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Shi started playing bridge in 2011 when she picked it up over learning to fly planes as a much-needed new hobby after a break-up. [1] While she is well-versed in many systems, she has a fondness for playing TOSR (transfer-oriented systemic relay), [2] a form of Precision Club. [3]
Boye Brogeland in 2014. Boye Brogeland (born 1973) is a Norwegian professional bridge player. After a successful junior career, he won three Bermuda Bowl medals with the Norwegian team, including the gold in Shanghai 2007, and several North American Bridge Championships.
Often, placing a player on the Restricted List is akin to releasing him without fully relinquishing his rights. Suspended list – player may be suspended by his club or the league for insubordination, misconduct, or failure to report in playing condition. A player on this lists counts both towards the Reserve List and the Active List limits.
North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven days.
Players who achieve a high placing in an event sanctioned by the sponsoring bridge organization (a club game, sectional tournament, regional tournament, etc.) are awarded masterpoints according to their placing and the number of pairs, individuals, or teams who played in the event.
Steve Weinstein (born 1964) is an American professional bridge and poker player. He is known best as the youngest winner of the ACBL Life Master Pairs at the time that he achieved it, and the most frequent winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs, the world's leading contest for cash prizes.
World Bridge Series Championships is the new 2010 name for a quadrennial meet organized by the World Bridge Federation in non-leap even years. (Another meet, the World Bridge Games, is held quadrennially in leap years.)
WBF [19] [20] [21]. World Junior Pairs Championship —covers all WBF competition for Youth Pairs and Individuals; Junior Pairs (under 26) is the oldest event, from 1995, biennial in odd years [22]