Smiljana and Ivan Petrovic came first in the B&C Strats in Sunday's Open Pairs at the Poughkeepsie Regional in October. Judith Burger and Barbara Matas did the same in Monday's A/B/C Pairs. Joel Steinberg and Robert Goldbloom topped Tuesday's A/B/C Pairs.

Click here for the full tournament results.

Next up for District 3 is the Joan Gerard Winter Regional in Suffern, running January 17-21. Click here for ACBL info.

Grand Life Master Rich DeMartino  passed away Sept. 2 having played competitive bridge for decades.

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Lester Gottlieb died peacefully on May 10 after a brief illness. He was 94, and played bridge till the end. At Hartes Club, he and partner Henry Deutsch topped District 3 in the ACBL's national Senior Game in March.

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Irene Groban passed away November 12 at the age of 102. Her daughter Margaret noted that Irene, who made Life Master in 2014, found enormous joy playing bridge until her last days. 

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Robert Krissoff died peacefully on November 7. He was a regular player at the Hartes' Club before the pandemic hit.

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Heritage Hills club has lost a number of players since 2023, most recently Harriet Leib, Faith Bleasdale and Ifay Chang. Click here for information about them and other HHDBC members who have died in the past five years.

A memorial service for well-known NY area bridge player Julian Laderman took place on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 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.

"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.

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