News from Bridge at Ginger Creek
Karen Walker
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BRIDGE AT GINGER CREEK CLUB CALENDAR
Ginger Creek Shops, 2901 West Springfield, Champaign IL
ONLINE RESULTS: http://calendar.illinibridge.com
CLUB HOMEPAGE: http://illinibridge.com
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NORTH AMERICAN PAIR GAMES:
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Tuesday, July 21 (12:30) -- Flights B & C
Thursday, July 23 ( 7:00) -- Flights B & C (0-2000 mps)
Wednesday, Aug. 5 (12:30) -- Open Stratified ABC
Monday, Aug. 10 ( 7:00) -- Open Stratified ABC
Thursday, Aug. 13 (12:30) -- Open Stratified ABC
Friday, Aug. 28 ( 7:00) -- Open Stratified ABC
CONGRATULATIONS TO ...
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Bob Shair and Fred Crockett, who scored a big 68.98% to win the North
American Pair qualifying game on Monday, July 13. The full recap
sheet is here:
http://www.alchmist.net/gcbc/results/E07132009.txt
John Seng, who was the top point winner at the Bloomington/Downs IL
Sectional on July 10-12. Ginger Creek players who placed in the top
20 point winners were:
16.83 John Seng, Champaign
11.33 Dick Benson, Le Roy
11.10 Michael Ring, Urbana
11.10 Daniel Bunde, Urbana
7.50 Madhu Viswanathan, Champaign
7.50 Kris Maillacheruvu, Peoria
6.78 Dan Baker, Urbana
6.25 Margaret Hansell, Champaign
5.50 Bob Sievers, Urbana
Pat Carrington and Dan Baker -- winners of free entries for the most
accurate guesses over the past two weeks in the Bridge Prediction
study being conducted by Dan Simons and the University of
Illinois. Pat guessed her score within .03% in the afternoon game on
July 16. Dan was off by just .09% in the Monday evening game on July 13.
THANK YOU to everyone who has been participating in Dan's study by
filling out the guess-your-score forms before each game.
GOOD LUCK TO ...
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Mike Halvorsen, Madhu Viswanathan, Georgia Heth, Kris Maillacheruvu
and Richard Blumenthal, who will be representing District 8 in
Washington DC in the national finals of the Flight A Grand National
Teams. Play starts on Thursday. You can check their progress in the
NABC Daily Bulletins:
http://www.acbl.org/nabc/index.php?a=2009&b=Summer&c=daily_bulletins
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Karen Walker, Champaign IL http://kwbridge.com
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