The average scores were up a little this month, and selecting the most popular choice of competition entrants on every deal would have scored 60/80, which is by far the highest so far this year. Our joints winners’ score of 78/80 this month also matched the highest score amongst panelists:
Maxim Silin (bigmax) from Boston MA, USA, and
Bob Boudreau (bonafide57) from Edina MN, USA
Maxim says, “I am living near Boston, MA, a part of the USA with excellent local bridge clubs. Unfortunately, my work as an industrial scientist interferes with the full-time enjoyment of bridge.” Maxim is a first-time winner.
Bob Boudreau is a long-time Massachusetts resident, although he has spent the last decade in Edina MN. He has been an ACBL member since 1965 and his days at Stonehill College in Easton MA. He won the December competition at the end of last year, and is currently in second place in the 2023 annual competition.
Also on the May 'Roll of Honor’:
With a score of 77/80
David Williams (dave251164) from Llangollen, Wales,
Ivan Bilušić (Shaymin29) from Croatia,
Vincent Lui (cheapcheap) from Hong Kong,
Luwen Koh (Xreborned) from Singapore,
Prahalad Rajkumar (r_prah) from India,
Paul Boudreau (pons_) from USA, and
Todd Holes (Masse24) from USA
The average score this month was 46.74 (up from 42.77 last month). You need a score of 66/80 or more to make the leader-board this month. Congratulations to everyone who makes the list.
Player | Score |
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Maxim Silin (Bigmax) From United States | 78 |
Bob Boudreau (Bonafide57) From United States | 78 |
Prahalad Rajkumar (R_Prah) From India | 77 |
Paul Boudreau (Pons_) From United States | 77 |
Ivan Bilušić (Shaymin29) From Croatia | 77 |
Vincent Lui (Cheapcheap) From Hong Kong | 77 |
David Williams (Dave251164) From United Kingdom | 77 |
Todd Holes (Masse24) From United States | 77 |
Luwen Koh (Xreborned) From Singapore | 77 |
Ekrem Serdar (Exerdar) From Turkey | 76 |
Alexander Cook (Spade7) From Australia | 76 |
Ian Findlay (Findles) From Canada | 76 |
Merijn Groenenboom (Merijng) From Netherlands | 75 |
Alex Hong (Fhong) From Canada | 75 |
Dan Gheorghiu (Dang4503) From Canada | 75 |
Sedat Aluf (Monk99) From Turkey | 75 |
Christian Mari (Tibo7) From France | 74 |
Stephen Merriman (Smerriman) From New Zealand | 74 |
Peter Law (Petelaw) From United Kingdom | 74 |
Rodion Kovalchuk (2Radon) From Canada | 73 |
Rick Prouser (Rickprou) From United States | 73 |
Sarper Uslupehlivan (Sarpinsarp) From Turkey | 73 |
Gianluca Bergami (Giangibar) From Switzerland | 73 |
Claude Candillier (Capri13) From France | 73 |
Michael Whibley (Jafa) From New Zealand | 72 |
Jim Hubbard (James01) From United States | 72 |
Babs Giesbrecht (Babsg) From Canada | 72 |
Venkatesh Ramaratnam (Rv) From India | 72 |
Iain Cundy (Icundy) From United Kingdom | 72 |
Paulo Brum (Paulinho) From United States | 72 |
Hüseyin Kerem Avcioglu (Phantoma) From Turkey | 71 |
Lars-Olof Brahamsson (21Loa) From Denmark | 71 |
Naresh Kumar Gupta (Nkgupt) From India | 71 |
Veljko Vujcic (Sambolino) From Serbia | 71 |
Derek Diamond (Derekd) From United Kingdom | 71 |
Thomas Terzian (Rmenian) From United States | 71 |
Michael Van Gulik (Bananatree) From Canada | 71 |
Earle Fergusson (Fergus) From Canada | 71 |
Kees-Jan Van Heusden (Kj_Dombo) From Netherlands | 70 |
Jakub Bereza (Jber0) From Poland | 70 |
Martin Bootsma (Martb77@Hotmail.Com) From Netherlands | 70 |
Bill Jacobs (Bjacobs) From Australia | 70 |
Andreas Meister (Andreasw) From Denmark | 70 |
Sathya Bettadapura (Sathya) From United States | 70 |
Jorge Barrera (Santafe) From Colombia | 70 |
Rolf Selander (Rolfseland) From Sweden | 70 |
Mark De Meer (Maanba) From United Arab Emirates | 70 |
Hanoi Rondon (Hanoi5) From Chile | 70 |
Paul Dubois (Pottsca) From United States | 70 |
Nikos Delimpaltadakis (Nickd) From Greece | 70 |
Uras Berkay Samiloglu (Bky36) From Turkey | 69 |
Radoslaw Szczepanski (Radziecki) From Poland | 69 |
Max Belfiori (Wuck) From Italy | 69 |
Jérôme Rombaut (Jerome) From France | 69 |
Dawei Chen (Dcosh) From Japan | 69 |
Hui Teng Yeo (Yeoht) From Singapore | 69 |
Jan Bomhof (Bomtest) From Netherlands | 69 |
Enhao Du (Diandian23) From United States | 69 |
Dr. Morrie Kleinplatz (Amulet1) From Canada | 69 |
Brad Theurer (Batmanbrad) From United States | 69 |
Ralph Palache (Ralph999) From United Kingdom | 69 |
Arif Özer Orhan (Ovirtue) From Turkey | 69 |
Milko Slavov (Milko_Sl) From Bulgaria | 69 |
Phillip King (Philking) From United Kingdom | 68 |
Michal Kwiecien (Michal1) From Poland | 68 |
Gerard Thompson (The Limpet) From United Kingdom | 68 |
Mate Janosik (Jmatthew) From Hungary | 68 |
Georgi Georgiev (Nonio) From Bulgaria | 68 |
Francesco Masini (Gosto56) From Italy | 68 |
Hal Montgomery (Phlpdx) From United States | 68 |
Randy Helmink (Randyhelmi) From United States | 68 |
Stuart Bramzel (Stuzel) From United Kingdom | 68 |
Andy Pramana (Andy_Zen) From Indonesia | 68 |
Fred King (Fredkingkc) From United States | 68 |
Peter Vlas (Kangxi) From Netherlands | 68 |
Chunyen Chen (Kjes24) From Taiwan | 68 |
Nick Roubeglis (Rglis) From Greece | 68 |
Tomasz Modrzejewski (Tommodrzej) From Poland | 68 |
Bartosz Kopras (Kojman) From Poland | 68 |
Xinchun Jia (Jiaxc) From China | 67 |
David Turner (D_Turner) From United States | 67 |
Robert Forster (Rbforster) From United States | 67 |
Gregg Deitch (Gdeitch) From United States | 67 |
Wallace Marsh (Wam2) From United States | 67 |
Roberto Barbosa (Beto) From Brazil | 67 |
Kang-Wei Fan (Firebolt) From Taiwan | 67 |
Pierpaolo Finzi Vita (Maxmezzini) From Italy | 67 |
John Rengstorff (Jtorff) From United States | 67 |
Frank Blachowski (Blachowski) From United States | 67 |
Fabio Carugati (Kounellis) From Italy | 67 |
Peter Zelnik (Pezimaci) From Austria | 67 |
Olivier Metzdorff (Meol) From France | 67 |
Capri Bucci (Atp13) From Italy | 67 |
Adrian Pang (Mp7601) From Hong Kong | 67 |
John Garrison (Jgarris) From United States | 67 |
Yoram Bavli (Gur) From Israel | 67 |
Alan Mayo (Alanmayo) From United Kingdom | 66 |
Lutsen Jansen (Lutsen) From Netherlands | 66 |
Ozgur Goksel (Ogoksel) From Turkey | 66 |
Piotr Marcinowski (Dyplomata) From Poland | 66 |
Uladzislau Tsitavets (Vladiktsit) From Poland | 66 |
Tufan Köse (Capycino) From Turkey | 66 |
Stuart Barrett (Denbydale) From United Kingdom | 66 |
Rob Helle (Rhelle) From Mauritius | 66 |
Gordo Sharp (Sheynakoby) From Canada | 66 |
Mark Bolotin (Markboloti) From United States | 66 |
Vivek Bhand (Janubandey) From India | 66 |
Maks Abram (Maxab) From Estonia | 66 |
Alex Kolesnik (Kolesnik) From United States | 66 |
Ugurcan Suzer (Suzeru) From Turkey | 66 |
Dorin Costin (Dorin001) From Canada | 66 |
Alexander Allen (Alexallen) From United States | 66 |
Rajendra Sirohia (Sirohiaraj) From India | 66 |
Mark Alexander Reeve (Mr1303) From Vietnam | 66 |
Hans Metselaar (Snuf1) From Netherlands | 66 |
Subharerk Chaiwatanakul (S23697) From Thailand | 66 |
David Cole (Davidcole) From Germany | 66 |
Stephen Cooper (Scoop) From Canada | 66 |
Kinpin Chu (Xh2072) From China | 66 |
After five months, we still have a remarkable 14 players who are averaging 70/80 or higher.
Paul Boudreau’s 77/80 this month keeps him at the top of the leader-board for the annual competition. Meanwhile, Bob Boudreau and Ian Findlay, who were both tied for third a month ago, move up into second and third respectively. Dave, Hanoi and Luwen, the three who occupied the podium in 2021 are all in the top 8.
Demonstrating what a truly worldwide competition this is, Africa is the only one of the six occupied continents not represented in the Top 10.
The leaders should not get too comfortable yet. We now have two players lurking, Alexander, the 2022 winner, and John, who fell from second place last month, both of whom are lurking in the Top 20 with a score in the low-50s that will get dropped later in the year.
You currently need an average score of 60/80 or more to make the annual competition leader-board. Remember that only your best nine scores during the year will count in the annual competition, so playing every month will allow you to drop your three weakest scores by the end of the year.
Player | Total |
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Paul Boudreau (Pons_) From United States | 375 |
Bob Boudreau (Bonafide57) From United States | 372 |
Ian Findlay (Findles) From Canada | 370 |
David Williams (Dave251164) From United Kingdom | 369 |
Vincent Lui (Cheapcheap) From Hong Kong | 365 |
Hanoi Rondon (Hanoi5) From Chile | 364 |
Michael Van Gulik (Bananatree) From Canada | 362 |
Luwen Koh (Xreborned) From Singapore | 361 |
Ivan Bilušić (Shaymin29) From Croatia | 356 |
Stephen Merriman (Smerriman) From New Zealand | 355 |
Peter Law (Petelaw) From United Kingdom | 355 |
Alexander Cook (Spade7) From Australia | 353 |
Enhao Du (Diandian23) From United States | 352 |
Babs Giesbrecht (Babsg) From Canada | 351 |
John Lusky (Pachyderms) From United States | 349 |
Arif Özer Orhan (Ovirtue) From Turkey | 347 |
Todd Holes (Masse24) From United States | 347 |
Capri Bucci (Atp13) From Italy | 346 |
Brad Theurer (Batmanbrad) From United States | 345 |
Milko Slavov (Milko_Sl) From Bulgaria | 345 |
Jon Cooke (Mugsmate) From United Kingdom | 343 |
Dorin Costin (Dorin001) From Canada | 341 |
Stelios Touchtidis (Stelios_T) From United States | 339 |
Venkatesh Ramaratnam (Rv) From India | 339 |
Jonathan Ferguson (Jonottawa) From Canada | 337 |
Prahalad Rajkumar (R_Prah) From India | 337 |
Claude Candillier (Capri13) From France | 336 |
Jim Hubbard (James01) From United States | 334 |
Jim Streisand (Strei1) From United States | 334 |
Dr. Morrie Kleinplatz (Amulet1) From Canada | 332 |
Stephen Cooper (Scoop) From Canada | 331 |
Laura Mancini (801Dna) From France | 331 |
Claus Hastrup (Cphastrup) From Denmark | 330 |
Mike Doecke (Wesleyc) From Australia | 328 |
Dan Gheorghiu (Dang4503) From Canada | 328 |
Bartosz Kopras (Kojman) From Poland | 328 |
Dawei Chen (Dcosh) From Japan | 327 |
John Stell (Johnworf1) From United Kingdom | 325 |
Nick Roubeglis (Rglis) From Greece | 324 |
Maxim Silin (Bigmax) From United States | 322 |
Mark Alexander Reeve (Mr1303) From Vietnam | 322 |
François Duffour (Toutmo) From France | 322 |
Olivier Metzdorff (Meol) From France | 322 |
Alex Hong (Fhong) From Canada | 321 |
Howard Stern (Hstern) From United States | 321 |
John Bryden (Tw0Wayhook) From Canada | 321 |
Naresh Kumar Gupta (Nkgupt) From India | 320 |
James Krekorian (Jimkrek) From United States | 320 |
Lei Tsui (Ltsui10) From United States | 320 |
Veljko Vujcic (Sambolino) From Serbia | 319 |
Alex Kolesnik (Kolesnik) From United States | 319 |
Jan Bomhof (Bomtest) From Netherlands | 319 |
Bill Wisdom (Billywiz) From United States | 319 |
Earle Fergusson (Fergus) From Canada | 319 |
Anal Shah (Chagas59) From India | 318 |
Patrick Shields (Patr1Cks) From United Kingdom | 318 |
Kinpin Chu (Xh2072) From China | 318 |
Javier Bertran (Patomaquet) From Spain | 317 |
Mark De Meer (Maanba) From United Arab Emirates | 317 |
Rodney Lighton (Rrhino) From United Kingdom | 317 |
John R Mayne (Jrmayne) From United States | 317 |
Kelvin Ng (Smoz) From Singapore | 316 |
John Leonard (Jl07702) From United States | 316 |
Ran Jingrong (Helen Ran) From China | 314 |
Andreas Meramveliotakis (Kleze) From Greece | 314 |
Arseny Shur (Kammerer) From Israel | 314 |
Rick Prouser (Rickprou) From United States | 314 |
Mark Chen (Mark_Chen) From United States | 314 |
Serban Criscota (Dodog) From Romania | 312 |
Kevin Podsiadlik (Kjpod) From United States | 312 |
Gianni Hsieh (Wakanari) From United States | 312 |
Andreas Jansen (Andymanvif) From Norway | 310 |
Omer Onem (F2G) From Turkey | 310 |
Paul Sontag (Pgs58) From Canada | 310 |
Mark Bolotin (Markboloti) From United States | 309 |
Alan Shillitoe (The Saint) From United Kingdom | 309 |
Peter Lieberman (Plieber) From United States | 309 |
Artem Poliak (Poliart) From Ukraine | 309 |
Barry Bragin (Bbragin) From United States | 308 |
Sayeed Ahmed (Sa001) From Bangladesh | 308 |
Gianluca Bergami (Giangibar) From Switzerland | 308 |
Peter Lakatos (Nyul11) From Hungary | 308 |
Raj Agarwal (Badesh) From United States | 308 |
Iasonas Iraklis Papaspyrou (Hercules J) From Greece | 308 |
Hans Van Der Heijde (001Hans) From Netherlands | 308 |
Yoram Bavli (Gur) From Israel | 308 |
Craig Cordes (Tallmath) From United States | 307 |
Steve Merovitz (Stevemonk) From Canada | 307 |
Jean Galtier (Eyquem) From France | 307 |
Francesco Masini (Gosto56) From Italy | 306 |
Stuart Bramzel (Stuzel) From United Kingdom | 306 |
Gregory Leblanc (Gnlblnc151) From United States | 306 |
Dialynas Alexis (Adial) From Greece | 306 |
Ned Irving (Mrned2) From United States | 305 |
Rolf Selander (Rolfseland) From Sweden | 305 |
Paul Fearnhead (Ran19Dom) From United Kingdom | 305 |
Luis Folque (Luis Carlo) From Portugal | 304 |
Josh Sinnett (Oshoj) From United States | 304 |
Mani Gupta (Manig) From United States | 304 |
Jon Sorkin (Jsorkin) From United States | 304 |
John Markakis (Markedo) From Greece | 303 |
Sanjay Sondhi (Sondhi) From India | 302 |
Alexander Allen (Alexallen) From United States | 301 |
Wes Hanson (Whist71) From United States | 300 |
Joe Clark (Joe0) From United Kingdom | 300 |