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 are starting our 3rd year at this location?  Thank you for all of your support!

BUXMONT PLAYERS ARE RANKED IN ACBL-WIDE & UNIT 141 RACES

Check out the ACBL website to see the names of your fellow BUXMONT players who are doing well in the ACBL-wide and Unit 141 annual masterpoint contests.  Players are ranked according to how many masterpoints they won at clubs (Ace of Clubs race) and Mini-McKinney (all points won, club + tournament points) in 2009.  A contest is held for each player masterpoint category.  A player's category is based upon the player's masterpoint holding as of January 1, 2009.

Here are some of the players that I spotted in the Ace of Clubs contest:

0 - 5 masterpoints as of January 1

Larry Abramovitz 10th ACBL-wide and 1st in Unit 141

Norman Garfield 31st ACBL-wide and 2nd in Unit 141

Bonnie Bickman 4th in Unit 141

Tom Woolam 5th in Unit 141

20 - 50 masterpoints as of January 1

Barbara Gordon 2nd in Unit 141

50 - 100 masterpoints as of January 1

Diane Lapat 1st in Unit 141

Helen Mintzes 3rd in Unit 141

Bryna Paston 5th in Unit 141

Barbara Grossman 8th in Unit 141

Marianne Bruni 9th in Unit 141

Carole Bishop 10th in Unit 141

100 - 200 masterpoints as of January 1

Yacob Rubinstien 28th ACBL-wide and 1st in Unit 141

Barry Davis 95th ACBL-wide and 2nd in Unit 141

Ruth Peskin 6th in Unit 141

200 - 300 points as of January 1

Nick Nazarenko 18th ACBL-wide and 2nd in Unit 141

Sy Silverman 52nd ACBL-Wide and 3rd in Unit 141

Carl Perchonek 5th in Unit 141

Jack Glass 10th in Unit 141

300 -500 points as of January 1

Barbara Berg 4th in Unit 141

Ruth Frank 5th in Unit 141

Ed Ritvo 7th in Unit 141

500 - 1000 as of January 1

Elaine Clair 1st in Unit 141

Let Bill know if you spot other of our players and I will add their names to this list.

NEW GAMES HAVE COME TO CENTRAL BUXMONT 

Two new "open" games are now being offered Saturday afternoon at noon and Tuesday evening at 7:00 (resuming Oct. 6).  The Club now plays every day Monday through Saturday at noon, Sunday at 12:30, Monday evening at 7:30 and Tuesday evening at 7:00 (resuming Oct. 6).  The new Tuesday evening game awards "triple points" at no additional cost to players.  

SILVER POINT WEEK IS COMING IN DECEMBER

The next silver point week is Monday, December 7 through Sunday, December 13.

SERIES AWARDS

Players can win 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.

3rd QUARTER 2009 CLUB CHAMPIONS

MON. NOON:            Doreen & William Kolket

MON. EVENING:      C. Klempner - A. Anderson

TUE. NOON:              Susan Kaysen - Selma Kaufman

WED. NOON:             Y. Rubenstien - David Morgan

THURS. NOON:         Fern Herman - Rita Gross

FRIDAY NOON:        Elaine Clair - Tony Zacchei

SATURDAY NOON:  Leslie Isles - Diane Lapat

SUNDAY 12:30:          Bruce Lieberman - Fern Herman          

3rd QUARTER 2009 SERIES WINNERS

MON. NOON:            John Canterbury (SEP/OCT)

MON. 7:30:                 Everette Harris  

TUE. NOON:              Elaine Clair - Steve Becker (tie)

WED. NOON:             Steve Becker

THURS. NOON:         Helen Mintzes - Harriet Weiss (tie)

FRIDAY NOON:        Bill Mumbauer

SATURDAY NOON: Mary Alice Ulrich

SUNDAY 12:30:         G. Cohen & G. Cadwallader          

CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

EVERY TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY AT NOON & TUESDAY EVENING AT 7:00 (EXCEPT WHEN THERE IS ANOTHER SPECIAL GAME), THE CLUB WILL HOLD A CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AWARDING TRIPLE POINTS.  THERE IS NO EXTRA CHARGE TO PLAY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.  DOTTY WILL DONATE $1.00/PLAYER FROM YOUR CARD FEE TO THE ACBL CHARITY FOUNDATION AND  LOCAL CHARITIES (ALTERNATING).

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 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.