry Deutsch and Eileen O'Neill finished on top among 24 tables playing Tuesday afternoon. Hartes' players also featured on the 22-table leaderboard Wednesday afternoon, with Stephen Bear and Philip Farin coming first and Leon Fagenbaum and Bonnie LeVar doing best in C-stratification. On Thursday afternoon winners among 40 tables were Pam Furtsch and Cliff Nebel, who scored a resounding 70 percent game at Heritage Hills

Kudos to everyone! Click here for the full results from the week's competition

Unit 188 Pair Grabbed Glory in the Royal STaC in October!

Lester Gottlieb and Eric Lazere, playing at The Hartes' Club, were the first place finishers among 39 tables Tuesday afternoon. Jody Leavitt and Wendy Sklar topped B-strat players in the same game.

Well done to all! Click here for full results from the week-long competition.

Well done to those who excelled at the D3 Summer Regional!

Kelly Corwen and Gina D'Avanzo won Monday's Golden Opportunity Pairs. Melanie Appelbaum came first in a Bracketed Teams event Monday with partner Barbara Matas and teammates Gail Knight & Leigh Walker. Top finish in Sunday's B/C/D Swiss went to Chris Moreton & Lucien Hernandez and Keith Johnson & Prabhatkumar Akhauri.

Other Unit 188 players appearing on the Leaderboards included Ron Gerard, Nancy Molesworth, Rob Rebelein, Jill Marshall, Paul Lewis, Pravin Shah, Richard Oshlag, Jeff Aker, Emily Rosenfeld and Jody Brody.

Click here to see the results. Save the date for the next Regional, January 18-22 in Suffern, NY.

Kudos to good performers at the NYC spring Regional!

William Sigward came top in a Bracketed Teams competition Thursday playing with Shelley Adelman and Barry Adelman & Samuel Guzzardo.

Jill Marshall and Paul Lewis won the Friday Open Pairs.

Other players making the leaderboards in various events included Carol Kushnick, Susan Goldenberg, Jonathan Childerley, Iris Schneider and Trudy Bassin.

Click here for the full results.

Neighboring Events

Here's what's happening in neighboring Units and Districts:

Are you looking for an evening FTF game? Very rare, but there's an invitational game Thursday nights in Poughkeepsie. Email Jack Parry (joparry40 at gmail.com) or click for the full New Hudson River Bridge club flyer.

-- November Sectional -- Nov. 7-9 in Ridgewood, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Holiday Regional -- Dec. 26-29 in Times Square. Click here for ACBL info, or here for the flyer.

Feedback

Unit 188 welcomes feedback!

Submit your questions, comments and suggestions through the contact form. The webmaster is Karen Sloan.

Results

April 19, 2025

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aaron Silverstein

April 28, 2024

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aviv Shahaf

April 30, 2023

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aviv Shahaf

Calendar

January 18, 2026

District 3 Winter Regional

Suffern, NY
The District 3 Winter Regional runs Jan 18-22 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Suffern, NY
More Info

March 14, 2026

District 3 GNT Final

Ridgewood, NJ
Contest to select District 3 representatives in the 2026 Grand National Teams competition.
More Info

April 4, 2026

Spring in Westchester

Save the date for Unit 188's annual Swiss Teams event and AGM. Details to follow.

North American Pairs

Richard Zucker and Richard Oshlag came in 2nd in the Championship Class of the District 3 NAP Final held Oct. 11. Paul Lewis and Faye Marino tied for 4th. See full results here.

Brill makes Grand Master

"It's exciting," said Laura Brill, on winning the Senior Mixed Pairs with partner Mark Itabashi at the Spring NABC Tournament in Memphis in March 2025, an accomplishment that also promoted her to Grand Life Master in ACBL rankings.

She said grabbing a national title was a goal of hers for a long time, and picking up the win made up for disappointment in coming second by a tiny margin in the past. Brill added that she's proud she's come so far sticking with playing a game -- for 46 years! -- that doesn't come naturally to her as a writer and a poet. She said she learned from some of the best, in particular her long time partner and "fabulous bridge player" Rick Goldstein, who died three years ago.

Brill was a co-owner of the Bridge Deck in the 1990s and still occasionally plays at the club, but she said these days she plays bridge mostly online.

District 3 Regionals

District 3 held its latest Summer Regional in Fairfield, NJ June 8-12.

Click here to see the results.

Save the date for the next Regional , January 18-22 in Suffern, NY.

Region 3

We are now a part of ACBL's Region 3, made up of Districts 3 and 4.

Visit the website to see news of interest in the area, and reports from leader Joann Glasson about decisions and discussion by the ACBL board.

Passings

A memorial service for Julian Laderman, who played at the Bridge Deck, took place on Sunday, Oct. 22 at Lehman College in the Bronx.

We sadly note the passings of several other members in 2023: Joan Katz and Eva Lampert. In late 2022 we lost Kathy Fino , Cheryl Feldman and Beverly Jansen, as well as Ingrid Zablauskas Nargi.

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