The Top Bidders for Set 2022-07
Perhaps a slightly easier set than the last couple, the average score was up a couple of points to 47.57 with 1,657 players taking part. For the second month in a row, the a score of 76/80 led the expert panel whilst a lone winner led the competition entrants with an impressive 79/80. This month’s winner is:
Murat Sensoy (emartie) from Izmir, Turkey
Murat lives in the Aegean coast city of Izmir, He has been playing for about 11 years and he represented Turkiye as a junior in a European Under-26 championship. He is now captain of the NEVADA team in the open category in Turkiye and of the Bornova Bridge Sports Club team competing in the Interclub National Championship.
Also on the July 'Roll of Honour':
with a score 77/80:
Cecilia Billiet (cbilliet) from Amsterdam, Netherlands
and
Peter Law (petelaw) from Broadstairs, Kent, England
And, with score of 76/80:
Len Doerksen (tuxedo) from Winnipeg MB, Canada
and
Morrie Kleinplatz (amulet1) from Windsor ON, Canada
Honourable mentions also go to those who matched the score of at least one panellist, so you need a score of 64/80 or more to make this month’s leaderboard:
| Player | Points |
|---|---|
| Murat Sensoy (emartie) from Izmir, Turkey | 79 |
| Celia Billiet (cbilliet) from Amsterdam, Netherlands | 77 |
| Peter Law (petelaw) from Broadstairs, UK | 77 |
| len Doerksen (tuxedo) from Winnipeg, Canada | 76 |
| Morrie Kleinplatz (amulet1) from Windsor, Canada | 76 |
| Radu Mihai (varza) from Bucuresti, Romania | 75 |
| Jyrki Lahtonen (Jyrki_63) from Rusko, Finland | 74 |
| Hanoi Rondon (hanoi5) from Santiago, Chile | 74 |
| Enhao Du (diandian23) from Newbury Park, USA | 74 |
| Neil Cohen (ncohen) from Austin | 74 |
| Bert Hackney (toast1) from Vienna, VA USA | 74 |
| Zihan Qiao (Qizhen) from Sweden | 73 |
| Dennis W Goldston (Dengold) from Colorado Springs, CO, USA | 73 |
| Howard W Stern (hstern) from Des Plaines, IL | 73 |
| Brad Theurer (batmanbrad) from Gaithersburg, MD USA | 73 |
| David Cole (davidcole) from Munich, Germany | 73 |
| Arda Kabaxa (ardaak47) from Istanbul, Turkey | 72 |
| Guerrero (ffgth) from Toulouse, France | 72 |
| David Brooks (dvdbrks) from Hobart Australia | 71 |
| Orhan Topal (caky_) from Istanbul, Turkey | 71 |
| Yiannis Komninos (wolf_ojk) from Greece | 71 |
| Steve Parker (spcompro) from Littleton CO, USA | 71 |
| Robert Adelman (bobade) from Edmonds | 71 |
| Andreas Pournaras (a n d) from Athens, Greece | 71 |
| Alex Dialynas (adial) from Heraklio, Greece | 71 |
| Iain Cundy (icundy) from London, England | 71 |
| Va Ena (fachiru) from Taos NM, USA | 71 |
| Jacob Juhl (snagolf) from Bormla, Malta | 71 |
| Matteo (matteovc) from Amsterdam, Netherlands | 71 |
| Paul Sontag (pgs58) from Mayne Island BC, Canada | 71 |
| Eve Deng (eve8392) from Richmond | 70 |
| Richard Porus (dick porus) from Portland | 70 |
| Venkatesh Ramaratnam (rv) from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 70 |
| Adrian Pang (MP7601) from Hong Kong, China | 70 |
| Petar Petrov (Pesho_1975) from Bulgaria | 70 |
| John R Mayne (JRMayne) from Modesto, CA, USA | 70 |
| Jean-Luc Lachance (jllachan) from Montreal QC, Canada | 70 |
| Margarita Angelou (maggieme) from Thessaloniki, Greece | 69 |
| William Wood (Billwood) from Rock Hill | 69 |
| Charles Dalmas (TheKurgan) from Sarnia ON, Canada | 69 |
| Kees Bakker (keesbak) from Utrecht, Netherlands | 69 |
| Mike Blancher (Orogen) from Calgary AL, Canada | 69 |
| Mukund Jagannathan (plasurgen) from India | 69 |
| David Covid (01casino) from Sydney, Australia | 69 |
| Mark LaForge (farkel) from Suzuka, Japan | 69 |
| Raj Agarwal (badesh) from Cambridge, MA, USA | 69 |
| David Williams (dave251164) from Llangollen, Wales | 69 |
| Lawrence Cheetham (cheesy) from Bedford | 69 |
| Jon Cooke (mugsmate) from Cambridge,UK | 69 |
| Patrick Shields (patr1cks) from Cheltenham | 69 |
| Ahmet Rifat Sahin (ahmetrifat) from Turkiye | 68 |
| Sherif Noshy (chiccco) from Cairo, Egypt | 68 |
| Andrzej S. (4matic) from Poland | 68 |
| David Peters (pdavid2) from Jerusalem Israel | 68 |
| William Leaf (BillLeaf) from Cary | 68 |
| Cristoforo Caffi (cris31M) from Persico Dosimo, Italy | 68 |
| Capri Bucci (atp13) from Rome, Italy | 68 |
| Tobias Bern (xtober) from Sweden | 68 |
| Charles Nudelman (soxguy) from Northbrook, Illinois | 68 |
| Nikos Papamichalopoulos (nikrek) from Athens, Greece | 68 |
| Leo Resk (resker) from Victoria, Canada | 68 |
| Milko Slavov (milko_sl) from Varna, Bulgaria | 68 |
| Lei Tsui (ltsui10) from Thousand Oaks | 68 |
| Peter Lakatos (nyul11) from Budapest, Hungary | 68 |
| Pär Ol-Mårs (olmar) from Stockholm, Sweden | 68 |
| Vicki Poole (Vyc) from Munds Park AZ, USA | 67 |
| Meriem (mariouma) from Tunis, Tunisie | 67 |
| Dave Bugay (hikerdave1) from Parker, USA | 67 |
| Ed Billowitz (ebillowitz@verizon.net) from Richmond VA, USA | 67 |
| Ian Thomas Findlay (findles) from Banff Canada | 67 |
| Cliff Marx (Cliffm) from Edmonds, WA USA | 67 |
| Ofer Tal-Shachar (oferta10) from Israel | 67 |
| Lee Weinberger (shoonrah) from Aventura | 67 |
| Rishabh Singh (rishabh) from San Jose CA, USA | 67 |
| Walter Ewing (wewing35) from Perthshire, Scotland | 67 |
| Manuel Oliveira (m oliveira) from Livramento Estoril | 67 |
| William R. Haskitt (redwineman) from Grasonville USA | 67 |
| Sinegre (jls34) from Montpellier, France | 67 |
| Douglas Schmickrath (P0STM0RTEM) from Bay Area CA, USA | 67 |
| Anne Kao (BlvOak) from Bellevue, WA, USA | 66 |
| Evelyn Adkins (ms eda) from Atlanta, GA, USA | 66 |
| Delestre (tkcpdd) from Paris, France | 66 |
| MAURIZIO PARTESANO (superparte) from Biella, Italy | 66 |
| YAHYA CINAR (doktrin) from TURKIYE | 66 |
| Alain (Devigne) from Dinant | 66 |
| John Kimel (l443558) from USA | 66 |
| Maggie Betts (mb008) from Wirral, England | 66 |
| Jian Zhou (wincheer) from Shanghai, China | 66 |
| Simona Ardelean (Puidedac) from Marsaxlokk, Malta | 66 |
| Elwindra (GabriaLSEW) from Indonesia | 66 |
| Asim Das (Asim_D) from Kolkata, India | 66 |
| David Warwick (DRWarwick) from Adrian MI, USA | 66 |
| Jan Erik Greve-Løberg (JanErikB) from Hamar, Norway | 66 |
| George Wang (ggnaw) from El Monte | 66 |
| Craig Hemphill (chthonic) from Jacksonville | 66 |
| Christopher Howard (chriscq1) from Maldon | 66 |
| Girish Bijoor (grb) from Bangalore, India | 66 |
| Juliano Barbosa (JBarbosa) from Seixal | 66 |
| Brian DeLong (Goose231) from Harmony NS, Canada | 66 |
| Dan Gheorghiu (DanG4503) from Victoria BC, Canada | 66 |
| Josh Sinnett (oshoj) from Bellingham WA, USA | 66 |
| Shahar Zack (shaharz) from Kiryat Motzkin, Israel | 66 |
| Chris Huddle (Teetoe) from Gerringong, Australia | 66 |
| Gianni Hsieh (wakanari) from Sammamish | 66 |
| Xiaoqi Zhou (xiaoqi1221) from Murphy, TX | 66 |
| Mike (Mike1969on) from Canada | 65 |
| Shobutynsky (Shuba) from Khmelnitskyi, Ukraine | 65 |
| Jonathan Sundheim (jsund) from Oviedo | 65 |
| Cheung Wai Lam (William 18) from Hong Kong | 65 |
| Gil Feldboy (gilgil40) from Petach Tikva, Israel | 65 |
| Robert Howell Solar (waterbob) from Des Moines IA, USA | 65 |
| Michael Barnay (leachim23) from Lustenau | 65 |
| Coskun Kesgin (ckesgin) from Istanbul, Turkey | 65 |
| B (Eigen137) from USA | 65 |
| Thomas Gardner (thomasg_16) from Tonbridge | 65 |
| Nirmal kumar jain (Jain) from Chennai, India | 65 |
| Alfred James Bond (alfredj) from Kingsley, Bordon | 65 |
| George Sun (gycsun) from New Zealand | 65 |
| Nigel Martin (NM41) from Durham, United Kingdom | 65 |
| Suman Sengupta (suman) from Kolkata, India | 65 |
| Mate Mestric (Kooinnjz) from Zagreb, Croatia | 65 |
| Robert Glowacki (berendei) from Warsaw, Poland | 65 |
| Laura Mancini (801dna) from Paris, France | 65 |
| Surendra Kumar Garg (gargsk) from Lucknow | 65 |
| Kostis Koul (Gkoulou13) from Greece | 65 |
| Arvind Vaidya (figo) from Mumbai India | 65 |
| Wen Zhou (bridge4wz) from Thousand Oaks | 65 |
| Anthony William Burt (Tone999) from Vancouver BC, Canada | 65 |
| Ravi Venkitaraman (Ravivenk) from Dallas TX USA | 65 |
| Robert Donathan (rdonathan) from Austin, TX | 65 |
| Richard U Newell (runewell) from West Des Moines IA | 65 |
| Kevin Wu (kevinwu777) from Taipei, Taiwan | 65 |
| Yongdong YANG (yangalbert) from Thousand Oaks | 65 |
| Dimitris Paraskevas (mploum) from Greece, Athens | 65 |
| Harold Lai (Haroldlai) from Hong Kong | 64 |
| Mark Headquist (Mark513) from Floral city, FL | 64 |
| Luc Soudan (padpanik) from Barcelona | 64 |
| John Helme (jh2704) from Carnforth, England | 64 |
| Michael Day (miamijd) from USA | 64 |
| Perry Sjoberg (perry400) from Malmo | 64 |
| Ronald Wong (fcwh) from Honolulu | 64 |
| Mark de Meer (maanba) from Dubai UAE | 64 |
| Richard Steck (Air1) from Chicago, IL, USA | 64 |
| Gaston Mejane (decour) from Paris, France | 64 |
| Jeff Michell (Ccdaddy) from Seattle, WA, USA | 64 |
| Glenn Oliver (Glenn101) from Southport, Merseyside | 64 |
| Herstein Liu (herstein) from Taiwan | 64 |
| Jordan Cohen (Jordymc) from Toronto, Canada | 64 |
| Mark Laken (TEAGUER) from Baltimore, Maryland | 64 |
| Kristjan Sigurgeirsson (Lundinn) from Reykjavik | 64 |
| Francois Duffour (toutmo) from Paris, France | 64 |
| Nolan Derby (noba7) from Vancouver, Canada | 64 |
| Michael F Flader (mzip) from Eagan | 64 |
| Marian Tomov (Marit) from Varna, Bulgaria | 64 |
| Stilianos s Touchtidis (stelios_t) from West Hills | 64 |
You need a running total of 380 to make the annual competition leader-board with seven months played, which means that about 65 players make the list.
Although he recorded his lowest score of the year so far (64/80), Francois still retains his place atop the leader-board. Last month’s winner, Dave Williams, moves up into second place. This month’s biggest winner is Hanoi, who jumps to third with both Luwen and Alexander failing to make the monthly leader-board for the first time. Ian moves up into fourth place just behind the silver and bronze medalists from the 2021 annual competition.
The top three are all still averaging over 70/80, with Ian and Alexander just a fraction below that mark. It is worth noting, though, that when the time comes to start replacing the worst scores, those hot on the heels of the top two now all have a score in the 50s (or 40s) to drop.
| Player | Points |
|---|---|
| Francois Duffour (toutmo) from Paris, France | 499 |
| David Williams (dave251164) from Llangollen, Wales | 493 |
| Hanoi A Rondon (hanoi5) from Providencia, Chile | 491 |
| Ian T Findlay (findles) from Banff AB Canada | 489 |
| Alexander Cook (spade7) from Sydney, Australia | 489 |
| Venkatesh Ramaratnam (rv) from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 483 |
| Luwen Koh (Xreborned) from Singapore | 481 |
| Milko Slavov (milko_sl) from Varna, Bulgaria | 472 |
| Va Ena (fachiru) from Taos NM | 466 |
| Dan Gheorghiu (DanG4503) from Victoria, BC, Canada | 458 |
| Stephen Merriman (smerriman) from Auckland, New Zealand | 456 |
| Laura Mancini (801dna) from Paris, France | 455 |
| Capri Bucci (atp13) from Rome, Italy | 454 |
| Manuel Oliveira (m oliveira) from Estoril, Portugal | 454 |
| Babs Giesbrecht (bABsG) from BC, Canada | 453 |
| Patrick Shields (patr1cks) from Cheltenham, England | 451 |
| Josh Sinnett (oshoj) from Bellingham WA, USA | 450 |
| Peter Law (petelaw) from Broadstairs, England | 450 |
| Tobias Bern (xtober) from Sweden | 449 |
| Paul Dubois (pottsca) from El Cajon, CA USA | 448 |
| Shahar Zack (shaharz) from Kiryat Motzkin | 447 |
| Claude Candillier (capri13) from Peyrolles en Provence, France | 445 |
| Brad Theurer (batmanbrad) from Gaithersburg, MD USA | 443 |
| Adam Magyar (Sundiszno) from Budapest, Hungary | 443 |
| Juliano Barbosa (JBarbosa) from Seixal, Portugal | 441 |
| Stephen Kwan (sk1958) from Toronto, Canada | 434 |
| Enhao Du (diandian23) from Newbury Park, USA | 431 |
| Gianni Hsieh (wakanari) from Sammamish | 419 |
| Alex Green (Galexy) from Sydney Australia | 418 |
| Clay Cuthbertson (Clayc) from Quincy, IL | 417 |
| Cecilia Billiet (cbilliet) from Amsterdam, Netherlands | 416 |
| Jean-Marie Arnaud (jmarnaud51) from Paris France | 415 |
| Athanasiadis Alex (alati) from Thessaloniki, Greece | 411 |
| Gregory LeBlanc (gnlblnc151) from Charlotte, NC USA | 411 |
| Dave Bugay (hikerdave1) from Parker, CO, USA | 411 |
| Andreas Persson (Rosengatan) from Mullsjö | 410 |
| David Johnson (davidmj) from Calgary Canada | 409 |
| John C Osher (J5280) from Denver CO, USA | 409 |
| Jim Ritts (rtscracker) from Knoxville TN, USA | 406 |
| Bert Hackney (toast1) from Vienna VA, USA | 405 |
| Pär Ol-Mårs (olmar) from Sweden | 404 |
| Rishabh Singh (rishabh) from San Jose | 403 |
| Daniel Thouvignon (danielth) from Chiang Mai, Thailand | 402 |
| John R Mayne (JRMayne) from Modesto, CA, USA | 402 |
| Dima Myedvyedyev (Quarky) from Idaho, USA | 402 |
| Charles Nudelman (soxguy) from Northbrook IL, USA | 401 |
| Raj Agarwal (badesh) from Cambridge MA, USA | 399 |
| James Sampson (jtsamp1) from Lake Worth | 397 |
| Peter Lakatos (nyul11) from Budapest, Hungary | 397 |
| Nikolaos (nikrek) from Papamichalopoulos | 397 |
| Adrian Pang (MP7601) from Hong Kong, China | 395 |
| Benjamin Bomber (soccertoo) from Portland | 395 |
| John MacGregor (johnmacg) from Halifax, NS | 393 |
| Michael Xu (michaelimp) from Palo Alto | 390 |
| Mani Gupta (Manig) from USA | 390 |
| Charles Yaple (Doubler44) from The Villages | 386 |
| Jon Cooke (mugsmate) from Cambridge,UK | 386 |
| Xiaoqi Zhou (xiaoqi1221) from Murphy,TX | 386 |
| Peter Hudson (p_t_red) from Coppell TX, USA | 384 |
| Gjivo Tikvica (KhazadDoom) from Dubrovnik, Croatia | 383 |
| Kresten Sandager Kristensen (kesse) from Copenhagen | 382 |
| Jarek Langer (jarek444) from Austin TX USA | 380 |
| Karen Byrne Barrett (karenbbarr) from Norwalk, CT | 380 |
| Stephen D Goldstein (sdvdg) from Anaheim | 380 |
I scored 75 points but didn't make the leaderboard
Hearty congrats to all you fantastic bridge geniuses ? ?