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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. Made Bronze Life Master
12/31/1993 Reno Swiss Teams 14.90 136.88 Made Bronze Life Master
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 Smoot, 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 Smoot, Mark & Franz
09/01/2003 Santa Clara K/O Teams 7.48 377.47 With Steve Conaway, Frank Smoot & Elaine
09/06/2004 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 2.50 379.97
09/03/2005 Santa Clara Open Pairs 8.04 388.01 Frank Smoot
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 Smoot
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
11/27/2007 San Francisco NABC Blue Ribbon 1.18 1.18 Platinum with Frank Smoot
03/29/2008 GNT Flight B K/O Teams 19.50 478.00 Frank Smoot, Mark & Franz
07/01/2008 1000 Total Points (87 gold out of last 100) Silver Life Master
08/31/2008 Santa Clara Rgnl K/O Teams 20.92 498.92 Frank Smoot, Tania & Jack Clinch
04/04/2009 GNT Flight B K/O Teams 13.00 511.92 Frank Smoot, Mark & Franz
09/06/2009 Santa Clara K/O Teams 27.75 539.67 Frank Smoot, 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 Smoot, Gary Porter & Lynn Yokel
02/19/2012 Santa Clara K/O Teams 12.84 586.03 With Michael Koltnow, Steve Conaway & Barbara Dahl
02/19/2012 Finally got to 50% gold by 2.05 points! 586.03 gold out of 1170.01 total points = 50.09%
05/14/2012 It lasted only 3 months. 586.03 gold out of 1172.82 total points = 49.97%
10/31/2012 San Francisco Open Pairs 0.11 586.14
11/25/2012 San Francisco Swiss Teams 4.15 590.29 1200 Total Points (31.71 gold out of last 100)
10/22/2013 San Jose Open Pairs 0.02 590.31
04/01/2014 San Jose 590.31 1300 Total Points (00.02 gold out of last 100)
07/27/2014 Las Vegas NABC Swiss Teams 5.71 596.02 With Kathy, Leigh Anne Shafer & Gord Pippy (Mr. & Mrs. Vodka)
08/31/2014 Santa Clara K/O Teams 7.03 603.05 With Kathy, Michael Koltnow, and Bob Garret
10/05/2014 San Jose GNT 0.16 603.21
01/31/2015 GNT 2.91 606.12
10/18/2015 GNT 0.12 606.24
10/31/2015 San Jose 0.08 606.32
01/08/2016 Monterey K/O Teams 15.14 621.46 With Bill & Jill Wood
01/10/2016 Swiss Teams 5.12 626.58
07/04/2016 SJBC 626.55 1400 Total Points (36.27 gold out of last 100)
01/05/2017 Monterey K/O Teams 6.90 633.45 With Kathy, Stephen & Colette Castellino
01/08/2017 Monterey A/X Swiss 3.94 637.39 With Michael Marcucci & Brenda Glaze (Anchorage, Alaska)
02/04/2017 San Jose GNT Open Pairs 2.46 639.85 With John
06/09/2017 Santa Clara Open Pairs 1.53 641.38 With John
09/02/2017 Santa Clara Open Pairs 5.54 646.92 With Kathy
09/03/2017 Santa Clara Swiss Teams 15.49 662.41 With Kathy, Al Crane & Gary Ansok
09/04/2017 Santa Clara A/X Swiss 3.97 666.38 With John, Ken Rosenfeld & Joel Koransky
10/24/2017 San Jose Swiss Teams 0.09 666.47 Kathy, Jory, Dan Turkus.
11/24/2017 San Diego NABC Open Pairs 666.47 1500 Total Points (39.92 gold out of last 100)
11/25/2017 San Diego NABC KO Teams 9.38 675.85 KO Teams. Made Ruby Life Master
12/09/2017 Burlingham NAP Flight A 0.38 676.23 NAP Flight A Qualifying
01/04/2018 Monterey KO Teams 13.97 690.20 With Kathy, Stephen & Colette Castellino
01/07/2018 Monterey Swiss 5.33 695.53 With John, Ken Rosenfeld, and Joel Koransky
02/03/2018 San Jose NAP Flight B 16.00 711.53 John Wachsman and I won trip to Philadelphia NABC
03/12/2018 Philadelphia NAP Flight B 20.00 731.53 After each session, we were 79/89, 49/52 qualifying, 19th, then 7th overall.
09/02/2018 Santa Clara KO Teams 4.10 735.63 1600 Total Points (65.16 gold out of last 100) With John, Joel Koransky & Ken Rosenfeld
11/03/2018 GNT Flight B San Jose 0.14 735.77 Joel Koransky & Ken Rosenfeld and John
12/08/2018 Palo Alto NAP Flight A 2.92 738.69 With John
12/15/2018 San Jose NAP Flight B 5.63 744.32 John & I led after the first session, but dropped to 7th overall.
01/03/2019 Monterey Open Pairs 2.30 746.62 Section first with Kathy
02/17/2019 Burlingame GNT Flight B 7.54 754.16 With John, Joel Koransky & Ken Rosenfeld
07/19/2019 Las Vegas NABC Flight B Pairs 26.47 780.63 With John. We were 5th overall, but got more than 4th place due to 3 out of 6 session firsts.
1700 Total Points (59.41 gold out of last 100)
07/22/2019 Las Vegas NABC Swiss 2.52 3.70 Platinum With Bill Wood & Ian Martindale
07/26/2019 Las Vegas NABC Swiss 1.06 4.76 Platinum With Kathy, Jory Segal & her sister, Benay Cooper
07/27/2019 Las Vegas NABC Swiss 0.53 781.16
07/28/2019 Las Vegas NABC Swiss 7.48 788.64 With Kathy
08/29/2019 All Western Open Pairs 2.54 791.18
09/01/2019 All Western KO Teams 3.86 795.04
10/24/2019 San Jose Club Teams 0.16 795.20 With Kathy
11/30/2019 San Francisco NABC Teams 5.30 800.50 With Kathy, Ray Yuenger & Melanie Kakalec
12/07/2019 San Francisco NABC Mixed Swiss 1.68 6.44 Platinum With Kathy, Martha Keller & Andy Sass
01/10/2020 Monterey Swiss 6.93 807.43 With Kathy, Sally Craig & Ed L'Heureux (Ed the Happy)
01/12/2020 Monterey Swiss 6.00 813.43 1800 Total Points (32.80 gold out of last 100) With John, Ken Rosenfeld & Joel Koransky
02/23/2020 San Mateo GNT Flight B 15.08 828.51 With John, Alan Wood & Bob Enenstein
01/27/2021 BBO Pairs 1900 Total Points (15.08 gold out of last 100) With John
11/21/2021 BBO GNT Flight B 3.27 831.78 With John.
01/03/2022 Monterey Teams 7.27 839.05 With John, Ken Rosenfeld, and Ron Baron.
01/04/2022 Monterey Pairs 18.70 857.75 2000 Total Points (29.24 gold out of last 100) With John
01/05/2022 Monterey Teams 8.09 865.84 With John, Lynn Bartz and Brenna Wundram.
01/09/2022 Monterey Swiss 2.11 867.95 With Kathy, Marie-France Benoit, and John Emmerson.
03/11/2022 Reno NABC Teams 7.79 875.74 With Kathy, Lynn Bartz and Brenna Wundram.
03/12/2022 Reno NABC Teams 9.30 885.04 With Kathy, Lynn Bartz and Brenna Wundram.
03/13/2022 Reno NABC Teams 10.30 895.34 With Kathy, Lynn Bartz and Brenna Wundram.
03/15/2022 Reno NABC Teams 6.71 901.45 With John, Bill & Jill Wood.
03/15/2022 Reno NABC Teams 7.22 908.67 With John, Bill & Jill Wood.
06/30/2022 BBO Pairs 2100 Total Points (51.52 gold out of last 100)
09/03/2022 Santa Clara KO Teams 14.85 923.52 With John, Lynn Bartz & Ken Imboden
09/05/2022 Santa Clara Teams 7.98 931.50 With Kathy, John & Jan Batcheller
11/26/2022 Phoenix NABC 0-10K Swiss 19.39 950.89 With John, Tobey Roland & Ti Davis
2.15 8.59 Platinum
11/28/2022 Phoenix NABC Open Pairs 5.70 956.59 With John
11/30/2022 Phoenix NABC 0-3K Teams 7.79 964.38 With Kathy, Todd & Bobette Thorsen
12/01/2022 Phoenix NABC 0-3K Teams 11.70 977.08 With Kathy, Todd & Bobette Thorsen
12/02/2022 Phoenix NABC Mixed Swiss 1.68 10.27 Platinum With Kathy, Todd & Bobette Thorsen
12/03/2022 Phoenix NABC 0-3K Teams 8.87 985.95 With Kathy, Todd & Bobette Thorsen (153.77 golds in 2022)
12/09/2022 BBO Pairs 2200 Total Points (80.11 gold out of last 100)
01/05/2023 Monterey KO Teams 19.58 1005.53 With Kathy, Lynn Bartz & Brenna Wundram. (Over 1,000 gold points!)
01/07/2023 Monterey KO Teams 1.22 1006.75 With John, Brenna Wundram & Melanie Kakalec
01/08/2023 Monterey Teams 6.87 1013.62 With Kathy, John & Jan Batcheller
Gold Total
October, 1992 106 490 21% Gold
Points With Kids 480 682 70.4% Gold
(19.7 Years) ---- ---- 34.6 Points/Year, 24 Gold/Year
June, 2012 586 1172 Both Kids out of High School. 50% Gold
Points After Kids 150 449 33.4% Gold
(6.4 Years) ---- ---- 70 Points/Year, 23 Gold/Year
November, 2018 736 1621 Retired. 45.4% Gold
Points After Retiring 277 615 45.0% Gold
(4.25 Years) ---- ---- 145 Points/Year, 65 Gold/Year
January, 2023 1013 2236 45.3% Gold & 10.27 Platinum
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