Update – Mini McKenney and Ace of Clubs

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Uday Ivatury

Who’s leading the local races? Since you didn’t ask, I’m just going to have to tell you.

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Regional: May 21-27

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Uday Ivatury

Thank you all for playing in the 2019 Easterns State Regional.  In addition to a fun and successful tournament we raised over $7,500 for Girls Who Code

Final Results are HERE

See the last day bulletin for Master Point races 

Current GNYBA Player of the Year results are HERE

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Ace of clubs and Mini-McKenney Winners

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Uday Ivatury

The races are done and the top Masterpoint winners have been determined. Congratulations to our Ace of Clubs and Mini-McKenney winners. Will it be you next year?

Ace of clubs Masterpoint race results
Mini0McKenney Masterpoint race results
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0-500 Silver point weekend

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Uday Ivatury

The GNYBA is hosting a 0-500 Silver point weekend, February 7 – 10. If you need silver, here’s a local chance to score.

Click here for details

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2018 GNYBA Player of the Year

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Uday Ivatury

So we ( as in the GNYBA – your local ACBL unit ) track points won in specific GNYBA events throughout the year.

So who won? Well, there are three races.

🥁Player of the Year Raluca Dobrescu

🥁Team Player of the Year Raluca Dobrescu

🥁The Bob Factor Flight B Player of the Year Marc Blanchard

Full results available here

Raluca is a professional player, originally from Romania. She’s startlingly nice, even by civilian standards. You might know her spouse, Radu (introduce yourself if you don’t).

Marc is from our sister unit out in Long Island, the NSBA. He won most of his points playing with Amy Rhodes, one of your friendly GNYBA volunteers.

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District 24 GNT Final

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Uday Ivatury

The Grand National Teams is a team event played each year at the summer NABC.

Conditions of contest

Flight Results: 

Flight B Round Robin results:  https://live.acbl.org/event/1902649/NAPB/2/recap

Semi Final Matches:
 
Alan Gardner – David Joseph – Leon Yu – Bill Dinner
vs.
Yoko Sobel – Ettore Bianchi – Robert Foster – Stafano Merlo
 
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Lee Lin – Frank Dinoff – Siqing Yu – Matthew Gordon – Nicole Hudak
vs.
Abbott Feren – Michael Krevor – Charles Bilich – Norman Trabulus – Dina Schechter

Full Flight A and C results :    http://live.acbl.org/events/1902624

Flight A semi final matches:
Jane Dillenberg – Alene Friedman – Michael Rosen, New York NY;
Jeffrey Hearn, Brooklyn NY; Sandrea Friedman, Flushing NY
vs
Abbott Feren, Westbury NY; Dina Schechter, Manhasset NY; Norman
Trabulus, New York NY; Charles Bilich, Hewlett NY
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Stephannie Culbertson – Rachael Moller, New York NY; Florin Neamtu,
Middle Village NY; Christopher Rivera, Sunnyside NY
vs
Andrew Dyson – Jordan Lampe, New York NY; Ettore Bianchi, Dobbs Ferry
NY; Stefano Merlo, Brooklyn NY

Flight C Semi Finalists:   (Match up to be determined)
Lee Lin – Nicole Hudak – Matthew Gordon – Frank Dinoff – Siqing Yu
Barbara Ullman – Richard Siegel – Nancy Pline – Robin Miller
Adam Siegel – Aaron Liehaber = Bingjie Wang – Mee Warren – Katherine Todd – James Keiger
Yanf Xu – Jiaheng Hu – Jing Zhang – Shelley Mendelsohn – Costin Dobrin

GNT Open Semi Finals

Joe Grue – Gillian Miniter – Joel Woodridge – John Hurd – Kent Migncchi

Defeated

Michael Lipkin – Magnus Olafsson – Peter Trenka – John Rengstorff – David Gurvich – Erez Handelman

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Allison Wilson – Adam Wildavsky – Michael Polowan – Daniel Lev – Sam Lev

Defeated

Andrew Rosenthal – Aaron Silverstein – Chris Willenken – Martin Fleisher – Migry Zur Campanile


Grue and Wilson will schedule the final by May



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I really don’t care. Do U?

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Uday Ivatury

The GNYBA is run by a volunteer group  of  local  players who collectively work on ACBL-bridge in NYC.

It is a small non-profit corporation that basically organizes the two annual NYC Regionals, the NAOP/GNT, and a few dribs/drabs. The GNYBA has a war chest in the low 6 figures that was inherited from our glory days. Nobody on the board gets paid, but hotel space is expensive, as are the ACBL Regional fees, so we tend to lose a bit of money each year.

The GNYBA is controlled by a board of local bridge players.  Three of them ( David Moss, Bonnie Gellas, Phil Lentz ) have been around for a while, and offer a wealth of institutional knowledge ( needed mostly to organize Regionals and work with ACBL HQ ).

Board members usually serve for a couple of years, up to our term limits of about 6 years. One of the board is elected to represent us on the ACBL Board of Directors ( which rules the ACBL itself ).  Our current representative on the ACBL Board is Al Levy.

There is an annual public meeting that’s nominally held during the Winter Regional. No one attends, but if you want to be someone that does …

Details on the meeting and the composition of the board

 

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Winter regional – Dec 26-30

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Uday Ivatury

The Edgar Kaplan Winter Regional was hosted at the New York Hilton Midtown from Dec 26-30.  

Results from the Regional

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North American Pairs – District Finals

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Uday Ivatury

These people have qualified for the North American Pairs final at the Memphis Nationals ( Spring 2019 )

District finals – full results

 

 

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Update – “Ace of Clubs” & “Mini-McKenney”

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Uday Ivatury

Hot off the presses, sort of , the latest standings in two of our local Masterpoint races

Mini-McKenney

Helen Shanbrom Ace of Clubs

The Mini-McKenney tracks total number of Masterpoints earned by our members, in various categories based on original point holdings at the start of 2018.

The Ace of Clubs does much the same, but focuses on points won at bridge clubs.

Here are the official ACBL link to those two races if you don’t like our B&W presentation

http://web2.acbl.org/as400/mpraces/unit/2018/mm155.htm

http://web2.acbl.org/as400/mpraces/unit/2018/ac155.htm

You won’t see me listed in these races, but you will see all your Board Members  at the December Regional.  But only if you show up, so plan accordingly.

 

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