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Duplicate Bridge Club in British Co‑
lumbia. In second with 75.35% were
Sharon Easley and Elva Stone of Fort
Smith AR.
Pearce is well known to many in the
Pacific Northwest as the former long‑
time chair of the hugely successful
Penticton Regional. Kamminga, of
Osoyoos BC, is a former newspaper
editor and a freelance writer who re‑
cently took a writing/editing position
for the upcoming Winter Olympic
Games in Vancouver in 2010.
On this deal (rotated), a matchpoint
double by Kamminga brought home a
worldwide near‑top:
Dlr: South  A J 8 7 6
Vul: None  10 7
54
K943
KQ52
94
N

KJ9
Q853
W E
 10 9

A
87
S
 A 10 2
QJ865
 10 3
A642
KQJ632
7
West
North
Pearce
Dbl
Pass

1
Pass

East
South
Kamminga
1
3
3
Dbl
All Pass

Pearce led the K to the ace.
Declarer then tried to duck a heart in
preparation for a heart ruff in dummy,
but Kamminga, after his 9 held at
trick two, played the trump ace and
another diamond, of course, to stop
this. Declarer drew the last trump,
and tried a club toward the king, but
Pearce knew from the auction that
it was dangerous to duck. She won
the A and played a heart to West's
king. Declarer won and tried again
to get to dummy with a spade, but
Pearce won the Q and cashed the
Q and the 8.
Down two earned the winners plus
300 and 98.61% of the matchpoints
worldwide.
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Full results and deal analyses of
the 21st Worldwide Bridge Contest
are available on the excellent web
site www.ecatsbridge.com.
August 2007

Friday, June 1
Top 10 Pairs Worldwide
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Ermanno Gadioli - Claudio Bianchini
D. Minwalla - N. Minwalla
Arthur Hughes - Petra Mansell
Giacomo Giuliano - Gian Carlo Uglietti
Antonino Gallo - Gianni Squicquero
Zizi Covrigaru - Derek Russell
Jeanne Portale - Joseph Portale
Roberto Milocco - Paolo Rossi
Susanne Bohnsack - Henning Bohnsack
Rod Van Wyk - Arbha Vongsvivut

Italy
Botswana
South Africa
Italy
Italy
England
U.S.
Italy
Germany
U.S.

75.10
74.99
72.89
72.30
71.71
71.30
70.34
70.07
69.52
69.48

U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
Canada
U.S.
Canada
Canada
Canada

70.34
69.48
69.47
69.35
69.32
68.06
67.89
67.85
67.72
67.66

Canada
U.S.
England
U.S.
South Africa
Italy
U.S.
U.S.
Slovenia
Italy

76.45
75.35
74.93
73.48
72.67
72.17
71.65
71.32
71.25
71.18

Canada
U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
U.S.
Canada
U.S.
Mexico

76.45
75.35
73.48
71.65
71.32
70.44
69.63
69.40
69.37
69.18

Top 10 Pairs in ACBL

(World ranking in parentheses)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

(7)
(10)
(11)
(14)
(15)
(30)
(31)
(32)
(33)
(35)

Jeanne Portale - Joseph Portale
Rod Van Wyk - Arbha Vongsvivut
Franklin Merblum - Howard Merblum
Albert Comiskey - L.C. Crowe
Andrew Carver - Vernon Carver
Malcolm Ewashkiw - Robert Hollow
Myles Walsh - Margie Sullivan
Cliff Mader - Harry Singh
Paddy Allan - Kenneth Allan
Louise Elliott - Tony Marsh

Saturday, June 2
Top 10 Pairs Worldwide
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Margaret Pearce - Alje Kamminga
Sharon Easley - Elva Stone
Alison Pollok - Amos Bridgman
Paul Wolf II - Bruce Emonds
Ashok Samjee - Nicola Phillips
Rita D. Apice - Adriano Erra
Marion Kelly - Edward Rais
Edward Zuckerberg - Clifford Nebel
Milojka Ambroz - Bojan Ambroz
Giovanna Greco - Giuseppe Lisa Elio

Top 10 Pairs in ACBL

(World ranking in parentheses)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

(1)
(2)
(4)
(7)
(8)
(11)
(16)
(19)
(20)
(22)

Margaret Pearce - Alje Kamminga
Sharon Easley - Elva Stone
Paul Wolf II - Bruce Emonds
Marion Kelly - Edward Rais
Edward Zuckerberg - Clifford Nebel
Estelle Margolin - Giacomo Sbrana
Rob Baker - Mellissa Baker
Karl Hicks - Elizabeth Legacy
H. Philip Monyer - Eleanor Alboum
Gonzalo Herrera - Guadalupe Cespedes

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