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 in the area runs June 23-29. The Bridge Deck and Hartes' Club are registered to take part. Play for Silver points in club, and a chance to win more of them with a good performance against other clubs in the greater NYC area!

Heritage Hills runs NAP Qualifying games on Monday June 23 and Thursday June 26. Masterpoint awards are half red, half black and the contest offers players a chance to play on in the national North American Pairs competition.

Aaron Silverstein will offer lessons on Tuesdays at The Bridge Deck starting at 11:15am, with a reduced table fee for the afternoon duplicate to follow. There will be pizza for lunch for all comers! And table fee for the 1pm duplicate only remains at $10.

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 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.

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

Four Advancements in June

Four players advanced in rank in June. Howard Charnas and Bayard King became Regional Masters. Prabha Pophat and Barbara Santangelo became Sectional Masters.

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.

Congratulations to those who came out on top in the June STaC in Districts 3 & 24

Playing Monday afternoon at Heritage Hills, Cliff and Sandy Wohlberg finished first in B and C-strats in a 134-table field. On Wednesday at The Hartes' Club, Halina Jamner and Kay Schulle led 107 tables. Another Heritage Hills pair -- Peter MacCuaig and Heidi Winslow -- were winners in a 134-table contest on Thursday afternoon. And Friday honors from 51 tables went to Richard Oshlag and Richard Zucker, playing at The Bridge Deck.

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.

Congratulations to those who came out on top in the January Royal STaC!

Ruth Chizzini and Bonnie Levar finished first in C-Stratification Monday afternoon at the Hartes Club, with 118 tables playing. On Tuesday afternoon at The Bridge Deck Susan Duval and Faye Marino took the points for first place overall in a 70-table contest. And on Thursday afternoon at Heritage Hills top C-strat points from 89 tables went to Fran Aufiero and Pat Held and Glafkos Keramidas and Lisette Voorhees. Well done!

Click here to see the week's full results. The next STaC is set to start June 16. Click here for more information.

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.

-- Summer Sectional -- July 18-20 in Edison, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Summer Sectional -- Aug. 15-17 in Orange, CT. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Autumn Sectional -- Sept. 12-14 in Ridgewood, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Unit 115 Sectional -- Sept. 19-21 in Latham, NY. Click here for ACBL info.

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

North American Pairs

Qualifying is open at club level in the North American Pairs competition through the summer. Masterpoint awards are half red, half black.

Players advance in the competition by placing in the top half of their field or by scoring 50 percent or higher in the club qualifying game. Players may qualify in any club in any District, but to advance beyond the club level those in Unit 188 would have to play in the Finals in District 3. District winners get the chance to play in the National Finals at the Spring NABC in St. Louis in 2026.

Click here for full detailed tournament information.

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.

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.

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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