Paul Fireman’s squad (with John Kranyak, Vince Demuy, Gavin Wolpert, John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge) won the 2014 Roth Open Swiss Teams in Las Vegas.
Secon place went to the team composed of Tom Breed, Chris Compton, David Grainger, Jeff Roman, Darren Wolpert, and Daniel Korbel; third came the team composed of Andrew Gromov, Aleksander Dubinin, Krzysztof Buras, Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Yuriy Khoklov, and Evgeny Rudakov.
The event, included in the Summer NABC in Las Vegas, was held between 26/27 of July. It is named in honor of Alvin Roth (1914-2007), one of the greatest American player.
Format. Day 1 is a two-session qualifier, and then the qualified teams play preduplicated board in the two-session final.
Final Standings:
1 Paul Fireman – Gavin Wolpert – John Kranyak – Vincent Demuy – Joel Wooldridge – John Hurd
2 Tom Breed – Chris Compton – David Grainger – Jeff Roman – Darren Wolpert – Daniel Korbel
3 Andrew Gromov – Aleksander Dubinin – Krzysztof Buras – Grzegorz Narkiewicz – Yuriy Khoklov – Evgeny Rudakov
4 Ze Jun Zhuang – Hoajun Shi – Chuan Cheng Ju – Zheng Jun Shi
5 Aubrey Strul – Michael Becker – Tarek Sadek – Walid Elahmady – Rosen Gunev – Ivan Nanev
6 Bob Hamman – Brian Glubok – Howard Weinstein – Roger Lee – Frederic Wrang
7 Rose Meltzer – John Mohan – Peter Boyd – Steve Robinson – Steve Garner – Ron Smith
8 Hemant Lall – Wojciech Gawel – Rafal Jagniewski – Petra Hamman – Michal Nowosadzki – Jacek Kalita
9 Kaare Gjaldbaek – Gregers Bjarnarson – Anders Hagen – Martin Schaltz
10 Mary Ann Berg – Mark Lair – Valentin Kovachev – Vladislav Isporski – Huub Bertens – Ton Bakkeren
11 Paul Street – Ira Chorush – Marc Bompis – Jean Quantin – Ishmael Delmonte – Curtis Cheek
12 Martin Fleisher – Chip Martel – Roy Welland – Sabine Auken – Chris Willenken – Michael Rosenberg
13 Marcin Mazurkiewicz – Krzysztof Jassem – Piotr Gawrys – Michal Klukowski
14 Jeff Meckstroth – Eric Rodwell – Ralph Katz – Geoff Hampson – Robert Levin – Steve Weinstein
15 Marius Agica – Owen Lien – Adam Kaplan – Zachary Brescoll – Matt Granovetter – Pamela Granovetter
16 Daniel Zagorin – Kevin Bathurst – Sjoert Brink – Bas Drijver
17 Steve Beatty – Ed Schulte – Jerry Helms – Olin Hubert
18 Bo Liu – Steven Love – Alberto Feilhaber – Weidong Pei
19 Michel Bessis – Michael Askgaard – Larry Mori – Venkatrao Koneru – Philippe Cronier – Kasper Konow
20 Wenfei Wang – Ran Jingrong – Hongli Wang – Lu Yan – Yu Zhang – Shao Hong Wu
21 Bernard Payen – Philippe Soulet – Christophe Oursel – Thierry De Sainte-Marie – Erick Mauberquez
22 Stan Tulin – Gary Cohler – Michael Kamil – Billy Cohen – Alon Birman – Dror Padon
23 Carolyn Lynch – Mike Passell – Adam Zmudzinski – Bart Bramley – Lew Stansby – Cezary Balicki
24 Steve Shirey – Robert Lebi – Martin Kirr – Ira Hessel
25 Sam Dinkin – Michael Shuster – Zachary Grossack – Adam Grossack
26 Ji Chen – Patrick Huang – Fu Zhong – Jie Li – Bauke Muller – Simon De Wijs
27 Lawrence Lau – Brett Adler – Jill Marshall – Michael Lipkin – John Ramos
28 Robert McCaw – Lewis Gamerman – Sheila Gabay – Lloyd Arvedon
29 Lynn Deas – Sylvia Moss – Janice Seamon-Molson – Kerri Sanborn – Beth Palmer
30/31 Jun Wei – Shu Guang Bi – Kuu Zhang – Xiao Bing Wu – Min Rong Zhu
30/31 Drew Casen – John Onstott – Howard Parker III – James Bush – Bruce Ferguson
32 Martin Harris – Jacob Morgan – Douglas Doub – Adam Wildavsky
33 Christina Madsen – Christal Henner – Migry Zur Campanile – Veronique Bessis
34 Joao Paulo Campos – Joshua Donn – Joaquin Pacareu – Miguel Villas-Boas
35 Alexander Kolesnik – Jim Munday – Richard Oshlag – Jeffrey Goldsmith
36 James Cayne – Michael Seamon – Lorenzo Lauria – Alfredo Versace – Thomas Bessis – Cedric Lorenrini
37 Melih Ozdil – Leonardo Cima – Valerio Giubilo – Lewis Finkel
38 Jeff Schuett – David Yang – Dick Bruno – Robert Gardner – Jeffrey Miller – Brad Carmichael
39 William Schreiber – Michael Schreiber – John Jones – Mark Bartusek
40 Han Peters – Shane Blanchard – Paul Gipson – Alex Gipson – Ari Greenberg – Li-Chung Chen
41 Hansa Narasimhan – Sumit Mukherjee – Bhabesh Saha – Debabrata Majumder – Pritish Kushari – Keyzad Anklesaria
42 Kit Woolsey – Fred Stewart – Nikolay Demirev – Eldad Ginossar
43 Connie Goldberg – Bill Eisenberg – Maija Romanovska – Karlis Rubins – Eugene Saxe – Wafik Abdou
44 Les Bart – Gloria Bart – Mark Dahl – Peter Friedland
45 Andrew Rosenthal – Aaron Silverstein – Fredrik Nystrom – Bjorn Fallenius – Peter Fredin – Johan Upmark
46 Kitty Cooper – Steven Cooper – Anne Brenner – David Caprera
47 Mark Gordon – Pratap Rajadhyaksha – Alan Sontag – Michal Kwiecien – David Berkowitz – Jacek Pszczola
48/49 Haitao Liu – Xiao Feng Zhang – Yu Wei Wu – Lidang Dong
48/49 Bobby Wolff – Dan Morse – Greg Hinze – David Lindop – Nader Hanna – Nagy Kamel
50 Marilyn Eber – Garey Hayden – Jan Janitschke – Bonnie Smith
The 2014 Summer NABC (North American Bridge Championships) were held in Las Vegas (Nevada, Usa) from July 17 to 27, 2014. The host hotel and playing site was the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.
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