DOTTY LOU's BOUTIQUE & BRIDGE STUDIO is located at 318 - 320 York Road, Warminster.  The store is at the south end of the Warminster Shopping Center (a strip of about 15 retail stores) on the west side of York Road south of Street Road and north of County Line Road.  The shopping center is about 1/2 mile from either Street Road or County Line Road on York Road.  Would you believe -- we have begun our 4th year at this location?  Thank you for all of your support!

NEW ORLEANS SUMMER NABC WINNERS CIRCLE

Fern Herman & Liz Stephens (Former Buxmont player) - 1st BKT 11 Swiss T/4

Fern Herman & Liz Stephens 2nd BKT Compact K/O

NAP DISTRICT FINALS

Three lists of players who qualified at a club qualifying game at Central Buxmont are posted on the wall by the computer and men's room.  Even if you are a flight "C" player and your name appears on only the "A" list or the "B" list you are still eligible to play in the flight "C" finals.  Your may select any other qualified non-LM (with fewer than 500 points as of last June 1) as your partner no matter where they qualified as long as they live in District 4.

Flight "A" for players with with a flight "A" qualification and an unlimited number of points will be held in conjunction with the Allentown Sectional, October 23-24 (2-day).

Flight "B" for players with an "A" or "B" qualification and fewer than 2,000 points, will be held in conjunction with the Cicero, NY Sectional and also at the Bridge Studio of Wilmington (split-site), September 25 (not October, this year).

Flight "C" for players with an "A", "B" or "C" qualification who are non-life masters with fewer than 500 points will be held at Central Buxmont (in conjuncton with the North Penn Bridge Club) and also at other clubs in the District on Saturday, October 23 (two sessions beginning mid-morning).  The overall scoring is done just like a STaC with each clubs pairs' scores compared to those in the other participating clubs.  The winning pair players each receive 10 points, 2.50 of which are gold, balance red).  Other overall winners receive 25% of their award in gold points.  The 1st session will begin at 10:00am and the 2nd session at 2:30pm.  Lunch (45 min to 1 hour) is on your own with numerous eating places within walking distance or a short drive.  The cost is $12.00/session ($11.00 for club discount card holders).  This being a Regionally rated event, the sanction is expensive.  You must play both sessions.  IMPORTANT:  PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE FLIGHT "C" EVENT TO BE HELD AT OUR CLUB (SHEET IS ON WALL BY LISTING OF QUALIFIED PLAYERS). 

NOTE:  You must have earned a qualification at any club in order to play in the District Finals.   Also note that 1st place pairs in any flight will receive a $700/person subsidy if they play in the NABC event in Louisville next April. Also 2nd place will receive $300/person and 3rd place $100/person.  Everyone gets free entries while remaining in the national event.

3rd QUARTER CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

Will be held at the last regularly scheduled game in September.

SILVER POINT WEEK IS OVER

There is a 20 page listing of all the players who won silver points during the recently completed STaC.  Congratulations to Gina Bresler for earning the 4th highest number of silver points from August 23 through 29.  Didn't win all the silver that you wanted?  The District 4 STaC is coming in December to our club.

SERIES AWARDS

Players can win up to 2.50 masterpoints for winning a series (if the days they played in a daily series total 125 tables or more).  These are "bonus points" in addition to those won in each game.  We can award the top six players masterpoints in each series.  Note: a series consisits of the games played on a particular day/time of the week, generally in a calendar quarter.  See the bulletin board near the computer station for the series award standings.

YOUR MASTERPOINT REPORTS

You can see your masterpoint awards on either the ACBL website and/or the monthly point confirmation report in the Bridge Bulletin.  Clubs must file a report of points won by players and pay club sanction fees after the end of each month.  A copy of the report that our club -- really two clubs, BUXMONT AND BRIDGEA(lert) -- submits is in a binder on the desk where the boards, pencils and private score sheets are found.  Points for regular games (called masterpoint games) and any "series" awards are lumped together and are listed by club name and the month and year.  Points won in special games -- club championship, charity club championship, NAP qualifier and club appreciation games -- show the club name and the day, month and year.  Points won in STaC's (silver point games) and Unit-Wide games are awarded by the ACBL Director-in-Charge of the event based upon the game files submitted by participating clubs.  Of course, points won in tournaments are submitted to the ACBL by the Director-in-Charge of the tournament.  See Bill if you have a question about your masterpoints.

2nd QUARTER 2010 CLUB CHAMPIONS

MON. NOON:            Fran & Herb Levy

MON. EVENING:      Carol Klempner & Allen Anderson

TUE. NOON:              Barbara Gordon & Bonnie Bickman

TUE. EVENING:        No Game Held

WED. NOON:             Tony Zacchei & Eileen Shelly 

THURS. NOON:         Ralph Franklin & Jack Fishman

FRIDAY NOON:        Pat Merrill & Dotty Ehling

SATURDAY NOON:  Jack Spencer & Dotty Ehling

SUNDAY 12:30:          Nancy & Al Pecarsky          

2nd QUARTER 2010 SERIES WINNERS

MON. NOON:           Sy Silverman (JUL/AUG)

MON. 7:30:                Bob Umfer & Everette Harris (tie)

TUE. NOON:             Elaine Clair 

TUE. EVENING:       No contest      

WED. NOON:            David Morgan 

THURS. NOON:        Yacob Rubinstien

FRIDAY NOON:       Ed Ritvo & David Morgan (tie)

SATURDAY NOON:  Dotty Ehling

SUNDAY 12:30:         Carolyn & Sheldon Per (tie)        

CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

Beginning July 1, 2010 only one Charity Club Championship game per session/month may be conducted.  We will try to announce those games in advance.

SCORE CORRECTION POLICY

If you find an error in the posted recap sheet, contact the game director as soon as possible, but before the same game is played the following week.  If the error is due to the Director misentering a result that was on the traveler, then the mistake will be rectified.  If the traveler was posted correctly, then the Director will attempt to contact the opposing pair and see whether they agree that the traveler is in error.  Note:  Best policy is to check the traveler whether you are east, west or even south before it is replaced in the board.

STRATIFICATION

Rather than use fixed strata for all games,  the games are generally stratified so that there are at least 4 pairs in the lowest strata in each field.  The point holdings of pairs (really the highest point holder in a pair) varies considerably from day-to-day and even week-to-week on the same day.  Why have four pairs in the "C" strat?  Because ACBLscore will award at least the top two of the four "C" strat pairs masterpoints regardless of their scores.  If one of those pairs has considerably more points than the other 3 "C" pairs, and was moved into the "B" strat, then only one "C" strat pair is guaranteed points.  Of course, "C" strat pairs can earn higher "B" and "A" strat points by outscoring "B" and/or "A" pairs.