Kibitz for a Cause - The Longest Day

Alan Sontag is an ACBL Grand Life Master and a WBF Grand Life Master. Sontag has won many honors and championships, most recently the Transnational Teams at the World Bridge Championships in Bali. He has written The Bridge Bum and Power Precision and co-authored Improve Your Bridge Fast.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Bobby Levin is a professional bridge player. He became the youngest Life Master at the age of 15 years and held this record until 1975. At 23 years old, he became the youngest world champion at the time after his team won the 1981 Bermuda Bowl. Levin has won two world championships and 29 North American championships.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Brad Moss comes from a well-known bridge-playing family. Moss was named the ACBL King of Bridge in 1989. Two years later, he became the youngest player ever to win the New York Player of the Year title. Moss has won nine North American championships and was the ACBL Player of the Year in 2010. 

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Brian Platnick became a certified club director at age of 17 and was director and club manager of a duplicate bridge club for two years while in high school. A WBF World Life Master, he holds four North American championship titles.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Curtis Cheek is a bridge professional and is active in bridge teaching and administration. Cheek and Steve Beatty were named bidders of the decade by The Bridge World magazine. Cheek has five North American titles. He has finished second in eight NABC events.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

David Berkowitz is a professional bridge player who also lectures and writes about bridge. He is an ACBL Grand Life Master, has been elected to ACBL’s Hall of Fame and has won 25 North American championships. He co-authored the book Precision Today with Brent Manley and contributes to The Bridge World where he is a Master Solvers Club director. 

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Dick Bruno is a Grand Life Master and two-time national champion. He won the Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss in 2014 and the NABC+ Fast Open Pairs in 2009.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Eric Rodwell is a professional player and writer. He and his regular partner Jeff Meckstroth are known for playing an aggressive system called RM Precision, of which Rodwell is the principal author. He has won the triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the World Team Olympiad and the World Open Pairs. Rodwell was ACBL Player of the Year in 2008 and the winner of the Barry Crane Top 500 in 2004.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Gavin Wolpert is a professional bridge player and instructor. A WBF World International Master, Wolpert represented Canada in the World Junior Team Championships in 2005 where he won a bronze medal. In addition to winning the CNTC in 2003, Wolpert has seven other North American titles.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Geoff Hampson is a WBF Grand Life Master and has won 16 NABC events including two Spingold, the Reisinger and the CNTC. He also won the Transnational Teams in 2001 and the Rosenblum Cup in 2010.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

George Jacobs has won 11 North American Championships and took silver in the 2007 Bermuda Bowl. He is the author of the popular Bridge Bulletin column “George’s World,” the auctioneer for the Cavendish and a viewgraph commentator.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Janice Seamon-Molson is a member of one of America’s leading bridge families. She has won four world women’s team titles, including the Venice Cup in 2003 and 2013 and the McConnell Cup in 2006, and has 17 North American titles to her credit. 

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Jeff Meckstroth has been a star of the bridge world for more than 30 years. He and his regular partner Eric Rodwell have won virtually every major title in the game, most of them more than once. Meckstroth has been ACBL Player of the Year three times and has won the Barry Crane Top 500 10 times. In 1998 he was awarded the IBPA's Charles J. Solomon Award for the year's best-played hand.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Jerry Helms is a professional bridge player and teacher. He has appeared 25 consecutive times on the annual Barry Crane Top 500 list. Helms is a regular columnist for the Bridge Bulletin and a frequent guest expert lecturer at NABCs. He is the co-inventor of the HELLO convention that is used over the opponents opening 1NT bid.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Jill Levin has won four world championships and 10 North American championships. She is a Grand Life Master.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Jill Meyers has won more world championships than any woman in WBF history. She has taken seven world championships (with six different partners), including the Venice Cup four times. Meyers has won 18 national championships. 

Player available August 7 for the 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions.

Joe Grue is a professional bridge player. In the years Grue has been on the bridge scene, he has won three World Junior Championships and five North American championships.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Joel Wooldridge is a WBF World International Master and an ACBL Grand Life Master. He became the youngest Life Master at age 11 years in 1990. In 1997 he was named King of Bridge. He has a total of eight national titles and has placed second in six other national events. In 2011 Wooldridge won the Mott-Smith Trophy with a record-setting total of 454.31 masterpoints. 

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Justin Lall became a Life Master when he was just 12 years old. Since then he has won the World Junior Teams twice, the GNT Championship flight and USBF Team Trials. Lall has won four North American championships and placed second in the Bermuda Bowl in 2011.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Karen Allison took up the game in high school; she never dreamed of how far it would take her. Now retired, Allison has traveled the world to participate in bridge tournaments. She represented Canada in world competition (New Orleans in 1978 and Valkenburg in 1980). A WBF World Master, Allison was the first woman ever to represent Canada in Open Teams - Monte Carlo 1976, where her team placed 13th in the Olympiad Open Teams. Allison has won five North American championships.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Michael Rosenberg is one of the top bridge players in the United States. He has won 14 North American championships and has had multiple wins in the major invitational tournaments. He also won the WBF Par competition in 1998, a test of declarer play skill. He is known as “the expert's expert” for his encyclopedic knowledge of cardplay techniques and is a frequent contributor to The Bridge World.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Ralph Katz is an ACBL Grand Life Master and WBF World Life Master. He won the Bermuda Bowl in 2009 and placed second in 2007. Katz has 20 NABC titles to his credit. 

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Sabine Auken is a WBF World Master. She has appeared in seven Venice Cup competitions, winning twice and losing in the final once. She has collected two gold and three silver medals in European championship teams events and has won four European pairs championships. She has also taken 13 North American titles.  

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Steve Weinstein is a professional bridge and poker player. He holds the record for the youngest-ever winner of an NABC event and has more Cavendish wins than anyone else. Weinstein has won 17 NABC titles.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Tom Carmichael learned bridge at age 4. In 1997 he and Joel Wooldridge became the youngest pair to win an NABC event when they placed first in the Lebhar IMP Pairs. He also placed second in the Wernher Open Pairs 2010 and the Spingold in 2005.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.

Zia Mahmood is a 25-time North American champion and four-time ACBL Player of the Year. Zia was made an ACBLHonorary Member of the Year in 2005. He is the author of Bridge My Way, an autobiography written in 1999. He has also hosted many television shows.

Player available August 7-15 for most 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sessions. If player receives a bye or is KO’d, a replacement kibitz session will be determined.