My Bridge History
Gold Total
Date Location Event Points Gold Partner/Teammates
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1977 (?) Home in San Jose Learned to Play Dad, Steinkamps
1978 (?) San Jose Club Club Games
01/25/1980 Chico Unit Game First ACBL Points with Bill Willigis (3.67)
05/10/1981 Less than 10 Points the first 1.5 Years
09/05/1981 Palo Alto Open Pairs 3.61 3.61 First Gold Points with Roy Woolsey (66 Total)
12/29/1981 Reno Men's Pairs 4.00 7.61 Section 1st with a Pick-Up Partner
01/30/1982 Monterey Regional Open Pairs 28.05 35.66 Dave Smith (190x & 189x = 380 total)
02/15/1982 Santa Rosa Swiss Teams 3.07 38.73 Dave Smith, Bill & Patty
05/10/1982 161.00 Total (150 Points in Last Year)
12/31/1982 Reno Swiss Teams 22.01 60.74 4-way tie for 1st. Trina, Tom Scharf & Ash
06/12/1983 Sacramento Swiss Teams 4.58 65.32
10/01/1983 San Jose Sectional Open Pairs 65.32 300 Total Points. Made Life Master with Patty
01/28/1984 Monterey Open Pairs 9.12 74.44
02/19/1984 San Jose Open Pairs 2.89 77.33
09/02/1985 Palo Alto Swiss Teams 2.02 79.35
09/01/1986 Palo Alto Swiss Teams 2.25 81.60
07/08/1987 Palo Alto SAYC Pairs 24.49 106.09 Trina. (These were before ACBL itemized them)
01/31/1988 400 Total Points
12/26/1991 Reno K/O Teams 3.49 109.58 First ACBL-itemized gold points
02/08/1992 San Jose Taught Bridge Class
10/01/1992 109.58 gold out of 490 total points
10/11/1992 Virginia Beach BAM 9.54 119.12 Barbara, Jim & his partner
10/12/1992 Virginia Beach K/O Teams 2.86 121.98 500 Total Points
12/31/1993 Reno Swiss Teams 14.90 136.88
02/18/1994 Palo Alto Swiss Teams 3.63 140.51
09/01/1994 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 6.61 147.12
12/29/1994 Reno K/O Teams 5.31 152.43
12/30/1994 Reno K/O Teams 10.76 163.19
02/15/1995 Palo Alto K/O Teams 21.14 184.33
09/01/1995 Santa Clara K/O Teams 15.85 200.18 600 Total Points (78 gold out of last 100)
02/19/1996 Palo Alto Swiss Teams 7.75 207.93
03/16/1997 Swiss Teams 0.11 208.04
09/03/1998 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 9.39 217.43
09/04/1998 Santa Clara K/O Teams 24.73 242.16
02/28/1999 U-507 Swiss Teams 0.37 242.53
05/14/1999 San Mateo K/O Teams 24.00 266.53 700 Total Points (66 gold out of last 100)
07/20/1999 GNT Flight B K/O Teams 13.50 280.03 Frank, Mark & Franz
05/21/2000 Oakland K/O Teams 24.00 304.03
08/09/2000 GNT Flight B K/O Teams 30.00 334.03
09/03/2001 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 12.73 346.76
08/31/2002 Santa Clara Open Pairs 13.70 360.46 800 Total Points (94 gold out of last 100)
10/19/2002 Unit 503 Open Pairs 0.23 360.69
02/17/2003 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 9.30 369.99 Frank, Mark & Franz
09/01/2003 Santa Clara K/O Teams 7.48 377.47 Steve Conaway, Frank & Elaine
09/06/2004 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 2.50 379.97
09/03/2005 Santa Clara Open Pairs 8.04 388.01 Frank
09/05/2005 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 2.89 390.90
900 Total Points (30 gold out of last 100)
09/03/2006 Santa Clara Open Pairs 40.45 431.35 Frank
01/06/2007 Monterey Open Pairs 2.45 433.80
02/19/2007 Santa Clara Swiss 4.28 438.08
11/25/2007 San Francisco NABC K/O Teams 20.42 458.50 Kathy, Bill & Jill Wood
03/29/2008 GNT Flight B K/O Teams 19.50 478.00 Frank, Mark & Franz
1000 Total Points (87 gold out of last 100)
08/31/2008 Santa Clara Rgnl K/O Teams 20.92 498.92 Frank, Tania & Jack Clinch
04/04/2009 GNT Flight B K/O Teams 13.00 511.92 Frank, Mark & Franz
09/06/2009 Santa Clara K/O Teams 27.75 539.67 Frank, Tania & Helen
1100 Total Points (61 gold out of last 100)
02/21/2011 Santa Clara BCD Swiss 11.46 551.13 Kathy, Bill Jolly, Terry Kellerman
09/04/2011 Santa Clara Open Pairs 3.15 554.28 With Patty after all this time
09/05/2011 Santa Clara A/X Swiss 18.91 573.19 With Frank, Gary, and Lynn Yokel
02/19/2012 Santa Clara K/O Teams 12.84 586.03 With Michael Koltnow, Steve, and Barbara
02/19/2012 Finally got to 50% gold by 1.02 points! 586.03 gold out of 1170.01 total points = 50.087%
It won't last long. The next day, I won 1.25 red points. 0.81 more non-gold will put me under again.
Gold Total
October, 1992 106 490 21% Gold
Points Since Then 480 681 70.5% Gold
(19.3 Years) ---- ---- 34 Points / Year
February, 2012 586 1171 50.1% Gold Total